hold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehela- one of them, shall go into captivity, and they mite, and his seed: he shall not have a man that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that to dwell among this people; neither shall he prey upon thee will I give for a prey. behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD. CHAP. XXX. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. HE word that came to Jeremiah from 18 T Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof: The LORD, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 1 3 For lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 4 ¶ And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel, and concerning Judah. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me; for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not themselves of him: return, until he have done it, and until he 23 ¶ Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 5 For thus saith the LORD,We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 9 But they shall serve the LORD their have performed the intents of his heart: in God, and David their king, whom I will the latter days ye shall consider it. raise up unto them. CHAP. XXXI. 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither UAT the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, dismayed, O Israel: for lo, I will save thee and they shall be my people. from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 2 Thus saith the LORD, the people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. 12 For thus saith the LORD, thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. 7 For thus saith the LORD, Sing with glad15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? ness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O thine iniquity: because thy sins were increas- LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. ed, I have done these things unto thee. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall country, and gather them from the coasts of be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every the earth, and with them the blind and the 4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. 3 Yame, the woman with child and her that, 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God 9 They shall come with weeping, and with when I shall bring again their captivity, The 10 1 Hear the word of the LORD,0 ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, I 27 T Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Judah, with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; 15 Thus saith the LORD, A voice was 32 Not according to the covenant that I heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter made with their fathers, in the day that I weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, took them by the hand, to bring them out refused to be comforted for her children, be- of the land of Egypt; (which my covenant cause they were not. they brake, although I was an husband unto 16 Thus saith the LORD, refrain thy voice them, saith the LORD;) from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the will make with the house of Israel; After LORD; and they shall come again from the those days, saith the LORD, I will put my land of the enemy. law in their inward parts, and write it in 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith their hearts; and will be their God, and they the LORD, that thy children shall come again shall be my people. to their own border. 34 And they shall teach no more every 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoan-man his neighbour, and every man his broing himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, ther, saying, Know the LORD: for they and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustom- shall all know me, from the least of them to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: turned; for thou art the LORD my God. for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will re19 Surely after that I was turned, I re- member their sin no more. pented; and after that I was instructed, I 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances even confounded, because I did bear the re- of the moon and of the stars for a light by proach of my youth. night, which divideth the sea when the waves 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a plea- thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: sant child? for since I spake against him, I 36 If those ordinances depart from before do earnestly remember him still; therefore me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel my bowels are troubled for him: I will surely also shall cease from being a nation before have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. me for ever. 21 Set thee up way-marks, make thee 37 Thus saith the LORD, If heaven above high heaps: set thine heart toward the high- can be measured, and the foundations of the way, even the way which thou wentest: turn earth searched out beneath, I will also cast again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these off all the seed of Israel, for all that shey thy cities. have done, saith the LORD. 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou 38 Behold, the days come, saith the backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath LORD, that the city shall be built to the created a new thing in the earth, A woman LORD, from the tower of Hananeel unto the shall compass a man. gate of the corner. 39 And the measuring-line shall yet go forth of the purchase, (both which is sealed,) and over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall this evidence which is open, and put them compass about to Goath. in an earthen vessel, that they may continue 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, many days: and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the God of Israel, Houses, and fields, and vinehorse-gate toward the east, shall be holy un-yards, shall be possessed again in this land. to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. CHAP. XXXII. THE 16 T Now, when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee; 2 For then the king of Babylon's army be- 18 Thou shewest loving-kindness unto thousieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet sands, and recompensest the iniquity of the was shut up in the court of the prison, which fathers into the bosom of their children after was in the king of Judah's house. them: The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name; 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: (for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings :) 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day; 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with and there shall he be until I visit him, saith wonders, and with a strong hand, and with the LORD: though ye fight with the Chal-a stretched-out arm, and with great terror; deans, ye shall not prosper? 6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum, thine uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. 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 came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law: they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do; therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them. 8 So Hanameel, mine uncle's son, came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, the city to take it; and the city is given into which is in the country of Benjamin: for the the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, right of inheritance is thine, and the redemp-because of the sword, and of the famine,and of tion is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken that this was the word of the LORD. is come to pass; and behold, thou seest it. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel, my 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take weighed him the money, even seventeen witnesses; for the city is given into the hand shekels of silver. of the Chaldeans. 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. 26 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? both that which was sealed according to the 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, law and custom, and that which was open: I will give this city into the hand of the Chal12 And I gave the evidence of the pur-deans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar chase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel, 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the this city, shall come and set fire on this city, witnesses that subscribed the book of the and burn it, with the houses, upon whose court of the prison. purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God dren of Judah, have only done evil before me 30 For the children of Israel, and the chil of Israel, Take these evidences, this evidence from their youth: for the children of Israel 532 have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury, from the day that they built it even unto prison, saying, this day, that I should remove it from before my face; 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: CHAP. XXXIII. MOREOVER, the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the 32 Because of all the evil of the children of The LORD is his name; Israel, and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. 5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, 34 But they set their abominations in the but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of house which is called by my name, to de-men, whom I have slain in mine anger, and file it. in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel, to return, and will build them, as at the first. 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against 36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by whereby they have sinned, and whereby they the famine, and by the pestilence; have transgressed against me. 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all 9 T And it shall be to me a name of joy, countries whither I have driven them in mine a praise and an honour before all the nations anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; of the earth, which shall hear all the good and I will bring them again unto this place, that I do unto them: and they shall fear and and I will cause them to dwell safely: tremble for all the goodness, and for all the prosperity, that I procure unto it. 10 Thus saith the LORD, Again there shall 2 Thus saith the LORD, the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; 42 For thus saith the LORD, Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. 43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; 39 And I will give them one heart, and be heard in this place, (which ye say shall be one way, that they may fear me for ever, for desolate without man and without beast, even the good of them, and of their children after in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jethem: rusalem, that are desolate, without man, and 40 And I will make an everlasting cove- without inhabitant, and without beast,) nant with them, that I will not turn away 11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladfrom them, to do them good; but I will put ness; the voice of the bridegroom, and the my fear in their hearts, that they shall not voice of the bride; the voice of them that depart from me. shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. 41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart, and with my whole soul. 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds caus ing their flocks to lie down. 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, 44 Men shall buy fields for money, and and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the shall the flocks pass again under the hands places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of of him that telleth them, saith the LORD. Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, and in the cities of the valley, and in the ci- that I will perform that good thing which I ties of the south: for I will cause their cap- have promised unto the house of Israel, and tivity to return, saith the LORD. to the house of Judah. 15 In those days, and at that time, will, the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings 1 cause the Branch of righteousness to grow which were before thee, so shall they burn up unto David; and he shall execute judg-odours for thee; and they will lament thee, ment and righteousness in the land. saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and word, saith the LORD. Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these name wherewith she shall be called, The words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jeru LORD our Righteousness. salem, 17¶ For thus saith the LORD, David shall 7 When the king of Babylon's army fought never want a man to sit upon the throne of against Jerusalem, and against all the cities the house of Israel; of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites against Azekah: for these defenced cities rewant a man before me to offer burnt-offer-mained of the cities of Judah. ings, and to kindle meat-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, 8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 20 Thus saith the LORD, If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 9 That every man should let his man-ser vant, and every man his maid-servant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of Jew his brother. a 10 Now, when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more; then they obeyed, and let them go. 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? Thus they have despised my peo- 12 ¶ Therefore the word of the LORD came ple, that they should be no more a nation to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, before them. 23 ¶ Moreover, the word of the LORD 11 But afterward they turned, and caused came to Jeremiah, saying, the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. I 25 Thus saith the LORD, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. 13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bond-men, saying, 14 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. CHAP. XXXIV. 15 And ye were now turned, and had done 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. unto in IC But ye turned, and polluted my name, from the LORD, (when Nebuchadnez-man to his neighbour; and ye had made a zar king of Babylon, and all his army, and covenant before me in the house which is all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, called by my name: and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,) saying, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Ye have 3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liber. but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into ty, every one to his brother, and every man his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to pestilence, and to the famine; and I will Babylon. make you to be removed into all the king 4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zede- doms of the earth. kiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; 5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with formed the words of the covenant which they 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not per |