Jeremiah 14-26
New King James Version
Sword, Famine, and Pestilence
14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
2 “Judah mourns,
And (A)her gates languish;
They (B)mourn for the land,
And (C)the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3 Their nobles have sent their lads for water;
They went to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
They were (D)ashamed and confounded
(E)And covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is parched,
For there was (F)no rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.
5 Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field,
But [a]left because there was no grass.
6 And (G)the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights;
They sniffed at the wind like jackals;
Their eyes failed because there was no grass.”
7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (H)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
8 (I)O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble,
Why should You be like a stranger in the land,
And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why should You be like a man astonished,
Like a mighty one (J)who cannot save?
Yet You, O Lord, (K)are in our midst,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!
10 Thus says the Lord to this people:
(L)“Thus they have loved to wander;
They have not restrained their feet.
Therefore the Lord does not accept them;
(M)He will remember their iniquity now,
And punish their sins.”
11 Then the Lord said to me, (N)“Do not pray for this people, for their good. 12 (O)When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and (P)when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But (Q)I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
13 (R)Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you [b]assured (S)peace in this place.’ ”
14 And the Lord said to me, (T)“The prophets prophesy lies in My name. (U)I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, [c]divination, a worthless thing, and the (V)deceit of their heart. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, (W)and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not be in this land’—‘By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed! 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; (X)they will have no one to bury them—them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness on them.’
17 “Therefore you shall say this word to them:
(Y)‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
(Z)For the virgin daughter of my people
Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.
18 If I go out to (AA)the field,
Then behold, those slain with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then behold, those sick from famine!
Yes, both prophet and (AB)priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”
The People Plead for Mercy
19 (AC)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that (AD)there is no healing for us?
(AE)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.
20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness
And the iniquity of our (AF)fathers,
For (AG)we have sinned against You.
21 Do not abhor us, for Your name’s sake;
Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory.
(AH)Remember, do not break Your covenant with us.
22 (AI)Are there any among (AJ)the idols of the nations that can cause (AK)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(AL)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.
The Lord Will Not Relent
15 Then the Lord said to me, (AM)“Even if (AN)Moses and (AO)Samuel stood before Me, My [d]mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
(AP)“Such as are for death, to death;
And such as are for the sword, to the sword;
And such as are for the famine, to the famine;
And such as are for the (AQ)captivity, to the captivity.” ’
3 “And I will (AR)appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, (AS)the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4 I will hand them over to (AT)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of (AU)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
5 “For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
Or who will bemoan you?
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
6 (AV)You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have (AW)gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
(AX)I am [e]weary of relenting!
7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;
I will (AY)bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they (AZ)do not return from their ways.
8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them (BA)suddenly.
9 “She(BB) languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
(BC)Her sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah’s Dejection
10 (BD)Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole [f]earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me.
11 The Lord said:
“Surely it will be well with your remnant;
Surely I will cause (BE)the enemy to intercede with you
In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.
12 Can anyone break iron,
The northern iron and the bronze?
13 Your wealth and your treasures
I will give as (BF)plunder without price,
Because of all your sins,
Throughout your territories.
14 And I will [g]make you cross over with your enemies
(BG)Into a land which you do not know;
For a (BH)fire is kindled in My anger,
Which shall burn upon you.”
15 O Lord, (BI)You know;
Remember me and [h]visit me,
And (BJ)take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In Your enduring patience, do not take me away.
Know that (BK)for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Your words were found, and I (BL)ate them,
And (BM)Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.
17 (BN)I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my (BO)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me (BP)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that [i]fail?
The Lord Reassures Jeremiah
19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
(BQ)“If you return,
Then I will bring you back;
You shall (BR)stand before Me;
If you (BS)take out the precious from the vile,
You shall be as My mouth.
Let them return to you,
But you must not return to them.
20 And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze (BT)wall;
And they will fight against you,
But (BU)they shall not prevail against you;
For I am with you to save you
And deliver you,” says the Lord.
21 “I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,
And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.”
Jeremiah’s Lifestyle and Message
16 The word of the Lord also came to me, saying, 2 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.” 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land: 4 “They shall die (BV)gruesome deaths; they shall not be (BW)lamented nor shall they be (BX)buried, but they shall be (BY)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their (BZ)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”
5 For thus says the Lord: (CA)“Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people,” says the Lord, “lovingkindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; (CB)neither shall men lament for them, (CC)cut themselves, nor (CD)make themselves bald for them. 7 Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to (CE)drink for their father or their mother. 8 Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”
9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, (CF)I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of [j]mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 “And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, (CG)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them, (CH)‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord; ‘they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law. 12 And you have done (CI)worse than your fathers, for behold, (CJ)each one [k]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me. 13 (CK)Therefore I will cast you out of this land (CL)into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not show you favor.’
God Will Restore Israel(CM)
14 “Therefore behold, the (CN)days are coming,” says the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 15 but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the (CO)north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For (CP)I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
16 “Behold, I will send for many (CQ)fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17 For My (CR)eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes. 18 And first I will repay (CS)double for their iniquity and their sin, because (CT)they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”
19 O Lord, (CU)my strength and my fortress,
(CV)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and (CW)unprofitable things.”
20 Will a man make gods for himself,
(CX)Which are not gods?
21 “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know
My hand and My might;
And they shall know that (CY)My name is the Lord.
Judah’s Sin and Punishment
17 “The sin of Judah is (CZ)written with a (DA)pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond it is (DB)engraved
On the tablet of their heart,
And on the horns of your altars,
2 While their children remember
Their altars and their (DC)wooden[l] images
By the green trees on the high hills.
3 O My mountain in the field,
I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures,
And your high places of sin within all your borders.
4 And you, even yourself,
Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you;
And I will cause you to serve your enemies
In (DD)the land which you do not know;
For (DE)you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.”
5 Thus says the Lord:
(DF)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes (DG)flesh his [m]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6 For he shall be (DH)like a shrub in the desert,
And (DI)shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
(DJ)In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “Blessed(DK) is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
8 For he shall be (DL)like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not [n]fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9 “The (DM)heart is deceitful above all things,
And [o]desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, (DN)search the heart,
I test the [p]mind,
(DO)Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
11 “As a partridge that [q]broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It (DP)will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be (DQ)a fool.”
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Lord, (DR)the hope of Israel,
(DS)All who forsake You shall be ashamed.
“Those who depart from Me
Shall be (DT)written in the earth,
Because they have forsaken the Lord,
The (DU)fountain of living waters.”
Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance
14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
Save me, and I shall be saved,
For (DV)You are my praise.
15 Indeed they say to me,
(DW)“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come now!”
16 As for me, (DX)I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You,
Nor have I desired the woeful day;
You know what came out of my lips;
It was right there before You.
17 Do not be a terror to me;
(DY)You are my hope in the day of doom.
18 (DZ)Let them be ashamed who persecute me,
But (EA)do not let me be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed,
But do not let me be dismayed.
Bring on them the day of doom,
And (EB)destroy[r] them with double destruction!
Hallow the Sabbath Day
19 Thus the Lord said to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20 and say to them, (EC)‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. 21 Thus says the Lord: (ED)“Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22 nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I (EE)commanded your fathers. 23 (EF)But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but [s]made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.
24 “And it shall be, (EG)if you heed Me carefully,” says the Lord, “to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the (EH)Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it, 25 (EI)then shall enter the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, accompanied by the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from (EJ)the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from (EK)the [t]lowland, from the mountains and from (EL)the [u]South, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, bringing (EM)sacrifices of praise to the house of the Lord.
27 “But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then (EN)I will kindle a fire in its gates, (EO)and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be (EP)quenched.” ’ ”
The Potter and the Clay
18 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: 2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the [v]wheel. 4 And the vessel that he [w]made of clay was [x]marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 “O house of Israel, (EQ)can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, (ER)as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel! 7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to (ES)pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 (ET)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, (EU)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. 9 And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. (EV)Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings (EW)good.” ’ ”
God’s Warning Rejected
12 And they said, (EX)“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one [y]obey the (EY)dictates[z] of his evil heart.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord:
(EZ)“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done (FA)a very horrible thing.
14 Will a man [aa]leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?
15 “Because My people have forgotten (FB)Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the (FC)ancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
16 To make their land (FD)desolate and a perpetual (FE)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
17 (FF)I will scatter them (FG)as with an east wind before the enemy;
(FH)I will [ab]show them the back and not the face
In the day of their calamity.”
Jeremiah Persecuted
18 Then they said, (FI)“Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; (FJ)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
19 Give heed to me, O Lord,
And listen to the voice of those who contend with me!
20 (FK)Shall evil be repaid for good?
For they have (FL)dug a pit for my life.
Remember that I (FM)stood before You
To speak good [ac]for them,
To turn away Your wrath from them.
21 Therefore (FN)deliver up their children to the famine,
And pour out their blood
By the force of the sword;
Let their wives become widows
And (FO)bereaved of their children.
Let their men be put to death,
Their young men be slain
By the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses,
When You bring a troop suddenly upon them;
For they have dug a pit to take me,
And hidden snares for my feet.
23 Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel
Which is against me, to slay me.
(FP)Provide no atonement for their iniquity,
Nor blot out their sin from Your sight;
But let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them
In the time of Your (FQ)anger.
The Sign of the Broken Flask
19 Thus says the Lord: “Go and get a potter’s earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. 2 And go out to (FR)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, 3 (FS)and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will (FT)tingle.
4 “Because they (FU)have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with (FV)the blood of the innocents 5 (FW)(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, (FX)which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), 6 therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or (FY)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, (FZ)and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their (GA)corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. 8 I will make this city (GB)desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. 9 And I will cause them to eat the (GC)flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’
10 (GD)“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (GE)“Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be [ad]made whole again; and they shall (GF)bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury. 12 Thus I will do to this place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet. 13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled (GG)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose (GH)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and (GI)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
14 Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in (GJ)the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the people, 15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because (GK)they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.’ ”
The Word of God to Pashhur
20 Now (GL)Pashhur the son of (GM)Immer, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high (GN)gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.
3 And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord has not called your name Pashhur, but [ae]Magor-Missabib. 4 For thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. I will (GO)give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover I (GP)will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and (GQ)carry them to Babylon. 6 And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die, and be buried there, you and all your friends, to whom you have (GR)prophesied lies.’ ”
Jeremiah’s Unpopular Ministry
7 O Lord, You [af]induced me, and I was persuaded;
(GS)You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
(GT)I am [ag]in derision daily;
Everyone mocks me.
8 For when I spoke, I cried out;
(GU)I shouted, “Violence and plunder!”
Because the word of the Lord was made to me
A reproach and a derision daily.
9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a (GV)burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And (GW)I could not.
10 (GX)For I heard many [ah]mocking:
“Fear on every side!”
“Report,” they say, “and we will report it!”
(GY)All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying,
“Perhaps he can be induced;
Then we will prevail against him,
And we will take our revenge on him.”
11 But the Lord is (GZ)with me as a mighty, awesome One.
Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not (HA)prevail.
They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper.
Their (HB)everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.
12 But, O Lord of hosts,
You who (HC)test the righteous,
And see the [ai]mind and heart,
(HD)Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For I have pleaded my cause before You.
13 Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord!
For (HE)He has delivered the life of the poor
From the hand of evildoers.
14 (HF)Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
15 Let the man be cursed
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.
16 And let that man be like the cities
Which the Lord (HG)overthrew, and did not relent;
Let him (HH)hear the cry in the morning
And the shouting at noon,
17 (HI)Because he did not kill me from the womb,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.
18 (HJ)Why did I come forth from the womb to (HK)see [aj]labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?
Jerusalem’s Doom Is Sealed
21 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when (HL)King Zedekiah sent to him (HM)Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and (HN)Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, 2 (HO)“Please inquire of the Lord for us, for [ak]Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”
3 Then Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 4 ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the [al]Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and (HP)I will assemble them in the midst of this city. 5 I (HQ)Myself will fight against you with an (HR)outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath. 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward,” says the Lord, (HS)“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. (HT)He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’
8 “Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, (HU)I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who (HV)remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and [am]defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall (HW)live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. 10 For I have (HX)set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,” says the Lord. (HY)“It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall (HZ)burn it with fire.” ’
Message to the House of David
11 “And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, 12 O house of David! Thus says the Lord:
(IA)“Execute[an] judgment (IB)in the morning;
And deliver him who is plundered
Out of the hand of the oppressor,
Lest My fury go forth like fire
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.
13 “Behold, (IC)I am against you, O [ao]inhabitant of the valley,
And rock of the plain,” says the Lord,
“Who say, (ID)‘Who shall come down against us?
Or who shall enter our dwellings?’
14 But I will punish you according to the (IE)fruit of your [ap]doings,” says the Lord;
“I will kindle a fire in its forest,
And (IF)it shall devour all things around it.” ’ ”
Prophecies Against the Kings of Judah
22 Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, 2 and say, (IG)‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates! 3 Thus says the Lord: (IH)“Execute[aq] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (II)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you indeed do this thing, (IJ)then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. 5 But if you will not [ar]hear these words, (IK)I swear by Myself,” says the Lord, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ”
6 For thus says the Lord to the house of the king of Judah:
“You are (IL)Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
7 I will prepare destroyers against you,
Everyone with his weapons;
They shall cut down (IM)your choice cedars
(IN)And cast them into the fire.
8 And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, (IO)‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ 9 Then they will answer, (IP)‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”
10 Weep not for (IQ)the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him (IR)who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.
Message to the Sons of Josiah
11 For thus says the Lord concerning (IS)Shallum[as] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, (IT)who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore, 12 but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13 “Woe(IU) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his [at]chambers by injustice,
(IV)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
14 Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious [au]chambers,
And cut out windows for it,
Paneling it with cedar
And painting it with vermilion.’
15 “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink,
And do justice and righteousness?
Then (IW)it was well with him.
16 He [av]judged the cause of the poor and needy;
Then it was well.
Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.
17 “Yet(IX) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(IY)“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, (IZ)‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
19 (JA)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry from Abarim,
For all your lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
(JB)This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all (JC)your [aw]rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like (JD)the pain of a woman in [ax]labor?
Message to Coniah
24 “As I live,” says the Lord, (JE)“though [ay]Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, (JF)were the [az]signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off; 25 (JG)and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the [ba]Chaldeans. 26 (JH)So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.
28 “Is this man [bb]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
(JI)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
29 (JJ)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as (JK)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For (JL)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”
The Branch of Righteousness
23 “Woe (JM)to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. (JN)Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord. 3 “But (JO)I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 I will set up (JP)shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.
5 “Behold, (JQ)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and [bc]prosper,
(JR)And execute [bd]judgment and righteousness in the [be]earth.
6 (JS)In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel (JT)will dwell safely;
Now (JU)this is His name by which He will be called:
[bf]THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 “Therefore, behold, (JV)the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 8 but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country (JW)and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own (JX)land.”
False Prophets and Empty Oracles
9 My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
(JY)All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord,
And because of His holy words.
10 For (JZ)the land is full of adulterers;
For (KA)because of a curse the land mourns.
(KB)The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.
11 “For (KC)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, (KD)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
12 “Therefore(KE) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I (KF)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
13 “And I have seen [bg]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
(KG)They prophesied by Baal
And (KH)caused My people Israel to err.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
(KI)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also (KJ)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like (KK)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (KL)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[bh]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
(KM)They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, (KN)“You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who (KO)walks according to the [bi]dictates of his own heart, they say,
(KP)‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
18 For (KQ)who has stood in the counsel of the Lord,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19 Behold, a (KR)whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The (KS)anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
(KT)In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 “I(KU) have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have (KV)turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone (KW)hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;
(KX)“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
25 “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, (KY)as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29 “Is not My word like a (KZ)fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore behold, (LA)I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am (LB)against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their (LC)lies and by (LD)their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not (LE)profit this people at all,” says the Lord.
33 “So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is (LF)the [bj]oracle of the Lord?’ you shall then say to them, [bk]‘What oracle?’ I will even forsake you,” says the Lord. 34 “And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The [bl]oracle of the Lord!’ I will even punish that man and his house. 35 Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 36 And the [bm]oracle of the Lord you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you have (LG)perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God. 37 Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 38 But since you say, ‘The [bn]oracle of the Lord!’ therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Because you say this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” and I have sent to you, saying, “Do not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ ” 39 therefore behold, I, even I, (LH)will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and will cast you out of My presence. 40 And I will bring (LI)an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual (LJ)shame, which shall not be forgotten.’ ”
The Sign of Two Baskets of Figs
24 The (LK)Lord showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar (LL)king of Babylon had carried away captive (LM)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so (LN)bad. 3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”
4 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I [bo]acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and (LO)I will bring them back to this land; (LP)I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 7 Then I will give them (LQ)a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be (LR)My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me (LS)with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad (LT)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the (LU)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and (LV)those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will deliver them to (LW)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, (LX)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are [bp]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”
Seventy Years of Desolation
25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, (LY)in the fourth year of (LZ)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: 3 (MA)“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the Lord has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, (MB)but you have not listened. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, (MC)rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, (MD)‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. 6 Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’ 7 Yet you have not listened to Me,” says the Lord, “that you might (ME)provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take (MF)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (MG)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (MH)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will [bq]take from them the (MI)voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, (MJ)the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy (MK)years.
12 ‘Then it will come to pass, (ML)when [br]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; (MM)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14 (MN)(For many nations (MO)and great kings shall (MP)be served by them also; (MQ)and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”
Judgment on the Nations
15 For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this (MR)wine cup of [bs]fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 16 And (MS)they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
17 Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them (MT)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and (MU)a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people; 20 all the mixed multitude, all the kings of (MV)the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the (MW)Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and (MX)the remnant of Ashdod); 21 (MY)Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; 22 all the kings of (MZ)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the (NA)sea; 23 (NB)Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners; 24 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the (NC)mixed multitude who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of (ND)Elam, and all the kings of the (NE)Medes; 26 (NF)all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of [bt]Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (NG)“Drink, (NH)be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’ 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “You shall certainly drink! 29 For behold, (NI)I begin to bring calamity on the city (NJ)which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for (NK)I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of hosts.’
30 “Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:
‘The Lord will (NL)roar from on high,
And utter His voice from (NM)His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against (NN)His fold.
He will give (NO)a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise will come to the ends of the earth—
For the Lord has (NP)a controversy with the nations;
(NQ)He will plead His case with all flesh.
He will give those who are wicked to the sword,’ says the Lord.”
32 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, disaster shall go forth
From nation to nation,
And (NR)a great whirlwind shall be raised up
From the farthest parts of the earth.
33 (NS)And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be (NT)lamented, (NU)or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.
34 “Wail,(NV) shepherds, and cry!
Roll about in the ashes,
You leaders of the flock!
For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled;
You shall fall like a precious vessel.
35 And the shepherds will have no [bu]way to flee,
Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard.
For the Lord has plundered their pasture,
37 And the peaceful dwellings are cut down
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
38 He has left His lair like the lion;
For their land is desolate
Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor,
And because of His fierce anger.”
Jeremiah Saved from Death(NW)
26 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Stand in (NX)the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, (NY)all the words that I command you to speak to them. (NZ)Do not diminish a word. 3 (OA)Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may (OB)relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’ 4 And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: (OC)“If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you, 5 to heed the words of My servants the prophets (OD)whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded), 6 then I will make this house like (OE)Shiloh, and will make this city (OF)a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die! 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be (OG)desolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house. 11 And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying, [bv]“This man deserves to (OH)die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard. 13 Now therefore, (OI)amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you. 14 As for me, here (OJ)I am, in your hand; do with me as seems good and [bw]proper to you. 15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”
16 So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve to die. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
17 (OK)Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying: 18 (OL)“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(OM)“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become (ON)heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the [bx]temple
Like the [by]bare hills of the forest.” ’
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? (OO)Did he not fear the Lord and (OP)seek the Lord’s favor? And the Lord (OQ)relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. (OR)But we are doing great evil against ourselves.”
20 Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. 21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt. 22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other men who went with him to Egypt. 23 And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the [bz]common people.
24 Nevertheless (OS)the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 14:5 abandoned her young
- Jeremiah 14:13 true
- Jeremiah 14:14 Telling the future by signs and omens
- Jeremiah 15:1 Lit. soul was not toward
- Jeremiah 15:6 tired
- Jeremiah 15:10 Or land
- Jeremiah 15:14 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. cause you to serve (cf. 17:4)
- Jeremiah 15:15 attend to
- Jeremiah 15:18 Or cannot be trusted
- Jeremiah 16:9 rejoicing
- Jeremiah 16:12 walks after the stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 17:2 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
- Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm
- Jeremiah 17:8 Qr., Tg. see
- Jeremiah 17:9 Or incurably sick
- Jeremiah 17:10 Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
- Jeremiah 17:11 Sits on eggs
- Jeremiah 17:18 Lit. crush
- Jeremiah 17:23 Were stubborn
- Jeremiah 17:26 Heb. shephelah
- Jeremiah 17:26 Heb. Negev
- Jeremiah 18:3 Potter’s wheel
- Jeremiah 18:4 was making
- Jeremiah 18:4 ruined
- Jeremiah 18:12 Lit. do
- Jeremiah 18:12 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 18:14 forsake
- Jeremiah 18:17 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT look them in
- Jeremiah 18:20 concerning
- Jeremiah 19:11 restored
- Jeremiah 20:3 Lit. Fear on Every Side
- Jeremiah 20:7 enticed or persuaded
- Jeremiah 20:7 Lit. a laughingstock all the day
- Jeremiah 20:10 slandering
- Jeremiah 20:12 Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
- Jeremiah 20:18 toil
- Jeremiah 21:2 Heb. Nebuchadrezzar, and so elsewhere in the book
- Jeremiah 21:4 Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book
- Jeremiah 21:9 Lit. falls away to
- Jeremiah 21:12 Dispense justice
- Jeremiah 21:13 dweller
- Jeremiah 21:14 deeds
- Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice
- Jeremiah 22:5 Obey
- Jeremiah 22:11 Or Jehoahaz
- Jeremiah 22:13 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
- Jeremiah 22:14 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
- Jeremiah 22:16 Defended
- Jeremiah 22:22 Lit. shepherds
- Jeremiah 22:23 childbirth
- Jeremiah 22:24 Or Jeconiah or Jehoiachin
- Jeremiah 22:24 signet ring
- Jeremiah 22:25 Or Babylonians
- Jeremiah 22:28 See note at v. 24
- Jeremiah 23:5 act wisely
- Jeremiah 23:5 justice
- Jeremiah 23:5 land
- Jeremiah 23:6 Heb. YHWH Tsidkenu
- Jeremiah 23:13 Lit. distastefulness
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
- Jeremiah 23:17 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 23:33 burden, prophecy
- Jeremiah 23:33 LXX, Tg., Vg. ‘You are the burden.’
- Jeremiah 23:34 burden, prophecy
- Jeremiah 23:36 burden, prophecy
- Jeremiah 23:38 burden, prophecy
- Jeremiah 24:5 regard
- Jeremiah 24:10 destroyed
- Jeremiah 25:10 Lit. cause to perish from them
- Jeremiah 25:12 Beginning circa 605 b.c. (2 Kin. 24:1) and ending circa 536 b.c. (Ezra 1:1)
- Jeremiah 25:15 wrath
- Jeremiah 25:26 A code word for Babylon, Jer. 51:41
- Jeremiah 25:35 Or refuge
- Jeremiah 26:11 Lit. A judgment of death to this man
- Jeremiah 26:14 right
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. house
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. high places
- Jeremiah 26:23 Lit. sons of the people
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