1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, from the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin^:1:2 To who the Word of YHWH came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the 13th year of his reign.^1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the 11th year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the 5th month.^1:4 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^1:5 before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.^1:6 Then I replied, Ah, YHWH Elohim! see, I cannot speak because I am a youth.^1:7 But YHWH replied to me, Say not I am a youth^: because you will go to all that I will send you, and whatever I command, you will speak.^1:8 Be not afraid of their faces because I am with you to deliver you, says YHWH.^1:9 Then YHWH put out his hand and touched my mouth. And YHWH said to me, See, I have put my Words in your mouth.^1:10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, pull down, destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant.^1:11 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I replied, I see a rod of an almond tree.^1:12 Then YHWH replied to me, You have well seen^: because I will awaken my Word to perform it.^1:13 And the Word of YHWH came to me the second time saying, What do you see? And I replied, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the North.^1:14 Then YHWH said to me, Out of the North an evil will break out upon all the inhabitants of the land.^1:15 For lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the North declares YHWH; and they will come, and they will set everyone his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.^1:16 And I will declare my judgments against them concerning all their bad, who have forsaken me and have burned incense to other elohim, and worshipped the works of their own hands.^1:17 You therefore gird up your hips, and get up, and speak to them all that I command you^: be not dismayed at their faces, unless I shatter you before them.^1:18 For note, I have made you this day a fortified city and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its leaders, against its priests, and against the people of the land.^1:19 And they will fight against you; but they will not prevail against you; because I am with you declares YHWH, to deliver you.

2:1 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^2:2 go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, This is what YHWH declares; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after me in the uninhabited land, in a land that was not yielding seed.^2:3 Israel was a sacredness to YHWH, and the first-fruits of his increase^: all that devour him will be guilty; bad will befall them declares YHWH.^2:4 Hear you the Word of YHWH O House of Jacob, and all the families of the House of Israel^:2:5 This is what YHWH declares, What injustice have your ancestors found in me so that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity and are become vain?^2:6 And have not said, where is YHWH that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the uninhabited land, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?^2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its produce and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land and made my heritage a disgusting thing.^2:8 The priests did not say, where is YHWH? and they that handle the Law knew me not^: the shepherds also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.^2:9 Therefore I will still plead with you declares YHWH, and with your children's children will I plead.^2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim and see; and send to Kedar and consider diligently and see if there is such a thing.^2:11 Has a nation changed their elohim, which are no elohim? but my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.^2:12 Be astonished, O you cosmos at this, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate declares YHWH.^2:13 Because my people have committed two wrongs; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and cut themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.^2:14 Is Israel a slave? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a spoil?^2:15 The young lions roared upon him and yelled, and they made his land waste^: his cities are burned without inhabitant.^2:16 Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes consume you, the crown of the head!^2:17 Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken YHWH your Elohim, when he led you by the way?^2:18 And now what have you to do in the path of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?^2:19 Your own badness will correct you, and your backsliding will judge you^: know therefore and see that it is a bad thing and bitter, that you have forsaken YHWH Elohim, and that my fear is not in you declares YHWH Elohim of Hosts.^2:20 Because in ancient times I have broken your yoke, and broke your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when on every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the prostitute.^2:21 Still I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed^: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?^2:22 Because though you wash yourself with soda, and take yourself much soap, still your depravity is deeply stained before me declares YHWH Elohim.^2:23 How can you say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done^: you are a swift young camel traversing its ways;^2:24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that find her will not weary themselves; in her month they will find her.^2:25 Withhold your foot from being barefoot and your throat from thirst^: but you say, there is no hope^: no; for I have loved foreigners, and after them will I go.^2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the House of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets,^2:27 saying to a stock, you are my father; and to a stone, you have brought me out. Because they have turned their back to me, and not their face^: but in the time of their trouble they will say, get up and save us.^2:28 But where are your elohim that you have fashioned yourself? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble^: because according to the number of your cities are your elohim, O Judah.^2:29 Therefore you will plead with me? you all have revolted against me declares YHWH.^2:30 In vain I have struck your children; they received no correction^: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.^2:31 O generation, see the Word of YHWH. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? therefore say my people, we are YHWH's; we will come no more to you? ^2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire? still my people have forgotten me days without number.^2:33 Why trim your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.^2:34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents^: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.^2:35 Still you say, because I am innocent certainly his anger will turn from me. Look, I will plead with you because you say, I have not sinned.^2:36 What? you are very vile to repeat your way, even of Egypt you are ashamed, As you have been ashamed of Asshur,^2:37 yes, you will go out from him, with your hands on your head^: because YHWH has rejected your confidences and you will not prosper in them.

3:1 They say, if a man divorces his woman and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, will he return to her again? will not that land be greatly profaned? but you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me says YHWH.^3:2 Lift up your eyes to the worship places and see where you have not been ravishing. In the road you have sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your prostitution and with your badness.^3:3 Therefore the heavy showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.^3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, my Father, you are the intimate of my youth?^3:5 Will he reserve his anger for the ages? will he keep it to the end? Look, you have spoken and done bad things and have had your way.^3:6 YHWH said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the whore.^3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.^3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had divorced her, and given her a bill of divorce; still her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the prostitute also.^3:9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.^3:10 And still for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart but with falsehood, says YHWH.^3:11 And YHWH said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.^3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, Return, you backsliding Israel declares YHWH; and I will not cause my anger to fall on you^: because I am merciful declares YHWH, and I will not reserve anger for the ages.^3:13 Only acknowledge your depravity, that you have rebelled against YHWH Elohim and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my Voice declares YHWH.^3:14 Turn O backsliding children, declares YHWH; because I am married to you^: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family and I will bring you to Zion^:3:15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart that will feed you with knowledge and understanding.^3:16 And it will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days declares YHWH, they will say no more, the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH. Neither will it come to mind^: neither will they remember it; neither will they visit it; neither will that be done anymore.^3:17 At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of YHWH; and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the Name of YHWH, to Jerusalem^: neither will they walk anymore after the imagination of their bad heart.^3:18 In those days the House of Judah will walk with the House of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the North to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your forefathers.^3:19 But I said, How will I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage from the hosts of nations? and I said, You will call me, my Father; and will not turn away from me.^3:20 Surely as a woman treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me O House of Israel, declares YHWH.^3:21 A voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel^: because they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten YHWH their Elohim.^3:22 Return you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Look, we come to you; because you are YHWH our Elohim.^3:23 Surely in vain from the heights, the multitude of mountains, surely in YHWH our Elohim is the salvation of Israel.^3:24 Because shame has devoured the labor of our forefathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.^3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us^: because we have sinned against YHWH Elohim, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the Voice of YHWH Elohim.

4:1 If you will return O Israel, declares YHWH, return to me^: and if you will put away your detestable things out of my sight, then will you not waver.^4:2 And you will adjure, YHWH lives, in Truth, in Judgment, and in Righteousness; and the nations will bless themselves in him, and in him will they glory.^4:3 Because this is what YHWH declares to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your un- tilled ground, and sow not among thorns.^4:4 Circumcise yourselves to YHWH, and take away the foreskins of your heart you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem^: unless my rage goes out like supernatural fire, and burns so that none can quench it, because of the badness of your practices.^4:5 Declare in Judah and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land^: cry, gather together and say, assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.^4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion^: retire, remain not^: because I will bring badness from the North and a great destruction.^4:7 The lion has come up from its thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he has gone out from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities will be laid waste without an inhabitant.^4:8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail^: because the fierce anger of YHWH is not turned back from us.^4:9 And it will come to pass at that day declares YHWH, that the heart of the king will perish and the heart of the princes; and the priests will be deserted, and the prophets will be stunned.^4:10 Then I said, Ah, YHWH Elohim! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem saying, you will have peace; whereas the sword reaches to their lives.^4:11 At that time will it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, a dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan nor to cleanse,^4:12 even a full wind from those places will come to me^: now also I will give sentence against them.^4:13 Look, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as a whirlwind^: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! because we are spoiled.^4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from badness so that you may be liberated. How long will your vain thoughts lodge within yourself?^4:15 Because a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim.^4:16 Make mention to the nations; Observe, publish against Jerusalem so that besiegers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.^4:17 As keepers of a field are they against her all around; because she has been rebellious against me declares YHWH.^4:18 Your way and your practices have procured these things to you; this is your badness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.^4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise inside me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my life, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.^4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; because the whole land is spoiled^: suddenly are my tents plundered, and my curtains in a moment.^4:21 How long will I see the standard, and hear the sound of the horn?^4:22 Because my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding^: they are wise to do bad, but to do good they have no knowledge.^4:23 I looked to the land, and lo, confusion and void, and to the cosmos, and their light is not.^4:24 I saw the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.^4:25 I observed, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the skies were departed.^4:26 I observed, and lo, the garden-land was an uninhabited place, and all the cities were broken down at the presence of YHWH, and by his fierce anger.^4:27 Because this is what YHWH has declared, The whole land will be desolate; still I will not make a termination.^4:28 For this will the land mourn, and the skies above are darkened^: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not be moved to pity, neither will I turn back from it.^4:29 The whole city will flee for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they will go into thickets, and climb up on the rocks^: every city will be forsaken, and not a man to live in them.^4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you widen your face with cosmetics, in vain will you make yourself beautiful; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.^4:31 Because I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that genders her first infant, the voice of the daughter of Zion that bewails herself, that spreads her hands saying, woe is me now! for my life is wearied because of murderers.

5:1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now and know, and seek in the open plaza, if you can find a person, if there are any that execute judgment, that seek fidelity; and I will pardon it.^5:2 And though they say, YHWH lives; certainly they adjure falsely.^5:3 O YHWH, are not your eyes upon fidelity? you have struck them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction^: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.^5:4 Therefore I said, Certainly these are poor; they are foolish^: because they know not the way of YHWH, nor the Judgment of their Elohim.^5:5 I will go to the Elders and I will speak with them, because they have known the way of YHWH, the judgment of their Elohim. Surely they together have broken the yoke, they have torn off the bonds.^5:6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf of the evening will spoil them, a leopard will watch over their cities^: everyone that goes out from there will be torn in pieces^: because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding has increased.^5:7 How will I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me and sworn by them that are not elohim^: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the houses of prostitution.^5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning^: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.^5:9 Will I not punish for these things? declares YHWH^: and will I not be avenged on such a nation as this?^5:10 Go you up upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end^: take away her tendrils of a vine; because they are not YHWH's.^5:11 Because the House of Israel and the House of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me declares YHWH.^5:12 They have belied YHWH, and said, it is not He; neither will bad come upon us; neither will we see sword or famine^:5:13 And the prophets will become empty wind, and the Word is not in them^: thus will it be done to them.^5:14 Therefore this is what YHWH Elohim of Hosts declares, Because you speak this word, note, I will make my Words in your mouth supernatural fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.^5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far O House of Israel, declares YHWH^: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.^5:16 Their quiver is as an open grave, they are all mighty men.^5:17 And they will eat up your harvest and your food that your sons and your daughters should eat^: they will consume your flocks and your herds^: they will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will shatter your fortified cities, where you placed your confidence in, with the sword.^5:18 Nevertheless in those days declares YHWH, I will not make a full end with you.^5:19 And it will come to pass when you will say, why does YHWH our Elohim do all these things to us? then will you answer them, As you have forsaken me and served foreign elohim in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.^5:20 Report this in the House of Jacob and publish it in Judah saying,^5:21 Hear this now, O foolish people without understanding; that have eyes and see not; that have ears and hear not^:5:22 Fear you not me? declares YHWH^: will you not tremble at my presence, which has placed the sand for the border of the sea by an age-lasting decree, that it cannot pass [beyond a certain point]^: and though the waves toss themselves, still they cannot prevail; though they roar, still they cannot pass over it?^5:23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are turned aside and gone.^5:24 Neither do they say in their heart, let us now fear YHWH Elohim that gives rain, both the former and the latter in its season^: he reserves to us the prescribed weeks of the harvest.^5:25 Your depravities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.^5:26 Because among my people are found wicked people^: they lay in wait, as he that sets snares; they set ruin and they capture men.^5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit^: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.^5:28 They are waxed fat, they shine^: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked^: they judge not the legal suit, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the rights of the poor do they not judge.^5:29 Will I not punish for these things? declares YHWH^: will I not be avenged on such a nation as this?^5:30 A wasteful and horrible thing is committed in the land;^5:31 The speakers prophesy falsely, and the priests (ministers) bear rule by their repetition; and my people love to have it so^: and what will you do in the Latter Time?

6:1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem^: for bad appears out of the North, and great destruction.^6:2 The beautiful and the delicate one I have cut off, the daughter of Zion.^6:3 The shepherds with their flocks will come to her; they will pitch their tents against her all around; they will feed everyone in his place.^6:4 Prepare you war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! because the day has declined, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.^6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her citadel.^6:6 Because this is what YHWH of Hosts has declared, Cut down trees, and cast a mound against Jerusalem^: this is the city to be visited; she has oppression in her inward parts.^6:7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her badness^: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.^6:8 Be you instructed O Jerusalem, unless my life departs from you; unless I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.^6:9 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares^: They surely glean as a vine the remnant of Israel, put back your hand as a gatherer to the baskets.^6:10 To who will I speak and give warning so that they may hear? see, their ear is uncircumcised and they cannot hear^: see, the Word of YHWH is to them a scorn; they have no delight in it.^6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of YHWH; I am weary with holding in^: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together^: because even the husband with the woman will be taken, an elder with one full of days.^6:12 And their houses will be turned to others, with their fields and women together^: because I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land declares YHWH.^6:13 Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to unjust profit; and from the speaker even to the priest (ministers) everyone deals falsely.^6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace; when there is no peace.^6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush^: therefore they will fall among them that fall^: at the time that I visit them they will be cast down declares YHWH.^6:16 This is what YHWH declares, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your lives. But they said, we will not walk in it.^6:17 Also I set watchmen over you saying, Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, we will not listen.^6:18 Therefore hear you nations, and know, O company, what is among them.^6:19 Hear, O land^: See, I will bring bad upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my Words nor to my Law, but rejected it.^6:20 To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your whole Burnt-Offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.^6:21 Therefore this is what YHWH declares, See, I will lay stumbling- blocks before this people and the dads and the sons together will fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend will perish.^6:22 This is what YHWH declares, Look, a people come from the North country, and a great nation will be raised from the extreme parts of the earth.^6:23 They will lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.^6:24 We have heard the fame^: our hands wax feeble^: anguish has taken hold of us with pain, like a woman in labor.^6:25 Go not out into the field, nor walk by the way; because the sword of the enemy and terror is on every side.^6:26 O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth and wallow yourself in ashes^: fashion yourself for mourning, as for an only son, most bitter wailing^: for the spoiler will suddenly come upon us.^6:27 I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and examine their way.^6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders^: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.^6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain the refiner has refined^: because the bad are not rooted out.^6:30 Reprobate silver will men call them, because YHWH has rejected them.

7:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH saying,^7:2 Stand in the court of YHWH's Temple, and proclaim there this Word and say, Hear the Word of YHWH, all you of Judah that enter into these courts to worship YHWH.^7:3 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares, the Elohim of Israel, Amend your ways and your practices, and I will cause you to reside in this Standing Place.^7:4 Trust you not in lying words saying, The Temple of YHWH, the Temple of YHWH, the Temple of YHWH, are these.^7:5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your practices; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;^7:6 If you oppress not the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this Standing Place, neither walk after other elohim to your hurt^:7:7 Then I will cause you to reside in this Standing Place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors, for the ages of ages.^7:8 Look, you are trusting in lying words that cannot profit.^7:9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, adjure falsely and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other elohim who you know not;^7:10 And come and stand before me in this Temple that is called by my Name and say, we are delivered to do all these abominations?^7:11 Is this Temple that is called by my Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, even I have seen it declares YHWH.^7:12 But go now to my Standing Place that was in Shiloh, where I set my Name at the first, and see what I did to it for the badness of my people Israel.^7:13 And now, because you have done all these works, declares YHWH, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you but you answered not;^7:14 Therefore I will do to this Temple that is called by my Name, in which you trust and to the Standing Place that I gave to you and to your forefathers, as I have done to Shiloh.^7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your kinship, even the whole seed of Ephraim.^7:16 Therefore pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me^: because I will not hear you.^7:17 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?^7:18 The children gather wood, and the dads kindle the fire and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other elohim so that they may provoke me to anger.^7:19 Do they provoke me to anger asks YHWH? Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?^7:20 Therefore this is what YHWH Elohim declares; Observe, my anger and my fury will be poured out on this Standing Place, upon man, animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.^7:21 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares, the Elohim of Israel; Put your whole Burnt-Offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.^7:22 Because I spoke not to your forefathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole Burnt- Offerings or sacrifices^:7:23 But this thing I commanded them saying, Obey my Voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you will be my people^: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you so that it may be well for you.^7:24 But they did not listen nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their bad heart, and went backward and not forward.^7:25 Since the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my slaves the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them^:7:26 Still they did not listen to me nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck^: they did worse than their ancestors.^7:27 Therefore you will speak all these Words to them; but they will not hear you^: you will also call to them; but they will not answer you.^7:28 But you will say to them, This is a nation that obeys not the Voice of YHWH their Elohim, nor receives correction^: Truth is perished and is cut off from their mouth.^7:29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.^7:30 Because the children of Judah have done bad in my sight declares YHWH^: they have set their abominations in the Temple that is called by my Name, to make it unclean.^7:31 And they have built the worship places of Tophet that is in the Valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came this into my mind.^7:32 Therefore note, the days come declares YHWH, that it will no more be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter^: because they will bury in Tophet until there is no more space.^7:33 And the corpses of this people will be meat for the fowls of the sky, and for the animals of the land, and none will drive them away.^7:34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride^: because the land will be desolate.

8:1 At that time declares YHWH, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves^:8:2 And they will spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of the stars who they have loved and have served, and after whom they have walked, and have sought after and worshipped. They will not be gathered, nor be buried; they will be for dung upon the surface of the land.^8:3 And death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this bad family that remains in all the regions wherever I have driven them declares YHWH of Hosts.^8:4 Moreover you will say to them, This is what YHWH declares; Will they fall and not arise? will he turn away and not return?^8:5 Why has this people of Jerusalem turned back, a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, they have refused to turn back.^8:6 I have given attention, yes, I listened, they do not speak right, and none has regretted of his badness saying, what have I done? Everyone has turned to his own courses, as a horse is rushing into battle.^8:7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed season; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the season of their coming; but my people know not the Judgment of YHWH.^8:8 How do you say, we are wise and the Law of YHWH is with us? Lo, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.^8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken^: lo, they have rejected the Word of YHWH; and what wisdom is in them? ^8:10 Therefore I will give their women to others, and their fields to them that will inherit them^: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to unjust profit, from the speaker even to the priest everyone deals falsely.^8:11 Because they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying, peace, peace; when there is no peace.^8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush^: therefore will they fall among them that fall^: in the time of their custody they will be cast down declares YHWH.^8:13 I will certainly consume them declares YHWH^: there will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade; and the things that I have given them will pass away from them.^8:14 Why do we sit still? gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there^: because YHWH Elohim has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against YHWH.^8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and saw dismay.^8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan^: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city and those that live there.^8:17 For see, I will send serpents [dragon] and poisonous snakes, among you, which will not be charmed, and they will bite you declares YHWH.^8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.^8:19 Observe the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that live in a far country^: Is not YHWH in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?^8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not liberated.^8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am mourning; horror has taken hold on me.^8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!^9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! because they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous people.^9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies^: but they are not prevailing for the Truth upon the land; because they proceed from bad to bad and they know not me declares YHWH.^9:4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust not in any brother^: because every brother will attack at the heel, and every neighbor will walk with as an informer.^9:5 And they will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the Truth^: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to be perverted.^9:6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, declares YHWH.^9:7 Therefore this is what YHWH of Hosts declares, Observe, I will refine them and examine them; for how do I do because of the daughter of my people?^9:8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit^: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his ambuscade.^9:9 Will I not visit them for these things? declares YHWH^: will I not be avenged on such a nation as this?^9:10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a dirge, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them. Neither can people hear the voice of the cattle; both the flying creatures of the sky and the animals are fled; they are gone.^9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.^9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to who the mouth of YHWH has spoken, that he may declare it, for what has the land perished for, and is burned up like a wilderness so that none pass through?^9:13 Then YHWH declared, Because they have forsaken my Law that I set before them and have not obeyed my Voice, neither walked in it;^9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim that their ancestors taught them of^:9:15 Therefore this is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; Look, I will feed them, even this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.^9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, who neither they nor their ancestors have known^: and I will send a sword after them, until I have consumed them.^9:17 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares, Consider, and call for the mourning women so that they may come; and send for skillful women, that they may come^:9:18 And let them hurry and take up a wailing for us so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.^9:19 Because a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, how are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our houses.^9:20 Now hear the Word of YHWH, O you women, and let your ear receive the Word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a dirge.^9:21 Because death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our citadel, to cut off the children from the streets, and the young men from the plaza.^9:22 Speak, this is what YHWH declares, Even the corpses of men will fall as dung upon the open field and as a handful after the reaper, and there is none gathering.^9:23 This is what YHWH declares, Let not the wise glory in their wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in their riches^:9:24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am YHWH that exercises loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth^: because in these things I delight declares YHWH.^9:25 Note, the days come declares YHWH, that I will punish all them that are circumcised with the uncircumcised;^9:26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the far extremities that live in the wilderness^: because all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the House of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

10:1 Hear the Word that YHWH speaks to you, O House of Israel^:10:2 This is what YHWH declares, Learn not the way of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of the stars; for the heathen are dismayed at them.^10:3 Because the customs of the people are vain^: for one cuts down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the artisan, with the ax.^10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so that it does not wobble.^10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not^: they must needs be lifted up, because they cannot take a step. Be not afraid of them because they cannot do bad, neither also is it in them to do good.^10:6 There is none like to you O YHWH; you are great, and your Name is great in might.^10:7 Who does not fear you, king of the nations? For to you it is becoming, for among all the wise of the nations, and in their entire kingdom there is none like you.^10:8 But they are altogether barbarous and foolish^: the [Christmas/idol] tree/stock is a doctrine of vanities.^10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder^: blue and purple is their clothing^: they are all the work of the skillful.^10:10 But YHWH is the true Elohim, he is the living Elohim, and an Age-Lasting King^: at his anger the earth will quake, and the nations will not be able to contain his indignation.^10:11 This is what you will say to them, The elohim that have not fashioned the cosmos and the earth, even they will perish from the earth, and from under these cosmos.^10:12 He has fashioned the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the cosmos by his knowledge.^10:13 At the Voice he gives out, a multitude of waters is in the skies, and he causes vapors to come up from the end of the earth, lightning's for rain he has made, and brings out wind from his storehouse.^10:14 Everyone is barbarous in his knowledge^: every founder is withered by the idol^: because his cast image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.^10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors^: in the time of their charge they will perish.^10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them^: because he is the former of all things; and Israel is the scepter of his inheritance^: YHWH of Hosts is his Name.^10:17 Gather up your packs, out of the land O inhabitant of the siege-enclosure.^10:18 Because this is what YHWH declares, Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and have been an adversary to them, so that they are found out.^10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous^: but I said, truly this is a grief and I must bear it.^10:20 My tabernacle is devastated, and all my cords are broken^: my children are gone out from me, and they are not^: there is none to stretch out my tent anymore and to set up my curtains.^10:21 Because the pastors [ministers] are become unreceptive, and have not sought YHWH^: therefore they will not prosper, and all their flocks will be scattered.^10:22 Observe, the voice of the news has come, and a great rattling out of the North country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.^10:23 O YHWH, I know that the way of man is not in himself^: it is not in man that walks to direct his own steps.^10:24 O YHWH, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger unless you bring me to nothing.^10:25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your Name^: because they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

11:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH saying,^11:2 Hear you the Words of this Covenant and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;^11:3 And say to them, This is what YHWH Elohim of Israel declares; Cursed is the man that obeys not the Words of this Covenant,^11:4 that I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron forge saying, Obey my Voice and institute them, according to all that I command you^: so will you be my people and I will be your Elohim^:11:5 That I may perform the oath that I have adjured to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, so be it, O YHWH.^11:6 Then YHWH replied to me, Proclaim all these Words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem saying, hear you the Words of this Covenant and institute them.^11:7 Because I earnestly protested to your forefathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting saying, Obey my Voice.^11:8 Still they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked everyone in the imagination of their bad heart^: therefore I will bring upon them all the Words of this Covenant that I commanded them to do; but they did not institute them.^11:9 Then YHWH said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.^11:10 They are turned back to the depravities of their forefathers that refused to hear my Words; and they went after other elohim to serve them^: the House of Israel and the House of Judah have broken my Covenant-Pledge that I cut out with their ancestors.^11:11 Therefore this is what YHWH declares, See, I will bring bad upon them so that they will not be able to escape; and though they will cry to me, I will not listen to them.^11:12 Then will the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry to the elohim to who they offer incense^: but they will not deliver them at all in the time of their trouble.^11:13 Because according to the number of your cities were your elohim O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.^11:14 Therefore you will not pray for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them^: because I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me for their trouble.^11:15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has made lewdness with many, and the Sacred flesh is passed from you? when you do bad, then you rejoice.^11:16 YHWH called your name, A green olive tree, fair and of goodly fruit^: with the noise of a great roaring he has set fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.^11:17 Because YHWH of Hosts, that planted you, has pronounced bad against you, for the badness of the House of Israel and of the House of Judah that they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.^11:18 And YHWH has given me knowledge of it, and I know it^: then you showed me their practices.^11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter. And I knew not that they had devised devices against me saying, let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may no more be remembered.^11:20 But, O YHWH of Hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them^: because to you have I revealed my cause.^11:21 Therefore this is what YHWH says of the men of Anathoth that seek your life saying, Prophesy not in the Name of YHWH so that you do not die by our hand.^11:22 Therefore this is what YHWH of Hosts declares, Look, I will punish them^: the young men will die by the sword; their sons and their daughters will die by famine.^11:23 And there will be no remnant of them^: because I will bring bad upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their custody.

12:1 Righteous are you O YHWH, when I plead with you^: yet let me talk with you of your judgments^: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are they all happy that deal very treacherously? ^12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root^: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit^: you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.^12:3 But you O YHWH, know me^: you have seen me, and tried my heart toward you^: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter.^12:4 How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of them that live there? the animals are consumed and the birds; because they said, he will not see our Latter Time.^12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace where you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?^12:6 For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you^: believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.^12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my life into the hand of her enemies.^12:8 My heritage is to me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me^: therefore have I hated it.^12:9 My heritage is to me as a speckled bird, the birds all around are against her; come you, assemble all the animals of the field, come to devour.^12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled my portion under foot, they have made my precious portion a desolate wilderness.^12:11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns unto me; the whole land is made desolate because no man lays it to heart.^12:12 The spoilers are come on all the high places through the wilderness^: for the sword of YHWH will devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land^: no flesh will have peace.^12:13 They have sown wheat, but will reap thorns^: they have put themselves to pain, but will not profit^: and they will be ashamed of your produce because of the fierce anger of YHWH.^12:14 This is what YHWH says against all my bad neighbors, that touch the inheritance that I have caused my people Israel to inherit; See, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the House of Judah from among them.^12:15 And it will come to pass, after I have plucked them out I will return and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.^12:16 And it will come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to adjure by my Name, YHWH lives; as they taught my people to adjure by Baal; then will they be restored in the midst of my people.^12:17 But if they will not obey, I will expel and destroy that nation declares YHWH.

13:1 This is what YHWH said to me, Go and get yourself a linen waist-cloth, and put it on your hips, but put it not in water.^13:2 So I got a waist-cloth according to the Word of YHWH and put it on my hips.^13:3 Then the Word of YHWH came to me the second time saying,^13:4 Take the waist-cloth that you have got, which is on your hips, and arise, go to Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.^13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as YHWH commanded me.^13:6 And it came to pass after many days that YHWH said to me, Arise, go to Euphrates and take the waist- cloth from there, which I commanded you to hide.^13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and excavated, and took the waist- cloth from the place where I had hidden it^: and lo, the waist-cloth was marred, it was profitable for nothing.^13:8 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^13:9 This is what YHWH declares, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.^13:10 This bad people that refuse to hear my Words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and walk after other elohim, to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this waist-cloth, which is good for nothing.^13:11 For as the waist-cloth cleaved to the hips of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole House of Israel and the whole House of Judah declares YHWH. That they might be to me for a people, and for a Name and for a praise, and for a glory^: but they would not hear.^13:12 Therefore you will speak to them this Word; YHWH Elohim of Israel declares, Every bottle will be filled with wine^: and they will say to you, do we not certainly know that every bottle will be filled with wine? ^13:13 Then you will say to them, This is what YHWH declares, See, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.^13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the dads and the sons together declares YHWH^: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but will destroy them.^13:15 Hear you and give ear; be not proud^: because YHWH has spoken.^13:16 Give glory to YHWH Elohim, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it dark clouds.^13:17 But if you will not hear it, my heart will weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye will weep sore, and run down with tears, because YHWH's flock is carried away captive.^13:18 Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down^: because your dominion will come down, even the crown of your glory.^13:19 The cities of the south will be shut up, and none will open them^: Judah will be carried away captive all of it, it will be wholly carried away captive.^13:20 Lift up your eyes and watch them that come from the North^: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? ^13:21 What will you say when he will punish you? because you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you^: will not sorrows overtake you as a woman in labor?^13:22 And if you say in your heart, how come these things are upon me? For the greatness of your depravity are your skirts discovered and your heels made bare.^13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do bad.^13:24 Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.^13:25 This is your lot, the portion of your measure from me, declares YHWH; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.^13:26 Therefore I will discover your skirts upon your face so that your shame may appear.^13:27 I have seen your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when will it once be?

14:1 The Word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.^14:2 Judah mourns, and the marketplace is exhausted; they are morning for the land; and the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.^14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters^: they came to the trench and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were disconcerted and confused, and covered their heads.^14:4 Because the ground is cracked, because there was no rain in the land, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.^14:5 Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.^14:6 And the wild donkeys did stand in the high places, they gasped up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.^14:7 Certainly our depravities have testified against us, do something O YHWH for your Name's sake, because many have been our backslidings, against you we have sinned.^14:8 O the hope of Israel, the Savior in time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to lodge for a night?^14:9 Why should you be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot rescue? but you O YHWH, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your Name; leave us not.^14:10 This is what YHWH declares to this people, They have loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore YHWH does not accept them; he will now remember their depravity, and visit their sins.^14:11 Then YHWH said to me, Pray not for this people for their good.^14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer whole Burnt-Offering and gifts, I will not accept them^: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.^14:13 Then I said, Ah, YHWH Elohim! look, the prophets say to them, you will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this Standing Place.^14:14 Then YHWH said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my Name^: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke to them^: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and a thing good for nothing, and the deceit of their heart.^14:15 Therefore this is what YHWH declares concerning the prophets that prophesy in my Name, and I sent them not, still they say, Sword and famine will not be in this land; By sword and famine will those prophets be consumed.^14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they will have none to bury them, them or their women, their sons or their daughters^: because I will pour their bad upon them.^14:17 Therefore you will say this Word to them; Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease^: because the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.^14:18 If I go out into the field, then see the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then see them that are sick with famine! yes, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.^14:19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? have you loathed Zion? why have you ravaged us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!^14:20 We acknowledge O YHWH, our wickedness, and the depravity of our ancestors^: because we have sinned against you.^14:21 Do not abhor us, for your Name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of your glory^: remember, break not your Covenant with us.^14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the skies give showers? are not you he, O YHWH Elohim? therefore we will wait on you^: because you have produced all these things.

15:1 Then YHWH said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, still my mind could not be toward this people^: cast them out of my sight, and let them go out.^15:2 And it will come to pass, if they say to you, where will we go? then you will tell them, This is what YHWH declares; 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 captivity, to the captivity.^15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, declares YHWH^: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and destroy.^15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.^15:5 Because who will have pity on you O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will go aside to ask how you prosper?^15:6 You have forsaken me declares YHWH, you are gone backward^: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and destroy you; I am weary with grief.^15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the marketplaces of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.^15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas^: I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday^: I have caused him to fall on it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.^15:9 She that has engendered 7 grows feeble^: she has given up her life; her sun is gone down while it was still day^: she has been disconcerted and confounded^: and the residue of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies declares YHWH.^15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have gendered me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent or have I borrowed, still everyone of them does curse me.^15:11 YHWH declared, Of a Truth it will be well with your remnant; Of a Truth I will cause the enemy to fall upon you in the time of bad and in the time of affliction.^15:12 Will iron break the northern iron and the steel?^15:13 Your substance and your treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your territory.^15:14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land that you know not^: because a fire is kindled in my anger that will burn upon you.^15:15 O YHWH, you know^: remember me and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your presence^: know that for your sake I have suffered scorn.^15:16 Your Words were found, and I did eat them; and your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart^: because I am called by your Name, O YHWH Elohim of Hosts.^15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand^: because you have filled me with indignation.^15:18 Why is my pain continual and my wound incurable that refuses to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that stand firm? ^15:19 Therefore this is what YHWH declares, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you will stand before me^: and if you will extract the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth^: let them return to you; but return you not to them.^15:20 And I will make you to this people a fenced bronze wall^: and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you^: because I am with you to save you and to deliver you declares YHWH.^15:21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the bad, and I will ransom you out of the hand of the terror-striking.

16:1 The Word of YHWH came also to me saying,^16:2 You will not take for yourself a woman, neither will you have sons or daughters in this Standing Place.^16:3 Because this is what YHWH declares, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this Standing Place, And of their mothers (those bearing them), and of their fathers. (those begetting them) in this land.^16:4 They will die of grievous deaths, they will not be mourned, neither will they be buried. But they will be as dung upon the surface of the ground^: and they will be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their corpses will be meat for the flying creatures of the sky, and for the animals of the land.^16:5 Because this is what YHWH declares, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to mourn or grieve for them^: because I have taken away my peace from this people declares YHWH, even goodness and compassion.^16:6 Both the great and the small will die in this land^: they will not be buried, neither will people mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them^:16:7 Neither will people tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for those perished; neither will people give them the cup of consolation to drink for their dad or their mother.^16:8 Also, you will not go into the banquet house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.^16:9 Because this is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; Look, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of gaiety, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.^16:10 And it will come about, when you will show this people all these Words, and they will say to you, why has YHWH pronounced all this great bad against us? or what is our depravity? or what is our sin that we have committed against YHWH Elohim?^16:11 Then you will say to them, Because your ancestors have forsaken me, declares YHWH, and have walked after other elohim, and have served them and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not observed my Law;^16:12 And you have done worse than your ancestors; for lo, you walk everyone after the imagination of his bad heart so that they may not listen to me^:16:13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you know not, neither you nor your forefathers; and there will you serve other elohim day and night; where I will not show you favor.^16:14 Therefore watch, the days come declares YHWH, that it will no more be said, YHWH lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;^16:15 But, YHWH lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, and from all the lands where he had driven them^: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their forefathers.^16:16 Note, I will send for many fishermen declares YHWH, and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.^16:17 Because my eyes are on all their ways^: they are not hidden from my face, neither is their depravity hidden from my eyes.^16:18 I will repay their depravity and their sin double; because they have desecrated my land, they have filled my inheritance with the corpses of their detestable and abominable things.^16:19 O YHWH my strength, and my Place of Safety, and my refuge in the Day of Trouble, the Gentiles will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, certainly our ancestors have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.^16:20 Will a man fashion elohim to himself, and they are no elohim?^16:21 Therefore lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know my hand and my might, and they have known that my Name is YHWH!

17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a stylus of iron, and with the point of a diamond^: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;^17:2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.^17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your worship places for sin, throughout all your territories.^17:4 And you, even yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you, and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land that you know not^: because you have kindled a fire in my anger that will burn for the ages.^17:5 This is what YHWH declares; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from YHWH.^17:6 Because he will be like the destitute in the desert, and will not see when good comes; but will inhabit the parched places in the uninhabited land, in a salt land and not inhabited.^17:7 Blessed is the man that trusts in YHWH, and whose hope YHWH is.^17:8 Because he will be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and will not see when heat comes, but her leaf will be green; and will not be careful in the year of drought, neither will cease from yielding fruit.^17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked^: who can know it?^17:10 I YHWH search the heart, I try the reins, even to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his practices.^17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, will leave them in the middle of his days, and at his end will be a fool.^17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the locality of our Sacred Place.^17:13 O YHWH, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you will be ashamed, and they that depart from me will be recorded in the ground, because they have forsaken YHWH, the fountain of living waters.^17:14 Heal me, O YHWH, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved^: because you are my praise.^17:15 See, they say to me, where is the Word of YHWH? let it come now.^17:16 As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd that follows you, nor have I desired the incurable day; you know what came out of my lips and that it was right there in front of you.^17:17 Be not a terror to me^: you are my hope in the bad day.^17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded^: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed^: bring upon them the bad day, and destroy them with double destruction.^17:19 This is what YHWH says to me; Go and stand in the marketplace of the children of the people, where the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;^17:20 And say to them, Hear you the Word of YHWH, you kings of Judah and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that enter in by these gates^:17:21 This is what YHWH declares; Take heed to yourselves and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;^17:22 Neither carry out a burden from your houses on the sabbath day, neither do you any work, but consecrate the sabbath day, as I commanded your ancestors.^17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their necks stiff so that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.^17:24 And it will come to pass, if you diligently listen to me declares YHWH, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but consecrate the sabbath day, to do no work in that time;^17:25 Then will there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem^: and this city will remain for the ages.^17:26 And they will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing whole Burnt- Offerings and sacrifices, and Meat-Offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the Temple of YHWH.^17:27 But if you will not listen to me to consecrate the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day. Then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.

18:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH saying,^18:2 Get up and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my Words.^18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house and looked, he fashioned a work on the wheels.^18:4 And the vessel that he fashioned of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter^: so he fashioned it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.^18:5 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^18:6 O House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? declares YHWH. Observe, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O House of Israel.^18:7 At what moment I will speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;^18:8 If that nation, against who I have pronounced, turns from their badness, I will repent [have a change of mind] of the bad that I thought to do to them.^18:9 And at what moment I will speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;^18:10 If it does bad in my sight so that it obeys not my Voice, then I will repent of the good, in which I said I would benefit them.^18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, This is what YHWH declares; See, I frame bad against you, and devise a device against you. Return you now everyone from his bad way, and make your ways and your practices good.^18:12 And they said, there is no hope^: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will everyone do the imagination of their bad heart.^18:13 Therefore this is what YHWH declares; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things^: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.^18:14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon that comes from the rock of the field? or will the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?^18:15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not highly esteemed;^18:16 To make their land desolate, and an age lasting hissing; everyone that passes by there will be astonished, and wag his head.^18:17 I will scatter them as with an East wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.^18:18 Then they said, come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; because the Law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his Words.^18:19 Give heed to me O YHWH, and listen to the voice of them that contend with me.^18:20 Will bad be compensated for good? because they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your anger from them.^18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their women be bereaved of their children and become widows. And let their men be put to death; let their young men be killed by the sword in battle.^18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you will bring a troop suddenly on them^: because they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.^18:23 Still, YHWH, you know all their counsel against me to kill me^: forgive not their depravity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal so with them in the time of your anger.

19:1 This is what YHWH declares, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elder of the people, and of the elder of the priests;^19:2 And go out to the Valley of the son of Hinnom that is by the entry of the East Gate, and proclaim there the Words that I will tell you,^19:3 And say, Hear you the Word of YHWH, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; Look, I will bring bad upon this Standing Place, that whoever hears, their ears will tingle.^19:4 Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this Standing Place, and have burned incense in it to other elohim, who neither they nor their forefathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this Standing Place with the blood of the innocent;^19:5 They have also built the worship places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it enter into my mind^:19:6 Therefore watch, the days come declares YHWH that this Standing Place will no more be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.^19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this Standing Place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them who seek their lives. And their corpses I will give to be meat for the flying creatures of the sky, and for the animals of the land.^19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; everyone that passes by will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.^19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies, and those that seek their lives will oppress them.^19:10 Then you will break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,^19:11 And will say to them, This is what YHWH of Hosts declares; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again^: and they will bury them in Tophet, until there is no space to bury.^19:12 I will do to this Standing Place declares YHWH, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Tophet^:19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, will become unclean as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the stars of the cosmos, and have poured out drink offerings to other elohim.^19:14 Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where YHWH had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the YHWH's Temple; and said to all the people,^19:15 This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; See, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the bad that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear my Words.

20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the Temple of YHWH, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.^20:2 Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin that was by the Temple of YHWH.^20:3 And it came to pass on the next day that Pashur brought out Jeremiah from the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, YHWH has not called your name Pashur, but Magormissabib (terror on every side).^20:4 Because this is what YHWH declares, Look, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends. And they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it^: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive into Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.^20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all its labors, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies that will plunder them, and seize them, and carry them to Babylon.^20:6 And you, Pashur, and all that live in your house will go into captivity^: and you will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and will be buried there, you, and all your friends, to who you have prophesied lies.^20:7 O YHWH, you have deceived me and I was deceived^: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed^: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.^20:8 Because since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and plunder; because the Word of YHWH was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.^20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his Name. But his Word was in my heart as a burning supernatural fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it inside, and I could not prevail.^20:10 Because I heard the defamation of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my allies watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he will be enticed and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.^20:11 And YHWH is with me, as a terrible mighty one, therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, they have been exceedingly ashamed, for they have not acted wisely, confusion age-lasting is not forgotten.^20:12 But, O YHWH of Hosts, that examine the righteous and inspect the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them^: because to you have I opened my dispute.^20:13 Sing to YHWH, praise you YHWH^: because he has delivered the lives of the poor from the hand of the bad.^20:14 Cursed is the day in which I was born^: let not the day in which my mother engendered me be blessed.^20:15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my dad saying, a male child is born to you; making him very glad.^20:16 And let that man be as the cities that YHWH overthrew and repented not^: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;^20:17 Because he has not put me to death from the womb, and my mother is to me as my grave, and her womb a pregnancy age-lasting.^20:18 Therefore I came out of the womb to see labor and sorrow so that my days should be consumed with shame?

21:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest saying,^21:2 Inquire I ask you, of YHWH for us; because Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us; if so be that YHWH will deal with us according to all his wondrous works so that he may depart from us.^21:3 Then Jeremiah replied to them, this is what you will say to Zedekiah^:21:4 This is what YHWH Elohim of Israel declares; Look, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans that besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the center of this city.^21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, nostrils flaring and in fury, and in great anger.^21:6 And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal^: they will die of a great plague.^21:7 And afterward, declares YHWH, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his slaves, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life. And he will strike them with the edge of the sword; he will not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.^21:8 And to this people you will say, This is what YHWH declares; Look, I set before you the Way of Life, and the Way of Death.^21:9 He that remains in this city will die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague^: but he that goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he will live, and his life will be to him for a plunder.^21:10 Because I have set my face against this city for bad, and not for good, declares YHWH^: it will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.^21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah say, Hear you the Word of YHWH;^21:12 O House of David, this is what YHWH declares; Execute judgment in the morning and deliver him that is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, unless my fury goes out like supernatural fire, and burns so that none can quench it, because of the badness of your practices.^21:13 Look, I am against you O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain declares YHWH; which say, who will come down against us? or who will enter into our habitations?^21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, declares YHWH^: and I will kindle a fire in the forest, and it will devour all things surrounding it.

22:1 This is what YHWH declares; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this Word^22:2 and say, Hear the Word of YHWH, O king of Judah, that sits upon the throne of David, you and your slaves, and your people that enter in by these gates^:22:3 This is what YHWH declares; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor^: and do no wrong, do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this Standing Place.^22:4 Because if you do this thing indeed, then will there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his slaves and his people.^22:5 But if you will not hear these words, I adjure by myself declares YHWH, that this Temple will become a desolation.^22:6 Because this is what YHWH declares to the king's house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon^: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities that are not inhabited.^22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons^: and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.^22:8 And many nations will pass by this city, and they will say everyone to his neighbor, why has YHWH done such to this great city?^22:9 Then they will answer, because they have forsaken the Covenant of YHWH Elohim, and worshipped other elohim and served them.^22:10 Weep not for those perished, neither bemoan him^: but weep for him that goes away^: because he will return no more, nor see his native country.^22:11 Because this is what YHWH says touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah that reigned instead of Josiah his dad that went out of this Standing Place; he will not return here anymore^:22:12 But he will die in the place where they have led him captive, and will see this land no more.^22:13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and pays him not for his work;^22:14 That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cut out windows; and it is covered with cedar and painted with vermilion (red colored).^22:15 Will you reign, because you are fretting yourself in cedar? did not your dad eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?^22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him^: was not this to know me? declares YHWH.^22:17 But your eyes and your heart are set on nothing but for your unjust gain, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.^22:18 Therefore this is what YHWH declares concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They will not mourn for him saying, ah my brother! or, ah sister! they will not mourn for him saying, ah YHWH! or, ah his glory!^22:19 He will be buried with the burial of a mule, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.^22:20 Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages^: because all your lovers are destroyed.^22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obey not my Voice.^22:22 The wind will eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity^: certainly then will you be ashamed and confounded for all your badness.^22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makes your nest in the cedars, how gracious will you be when labor pains come on you, the pain as of a woman in labor! ^22:24 As I live declares YHWH, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, still I would pluck you from here;^22:25 And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.^22:26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that gendered you, into another country, where you were not born; and there will you die.^22:27 But to the land where they desire to return, there they will not return.^22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel where there is no pleasure? therefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land that they know not?^22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the Word of YHWH.^22:30 This is what YHWH declares, Write you this man childless, a man that will not prosper in his days^: because no man of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David and ruling anymore in Judah.

23:1 Woe be to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! declares YHWH.^23:2 Therefore this is what YHWH Elohim of Israel declares against the shepherds [ministers] that feed my people; You have scattered my flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them^: Look, I will attend upon you the badness of your practices says YHWH.^23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their habitations; and they will be fruitful and increase.^23:4 And I will set up a shepherd over them that will feed them^: and they will fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither will they be lacking declares YHWH.^23:5 Behold, the days come declares YHWH, that I will raise to David a Righteous Branch, and a King will reign and act wisely, and will institute judgment and justice in the land.^23:6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will reside safely^: and this is his Name whereby he will be called, YHWH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.^23:7 Therefore watch, the days come declares YHWH, that they will no more say, YHWH lives that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;^23:8 But rather, YHWH lives that brought up and which led the descendants of the House of Israel out of the North country, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they will live in their own land.^23:9 My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome because of YHWH, and because of the Words of his Holiness.^23:10 Because of adulterers has the land been full, for because of these has the land mourned, dried up has been the pleasant places of the wilderness, and their course is wrong, and their might is not right.^23:11 Because both prophet and priest are defiled; yes, in my Temple have I encountered their wrong says YHWH.^23:12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery ways in the darkness^: they will be driven on, and fall down^: because I will bring bad upon them, even the year of their custody declares YHWH.^23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.^23:14 I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing^: they commit adultery, and walk in lies^: they strengthen also the hands of the wicked so that none will return from his wickedness. They are all of them to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.^23:15 Therefore this is what YHWH of Hosts declares concerning the prophets; See, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall^: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has hypocrisy gone out into all the land.^23:16 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares, Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you^: they make you vain^: they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of YHWH.^23:17 They still say to them that despise me, YHWH has said, you will have peace; and they say to everyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, no bad will come upon you.^23:18 Because who has stood in the counsel of YHWH, and has perceived and heard his Word? who has attended to his Word and obeyed it? ^23:19 Observe, a whirlwind of YHWH has gone out in fury, even a grievous whirlwind^: it will fall grievously on the head of the wicked.^23:20 The anger of YHWH will not return, until he has accomplished it and until he has performed the thoughts of his heart^: in the Last Days you will clearly understand this.^23:21 I have not sent these prophets [speakers, ministers, rabbis] yet they ran^: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.^23:22 But if they had attended upon my [Levitical] counsel, and had caused my people to hear my Words, then they should have turned themselves from their bad way, and from the badness of their practices.^23:23 Am I an Elohim at hand says YHWH, and not an Elohim afar off? ^23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I will not see him? declares YHWH. Do I not fill the cosmos and earth says YHWH?^23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my Name saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.^23:26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;^23:27 Who think to cause my people to forget my Name by their dreams that they tell everyone to his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten my Name for Baal.^23:28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my Word, let him speak my Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat asks YHWH? ^23:29 Is not my Word like a supernatural fire? declares YHWH; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ^23:30 Therefore note, I am against the prophets declares YHWH, that steal my Words everyone from his neighbor.^23:31 See, I am against the prophets declares YHWH, that use their tongues and say, "He declares".^23:32 Look, I am against them that prophesy false dreams declares YHWH, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their frivolity; still I sent them not, nor commanded them^: therefore they will not profit this people at all declares YHWH.^23:33 And when this people, or the prophet or a priest will ask you saying, what is the burden of YHWH? you will then say to them, what burden? I will even forsake you declares YHWH.^23:34 And as for the prophet, priest, and the people that will say, the burden of YHWH, I will even punish that man and his house.^23:35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, what has YHWH answered? and, what has YHWH spoken?^23:36 And the burden of YHWH will you mention no more^: because every man's word will be his burden; because you have perverted the Words of the living Elohim, of YHWH of Hosts our Elohim.^23:37 This is what you will say to the prophet, what has YHWH answered you and what has YHWH spoken? ^23:38 But since you say, the burden of YHWH; therefore this is what YHWH declares; Because you say this word, "the burden of YHWH", and I have sent to you saying, You will not say, "the burden of YHWH";^23:39 Therefore note, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your forefathers, and will cast you out of my presence^:23:40 And I will bring an age lasting reproach upon you, and an age lasting shame that will not wither.

24:1 YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of YHWH after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.^24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe^: and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten, they were so bad.^24:3 Then YHWH said to me, what do you see Jeremiah? And I replied, figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are badness.^24:4 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^24:5 This is what YHWH, the Elohim of Israel declares; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, who I have sent out of this Standing Place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.^24:6 Because I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will return them again to this land^: and I will rebuild them and not pull them down; and I will plant them and not pluck them up.^24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am YHWH^: and they will be my people and I will be their Elohim^: because they will return to me with their whole heart.^24:8 And like the bad figs that are not eaten for badness, surely so declares YHWH^: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah and his chiefs, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who are left in this land, and who are living in the land of Egypt,^24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their calamity, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.^24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague, among them until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their ancestors.

25:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the 4th year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;^25:2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying,^25:3 From the 13th year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that is the 23rd year, the Word of YHWH has come to me and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.^25:4 And YHWH has sent to you all his slaves the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, or inclined your ear to hear.^25:5 They said, turn you again now everyone from his bad way, and from the badness of your practices and live in the land that YHWH has given to you and to your ancestors for the ages of ages^:25:6 And go not after other elohim to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no bad.^25:7 Still you have not listened to me, declares YHWH; that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.^25:8 Therefore this is what YHWH of Hosts declares; Because you have not heard my Words,^25:9 Watch, I will send and take all the families of the North says YHWH, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my slave, and will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. And I will Devote them to Destruction, and make them an appalment and a hissing, and an age lasting waste.^25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of gaiety, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the hand-mills, and the light of the candle.^25:11 And this whole land will be a desolation and an appalment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon 70 years.^25:12 And it will come to pass, when 70 years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation declares YHWH, for their depravity and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it an age lasting waste.^25:13 And I will bring on that land all my Words that I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this scroll that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.^25:14 Because a number of nations and great kings will make slaves of them, and I will compensate them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.^25:15 Because this is what YHWH Elohim of Israel says to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to where I send you, to drink it.^25:16 And they will drink, and be tossed to and fro, and act madly, because of the sword that I will send among them.^25:17 Then I took the cup at YHWH's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to wherever YHWH had sent me^:25:18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its chiefs, to make them a waste, an applament, a hissing and a curse; as it is this day;^25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt and his slaves, and his princes, and all his people;^25:20 And all the mixed races of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,^25:21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;^25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles that are beyond the sea,^25:23 Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the cut off extremities;^25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed races of people that live in the desert;^25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;^25:26 And all the kings of the North, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth^: and the king of Sheshach will drink after them.^25:27 Therefore you will say to them, This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; Drink and be drunken, vomit and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among you.^25:28 And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you will say to them, This is what YHWH of Hosts declares; You will certainly drink.^25:29 For lo, I begin to bring bad on the city that is called by my Name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished^: because I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth declares YHWH of Hosts.^25:30 Therefore prophesy against them all these Words and say to them, YHWH will roar from on high and utter his Voice from his Sacred Habitation. He will mightily roar on his Abode of Shepherds; he will give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.^25:31 A noise will come even to the extremities of the earth; because YHWH has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, declares YHWH.^25:32 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares, Look, bad will go out from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind will be raised up from the coasts of the earth.^25:33 And the killed of YHWH will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth^: they will not be mourned, neither gathered or buried; they will be dung upon the ground.^25:34 Wail you shepherds and cry; and roll yourselves in the ashes, you nobles of the flock^: because the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you will fall like a pleasant vessel.^25:35 And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the nobles of the flock to escape.^25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the nobles of the flock, will be heard^: because YHWH has plundered their pasture.^25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of YHWH.^25:38 He has forsaken his lair, as the lion^: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this Word from YHWH saying,^26:2 This is what YHWH declares; Stand in the court of YHWH's Temple, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in YHWH's House, all the Words that I command you to speak to them; restrain not a word^:26:3 If so be they will listen, and turn everyone from his bad way, that I may regret myself of the badness that I purpose to do to them because of the badness of their practices.^26:4 And you will say to them, this is what YHWH declares; If you will not listen to me, to walk in my Law that I have set before you,^26:5 to listen to the Words of my slaves the prophets, who I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;^26:6 Then I will devote this House like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.^26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these Words in the Temple of YHWH.^26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that YHWH had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him saying, you will certainly die.^26:9 Why have you prophesied in the Name of YHWH saying, This Temple will be like Shiloh, and this city will be waste without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the Temple of YHWH.^26:10 When the chiefs of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the Temple of YHWH, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of YHWH's Temple.^26:11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the chiefs and to all the people saying, this man is worthy to die; because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.^26:12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the chiefs and to all the people saying, YHWH sent me to prophesy against this Temple and against this city all the words that you have heard.^26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your practices, and obey the Voice of YHWH Elohim; and YHWH will regret himself for the bad that he has pronounced against you.^26:14 As for me, see, I am in your hand^: do with me as seems good and correct to you.^26:15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will certainly bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants^: because of a Truth YHWH has sent me to you to speak all these Words in your ears.^26:16 Then the chiefs and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die^: because he has spoken to us in the Name of YHWH Elohim.^26:17 Then rose up certain of the Elders of the land and spoke to all the company of the people saying,^26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah saying, This is what YHWH of Hosts declares; Zion will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins and the mountain of the House a wooded height.^26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear YHWH? yes, he appeased the face of YHWH, and YHWH regretted concerning the bad that he spoke against them; and we are doing great wrong against our lives.^26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the Name of YHWH, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the Words of Jeremiah^:26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the chiefs heard his words, the king desired to put him to death^: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled and went into Egypt;^26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.^26:23 And they brought Urijah out of Egypt, and led him to Jehoiakim the king; who killed him with the sword and cast his corpse into the graves of the common people.^26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this Word to Jeremiah from YHWH saying,^27:2 This is what YHWH says to me; Make yourself bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck;^27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;^27:4 And command them to say to their masters, This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; This you will say to your masters;^27:5 I have fashioned the earth, the man and the animal that are on the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed agreeable to me.^27:6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my slave; and the animals of the field I have given him also to serve him.^27:7 And all nations will serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time comes for his land to be overcome^: and then many nations and great kings will serve themselves of him.^27:8 And it will come to pass that the nation and kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish declares YHWH, with the sword, famine, and plague until I have consumed them by his hand.^27:9 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, or to your sorcerers that speak to you saying, you will not serve the king of Babylon^:27:10 Because they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.^27:11 But the nations that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, those I will let remain still in their own land declares YHWH; and they will till it and reside there.^27:12 I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these Words saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.^27:13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine, and plague as YHWH has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?^27:14 Therefore listen not to the words of the prophets that speak to you saying, you will not serve the king of Babylon^: because they prophesy a lie to you.^27:15 Because I have not sent them declares YHWH, still they prophesy a lie in my Name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you and the prophets that prophesy to you.^27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people saying, This is what YHWH declares; Listen not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you saying, see, the vessels of YHWH's Temple will now shortly be brought again from Babylon^: because they prophesy a lie to you.^27:17 Listen not to them; serve the king of Babylon and live^: why should this city be laid waste?^27:18 But if they are prophets, and if the Word of YHWH is with them, let them now make intercession to YHWH of Hosts so that the vessels that are left in the Temple of YHWH, and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.^27:19 Because this is what YHWH of Hosts declares concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that remain in this city,^27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;^27:21 Yes, this is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares concerning the vessels that remain in the Temple of YHWH, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;^27:22 They will be carried to Babylon, and there will they be until the day that I visit them declares YHWH; then I will bring them up, and restore them to this Standing Place.

28:1 And it came about the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the 4th year, and in the 5th month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, that was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the Temple of YHWH, in the presence of the priests and of all the people saying,^28:2 YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel speaks saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.^28:3 Within 2 full years I will return to this place all the vessels of the YHWH's Temple, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this Standing Place, and carried them to Babylon^:28:4 And I will return to this Standing Place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon declares YHWH^: because I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.^28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the Temple of YHWH,^28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Truly^: YHWH do so^: YHWH perform your words that you have prophesied, to return the vessels of YHWH's Temple, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this Standing Place.^28:7 Nevertheless hear you now this Word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people;^28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of bad, and of plague.^28:9 The prophet that prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet will come to pass, then will that prophet be revealed, that YHWH has truly sent him.^28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.^28:11 Then Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people saying, this is what YHWH declares; even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of 2 full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.^28:12 Then the Word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah saying,^28:13 Go and tell Hananiah saying, This is what YHWH declares; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you will make for them yokes of iron.^28:14 Because this is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him, and I have given him the animals of the field also.^28:15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Listen now, Hananiah; YHWH has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.^28:16 Therefore this is what YHWH declares; Look, I will cast you from off the face of the earth^: this year you will die, because you have taught rebellion against YHWH.^28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the 7th month.

29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the Elders that were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people who Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;^29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)^29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,^29:4 This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares to all that are carried away captives, who I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon;^29:5 Build yourselves houses and live in them; and plant gardens, and eat the produce from them;^29:6 Take yourselves wives, and gender sons and daughters; and take women for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands so that they may gender sons and daughters; so that you may be increased there and not few.^29:7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray to YHWH for it^: because in its peace will you have peace.^29:8 Because this is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that are among you deceive you, neither listen to your dreams that you cause to be dreamed.^29:9 Because they prophesy falsely to you in my Name^: I have not sent them declares YHWH.^29:10 Because this is what YHWH declares, That after 70 years are accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good Word toward you, in causing you to return to this Standing Place.^29:11 Because I know the thoughts that I think toward you declares YHWH, thoughts of peace, and not of bad, to give you Hope in the Last Days.^29:12 Then will you call on me, and you will go and pray to me and I will listen to you.^29:13 And you will seek me, and find me, when you will search for me with all your heart.^29:14 And I will be found of you declares YHWH^: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the regions where I have driven you declares YHWH. And I will return you again to the Standing Place where I caused you to be carried away captive from.^29:15 Because you have said, YHWH has raised up prophets in Babylon;^29:16 Know what YHWH says of the king that sits on the throne of David, and of all the people that live in this city, and of your kinsmen that are not gone with you into captivity;^29:17 This is what YHWH of Hosts declares; Look, I will send on them the sword, famine, and plague, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.^29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, famine, and plague, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an appalment, and an hissing and a scorn, among all the nations where I have driven them^:29:19 Because they have not listened to my Words declares YHWH that I sent to them by my slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear says YHWH.^29:20 Listen therefore to the Word of YHWH, all you of the captivity, who I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon^:29:21 This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah that prophesy a lie to you in my Name. Watch, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes;^29:22 And of them will be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah that are in Babylon saying, YHWH make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;^29:23 Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' women, and have spoken lying words in my Name that I have not commanded them; even I know and am a witness declares YHWH.^29:24 You will also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite saying,^29:25 This is what YHWH of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel declares saying, Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests saying,^29:26 YHWH has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest so that you should be officers in the Temple of YHWH, for every man that is mad, and makes himself a prophet so that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks.^29:27 Now therefore why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth that makes himself a prophet to you?^29:28 For therefore he sent to us in Babylon saying, this captivity is long^: build yourselves houses, and live in them; and plant gardens, and eat its produce.^29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.^29:30 Then came the Word of YHWH to Jeremiah saying,^29:31 Send to all them of the captivity saying, this is what YHWH declares concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie^:29:32 Therefore this is what YHWH declares; See, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his offspring^: he will not have a man to live among this people; neither will he see the good that I will do for my people, declares YHWH; because he has taught rebellion against YHWH.

30:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH saying,^30:2 YHWH Elohim of Israel declares saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll.^30:3 For lo, the days come declares YHWH, that I will return the captivity of my people Israel and Judah says YHWH^: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their forefathers, and they will possess it.^30:4 And these are the Words that YHWH spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.^30:5 For YHWH declares; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.^30:6 Ask you now, and see w