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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAS
(JEREMIAH)

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9
Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18
Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27
Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36
Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45
Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52    

 

 
        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 1
1   The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests
    that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
2   The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of
    Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth
    year of his reign.
3   And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of
    Josias king of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of
    Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda, even unto the
    carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.
4   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5   Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew
    thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I
    sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
6   And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak,
    for I am a child.
7   And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou
    shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I
    shall command thee, thou shalt speak.
8   Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to
    deliver thee, saith the Lord.
9   And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and
    the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy
    mouth:
10  Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over
    the kingdoms, to root up, and pull down, and to waste, and
    to destroy, and to build, and to plant.
11  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest
    thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
12  And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will
    watch over my word to perform it.
13  And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying:
    What seest thou? I see a boiling caldron, and the face
    thereof from the face of the north.
14  And the Lord said to me: from the north shall an evil
    break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15  For behold I will call together all the families of the
    kingdoms of the north: saith the Lord: and they shall
    come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance
    of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof
    round about, and upon all the cities of Juda,
16  And I will pronounce my judgements against them, touching
    all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have
    sacrificed to strange gods, and have adored the work of
    their own hands.
17  Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to
    them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their
    presence : for I will make thee not to fear their
    countenance.
18  For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and
    a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land,
    to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the
    priests, and to the people of the land.
19  And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail:
    for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 2
1   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2   Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith
    the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy soul,
    pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when
    thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not
    sown.
3   Israel is holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his
    increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall
    come upon them, saith the Lord.
4   Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye
    families of the house of Israel.
5   Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found
    in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
    after vanity, and are become vain?
6   And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us
    come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the
    desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through
    a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land
    wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?
7   And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the
    fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: ad when ye
    entered in, you defiled my land, and made my inheritance
    an abomination.
8   The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that
    held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed
    against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and
    followed idols.
9   Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith
    the Lord, and I will plead with your children.
10  Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into
    Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been
    done any thing like this.
11  If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are
    not gods,: but my people have changed their glory into an
    idol.
12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates
    thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
13  For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me,
    the fountain of living water, and have digged to
    themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no
    water.
14  Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he
    become prey?
15  The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise,
    they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt
    down and there is none to dwell in them.
16  The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have
    deflowered thee, even to the crown of the head.
17  Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast
    forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee
    by the way?
18  And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink
    the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way
    of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?
19  Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy
    shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil
    and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy
    God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the
    God of hosts.
20  Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my
    bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every
    high hill, and under every green tree thou didst
    prostitute thyself.
21  Yet I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how
    then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for
    nothing, O strange vineyard?
22  Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to
    thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity
    before me, saith the Lord God.
23  How canst thou say: I am not polluted, and I have not
    walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what
    thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.
24  A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of
    his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall
    turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her
    monthly filth they shall find her.
25  Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst.
    But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it:
    for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.
26  As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the
    house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their
    princes and their priests, and their prophets.
27  Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone:
    thou hast begotten me: they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face: and in the time of their affliction
    they will say: Arise, and deliver us.
28  Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them
    arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for
    according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
    Juda.
29  Why will you contend with me in judgement? you have all
    forsaken me, saith the Lord.
30  In vain have I struck your children, they have not
    received correction: your sword hath devoured your
    prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.
31  See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to
    Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my
    people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no
    more.
32  Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her
    stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without
    number.
33  Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my
    love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,
34  And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
    poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but
    in all places, which I mentioned before.
35  And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and
    therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I
    will contend with thee in judgement, because thou hast
    said: I have not sinned.
36  How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways
    over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou
    wast ashamed of Assyria.
37  For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon
    thy head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou
    shalt have nothing prosperous therein.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 3
1   It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she
    go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her
    any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled?
    but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers:
    nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will
    receive thee.
2   Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not
    prostuted thyself: Thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for
    them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted
    the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
3   Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no
    lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou
    wouldst not blush.
4   Therefore at least at this time call to me: Thou art my
    father, the guide of my virginity:
5   Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue until
    the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil
    things, and hast been able.
6   And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast
    thou seen what rebellious Israel hast done? she hath gone
    out of herself upon every high mountain, and under every
    green tree, and hath played the harlot there.
7   And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to
    me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister
    Juda saw,
8   That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot,
    I had put her away, and had given her a bill of divorce:
    yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went
    and played the harlot also herself.
9   And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the
    land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
10  And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not
    returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood,
    saith the Lord.
11  And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath
    justified her soul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.
12  Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and thou
    shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord,
    and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy,
    saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever.
13  But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast
    transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast
    scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree,
    and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.
14  Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am
    your husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two
    of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.
15  And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and
    they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
16  And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land
    in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The
    ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come
    upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither
    shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.
17  At that time Jerusalem shall be called the thrown of the
    Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to
    it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall
    not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.
18  In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of
    Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of
    the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.
19  But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and
    give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the
    armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me
    father and shalt cease to walk after me.
20  But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house
    of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.
21  A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of
    the children of Israel: because they have made their way
    wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22  Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your
    rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord
    our God.
23  In very deed the hills were liars. and the multitude of
    the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation
    of Israel.
24  Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our
    youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
    daughters.
25  We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover
    us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we
    and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we
    have not hearkened to the voice of theLord our God.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 4
1   If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to
    me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my
    sight, thou shalt not be moved.
2   And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in
    judgement, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless
    him, and shall praise him.
3   For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem:
    Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:
4   Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of
    your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of
    Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and
    burn, and there be none that can quench it: because of the
    wickedness of your thoughts.
5   Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem: speak,
    and sound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and
    say: Assemble yourselves, and let us go into strong
    cities.
6   Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay
    not: for I bring evil from the north, and great
    destruction.
7   The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of
    nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his
    place, to make thy land desolate: thy cities shall be laid
    waste, remaining without an inhabitant.
8   For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl:
    for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from
    us.
9   And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord:
    That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of
    the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the
    prophets shall be amazed
10  And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then
    deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have
    peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?
11  At that time it shall be said to this people, and to
    Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the
    desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to
    fan, nor to cleanse.
12  A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I
    will speak my judgments with them.
13  Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a
    tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us,
    for we are laid waste.
14  Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou
    mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in
    thee?
15  For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice
    of the idol from mount Ephraim.
16  Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem,
    that guards are coming from a far country, and give out
    their voice against the cities of Juda.
17  They are set round about her, as keepers of fields:
    because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.
18  They ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon
    thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter,
    because it hath touched thy heart.
19  My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart
    are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my
    soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of
    battle.
20  Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the
    earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden,
    and my pavilions in a moment.
21  How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I
    hear the sound of the trumpet?
22  For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish
    and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to
    do good they have no knowledge.
23  I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and
    the heavens, and there was no light in them.
24  I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and
    all the hills were troubled.
25  I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds of
    the air were gone.
26  I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its
    cities were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at
    the presence of the wrath of his indignation.
27  For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate,
    but yet I will not utterly destroy.
28  The earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from
    above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have
    not repented, neither am I turned away from it.
29  At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the
    city is fled away; they have entered into thickets and
    have climbed up the rocks: all the cities are forsaken,
    and there dwelleth not a man in them.
30  But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou
    deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes
    with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain:
    thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
31  For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail,
    anguishes as of a woman in labor of a child. The voice of
    the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe
    is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are
    slain.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 5
1   Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and
    consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can
    fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith:
    and I will be merciful unto it.
2   And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will
    swear falsely.
3   O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them,
    and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and
    they have refused to receive correction: they have made
    their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to
    return.
4   But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know
    not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
5   I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to
    them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of
    their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke
    more, and have burst the bonds.
6   Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf
    in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for
    their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be
    taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their
    rebellions are strengthened.
7   How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken
    me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the
    full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the
    harlot's house.
8   They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one
    neighed after his neighbor's wife.
9   Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and
    shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
10  Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do
    not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof,
    because they are not the Lord's.
11  For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have
    greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
12  They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the
    evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword
    and famine.
13  The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no
    word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall
    them.
14  Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have
    spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth
    as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour
    them.
15  Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house
    of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient
    nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor
    understand what they say.
16  Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all
    valiant.
17  And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall
    devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy
    flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and
    thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong
    cities, wherein thou trustest.
18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not
    bring you to utter destruction.
19  And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all
    these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have
    forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so
    shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
20  Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in
    Juda, saying:
21  Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who
    have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22  Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you
    not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for
    the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass
    over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and
    shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass
    over it.
23  But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and
    provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24  And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the
    Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain
    in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the
    yearly harvest.
25  Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your
    sins have withholden good things from you.
26  For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait
    as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27  As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of
    deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28  They are grown gross and fat: andhave most wickedly
    transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of
    the widow, they have not managed the cause of the
    fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the
    poor.
29  Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or
    shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
30  Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the
    land.
31  The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped
    their hands: and my people loved such things: what then
    shall be done in the end thereof?

 The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 6
1   Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst
    of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up
    the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the
    north, and a great destruction.
2   I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and
    delicate woman.
3   The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they
    have pitched their tents against her round about: every
    one shall feed them that are under his hand.
4   Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at
    midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the
    shadows of the evening are grown longer.
5   Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her
    houses.
6   For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast
    up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be
    visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
7   As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her
    wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her,
    infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
8   Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
    thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
9   Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the
    remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn
    back thy hand, as a grape gatherer into the basket.
10  To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that
    he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and
    they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is become
    unto them a reproach: and and they will not receive it.
11  Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary
    with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and
    upon the council of the young men together: for man and
    woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of
    days.
12  And their houses shall be turned over to others, with
    their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch
    for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the
    Lord.
13  For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are
    given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the
    priest, all are guilty of deceit.
14  And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people
    disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no
    peace.
15  They were confounded, because they commmitted abomination:
    yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and
    they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall
    among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they
    shall fall down, saith the Lord.
16  Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask
    for the old paths which is the good way, and walk ye in
    it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And
    they said: we will not walk.
17  And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to
    the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not
    hearken.
18  Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
    great things I will do to them.
19  Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people,
    the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not
    heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
20  To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba,
    and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your
    holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices
    pleasing to me.
21  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring
    destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons
    together shall fall, neighbor and kinsman shall perish.
22  Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land
    of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the
    ends of the earth.
23  They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel,
    and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the
    sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for
    war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.
24  We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble:
    anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.
25  Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for
    the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.
26  Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and
    sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an
    only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer
    shall suddenly come upon us.
27  I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and
    thou shalt know and prove their way.
28  All of these princes go out of the way, they walk
    deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all
    corrupted.
29  The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire,
    the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds
    are not consumed.
30  Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected
    them.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 7
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
2   Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim
    there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord,
    all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore
    the Lord.
3   Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your
    ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in
    this place.
4   Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord,
    the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.
5   For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if
    you will execute judgement between a man and his neighbor,
6   If you opress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
    widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk
    not after strange gods to your own hurt,
7   I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I
    gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.
8   Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not
    profit you:
9   To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely,
    to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which
    you know not.
10  And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in
    which my name is called upon, and have said: We are
    delivered, because we have done all these abominations.
11  Is this house then, in which my name hath been called
    upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I
    have seen it, saith the Lord.
12  Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the
    beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of
    my people Israel:
13  And now, because you have done all these works, saith the
    Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and
    speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you,
    and you have not answered:
14  I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon,
    and in which you trust, and to the places which I have
    given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.
15  And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have
    cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
16  Therefore, do not thou pray for this people, nor take to
    thee praise and supplication for them: and do not
    withstand me: for I will not hear thee.
17  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in
    the streets of Jerusalem?
18  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire
    and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen
    of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to
    provoke me to anger.
19  Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not
    themselves, to the confusion of their contenance?
20  Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my
    indignation was enkindled against this place, upon men and
    upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the
    fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be
    quenched.
21  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your
    burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.
22  For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not,
    in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
    concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices.
23  But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my
    voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people:
    and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you, that
    it may be well with you.
24  But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked
    in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked
    heart: and went backward and not forward,
25  From the day that their fathers came out of the land of
    Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my
    servants the prophets from day to day, rising up early and
    sending.
26  And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear:
    but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than
    their fathers.
27  And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they
    will not hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but
    they will not answer thee.
28  And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath
    not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor
    received instruction: Faith is lost, and is carried away
    out of their mouth.
29  Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a
    lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected and
    forsaken the generation of his wrath,
30  Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes,
    saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the
    house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it;
31  And they have built the high places of Topeth, which is in
    the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and
    their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor
    thought on in my heart.
32  Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and
    it shall no more be called Topeth, nor the valley of the
    son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter, and they shall
    bury in Topeth, because there is no place.
33  And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the
    fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and
    there shall be non to drive them away.
34  And I will cause ot cease out of the cities of Juda, and
    out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the
    coice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
    voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 8
1   At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the
    bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes
    thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of
    the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
2   And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the
    moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved,
    and whom they have served, and after whom they have
    walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall
    not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall
    be as dung upon the face of the earth.
3   And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that
    shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which
    are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of
    hosts.
4   And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not
    he that falleth, rise again? and he that is turned away,
    shall he not turn again?
5   Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a
    stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have
    refused to return.
6   I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good,
    there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What
    have I done? They are all turned to their own course, as
    a horse rushing to the battle.
7   The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and
    the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their
    coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the
    Lord.
8   How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is
    with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought
    falsehood.
9   The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken:
    for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is
    no wisdom in them.
10  Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their
    fields to others for an inheritance: because from the
    least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from
    the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully.
11  And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people
    disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no
    peace.
12  They are confounded, because they have committed
    abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with
    confusion, and they have not know how to blush: therefore
    shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their
    visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.
13  Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord,
    there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on
    the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them
    the things that are passed away.
14  Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
    into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the
    Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us
    water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the
    Lord.
15  We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of
    healing, and behold fear.
16  The snorting of his horse was heard from Dan, all the land
    was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors:
    and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in
    it: the city and its inhabitants.
17  For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks,
    against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you,
    saith the Lord.
18  My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.
19  Behold the voice of the daughter my people from a far
    country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in
    her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their
    idols, and strange vanities?
20  The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not
    saved.
21  For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am
    afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken
    hold on me.
22  Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why
    then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 9
1   Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to
    my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of
    the daughter of my people.
2   Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of
    wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from
    them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of
    transgressors.
3   And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and
    not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the
    earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me
    they have not known, saith the Lord.
4   Let every man take heed of his neighbor, and let his not
    trust in any brother of his: for every brother will
    utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.
5   And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak
    the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak
    lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
6   Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit
    they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
7   Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will
    melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the
    daughter of my people?
8   Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit:
    with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and
    secretly he lieth in wait for him.
9   Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord?
    or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?
10  For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation,
    and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning:
    because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man
    that passeth through them: and they have not heard the
    voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts
    they are gone away and departed.
11  And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of
    dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for
    want of an inhabitant.
12  Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom
    the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may
    declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up
    like a wilderness, which none passeth through?
13  And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law,
    which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have
    not walked in it.
14  But they have gone after the perverseness of their own
    heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
15  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give
    them water of gall to drink.
16  And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and
    their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword
    after them till they be consumed.
17  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider
    ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come:
    and send to them that are wise women, and let them make
    haste:
18  Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our
    eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
19  For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we
    wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the
    land, because our dwellings are cast down.
20  Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let
    your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your
    daughters wailing: and every one her neighbor mourning.
21  For death is come up through our windows, it is entered
    into our houses to destroy the children from without, the
    young men from the streets.
22  Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall
    fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass
    behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather
    it.
23  Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his
    wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength,
    and let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
    understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that
    exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth:
    for these things please me, saith the Lord.
25  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit
    upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.
26  Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the
    children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have
    their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all
    the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the
    house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 10
1   Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning
you, O house of Israel.
2   Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of
    the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven,
    which the heathens fear:
3   For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the
    hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with
    an axe.
4   He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it
    together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall
    asunder.
5   They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and
    shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed,
    because they cannot go. Therefore, fear them not, for they
    can neither do evil nor good.
6   There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great and
    great is thy name in might.
7   Who shall fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the
    glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all
    their kingdoms there is none like unto thee.
8   They shall all proved together to be senseless and
    foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
9   Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and
    gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the
    hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their
    clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.
10  But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and
    the everlasting king, at his wrath the earth shall
    tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his
    threatening.
11  Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not
    made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and
    from among those places that are under heaven.
12  He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the
    world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his
    knowledge.
13  At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the
    heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the
    earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth for the
    wind out of his treasures.
14  Every man is become a fool for knowledge every artist is
    confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is
    false, and there is no spirit in them.
15  They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of
    their visitation they shall perish.
16  The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who
    formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his
    inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
17  Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in
    a siege.
18  For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will cast away far off
    the inhabitants of the land at this time: and I will
    afflict them, so that they may be found.
19  Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous.
    But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.
20  My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my
    children are gone out from me, and they are not: there is
    none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my
    curtains.
21  Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not
    sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood, and
    all their flock is scattered.
22  Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out
    of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a
    desert, and a dwelling for dragons.
23  I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither
    is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.
24  Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgement: and not in
    fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25  Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not
    known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called
    upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and
    devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his
    glory.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 11
1   The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying:
2   Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men
    of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
3   And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of
    Israel: Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the
    words of yethis covenant,
4   Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
    them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
    saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command
    you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God:
5   That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your
    fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,
    as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.
6   And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in
    the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
    saying: Hear ye the words of the covenant, and do them:
7   For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I
    brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day:
    rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my
    voice:
8   And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked
    every one in the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and
    I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which
    I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
9   And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the
    men of Juda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10  They are returned to the former iniquities of their
    fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise
    have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of
    Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant,
    which I made with their fathers.
11  Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in
    evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape:
    and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.
12  And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
    shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer
    sacrifice, and they shall not save them in the time of
    their affliction.
13  For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods,
    O Juda: and according to the number of the streets of
    Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion, altars to
    offer sacrifice to Baalim.
14  Therefore, do not thou pray for this people, and do not
    take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear
    them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their
    affliction.
15  What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought muck
    wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away
    from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?
16  The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair,
    fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great
    fire was kindled in it and the branches thereof are burnt.
17  And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced
    evil against thee: for the evils of the house of Israel,
    and the house of Juda, which they have done to themselves,
    to provoke me, offering sacrifice to Baalim.
18  But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then
    thou shewedst me their doings.
19  And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim:
    and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me,
    saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from
    the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no
    more.
20  But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and
    triest the reins and hearts, let me see thy revenge on
    them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.
21  Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who
    seek thy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the
    name of the Lord, and thou shalt not die in our hands.
22  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will
    visit upon them: and their young men shall die by the
    sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.
23  And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in
    evil upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their
    visitation.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 12
1   Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but
    yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of
    the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that
    transgress, and do wickedly?
2   Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they
    prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their
    mouth, and far from their reins.
3   And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and
    proved my heart with thee: gather them together as sheep
    for a sacrifice, and prepare them for the day of
    slaughter.
4   How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field
    wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The
    beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said:
    He shall not see our last end.
5   If thou hast wearied with running with footmen, how canst
    thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in
    a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the
    Jordan?
6   For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
    they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee
    with full voice: believe them not when they speak good
    things to thee.
7   I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I
    have given my dear soul into the land of her enemies.
8   My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: is
    hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.
9   Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? Is it as a
    bird died throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all
    the beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.
10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
    my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful
    portion into a desolate wilderness.
11  They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With
    desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is
    none that considereth in the heart.
12  The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness,
    for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the
    land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all
    flesh.
13  They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have
    received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you
    shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce
    wrath of the Lord.
14  Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, that
    touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people
    Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I
    will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.
15  And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and
    have mercy on them: and I will bring them back, every man
    to his inheritance, and every man to his land.
16  And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and
    will learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The
    Lord liveth, as they have taught my people to swear by
    baal: that they shall be built up in the midst of my
    people.
17  But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and
    destroy that nation, saith the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 13
1   Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen
    girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt
    not put it into water.
2   And I got a girdle accoding to the word of the Lord, and
    put it about my loins.
3   And the word of the Lord came to me the second time,
    saying:
4   Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy
    loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it
    there in a hole of the rock.
5   And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had
    commanded me.
6   And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to
    me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the
    girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.
7   And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the
    girdle out of the place where I had hid it: and behold the
    girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.
8   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9   Thus saith the Lord: after this manner will I make the
    pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.
10  This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that
    walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone
    after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and
    they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use.
11  For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so
    have I brought close to me all of the house of Israel, and
    all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be
    my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
    glory: but they would not hear.
12  Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith
    the Lord God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with
    wine, and they shall say to thee: Do we not know that
    every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13  And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I
    will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings
    of the race of David that sit upon his throne, and the
    priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of
    Jerusalem. with drunkenness.
14  And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and
    fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will
    not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy,
    but to destroy them.
15  Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath
    spoken.
16  Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and
    before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you
    shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow
    of death, and into darkness.
17  But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in
    secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes
    shall run down the tears, because the flock of the Lord is
    carried away captive.
18  Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit
    down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your
    head.
19  The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to
    open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire
    captivity.
20  Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north:
    where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful
    cattle?
21  What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast
    taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy
    own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman
    in labour?
22  And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things
    come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy
    nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are
    defiled.
23  If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his
    spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.
24  And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away
    by the wind in the desert.
25  This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me,
    saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast
    trusted in falsehood.
26  Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face,
    and thy shame hath appeared.
27  I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the
    wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon
    the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou
    not be made clean after me: how long yet?

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 14
1   The Word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the
    words of the drought.
2   Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and
    are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem
    is gone up.
3   The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they
    came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their
    vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and
    covered their heads.
4   For the destruction of the land, because there came no
    rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they
    covered their heads.
5   Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left
    it, because there was no grass.
6   And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up
    the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there
    was no grass.
7   If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do
    thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many,
    we have sinned against thee.
8   O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of
    trouble: why wilt thou be a stranger in the land, and as
    a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?
9   Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that
    cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name
    is called upon by us, forsake us not.
10  Thus saith the Lord to his people, that have loved to move
    their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the
    Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit
    their sins.
11  And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for
    their good.
12  When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they
    offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for
    I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by
    the pestilence.
13  And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to
    them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no
    famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this
    place.
14  And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in
    my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
    nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying
    vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of
    their own heart.
15  Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that
    prophecy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword
    and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine
    shall those prophets be consumed.
16  And the people to whom they prophecy, shall be cast out in
    the streets of Jerusalem because of the fanmine and the
    sword, and there shall be none to bury them: they and
    their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will
    pour out their wickedness upon them.
17  And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed
    down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because
    the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great
    affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.
18  If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the
    sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are
    consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are
    gone into a land which they knew not.
19  Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul
    abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there
    is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there
    is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold
    trouble.
20  We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of
    our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
21  Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do
    not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember,
    break not thy covenant with us.
22  Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that
    can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not
    thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou
    hast made all these things.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 15
1   And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand
    before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them
    out from my sight, and let them go forth.
2   And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go
    forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such
    as are for death, to death: and such as are to the sword,
    to the sword: and such as are for famine, to famine: and
    such as are to captivity, to captivity.
3   And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The
    sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
    air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
4   And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of
    the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the
    king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
5   For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
    bemoan thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?
6   Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone
    backward: and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and
    I will destroy thee: I am weary of entreating thee.
7   And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the
    land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they
    are not returned form their ways.
8   Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the
    sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the
    young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a
    sudden upon the cities.
9   She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath
    fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day:
    she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I
    will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies,
    saith the Lord.
10  Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of
    strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not
    lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury:
    yet all curse me.
11  The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy
    remnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of
    affliction, and in the time of tribulation against the
    enemy.
12  Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the
    brass?
13  Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for
    nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
14  And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou
    knowest not: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall
    burn upon you.
15  O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and
    defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in
    thy patience: know that for thy sake I have sufferred
    reproach.
16  Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was
    to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is
    called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.
17  I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a
    boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because
    thou hast filled me with threats.
18  Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate
    so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the
    falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted,
    I will convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face;
    and if thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, thou
    shalt be as my mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and
    thou shalt not be turned to them.
20  And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of
    brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not
    prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver
    thee, saith the Lord.
21  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and
    I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 16
1   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2   Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
    thee sons and daughters in this place.
3   For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters,
    that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
    that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they
    were born in this land:
4   They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they
    shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they
    shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they
    shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and
    their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air,
    and for the beasts of the earth.
5   For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of
    feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them:
    because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith
    the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.
6   Both the great and the little shall die in the land: they
    shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut
    themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
7   And they shall not break bread among them to him that
    mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they
    give them to drink of the cup, to comfort them for their
    father and mother.
8   And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with
    them, and to eat and drink.
9   For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
    Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight,
    and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of
    gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of
    the bride.
10  And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and
    they shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced
    against us all this great evil? what is our iniquity? and
    what is our sin, that we have sinned against the Lord our
    God?
11  Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me,
    saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served
    them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not
    my law.
12  And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold
    every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his
    evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.
13  So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land
    which you know not, nor you fathers: and there you shall
    serve strange gods day and night, which shall not give you
    any rest.
14  Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when it
    shall be said no more: The Lord liveth, that brought for
    the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
15  But, the Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel
    out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands to
    which I cast them out: and I will bring them again into
    their land, which I gave to their fathers.
16  Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they
    shall fish them: and after this I will send them many
    hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and
    from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17  For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from
    my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my
    eyes.
18  And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their
    sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses
    of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with
    their abominations.
19  O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the
    day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from
    the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers
    have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited
    them.
20  Shall a man make gods unto himself, and there are no gods?
21  Therefore, behold I will this once cause them to know, I
    will shew them my hand and my power: and they shall know
    that my name is the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 17
1   The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the
    point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their
    heart, upon the horns of their altars.
2   When their children shall remember their altars, and their
    groves, and their green trees upon high mountains,
3   Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and
    all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for
    sin in all thy borders.
4   And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which
    I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a
    land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a
    fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.
5   Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in
    man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
    from the Lord.
6   For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall
    not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in
    dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7   Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord
    shall be his confidence.
8   And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters,
    that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it
    shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof
    shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be
    solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring
    forth fruit.
9   The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable,
    who can know it?
10  I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins:
    who give to every one according to his way, and according
    to the fruit of his devices.
11  As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay:
    so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in
    the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his
    latter end he shall be a fool.
12  A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place
    of our sanctification:
13  O Lord the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be
    confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written
    in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the
    vein of living waters.
14  Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I
    shall be saved, for thou art my praise.
15  Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let
    it come.
16  And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and
    I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That
    which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.
17  Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day
    of affliction.
18  Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me
    be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be
    afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a
    double destruction, destroy them.
19  Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of
    the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda
    come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:
20  And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye
    kings of Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitant of
    Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.
21  Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls and carry no
    burdens on the Sabbath day: and bring them not in by the
    gates of Jerusalem.
22  And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath
    day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as
    I commanded your fathers.
23  But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened
    their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not
    receive instruction.
24  And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me,
    saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of
    this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the
    sabbath day, to do no work therein:
25  Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings
    and princes, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding
    in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men
    of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city
    shall be inhabited forever.
26  And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the
    places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of
    Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountains, and
    from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims, and
    sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in an
    offering into the house of the Lord.
27  But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath
    day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by
    the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle
    a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the
    houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 18
1   The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying:
2   Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou
    shalt hear my words.
3   And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was
    doing a work on the wheel.
4   And the vessel was broken which he was making with clay
    with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it
    seemed good in his eyes to make it.
5   Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
6   Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord?
    behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in
    my hand, O house of Israel.
7   I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a
    kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.
8   If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent
    of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have
    thought to do to them.
9   And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to
    build up and plant it.
10  If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
    voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do
    unto it.
11  Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of
    Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame
    evil against you, and devise a device against you: let
    every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye
    your ways and your doings good.
12  And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our
    own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the
    perverseness of his evil heart.
13  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who
    hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel
    hath done to excess?
14  Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the
    field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down,
    be taken away?
15  Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain,
    and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by
    them in a way not trodden:
16  That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a
    perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall
    be astonished, and wag his head.
17  As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will
    shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
    destruction.
18  And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against
    Jeremias: for the law shall 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
    give no heed to all his words.
19  Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my
    adversaries.
20  Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged
    a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy
    sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy
    indignation from them.
21  Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring
    them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be
    bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be
    slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the
    sword in battle.
22  Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt
    bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have
    digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.
23  But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me
    unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their
    sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown
    before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy
    them.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 19
1   Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's earthen
    bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the
    ancients of the priests:
2   And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is
    by the entry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt
    proclaim the words that I shall tell thee.
3   And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings
    of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the
    Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an
    affliction upon this place: so that whoever shall hear it,
    his ears shall tingle:
4   Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this
    place: and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom
    neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of
    Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of
    innocents.
5   And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn
    their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which
    I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come
    into my mind.
6   Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this
    place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of
    the son of Ennom, but the valley of slaughter.
7   And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in
    this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the
    sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek
    their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat
    for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.
8   And I will make this city an astonishent, and a hissing:
    every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and
    shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9   And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and
    with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat
    every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the
    distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their
    lives shall straiten them.
10  And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men
    that shall go with thee.
11  And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
    even so will I break this people, and this city, as the
    potter's vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole
    again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there
    is no other place to bury in.
12  Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the
    inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.
13  And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of Juda shall
    be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon
    whose roots they have sacrificed to all the host of
    heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange
    gods.
14  Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent
    him to prophecy, and he stood in the court of the house of
    the Lord, and said to all people:
15  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I
    will bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities
    thereof all the evils that I have spoken against it:
    because they have hardened their necks, and they might not
    hear my words.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 20
1   Now Phassur the son of Emmur, the priest, who was
    appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias
    prophesying these words.
2   And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in
    the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in
    the house of the Lord.
3   And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought
    Jeremias out of the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The
    Lord hath not called thy name Phassur, but fear on every
    side.
4   For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to
    fear, thee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
    sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I
    will give all Juda into the hand of the king of Babylon:
    and he shall strike them with the sword.
5   And I will give all the substance of this city, and all
    its labour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the
    treasures of the kings of Juda will I give into the hands
    of their enemies: and they shall pillage them, and take
    them away, and carry them to Babylon.
6   But thou, Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall
    go into captivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there
    thou shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and
    all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied a lie.
7   Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou
    hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am
    become a laughing-stock all the day, all scoff at me.
8   For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against
    iniquity, and I often proclaim devistation: and the word
    of the Lord is made a reproach to me, and a derision all
    the day.
9   Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
    more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning
    fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being
    able to bear it.
10  For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every
    side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all
    the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side:
    if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail
    against him, and be revenged on him.
11  But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore
    they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they
    shall be greatly confounded, because they have not
    understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be
    effaced.
12  And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest
    the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy
    vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.
13  Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath
    delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the
    wicked.
14  Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in
    which my mother bore me, be blessed.
15  Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father,
    saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly
    rejoice.
16  Let that man be as the cities that the Lord hath
    overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in
    the morning, and howling at noontide:
17  Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have
    been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
18  Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and
    that my days should be spent in confusion?

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 21
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king
    Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and
    Sophonias, the son of Maasias the priest, saying:
2   Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor king of
    Babylon maketh war against us: if so be the Lord will deal
    with us according to all his wonderful works, that he may
    depart from us.
3   And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias:
4   Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold I will turn
    back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which
    you fight against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans,
    that besiege you round about the walls: and I will gather
    them together in the midst of this city.
5   And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
    hand, and with a strong arm, and in fury, and in
    indignation, and in great wrath.
6   And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and
    beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
7   And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the
    king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such
    as are left in this city from the pestilence, and the
    sword , and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor
    the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies,
    and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he
    shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall
    not be moved to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy on
    them.
8   And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord:
    Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of
    death.
9   He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword,
    and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that
    shall go out and flee over to the Chaldeans, that besiege
    you, shall live, and his life shall be to him as a spoil.
10  For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
    for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand
    of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11  And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of
    the Lord,
12  O house of David, this saith the Lord: Judge ye judgement
    in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by
    violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my
    indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and
    there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your
    ways.
14  Behold I come to thee that dwelleth in a valley upon a
    rock above a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall
    strike us? and who shall enter into our houses?
15  But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your
    doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the
    forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about
    it.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 22
1   Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of
    Juda, and there thou shalt speak this word,
2   And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O king of
    Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy
    servants, and thy people, who enter in by these gates.
3   Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgement and justice, and
    deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the
    oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless,
    nor the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not
    innocent blood in this place.
4   For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there
    enter in by the gates of this house, kings of the race of
    David sitting upon his throne, and riding in chariots and
    on horses, they and their servants, and their people.
5   But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by
    myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a
    desolation.
6   For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda:
    Thou art to me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I
    will make thee a wilderness, and cities not habitable.
7   And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his
    weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and
    shall cast them headlong into the fire.
8   And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall
    say every man to his neighbor: Why hath the Lord done so
    to this great city?
9   And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the
    covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange
    gods, and served them.
10  Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your
    tears: lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no
    more, nor see his native country.
11  For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the
    king of Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went
    forth out of this place: He shall return hither no more:
12  But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall
    he die, and he shall not see this land any more.
13  Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and
    his chambers not in judgement: that will oppress his
    friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.
14  Who saith: I will build me a wide house and large
    chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs
    of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.
15  Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the
    cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment
    and justice, and it was then well with him?
16  He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own
    good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the
    Lord?
17  But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and
    upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and
    running after evil works.
18  Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of
    Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas,
    my brother, and Alas, sister: they shall not lament for
    him, Alas, my Lord, or, Alas, the noble one.
19  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and
    cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.
20  Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan,
    and cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are
    destroyed.
21  I spoke to thee in thy properity: and thoiu saidst: I will
    not hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because
    thou hast not heard my voice.
22  The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall
    go into captivity: and then shalt thou be confounded, and
    ashamed of all thy wickedness.
23  Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the
    cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee,
    as the pains of a woman in labour?
24  As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim
    the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would
    pluck him thence.
25  And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy
    life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest,
    and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and
    into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26  And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into
    a strange country, in which you were not born, and there
    you shall die:
27  And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they
    lift up their mind to return thither.
28  Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is
    he a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? why are they
    cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which
    they know not?
29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.
30  Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that
    shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a
    man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David,
    and have power any more in Juda.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 23
1   Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my
    pasture, saith the Lord.
2   Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the
    pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock,
    and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I
    will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the
    Lord.
3   And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of
    all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will
    make them return to their own fields, and they shall
    increase and be multiplied.
4   And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed
    them: they shall fear no more, and they shall not be
    dismayed: and none shall be wanting of their number, saith
    the Lord.
5   Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up
    to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall
    be wise, and shall execute judgement and justice in the
    earth.
6   In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell
    confidently: and this is the name that they shall call
    him: the Lord our just one.
7   Therefore behold the days to come, saith the Lord, and
    they shall say no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up
    the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
8   But the Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought
    hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of
    the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast
    them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.
9   To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my
    bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man
    full of wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the
    presence of his holy words.
10  Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land
    hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the
    desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and
    their strength unlike.
11  For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my
    house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
12  Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the
    dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for
    I will bring evils upon them, the year of their
    visitation, saith the Lord.
13  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they
    prophesied in Baal, and deceived my people Israel.
14  And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of
    lying in the peophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened
    the hand of the wicked, that no man should return from his
    evil doings: that are all become unto me as Sodom, and the
    inhabitants thereof as Gamorrha.
15  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets:
    Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and I will give
    them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    corruption has gone forth into all the land.
16  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of
    the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they
    speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
    mouth of the Lord.
17  They say tothem that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You
    shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the
    perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil
    shall come to you.
18  For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath
    seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and
    heard it?
19  Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come
    forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the
    head of the wicked.
20  The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it,
    and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the
    latter days you shall understand his counsel.
21  I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken
    to them, yet they prophesied.
22  If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known
    to my people, I should have turned them from their evil
    way and from their wicked doings.
23  Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a
    God afar off?
24  Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him,
    saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the
    Lord?
25  I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesylies in
    my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
    prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their
    own heart?
27  Who seek to make my people forget my name through their
    dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as
    their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28  The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and
    he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth:
    what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
29  Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a
    hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30  Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the
    Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31  Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use
    their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
32  Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams,
    saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err
    by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them
    not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people
    at all, saith the Lord.
33  If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest
    shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord?
    thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will
    cast you away, saith the Lord.
34  And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people
    that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon
    that man, and upon his house.
35  Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and to his
    brother: What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the
    Lord spoken?
36  And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for
    every man's word shall be his burden: for you have
    perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of
    hosts our God.
37  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord
    answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
38  But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore
    thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The
    burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you saying: Say
    not, Tne burden of the Lord:
39  Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and
    will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to
    your fathers, out of my presence.
40  And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
    perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.

 
        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 24
1   The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs,
    set before the temple of the Lord: after that
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias
    the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and
    the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought
    them to Babylon.
2   One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first
    season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which
    could not be eaten, because they were bad.
3   And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I
    said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs,
    very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.
4   And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5   Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good
    figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have
    sent forth out of this place into the land oif the
    Chaldeans, for their own good.
6   And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I
    will bring them again into this land: and I will be their
    God: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and
    I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
7   And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the
    Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
    God: because they shall return to me with their whole
    heart.
8   And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because
    they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias
    the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of
    Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell
    in the land of Egypt.
9   And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to
    all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a
    byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to
    which I have cast them out.
10  And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and
    the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land
    which I gave to them, and their fathers.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 25
1   The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people
    of Juda, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias
    king of Juda, (the same is the first year of
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)
2   Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of
    Juda, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
3   From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king
    of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth
    year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have
    spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you
    have not hearkened.
4   And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the
    prophets, rising early, and sending, and you have not
    hearkened, nor inclined your ears to hear.
5   When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and
    from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land
    which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for
    ever and ever.
6   And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore
    them: nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands,
    and I will not afflict you.
7   And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might
    provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your
    own hurt.
8   Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have
    not heard my words:
9   Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the
    north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of
    Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this
    land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all
    the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy
    them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and
    perpetual desolations.
10  And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the
    voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
    voice of the bride, the sound of the mill, and the light
    of the lamp.
11  And all this land shall be a desolation, and an
    astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king
    of Babylon seventy years.
12  And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish
    the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for
    their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will
    make it perpetual desolations.
13  And I will bring upon the land all my words, that I have
    spoken against it, all that is written in this book, all
    that Jeremias hath prophesied against all nations:
14  For they have served them, whereas they were many nations,
    and great kings: and I will repay them according to their
    deeds, and according to the works of their hands.
15  For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take
    the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt
    make all nations to drink thereof, unto which I shall send
    thee.
16  And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because
    of the sword, which I shall send among them.
17  And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I
    presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which
    the Lord sent me:
18  To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings
    thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a
    desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a
    curse, as it is at this day.
19  Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
    princes, and all his people,
20  And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis,
    and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and
    Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.
21  And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.
22  And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and
    the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the
    sea.
23  And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their
    hair cut round.
24  And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
    west, that dwell in the desert.
25  And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam,
    and all the kings of Medes:
26  And all the kings of the north far and near, every one
    against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth,
    which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac
    shall drink after them.
27  And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts
    the God of Israel: Dring ye, and be drunken, and vomit:
    and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I
    shall send among you.
28  And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink,
    thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
    Drinking you shall drink:
29  For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my
    name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and
    escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call
    for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith
    the Lord of hosts.
30  And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and
    thou shalt say to them: The Lord shall roar from on high,
    and shall utter his voice from his holy habitation:
    roaring he shall roar upon the place of his beauty: the
    shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be given
    out against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31  The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the
    Lord entereth into judgement with the nations: he entereth
    into judgement with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered
    up to the sword, saith the Lord.
32  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth
    from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go
    forth from the ends of the earth.
33  And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one
    end of the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall
    not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered up, nor
    buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth.
34  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with
    ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your
    slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you
    shall fall like precious vessels.
35  And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
    leaders of the flock to save themselves.
36  A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the
    principal of the flock: because the Lord hath watsed their
    pastures.
37  And the fields of peace have been silent, because of the
    fierce anger of the Lord.
38  He has forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is
    laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because
    of the fierce anger of the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 26
1   In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias
    king of Juda, came this word from the Lord, saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord: Stand in the court of the house of
    the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of
    which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all
    the words which I have commanded thee to to speak unto
    them: leave not out one word.
3   If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from
    his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I
    think to do unto them for the wickedness of their doings.
4   And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you
    will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have
    given to you:
5   To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom
    I sent to you rising up early: and sending, and you have
    not hearkened:
6   I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this
    city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
7   And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people
    heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the
    Lord.
8   And when Jeremias made an end of speaking all that the
    Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the
    priests, and the prophets, and all the people laid hold on
    him, saying: Let him be put to death.
9   Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying:
    This house shall be like Silo; and this city shall be made
    desolate, without an inhabitant? And all the people were
    gathered together against Jeremias in the house of the
    Lord.
10  And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went
    up from the king's house into the house of the Lord, and
    sat in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord.
11  And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and
    to all the people, saying: The judgement of death is for
    this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as
    you have heard with your ears.
12  Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and to all the
    people, saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning
    this house, and concerning this city all the words you
    have heard.
13  Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and
    hearken to the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord
    will repent of the evil that he hath spoken against you.
14  But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what
    is good and right in your eyes:
15  But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death,
    you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and
    against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in
    truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in
    your hearing.
16  Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests,
    and to the prophets: There is no judgement of death for
    this man: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord
    our God.
17  And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they
    spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:
18  Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias
    king of Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda,
    saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Sion shall be
    ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap of
    stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of
    woods.
19  Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to
    death? did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of
    the Lord: and the Lord repented of the evil that they had
    spoken against them? therefore we are doing a great evil
    against our souls.
20  There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
    Lord, Urias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he
    prophesied against this city, and against this land,
    according to all the words of Jeremias.
21  And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes
    heard these words: and the king sought to put him to
    death. And Urias heard it, and was afraid, and fled and
    went into Egypt.
22  And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of
    Achobor, and men with him into Egypt.
23  And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to
    king Joakim, and he slew him with the sword: and he cast
    his dead body into the graves of the common people.
24  So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan was with Jeremias,
    that he should not be delivered into the hands of the
    people, to put him to death.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 27
1   In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias
    king of Juda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord,
    saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains:
    and thou shalt put them on thy neck.
3   And thou shalt send them to the of Edom, and to the king
    of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to
    the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of
    the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias the
    king of Juda.
4   And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters:
    Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall
    you say to your masters:
5   I made the earth, and the men, and the beasts that are
    upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my
    stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed
    good in my eyes.
6   And now I have given all these lands into the hand of
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also
    the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.
7   And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
    son's son: till the time come for his land and himself:
    and many nations and great kings shall serve him.
8   But the nation and kingdom that will not serve
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and whosoever will not
    bend his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I
    will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with
    famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I
    consume them by his hand.
9   Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and
    dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you:
    You shall not serve the king Babylon.
10  For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your
    country, and east you out, and to make you perish.
11  But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the
    yoke of the king Babylon, and shall serve him: Will let
    them remain in their own land, saith the Lord: and they
    shall till it, and dwell in it.
12  And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all
    these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke
    of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and
    you shall live.
13  Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by
    famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken
    against the nation that will not serve the king of
    Babylon?
14  Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you:
    You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you
    a lie.
15  For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they
    prophesy in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that
    you may perish, both you, and the prophets that prophesy
    to you.
16  I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying:
    Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your
    prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels
    of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again
    from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17  Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of
    Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given
    up to desolation?
18  But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in
    them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of
    hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house of
    the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and in
    Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
19  For thus saith the Lord of hosts d to the pillars, and to
    the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels
    that remain in this city:
20  Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take,
    when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king
    of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men
    of Juda and Jerusalem.
21  For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the
    vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the
    house of the king of Juda and Jerusalem:
22  They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be
    until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I
    will cause them to be brought, and to be re- stored in
    this place.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 28
1   And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the
    reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the
    fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of
    Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the
    priests, and all the people, saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have
    broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3   As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels
    of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this
    place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from
    this place, and carried them to Babylon.
4   And I will bring back to this place Jechonias the son of
    Joakim king of Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that
    are gone to Babylon, saith the Lord: for I will break the
    yoke of the king of Babylon.
5   And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in
    the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all
    the people that stood in the house of the Lord:
6   And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the
    Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that
    the vessels may be brought again into the house of the
    Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to
    this place.
7   Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and
    in the ears of all the people:
8   The prophets that have been before me, and before thee
    from the beginning, and have prophesied concerning many
    countries, and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of
    affliction, and of famine.
9   The prophet that prophesied peace when his word shall come
    to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the Lord hath
    sent in truth.
10  And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of
    Jeremias the prophet, and broke it.
11  And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people,
    saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke
    of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon after two full years
    from off the neck of all the nations.
12  And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the
    Lord came to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had
    broken the chain from off the neck of Jeremias the
    prophet, saying:
13  Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast
    broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains
    of iron.
14  For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have
    put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to
    serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and they shall serve
    him: moreover also I have given him the beasts of the
    earth.
15  And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet:
    Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou
    hast made this people to trust in a lie.
16  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee
    away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou
    die: for thou hast spoken against the Lord.
17  And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh
    month.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 29
1   Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias, the
    prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients
    that were carried into captivity, and to the priests, and
    to the prophets, and to all the people, whom
    Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
2   After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the
    eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and
    the craftsman, and the engravers were departed out of
    Jerusalem :
3   By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the
    son of Helcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon
    to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, saying:
4   Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all
    that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be
    carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5   Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards,
    and eat the fruit of them.
6   Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take
    wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands,
    and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied
    there, and be not few in number.
7   And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you
    to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it:
    for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.
8   For thus saith the Lord of hoses the God of Israel: Let
    not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your
    diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams
    which you dream:
9   For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have
    not sent them, saith the Lord.
10  For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall
    begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and
    I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you
    again to this place.
11  For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith
    the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to
    give you an end and patience.
12  And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you
    shall pray to me, and I will hear you.
13  You shall seek me, and shall And me: when you shall seek
    me with all your heart.
14  And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will
    bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of
    all nations, and from all the places to which I have
    driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back
    from the place to which I caused you to be carried away
    captive.
15  Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets
    in Babylon:
16  For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the
    throne of David, and to all the people that dwell in this
    city, to your brethren that are not gone forth with you
    into captivity.
17  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them
    the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will
    make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten, because they
    are very bad.
18  And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine,
    and pith the pestilence: and I will give them up unto
    affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a
    curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach
    to all the nations to which I have driven them out:
19  Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
    Lord: which I sent to them by my servants the prophets,
    rising by night, and sending: and you have not heard,
    saith the Lord.
20  Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the
    captivity, whom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab
    the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who
    prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will
    deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king
    of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.
22  And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity
    of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee
    like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon
    fried in the fire :
23  Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have
    committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and
    have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them
    not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.
24  And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:
25  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because
    thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the people that
    are in Jerusalem, and to Sophonias the son of Maasias the
    priest, and to all the priests, saying:
26  The Lord hath made thee priest in- stead of Joiada the
    priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the
    Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put
    him in the stocks, and into prison.
27  And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the
    Anathothite, who prophesieth to you?
28  For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a
    long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant
    gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
29  So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing
    of Jeremias the prophet.
30  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
31  Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the
    Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath
    prophesied to you, and I sent him not: and hath caused you
    to trust in a lie :
32  Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon
    Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not
    have a man to sit in the midst of this people, and he
    shall not see the good that I will do to my people, saith
    the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 30
1   This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,
    saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee
    all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.
3   For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring
    again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith
    the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land
    which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4   And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to
    Israel and to Juda:
5   For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror
    : there is fear and no peace.
6   Ask ye, and see if a man bear children ? why then have I
    seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman
    in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?
7   Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to
    it; and it Is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he
    shall be saved out of it.
8   And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of
    hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and
    will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule
    over him:
9   But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their
    king, whom I will raise up to them.
10  Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord,
    neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save
    thee from a country afar off, and thy seed from the land
    of their captivity: and Jacob shall return, and be at
    rest, and abound with all good things, and there shall be
    none whom he may fear:
11  For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I
    will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have
    scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but
    I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem
    to thyself innocent.
12  For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy
    wound is very grievous.
13  There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up : thou
    hast no healing medicines.
14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek
    after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an
    enemy, with a cruel chastisement: by reason of the
    multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.
15  Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is
    incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy
    hardened sins I have done these things to thee.
16  Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured: and
    all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity : and they
    that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon
    thee will I give for a prey.
17  For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy
    wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O
    Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after
    her.
18  Thus saith the Lord: Behold I bring back the captivity of
    the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses,
    and the city shall be built in her place, and the temple
    shall be found according to the order thereof.
19  And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of
    them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall
    not be made few : and I will glorify them, and they shall
    not be lessened.
20  And their children shall be as from the beginning, and
    their assembly be permanent before me : and I will against
    all that afflict them.
21  And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince
    shall come forth from the midst of them : and I will bring
    him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that
    setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?
22  And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.
23  Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a
    violent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.
24  The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation,
    till he have executed and performed the thought o his
    heart: in the latter days you shall understand these
    things.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 31
1   At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the
    families of and they shall be my people.
2   Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped from
    the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall to his
    rest.
3   The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved
    thee with everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee,
    taking pity on thee.
4   And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, 0
    virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy
    timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that
    make merry.
5   Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of
    Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not
    gather the vintage before the time.
6   For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount
    Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the
    Lord our God.
7   For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob,
    and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and
    sing, and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant of
    Israel.
8   Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will
    gather them from the ends of the earth: and among them
    shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child,
    and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company
    of them returning hither.
9   They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back
    in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of
    waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it:
    for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10  Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in
    the islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered
    Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the
    shepherd doth his flock.
11  For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of
    the hand of one that was mightier than he.
12  And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion:
    and they shall flow together to the good things of the
    Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of
    cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered
    garden, and they shall be hungry no more.
13  Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men
    and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into
    joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after
    their sorrow.
14  And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and
    my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the
    Lord.
15  Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of
    lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping
    for her children, and refusing to be comforted for them,
    because they are not.
16  Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and
    thy eyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy work,
    saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the land of
    the enemy.
17  And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the
    children shall return to their own borders.
18  Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou
    hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young
    bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall
    be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.
19  For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after
    thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am
    confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach
    of my youth.
20  Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a
    tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still
    remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him:
    pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.
21  Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct
    thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked:
    return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
22  How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O
wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing
upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
23  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet
    shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the
    cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity:
    The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy
    mountain.
24  And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together:
    the husbandmen and they that drive the docks.
25  For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled
    every hungry soul.
26  Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I
    saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27  Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the
    house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of
    men, and with the seed of beasts.
28  And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw
    down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I
    watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the
    Lord.
29  In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have
    eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set
    on edge.
30  But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man
    that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on
    edge.
31  Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will
    make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the
    house of Juda:
33  Not according to the covenant which I made with their
    fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring
    them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they
    made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.
33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
    house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will
    give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their
    heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my
    people.
34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
    every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all
    shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest,
    saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
    will remember their sin no more.
35  Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of
    the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the
    light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves
    thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.
36  If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord:
    then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be
    a nation before me for ever.
37  Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured,
    and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I
    also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that
    they have done, saith the Lord.
38  Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall
    be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to
    the gate of the corner.
39  And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight
    upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,
40  And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes, and all
    the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and the
    corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the
    Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be
    destroyed any more for ever.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 32
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth
    year of Sedecias king of Juda: the same is eighteenth year
    of Nabuchodonosor.
2   At that time the army of the king o Babylon besieged
    Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the
    court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of
    Juda.
3   For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why
    dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I
    will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
    and he shall take it?
4   And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand
    of the Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands
    of the king of Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to
    mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes.
5   And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be
    there till I visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will
    fight against the Chaldeans, you shall have no success.
6   And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me,
    saying:
7   Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come
    to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth,
    for it is thy right to buy it, being akin.
8   And Hanameel my uncle's son cam to me, according to the
    word of the to the entry of the prison, and said me: Buy
    my held, which is in in the land of Benjamin: for the
    right of inheritance is thins, and thou art next of kin to
    possess it. And I understood this was the word of the
    Lord.
9   And I bought the held of my uncle's son, that is in
    Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and
    ten pieces of silver.
10  And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took
    witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.
11  And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and
    the stipulations, and the ratifications with the seals
    that were on the outside.
12  And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
    Neri the son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my
    uncle's son, in the presence of the witnesses that
    subscribed the book of the purchase, and before all the
    Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13  And I charged Baruch before them, saying:
14  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these
    writings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and
    this deed that is open: and put them in an earthen vessel,
    that they may continue many days.
15  For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again
    in this land.
16  And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch
    the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
17  Alas, alas, alas, 0
    Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy
    great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be
    hard to thee:
18  Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the
    iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children
    after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord
    of hosts is thy name.
19  Great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought: whose
    eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam,
    to render unto every one according to his ways, and
    according to the fruit of his devices.
20  Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even
    until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast
    made thee a name as at this day.
21  And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land
    of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong
    hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror.
22  And best given them this land which thou didst swear to
    their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and
    honey.
23  And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not
    thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did
    not any of those things that thou didst command them to
    do, and all these evils are come upon them.
24  Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and
    the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who
    fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the
    pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to
    pass, as thou thyself seest.
25  And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money,
    and take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the
    hands of the Chaldeans?
26  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
27  Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing
    be hard for me?
28  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this
    city into the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands
    of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.
29  And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come
    and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon
    whose roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out
    drink offerings to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.
30  For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have
    continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the
    children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the
    work of their hands, saith the Lord.
31  For this city hath been to me a provocation and
    indignation from the day that they built it, until this
    day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.
32  Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of
    the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me
    to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their
    priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33  And they have turned their backs to me, and not their
    faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and
    instructed them, and they would not hearken to receive
    instruction.
34  And they have set their idols in the house, in which my
    name is called upon, to defile it.
35  And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in
    the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons
    and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not,
    neither entered it into my heart, that they should do this
    abomination, and cause Juda to sin.
36  And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel
    to this city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered
    into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by
    famine, and by pestilence :
37  Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to
    which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath,
    and in my great indignation: and I will bring them again
    into this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.
38  And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
39  And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
    fear me all days : and that it may be well with them, and
    with their children after them.
40  And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and
    will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in
    their heart, that they may not revolt from me.
41  And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good:
    and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole
    heart, and with all my soul.
42  For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this
    people all this great evil: so will I bring upon them all
    the good that I now speak to them.
43  And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you
    say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither
    man nor beast, and it is given into the hands of the
    Chaldeans.
44  Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be
    written, and sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the
    land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, in the cities
    of Juda, and in the cities on the mountains, and in the
    cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards
    the south: for I will bring their captivity, saith the
    Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 33
1   And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time,
    while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison,
    saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and
    prepare it, the Lord is his name.
3   Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great
    things, and sure things which thou knowest not.
4   For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of
    this city, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which
    rue destroyed, and to the bulwarks, and to the sword.
5   Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill
    them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in
    my wrath, and in my indignation, hiding my face from this
    city because of all their wickedness.
6   Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and
    I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of
    peace and truth.
7   And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the
    captivity of Jerusalem: and I will build them as from the
    beginning.
8   And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby
    they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their
    iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and
    despised me.
9   And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and
    a gladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall
    hear of all the good things which I will do to them: and
    they shall fear and be troubled for all the good things,
    and for all the peace that I will make for them.
10  Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this
    place (which you say is desolate, because there is neither
    man nor beast: in the cities of Juda, and without
    Jerusalem, which are desolate without man, and without
    inhabitant, and without beast)
11  The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of
    the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of
    them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts,
    for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and
    of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the
    Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as
    at the first, saith the Lord.
12  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this
    place that is desolate without man, and without beast, and
    in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds
    causing their flocks to lie down.
13  And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of
    the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south:
    and in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem,
    and in the cities of Juda shall the flocks pass again
    under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.
14  Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform
    the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel,
    and to the house of Juda.
15  In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of
    justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do
    judgment and justice in the earth.
16  In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall
    dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call
    him, The Lord our just one.
17  For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from
    David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.
18  Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and
    Levites a man before my face to offer holocausts, and to
    burn sacrifices, and to kill victims continually:
19  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
20  Thus saith the Lord: If my covenant with the day can be
    made void, and my covenant with the night, that there
    should not be day and night in their season:
21  Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void,
    that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne,
    and with the Levites and priests my ministers.
22  As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of
    the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David
    my servant, and the Levites my ministers.
23  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
24  Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying:
    The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off:
    and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a
    nation before them?
25  Thus saith the Lord: If I have not set my covenant between
    day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:
26  Surely I will also cast; off the seed of Jacob, and of
    David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be
    rulers of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I
    will bring back their captivity, and will have mercy on
    them.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 34
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, (when
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army, and all
    the kingdoms of the earth, that were under the power of
    his hand, and all the people fought against Jerusalem and
    against all the cities thereof,) saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to
    Sedecias king of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the
    Lord: Behold I will deliver this city into the hands of
    the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
3   And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt
    surely be taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his
    hand: and thy eyes shall see the eyes of the king of
    Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth, and
    thou shalt go to Babylon.
4   Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda:
    Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the
    sword.
5   But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings
    of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so
    shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee,
    saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the
    Lord.
6   And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias
    the king of Juda in Jerusalem.
7   And the army of the king of Babylon fought against
    Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda that were
    left, against Lachis, and against Azecha: for these
    remained of the cities of Juda, fenced cities.
8   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that
    king Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in
    Jerusalem making a proclamation:
9   That every man should let his manservant, and every man
    his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go
    free: and that they should not lord it over them, to wit,
    over the Jews their brethren.
10  And all the princes, and all the people who entered into
    the covenant, heard that every man should let his
    manservant, and every man his maidservant go free, and
    should no more have dominion over them: and they obeyed,
    and let them go free.
11  But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their
    servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free,
    and brought them into subjection as menservants and
    maidservants.
12  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord,
    saying:
13  Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant
    with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of
    the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying:
14  At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother
    being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall
    serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from
    thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they
    incline their ear.
15  And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my
    eyes, in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and
    you made a covenant in my sight, in the house upon which
    my name is invocated.
16  And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you
    have brought back again every man his manservant, and
    every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and
    set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection
    to be your servants and handmaids.
17  Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to
    me, in proclaiming liberty every man to his brother and
    every man to his friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for
    you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and
    to the famine: and I will cause you to be removed to all
    the kingdoms of the earth.
18  And I will give the men that have transgressed my
    covenant, and have not performed the words of the covenant
    which they agreed to in my presence, when they cut the
    calf in two and passed between the parts thereof:
19  The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
    eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land
    that passed between the parts of the calf:
20  And I will give them into the hands of their enemies, and
    into the hands of them that seek their life : and their
    dead bodies shall be for meat to the fowls of the air, and
    to the beasts of the earth.
21  And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I will
    give into the hands of their enemies, and into the hands
    of them that seek their lives, and into the hands of the
    armies of the king of Babylon, which are gone from you.
22  Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will bring
    them again to this city, and they shall fight against it,
    and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the
    cities of Juda a desolation, without an inhabitant.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 35
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days
    of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying:
2   Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and
    bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the
    chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine
    to drink.
3   And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of
    Habsanias, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the
    whole house of the Rechabites.
4   And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the
    treasure house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias
    the man of God, which was by the treasure house of the
    princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum,
    who was keeper of the entry.
5   And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites
    pots full of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye
    wine.
6   And they answered : We will not drink wine: because
    Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us,
    saying: You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your
    children, for ever:
7   Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant
    vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all
    your days, that you may live many days upon the face of
    the earth, in which you are strangers.
8   Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of
    Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so
    as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our
    wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:
9   Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or
    field, or seed:
10  But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient
    according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11  But when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up to our
    land, we said: Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the
    face of the army of the Chaldeans, and from the face of
    the army of Syria: and we have remained in Jerusalem.
12  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
13  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and
    say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of
    Jerusalem: Will you not receive instruction, to obey my
    words, saith the Lord ?
14  The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he
    commanded his sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and
    they have drunk none to this day, because they have obeyed
    the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you,
    rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed me.
15  And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets,
    rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man
    from his wicked way, and make your ways good: and follow
    not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in
    the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and you have
    not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.
16  So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have constantly
    kept the commandment of their father, which he commanded
    them: but this people hath not obeyed me.
17  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Behold I will bring upon Juda, and upon all the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have
    pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them,
    and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they
    have not answered me.
18  And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus
    saith the Lord of hosts the Cod of Israel: Because you
    have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and
    have kept all his precepts, and have done all that he
    commanded you:
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord of host the God of Israel:
    There shall not be wanting a man of the race of Jonadab
    the son of Rechab, standing before me for ever.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 36
1   And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the son
    of Josias king of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias by
    the Lord, saying:
2   Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all
    the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and
    Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I
    spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.
3   If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils
    that I purpose to do unto them, that they may return every
    man from his wicked way: and I will forgive their
    iniquity, and their sin.
4   So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch
    wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the
    Lord, which he spoke to him, upon the roll of a book.
5   And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and
    cannot go into the house of the Lord.
6   Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which
    thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in
    the hearing of all the people in the house of the Lord on
    the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the
    hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities:
7   If so be they may present their supplication before the
    Lord, and may return every one from his wicked way: for
    great is the wrath and indignation which the Lord hath
    pronounced against this people.
8   And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that
    Jeremias the prophet had commanded him, reading out of the
    volume the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord.
9   And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of
    Josias king of Juda, in the ninth month, that they
    proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in
    Jerusalem, and to all the people that were come together
    out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.
10  And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias in
    the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son
    of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of
    the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of
    all the people.
11  And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan had
    heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,
12  He went down into the king's house to the secretary's
    chamber: and behold all the princes sat there, Elisama the
    scribe, and Dalaias the son of Semeias, and Elnathan the
    son of Achobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and
    Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes.
13  And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when
    Baruch read out of the volume in the hearing of the
    people.
14  Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias,
    the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying:
    Take in thy hand the volume in which thou hast read in the
    hearing of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of
    Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came to them.
15  And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in
    our hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.
16  And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon
    one another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We
    must tell the king all these words.
17  And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write
    all these words from his mouth.
18  And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all
    these words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a
    volume with ink.
19  And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both
    thou and Jeremias, and let no man know where you are.
20  And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid
    up the volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and
    they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
21  And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who
    bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read
    it in the hearing of the king, and of all the princes that
    stood about the king.
22  Now the king sat in the winter house, In the ninth month:
    and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.
23  And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with
    the penknife, and he cast it into the Are, that was upon
    the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire
    that was on the hearth.
24  And the king and all his servants that heard all these
    words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
25  But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the
    king, not to burn. the book: and he heard them not.
26  And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and
    Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel,
    to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremias the prophet:
    but the Lord hid them.
27  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet,
    after that the king had burnt the volume, and the words
    that Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremias,
    saying:
28  Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the
    former words that were in the first volume which Joakim
    the king of Juda hath burnt.
29  And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith
    the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast
    thou written therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall
    come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and shall
    cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30  Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of
    Juda: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David:
    and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day,
    and to the frost by night.
31  And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for
    their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the
    evil that I have pronounced against them, but they have
    not heard.
32  And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch
    the son of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the
    mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim
    the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and there were added
    besides many more words than had been before.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 37
1   Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of
    Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of
    Babylon made king in the land of Juda.
2   But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
    land did obey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the
    hand of Jeremias the prophet.
3   And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and
    Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the
    prophet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God for us.
4   Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people r
    for they had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army
    of Pharao was come out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that
    besieged Jerusalem, hearing these tidings, departed from
    Jerusalem.
5   And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet,
    saying:
6   Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say
    to the king of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold
    the army of Pharao, which is come forth to help you, shall
    return into their own land, into Egypt.
7   And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
    city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
8   Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The
    Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for
    they shall not go away;
9   But if you should even beat al: the army of the Chaldeans
    that fight against you, and there should be left of them
    some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his
    tent, and burn this city with Are.
10  Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from
    Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,
11  Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
    of Benjamin: and to divide a possession there in the
    presence of the citizens.
12  And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain
    of the gate, who I was there in his turn, was one named
    Jerias, the son of Selemias, the son of Hananias: and he
    took hold of Jeremias the prophet, saying: Thou art
    fleeing to the Chaldeans.
13  And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to
    the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took
    Jeremias and brought him to the princes.
14  Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they
    beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the
    house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the
    prison.
15  So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into
    the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.
16  Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him
    secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou,
    any word from the Lord? And Jeremias said: There is. And
    he said: Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the
    king of Babylon.
17  And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I
    offended against thee, or thy servants, or thy people,
    that thou hast cast me into prison?
18  Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said:
    The king of Babylon shall not come against you, and
    against this land?
19  Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let
    my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back
    into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
20  Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be
    committed into the entry of the prison: and that they
    should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till
    all the bread in the city were spent: and Jeremias
    remained in the entry of the prison.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 38
1   Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of
    Phassur, and Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the
    son of Melchias heard the words that Jeremias spoke to all
    the people, saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shell remain in this city,
    shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence
    : but he that shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall live,
    and his life shall be safe, and he shall live.
3   Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered
    into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he
    shall take it.
4   And the princes said to the king: We beseech thee that
    this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth
    the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and
    the hands of the people, speaking to them according to
    these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this
    people, but evil.
5   And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it
    is not lawful for the king to deny you any thing.
6   Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of
    Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the
    prison: and they let down Jeremias by ropes into the
    dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And
    Jeremias sunk into the mire.
7   Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the
    king's house, heard that they had put Jeremias in the
    dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin.
8   And Abdemelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to
    the king, saying:
9   My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that
    they have done against Jeremias the prophet, casting him
    into the dungeon to die there with hunger, for there is no
    more bread in the city.
10  Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying:
    Take from hence thirty men with thee, end draw up Jeremias
    the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
11  So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the
    king's house that was under the storehouse: and he took
    from thence old rags, and old rotten things, and he let
    them down by cords to Jeremias into the dungeon.
12  And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these
    old rags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms,
    and upon the cords: and Jeremias did so.
13  And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and brought him
    forth out of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the
    entry of the prison.
14  And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the prophet to
    him to the third gate, that was in the house of the Lord:
    and the king said to Jeremias: I will ask thee a thing,
    hide nothing from me.
15  Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to
    thee, wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee
    counsel, thou wilt not hearken to me.
16  Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private, saying:
    As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put
    thee to death, nor will I deliver thee into the hands of
    these men that seek thy life.
17  And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of
    hosts the God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution
    and go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, thy soul
    shall live, and this city shall not be burnt with fire:
    and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.
18  But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of
    Babylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of
    the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire: and thou
    shalt not escape out of their hands.
19  And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of
    the Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I
    should be delivered into their hands, and they should
    abuse me.
20  But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee:
    hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I
    speak to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and thy
    soul shall live.
21  But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the
    Lord hath shewn me:
22  Behold all the women that are left in the house of the
    king of Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the
    king of Babylon: and they shall say: Thy men of peace have
    deceived thee, and have prevailed against thee, they have
    plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place, and
    they have departed from thee.
23  And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out
    to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands,
    but thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of
    Babylon: and he shall burn this city with fire.
24  Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know these
    words, and thou shalt not die.
25  But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken with
    thee, and shall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us
    what thou hast said to the king, hide it not from us, and
    we will not kill thee: and also what the king said to
    thee:
26  Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before
    the king, that he would not command me to be carried back
    into the house of Jonathan, to die there.
27  So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he
    spoke to them according to all the words that the king had
    commanded him: and they left him: for nothing had been
    heard.
28  But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until
    the day that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that
    Jerusalem was taken.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 39
1   In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth
    month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his
    army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
2   And in the I eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth
    month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.
3   And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and
    sat in the middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu,
    Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the
    rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4   And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war
    saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out
    of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the
    gate that was between the two walls, and they went; out to
    the way of the desert.
5   But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they
    took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and
    when they had taken him, they brought him to
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in
    the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
6   And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in
    Reblatha, before his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew
    all the nobles of Juda.
7   He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with
    fetters, to be carried to Babylon.
8   And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses
    of the people with fire, and they threw down the wall of
    Jerusalem.
9   And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away
    captive to Babylon the remnant of the people that remained
    in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to him,
    and the rest of the people that remained.
10  But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people
    that had nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave
    them vineyards, and cisterns at that time.
11  Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to
    Nabuzardan the general concerning Jeremias, saying:
12  Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm:
    but as he hath a mind, so do with him.
13  Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent, and Nabusezban, and
    Rabsares, and Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all
    the nobles of the king of Babylon,
14  Sent, and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison,
    and committed him to Codolias the son of Ahicam the son of
    Saphan, that he might go home, and dwell among the people.
15  But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet
    shut up in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell
    Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying:
16  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I
    will bring my words upon this city unto evil, and not unto
    good: and they shall be accomplished in thy sight in that
    day.
17  And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and
    thou shalt not be given into the hands of the men whom
    thou fearest:
18  But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not
    fall by the sword : but thy life shall be saved for thee,
    because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 40
1   The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that
    Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he
    had taken him, being bound with chains, among all them
    that were carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were
    carried to Babylon.
2   And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him:
    The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this
    place,
3   And he hath brought it : and the Lord hath done as he hath
    said: because you have sinned against the Lord, and have
    not hearkened to his voice, and this word is come upon
    you.
4   Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the
    chains which were upon thy hands: if it please thee to
    come with me to Babylon, come : and I will set my eyes
    upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come with me to
    Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as
    thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go,
    thither go.
5   And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of
    Ahicam the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath
    made governor over the cities of Juda: dwell therefore
    with him in the midst of the people: or whithersoever it
    shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the army
    gave him victuals and presents, and let him go.
6   And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to
    Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people
    that were left in the land.
7   And when all the captains of the army that were scattered
    through the countries, they and their companions, had
    heard that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the son
    of Ahicam governor of the country, and that he had
    committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the
    poor of the land, them that had not been carried away
    captive to Babylon:
8   They came to Godolias to Masphath: and Ismahel the son of
    Nathanias, and Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree,
    and Sareas the son of Thanehumeth, and the children of
    Ophi, that were of Netophathi, and Jezonias the son of
    Maachati, they and their men.
9   And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to
    them and to their companions, saying: Fear not to serve
    the Chaldeass: dwell in the land, and serve the king of
    Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
10  Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the
    commandment of the Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as
    for you, gather ye the vintage, and the harvest, and the
    oil, and lay it up in your vessels, and abide in your
    cities which you hold.
11  Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
    children of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries,
    when they heard that the king of Babylon had left a
    remnant in Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son of
    Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:
12  All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to
    which they had fled, and they came into the land of Juda
    to Godolias to Masphath: and they gathered wine, and a
    very great harvest.
13  Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    army, that had been scattered about in the countries, came
    to Godolias to Masphath.
14  And they said to him: Know that Baalis the king of the
    children of Ammon hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias
    to kill thee. And Godolias the son of Ahicam believed them
    not.
15  But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Oodolias privately
    in Masphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel
    the son of Nathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he
    kill thee, and all the Jews be scattered, that are
    gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda perish.
16  And Codolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of
    Cares: Do not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel
    is false.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 41
1   And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the
    son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood,
    and the nobles of the king, and ten men with him, came to
    Godolias the son of Ahicam into Masphath: and they ate
    bread there together in Masphath.
2   And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men
    that were with him, and they struck Godolias the son of
    Ahicam, the son of Saphan with the sword, and slew him
    whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
3   Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with Godolias in
    Masphath, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the
    soldiers.
4   And on the second day after he had killed Godolias, no man
    yet knowing it,
5   There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from
    Samaria, fourscore men, with their beards shaven, and
    their clothes rent, and mourning: and they had offerings
    and incense in their hand, to offer in the house of the
    Lord.
6   And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth from Masphath
    to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and when he
    had met them, he said to them: Come to Godolias, the son
    of Ahicam.
7   And when they were come to the midst of the city, Ismahel
    the son of Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into the
    midst of the pit, he and the men that were with him.
8   But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel :
    Kill us not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat,
    and barley, and oil, and honey. And he forbore, and slew
    them not with their brethren.
9   And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of
    the men whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that
    king Asa made, for fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the
    same did Ismahel the son of Nathanias fill with them that
    were slain.
10  Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the
    people that were in Masphath : the king's daughters, and
    all the people that remained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan
    the general of the army had committed to Godolias the son
    of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias took them, and
    he departed, to go over to the children of Ammon.
11  But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    fighting men that were with him, heard of the evil that
    Ismahel the son of Nathanias had done.
12  And taking all the men, they went out to fight against
Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and they found him by the
great waters that are in Gabaon.
13  And when all the people that were with Ismahel, had seen
    Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    fighting men that were with him, they rejoiced.
14  And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to
    Masphath: and they returned and went to Johanan the son of
    Caree.
15  But Ismahel the son of Nathanias fled with eight men, from
    the face of Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon.
16  Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    soldiers that were with him, took all the remnant of the
    people whom they had recovered from Ismahel the son of
    Nathanias, from Masphath, after that he had slain Godolias
    the son of Ahicam: valiant men for war, and the women, and
    the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back
    from Gabaon:
17  And they departed, and sat as sojourners in Chamaam, which
    is near Bethlehem: in order to go forward, and enter into
    Egypt,
18  From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of
    them, because Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain
    Godolias the son of Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had
    made governor in the land of Juda.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 42
1   Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son
    of Caree, and Jezonias the son of Osaias, and the rest of
    the people from the least to the greatest came near:
2   And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our
    supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the
    Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a
    few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
3   And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may
    walk, and the thing that we must do.
4   And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you:
    behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your
    words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will
    declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.
5   And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us
    of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every
    thing for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
6   Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the
    Lord our God, to whom me send thee: that it may be well
    with us when we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our
    God.
7   Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.
8   And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the
    captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all
    the people from the least to the greatest.
9   And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of
    Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications
    before him:
10  If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build
    you up, and not pull you down: I will plane you, and not
    pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the evil that I
    have done to you.
11  Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are
    greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am
    with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
12  And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you,
    and will cause you to dwell in your own land.
13  But if you say: We will not dwell in this ]and, neither
    will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,
14  Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where
    we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
    nor suffer hunger: and there we will dwell.
15  For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of
    Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If
    you set your faces to go into Egypt, and enter in to dwell
    there:
16  The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the
    land of Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid,
    shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there you shall die.
17  And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to
    dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by
    pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the
    face of the evil that I will bring upon them.
18  For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my
    anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the
    inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be
    kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and
    you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a
    curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no
    more.
19  This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant
    of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have
    adjured you this day.
20  For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to
    the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God,
    and according to all that the Lord our God shall say to
    thee, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
21  And now I have declared it to you this day, and ;you have
    not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to
    all the things for which he hath sent me to you.
22  Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the
    sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to
    which you desire to go to dwell there.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 43
1   And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of
    speaking to the people all the words of the Lord their
    God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them,
    all these words:
2   Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree,
    and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias:
    Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee,
    saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.
3   But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us,
    to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us,
    and to cause us to be carried away captives to Babylon.
4   So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    soldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the
    Lord, to remain in the land of Juda.
5   But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the
    soldiers took all the remnant of Juda, that were returned
    out of all nations, to which they had before been
    scattered, to dwell in the land of Juda:
6   Men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
    and every soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with
    Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias
    the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.
7   And they went Into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not
    the voice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis.
8   And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis,
    saying:
9   Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in
    the vault that is under the brick wall at the gate of
    Pharao's house in Taphnis: in the sight of the men of
    Juda.
10  And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts
    the God of Israel: Behold I will send, and take
    Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will
    set his throne over these stones which I have hid, and he
    shall set his throne over them.
11  And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as
    are for death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to
    captivity: and such as are for the sword, to the sword.
12  And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of
    Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them
    away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of
    Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall
    go forth from thence in peace.
13  And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun,
    that are in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods
    of Egypt he shall burn with fire.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 44
1   The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews
    that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and
    in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures,
    saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have
    seen all this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and
    upon all the cities of Juda: and behold they are desolate
    this day, and there is not an inhabitant in them:
3   Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to
    provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and
    worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your
    fathers knew.
4   And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising
    early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this
    abominable thing, which I hate.
5   But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
    their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.
6   Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and
    was kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of
    Jerusalem: and they are turned to desolation and waste, as
    at this day.
7   And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls,
    that there should die of you man and woman, child and
    suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should
    be left you:
8   In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your
    hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt,
    into which you are come to dwell there: and that you
    should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the
    nations of the earth?
9   Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the
    evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives,
    and your evils, and the evils of your wives, that they
    have done in the land of Juda, and in the streets of
    Jerusalem?
10  They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they
    feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my
    commandments, which I set before you and your fathers.
11  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will
    destroy all Juda.
12  And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their
    faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there:
    and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they
    shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall
    be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the
    sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be
    for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and
    for a reproach.
13  And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as
    I have visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine, and
    by pestilence.
14  And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of
    the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the
    land of Egypt: and that shall return into the land of
    Juda, to which they have a desire to return to dwell
    there: there shall none return but they that shall flee.
15  Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to
    other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a
    great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in
    the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:
16  As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name
    of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:
17  But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out
    of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and
    to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers
    have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of
    Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled
    with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.
18  But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of
    heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have
    wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword,
    and by famine.
19  And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour
    out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship
    her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our
    husbands?
20  And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to
    the women, and to all the people which had given him that
    answer, saying:
21  Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of
    Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and Sour
    fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of
    the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not
    entered into his heart?
22  So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil
    of your doings, and because of the abominations which you
    have committed: therefore your land is become a
    desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an
    inhabitant, as at this day.
23  Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned
    against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the
    Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his
    commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these
    evils come upon you, as at this day.
24  And Jeremias said to all the people, and to all the women
    : Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell
    in the land of Egypt:
25  Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying:
    You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and
    fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our vows
    which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen of
    heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have
    fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.
26  Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that
    dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my
    great name, saith the Lord: that my name shall no more be
    named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of
    Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.
27  Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good:
    and all the men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt,
    shall be consumed, by the sword, and by famine, till there
    be an end of them.
28  And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return
    out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all
    the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land of Egypt
    to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine,
    or theirs.
29  And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I
    will punish you in this place: that you may know that my
    words shall be accomplished indeed against you for evil.
30  Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Ephree
    king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the
    hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias
    king of Juda into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of
    Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 45
1   The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
    of Nerias, when he had written there words in a book, out
    of the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the
    son of Josias king of Juda, saying:
2   Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch:
3   Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord
    hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my
    groans, and I find no rest.
4   Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold,
    them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have
    planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.
5   And dost thou seek great things for thyself ? Seek not :
    for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the
    Lord ! but I will give thee thy life, and save thee in all
    places whithersoever thou shalt go.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 46
1   The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet
    against the Gentiles,
2   Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of
    Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom
    Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth
    year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.
3   Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.
4   Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth
    with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
5   What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their
    backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they
    looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.
6   Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to
    escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the
    north by the river Euphrates.
7   Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams
    swell like those of rivers ?
8   Egypt riseth up like a hood, and the waves thereof shall
    be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and
    will cover the earth: I will destroy the city, and its
    inhabitants.
9   Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the
    valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans
    that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot
    arrows.
10  For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of
    vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the
    sword shall devour, and shall be filled, and shall be
    drunk with their blood: for there is a sacrifice of the
    Lord God of hosts in the north country, by the river
    Euphrates.
11  Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of
    Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall
    be no cure for thee.
12  The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling
    hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against
    the strong, and both are fallen together.
13  The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how
    Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the
    land of Egypt:
14  Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it
    be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and
    prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round
    about thee.
15  Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not:
    because the Lord hath overthrown them.
16  He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen
    upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return
    to our own people, and to the land our nativity, from the
    sword of the dove.
17  Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time hath
    brought.
18  As I live, (saith the King, whose name is the Lord of
    hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by
    the sea, so shall he come.
19  Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter
    inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate,
    and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.
20  Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall
    come from the north one that shall goad her.
21  Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like
    fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together,
    and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter
    is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22  Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten
    with an army, and with axes they shall come against her,
    as hewers of wood.
23  They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which
    cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and
    are without number.
24  The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into
    the hand of the people of the north.
25  The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I
    will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao,
    and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and
    upon Pharao, upon them that trust in him.
26  And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek
    their lives, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of
    Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards
    it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the
    Lord.
27  And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou
    dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar
    off, and thy seed out of the ]and of thy captivity: and
    Jacob shall return and be at rest, and prosper: and there
    shall be none to terrify him.
28  And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord:
    because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations
    to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not
    consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will
    I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 47
1   The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet
    against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.
2   Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of
    the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent,
    and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein,
    the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall
    cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,
3   At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers,
    at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his
    wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children,
    for feebleness of hands,
4   Because of the coming of the day, in which all the
    Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall
    be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the
    Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the remnant of the isle
    of Cappadocia.
5   Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace
    with the remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut
    thyself?
6   O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet?
    Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7   How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a
    charge against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof
    by the sea side, and there hath made an appointment for
    it?

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 48
1   Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of
    Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded:
    Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and
    hath trembled.
2   There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have
    devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a
    nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace,
    and the sword shall follow thee.
3   A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great
    destruction.
4   Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.
5   For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with
    weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have
    heard a howling of destruction.
6   Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
7   For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy
    treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go
    into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
8   And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city
    shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains
    shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken:
9   Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out:
    and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.
10  Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully:
    and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.
11  Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested
    upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to
    vessel, nor hath gone into captivity : therefore his taste
    hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
12  Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will
    send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles,
    and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels,
    and break their bottles one against another.
13  And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of
    Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.
14  How do you say: We are valiant, and stout men in battle?
15  Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities:
    and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter:
    saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16  The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity
    thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
17  Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you
    that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken,
    the beautiful rod?
18  Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of
    the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come
    up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks.
19  Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer:
    inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath
    escaped: What Is done?
20  Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and
    cry, tell ye it in Amen, that Moab is wasted.
21  And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon,
    and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath.
22  And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of
    Deblathaim,
23  And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon
    Bethmaon,
24  And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities
    of the land of Moab, far or near.
25  The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith
    the Lord.
26  Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the
    Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and
    he also shall be in derision.
27  For Israel hath been a derision unto thee: as though thou
    hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore,
    which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away
    captive.
28  Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in
    Moab: and be ye Iike the dove that maketh her nest in the
    mouth of the hole in the highest place.
29  We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud:
    his haughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
    loftiness of his heart.
30  I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and that the
    strength thereof is not according to it, neither hath it
    endeavoured to do according as it was able.
31  Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to
    all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.
32  O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee, with the
    mourning of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea,
    they are come even to the sea of Jazer: the robber hath
    rushed in upon thy harvest and thy vintage.
33  Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the
    land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the
    presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the
    accustomed cheerful tune.
34  From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they
    have uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a
    heifer of three years old: the waters also of Nemrim shall
    be very bad.
35  And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that
    offereth in the high places, and that sacrificeth to his
    gods.
36  Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes: and my
    heart a sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall:
    because he hath done more than he could, therefore they
    have perished.
37  For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be
    shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every
    back there shall be haircloth.
38  Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof
    general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless
    vessel, saith the Lord.
39  How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab
    bowed down the neck, and is confounded ! And Moab shall be
    a derision, and an example to all round about him.
40  Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and
    shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.
41  Carioth is taken, and the strong holds are won: and the
    heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as
    the heart of a woman in labour.
42  And Moab shall cease to be a people : because he hath
    gloried against the Lord.
43  Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O
    inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
44  He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit:
    and he that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in
    the snare: for I will bring upon Moab the year of their
    visitation, saith the Lord.
45  They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of
    Hesebon: but there came a fire out of Kesebon, and a flame
    out of the midst of Seen, and it shall devour part of
    Moab. and the crown of the head of the children of tumult.
46  Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast perished, O people of Chamos:
    for thy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives.
47  And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last
    days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 49
1   Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath
    Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom
    inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities ?
2   Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will
    cause the noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the
    children of Ammon, and it shall be destroyed into a heap,
    and her daughters shall be burnt with fire, and Israel
    shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the
    Lord.
3   Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of
    Rabbath, gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go
    about by the hedges: for Melchom shall be carried into
    captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
4   Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed
    away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy
    treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me?
5   Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God
    of hosts, from all that are round about thee: and you
    shall be scattered every one out of one another's sight,
    neither shall there be any to gather together them that
    flee.
6   And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children
    of Ammon to return, saith the Lord.
7   Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no
    more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children:
    their wisdom is become unprofitable.
8   Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye
    inhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction
    of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation.
9   If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have
    left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have
    taken what was enough for them.
10  But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets,
    and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his
    brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be.
11  Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and
    thy widows shall hope in me.
12  For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was
    not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt
    thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as
    innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.
13  For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra
    shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert,
    and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting
    wastes.
14  I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is
    sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come
    against her, and let us rise up to battle.
15  For behold I have made thee a little one among the
    nations, despicable among men.
16  Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy
    heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and
    endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill : but
    though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I
    will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
17  And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by
    it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its
    plagues.
18  As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours
    thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell
    there, and there shall no son of man inhabit it.
19  Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of
    the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will
    make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the
    chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to
    m? and who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd that
    can withstand my countenance?
20  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath
    taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath
    thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the
    little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth
    they shall destroy them with their habitation.
21  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of
    their voice is heard in the Red Sea.
22  Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall
    spread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of
    the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman
    in labour.
23  Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they
    have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the
    sea: through care they could not rest.
24  Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath
    seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a
    woman in labour.
25  How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy
    !
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all
    the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord
    of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, rind it
    shall devour the strong holds of Benadad.
28  Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which
    Nabuchodonouor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the
    Lord: Arise, and go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children
    of the east.
29  They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall
    carry off for themselves their curtains, and all their
    vessels, and their camels: and they shall call fear upon
    them round about.
30  Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that
    inhabit Asur, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of
    Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived
    designs against you.
31  Arise, and so up to a nation that is at ease, and that
    dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they have neither
    gates, nor bars: they dwell alone.
32  And their camels shall be for a spoil, and the multitude
    of their cattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every
    wind them that have their hair cut round, and I will bring
    destruction upon them from I all their confines, saith the
    Lord.
33  And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for
    ever: no man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.
34  The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet
    against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias
    king of Juda, saying:
35  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow
    of Elam, and their chief strength.
36  And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the fear
    quarters of heaven: and I will scatter them into all these
    winds: and there shall be no nation, to which the
    fugitives of Elam shall not come.
37  And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies,
    and in the sight of them that seek their life: and I will
    bring evil upon them, my fierce wrath, saith the Lord :
    and will send the sword after them, till I consume them.
38  And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and
    princes from thence, saith the Lord.
39  But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam,
    to return, saith the Lord.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 50
1   The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and
    against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias
    the prophet.
2   Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a
    standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is
    taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their
    graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.
3   For a nation is come up against her out of the north,
    which shall make her land desolate: and there shall be
    none to dwell therein, from man even to beast:: yea they
    are removed, and gone away.
4   In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
    children of Israel shall come, they and the children of
    Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste,
    and shall seek the Lord their God.
5   They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are
    hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the
    Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be
    forgotten.
6   My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have
    caused them to go astray, and have made them wander in the
    mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
    forgotten their resting place.
7   All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies
    said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have
    sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against
    the Lord the hope of their fathers.
8   Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
    the land of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head
    of the flock.
9   For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an
    assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and
    they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she
    shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man,
    a destroyer, shall not return in vain.
10  And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall
    be filled, saith the Lord.
11  Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my
    inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon
    the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.
12  Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore
    you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the
    last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.
13  Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be
    inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: every one that
    shall pass by Babylon, shall be astonished, and hiss at
    all her plagues.
14  Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you
    that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows:
    because she hath sinned against the Lord.
15  Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand,
    her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for
    it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her:
    as she hath done, so do to her.
16  Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the
    sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of
    the dove every man shall return to his people, and every
    one shall flee to his own land.
17  Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him
    away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last
    this Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18  Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
    Behold I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as
    I have visited the king of Assyria.
19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he
    shall feed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be
    satisfied in mount Ephraim, and Galaad.
20  In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
    iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be
    none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found:
    for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.
21  Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the
    inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them,
    saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have
    commanded thee.
22  A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.
23  How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and
    destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the
    nations!
24  I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art
    taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art
    found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.
25  The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth
    the weapons of his wrath : for the Lord the God of hosts
    hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.
26  Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that
    they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the
    stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy her:
    and let nothing of her be left.
27  Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the
    slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of
    their visitation.
28  The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped
    out of the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge
    of the Lord our God, the revenge of his temple.
29  Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow:
    stand together against her round about, and let nose
    escape; pay her according to her work: according to all
    that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up
    herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
30  Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all
    her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith
    the Lord.
31  Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord
    the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy
    visitation.
32  And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and
    there shall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a
    fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about
    him.
33  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and
    the children of Juda are oppressed together: all that have
    taken them captives, hold them fast, they will not let
    them go.
34  Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name :
    he will defend their cause in judgment, to terrify the
    land, and to disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35  A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon
    the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon
    her wise men.
36  A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a
    sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
37  A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and
    upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they
    shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and
    they shall be made a spoil.
38  A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up:
    because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous
    things.
39  Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns:
    and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more
    inhabited for ever, neither shall it be built up from
    generation to generation.
40  As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their
    neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell
    there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it.
41  Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation,
    and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.
42  They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and
    unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they
    shall ride upon horses: like a man prepared for battle
    against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43  The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
    hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him,
    pangs as a, woman in labour.
44  Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
    the Jordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make
    him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one
    whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and
    who shall bear up against me? and who is that shepherd
    that can withstand my countenance?
45  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath
    taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath
    thought against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the
    little ones of the flocks shall pull them down, of a truth
    their habitation shall be destroyed with them.
46  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,
    and the cry is heard amongst the nations.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 51
1   Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a
    pestilential wind against Babylon and against the
    inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart
    against me.
2   And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan
    her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon
    her on every side in the day of her affliction.
3   Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not, him
    go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her
    young men, destroy all her army.
4   And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and
    the wounded in the regions thereof.
5   For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God
    the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with
    sin against the Holy One of Israel.
6   Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save
    his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is
    the time of revenge from the Lord, he will I render unto
    her what she hath deserved.
7   Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord,
    that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of
    her wine, and therefore they have staggered.
8   Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her,
    take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
9   We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us
    forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land:
    because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and
    is lifted up to the clouds.
10  The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us
    declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.
11  Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised
    up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is
    against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance
    of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
12  Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen
    the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
    the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke
    against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13  O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures,
thy end is come for thy entire destruction.
14  The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying : I will
    fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up
    a joyful shout against thee.
15  He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared
    the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by
    his understanding.
16  When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in
    heaven: he lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the
    earth, he hath turned lightning into rain: and hath
    brought forth the wind out of his treasures.
17  Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every
    founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast
    is a lie, and there is no breath in them.
18  They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the
    time of their visitation they shall perish.
19  The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made
    all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his
    inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
20  Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with
    thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will
    destroy kingdoms:
21  And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his
    rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot,
    and him that getteth up into it:
22  And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and
    with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the
    child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man
    and the virgin:
23  And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his
    dock, and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman
    and his yoke of oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces
    captains and rulers.
24  And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants
    of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion,
    before your eyes, saith the Lord.
25  Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain,
    saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I
    will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee
    down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
26  And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner,
    nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed
    for ever, saith the Lord.
27  Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet
    among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call
    together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and
    Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as
    the stinging locust.
28  Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their
    captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their
    dominion.
29  And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be
    troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall
    awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and
    uninhabitable.
30  The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they
    have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they
    are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her
    bars are broken.
31  One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall
    meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city
    is taken from one end to the other:
32  And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt
    with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33  For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The
    daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the
    time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of
    her harvest shall come.
34  Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath
    devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath
    swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly
    with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.
35  The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith
    the habitation of Sion : and my blood upon the inhabitants
    of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.
36  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy
    cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make
    her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring.
37  And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place
    for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there
    is no inhabitant.
38  They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake
    their manes like young lions.
39  In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them
    drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting
    sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
40  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and
    like rams with kids.
41  How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth
    surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the
    nations?
42  The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the
    multitude of the waves thereof.
43  Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited
    and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of
    man pass through it.
44  And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
    forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down:
    and the rations shall no more flow together to him, for
    the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
45  Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may
    save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
46  And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour
    that shall be heard in the land : and a rumour shall come
    in one year, and after this year another rumour: and
    iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.
47  Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols
    of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and
    all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48  And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in
    them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall
    come to her from the north, saith the Lord.
49  And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in
    Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the
    earth.
50  You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not
    still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come
    into your mind.
51  We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame
    hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon
    the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.
52  Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will
    visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded
    shall groan:
53  If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her
    strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon
    her, saith the Lord.
54  The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction
    from the land of the Chaldeans :
55  Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed
    out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like
    many waters: their voice hath made a noise:
56  Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon
    Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is
    weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will
    surely repay.
57  And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men, and
    her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and
    they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no
    more, saith the whose name is Lord of hosts.
58  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon
    shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be
    burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come
    to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and
    shall perish.
59  The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the
    son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king
    Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now
    Saraias was chief over the prophecy.
60  And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to
    come upon Babylon: all these words that are written
    against Babylon.
61  And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into
    Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,
62  Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this
    place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man
    nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate
    for ever.
63  And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book,
    thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the
    midst of the Euphrates:
64  And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall
    not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon
    her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the
    words of Jeremias.

        The Book of the Prophet Jeremias, Chapter 52
1   Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to
    reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the
    name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jerernias
    of Lobna.
2   And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord,
    according to all that Joakim had done.
3   For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and
    against Juda, till he cast t hem out from his presence:
    and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.
4   And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
    tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that
    Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his
    army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built
    forts against it round about.
5   And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king
    Sedecias.
6   And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a
    famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the
    people of the land.
7   And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and
    went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate
    that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's
    garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about, )
    sad they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.
8   But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and
    they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near
    Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from him.
9   And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the
    king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of
    Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
10  And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before
    his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.
11  And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with
    fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon,
    and he put him in prison till the day of his death.
12  And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the
    same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of
    Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army, who
    stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.
13  And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
    and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he
    burnt with fire.
14  And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the
    general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
15  But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of
    the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort who
    remained in the city, and of the fugitives that were fled
    over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
    multitude.
16  But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left
    some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.
17  The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that
    were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea
    of brass that was in the house of the Lord: and they
    carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18  And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the
    psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all
    the brazen vessels that had been used in the ministry: and
19  The general took away the pitchers, and the censers, and
    the pots, and the basins, and the candlesticks, and the
    mortars, and the cups: as many as were of gold, in gold:
    and as many as were of silver, in silver:
20  And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass
    that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in
    the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of
    all these vessels.
21  And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits
    high: and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but
    the thickness thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow
    within.
22  And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of
    one chapiter was five cubits: and network, and
    pomegranates were upon the chapiters round about, all of
    brass. The same of the second pillar, and the
    pomegranates.
23  And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and
    the pomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed
    with network.
24  And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and
    Sophonias the second priest, and the three keepers of the
    entry.
25  He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief
    over the men of war: and seven men of them that were near
    the king's person, that were found in the city: and a
    scribe, an officer of the army who exercised the young
    soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the land,
    that were found in the midst of the city.
26  And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to
    the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
27  And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death
    in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried
    away captive out of his land.
28  This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away
    captive : in the seventh year, three thousand and
    twenty-three Jews.
29  In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred
    and thirty-two souls from Jerusalem.
30  In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor,
    Nabuzardan the general carried away of the Jews seven
    hundred and forty-five souls. So all the souls were four
    thousand six hundred.
31  And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
    captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month,
    the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
    king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up
    the head of Joachin king of Juda, and brought him forth
    out of prison.
32  And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above
    the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
33  And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread
    before him always all the days of his life.
34  And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him by
    the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of
    his death, all the days of his life. 

 

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