Jeremiah

Chapter 1

1 The words of Jeremiah, son of Helkiah, A priests who lived in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.

2 The word of Yahweh came to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;
3 and it was so in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the deportation from Jerusalem in the fifth month.

4 The word of the Lord came to me in these words:
5 » Before you form in the womb of your mother, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.« 

6 And I said, »Ah, Lord Yahweh, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!« 

7 And Yahweh said to me, »Do not say, ‘I am a child,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall say all that I command you.
8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.« 

9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, »Behold, I put my words in your mouth;
10 See, I have appointed you this day over nations and kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to plant and to build.« 

11 And the word of Yahweh came to me addressed In these words: "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said: "I see an almond branch."» 

12 And Yahweh said to me, »You have seen correctly, for I am watching over my word to fulfill it.« 

13 And the word of the Lord came to me addressed a second time in these terms: "What do you see?" And I said: "I see a boiling pot, and it is coming from the north."» 

14 And Yahweh said to me:» It is of the north that Misfortune will spread to all the inhabitants of the country.
15 For behold, I am summoning all the families of the kingdoms of the north, declares the Lord. And they shall come, and each shall set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, before all its walls around it, and before all the cities of Judah.
16 And I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken me, and have offered incense to other gods and worshiped the work of their own hands.
17 And you, gird up your loins, arise and tell them all that I command you. Do not tremble before them, lest I cause you to tremble before them.
18 And I, behold, I establish you this day as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall, before all the land, before the kings of Judah, before its princes, before its priests, and before the people.
19 They will do to you the war, but they will not be able to Nothing upon you, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.« 

Chapter 2

1 The word of Yahweh came to me addressed in these terms:

2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: I have remembered the piety of your youth, the love of your betrothal, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

3 Israel was the thing consecrated to Yahweh, the firstfruits of his income; whoever ate of it was guilty; calamity fell upon him, — oracle of Yahweh.

4 Hear the word of the Lord, you house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel:
5 This is what the Lord says: What sin did your ancestors find in me, that they went far from me, followed worthless things, and became worthless themselves?

6 They did not say, »Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the dry and broken land, through the land of drought and the shadow of death, through the land where no one passes through and where no one lives?« 

7 And I brought you to a country similar to an orchard, to eat its fruits and goods, and, once you entered, you defiled my land, and made my inheritance an abomination.

8 The priests did not say, »Where is Yahweh?» The custodians of the law did not know me; the shepherds were unfaithful to me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal; and they followed those who are of no help.

9 Therefore I will again plead against you — declares the Lord — and I will plead against your children’s children.
10 Go over to the islands of Cetim and look; send to Cedar and observe carefully; and see if there is anything like it there.
11 Does a nation change its gods? — And yet they are not gods!… And my people have exchanged their glory for that which is worthless!

12 O heavens, be astonished, shudder with horror, and marvel, declares the Lord!
13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, Me, the source of fresh water, to dig cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not retain water.

14 Is Israel a slave? Is he born of a slave in the house? Why is he there? treaty like loot?
15 Against him the young lions roar, they raise their cries, and they lay his land in ruin. His cities are burned down, without inhabitants.
16 Even the sons of Noph and Taphnes shave your head!
17 Is this not happening to you because you abandoned Yahweh your God when he was directing you in the way?

18 And now what have you to do on the road to Egypt, for go drink the water of the Nile, and what have you to do on the road to Assyria, for go Drink the river water?

19 Your impiety chastises you and your rebellions punish you! Know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is that you have forsaken Yahweh your God and have no fear of me, — declares the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

20 For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, »I will serve no more!» For on every high hill and under your green tree you spread out, like a courtesan.

21 And I had planted you like a choice vine, whole from a pure stock. How then have you turned into a corrupt branch of a foreign vine?
22 Yes, even if you wash yourself with lye and lavish potash, your iniquity will be a stain before me, — oracle of the Lord Yahweh.

23 How can you say, »I have not defiled myself; I have not gone after the Baals»? Look the traces of Your steps in the Valley; acknowledge what you have done!

A light camel, crisscrossing its steps in every direction.,
24 The wild ass, accustomed to the desert, in the ardor of her passion, breathes in the air: who will prevent her from satisfying her desire? None of those who seek her need tire themselves; they find her in her month.

25 Take care that your foot does not become bare, and that your throat does not become parched! But you say, »It is useless!« No, for I love foreigners and I will go after them!« 

26 Just as a thief caught in the act is put to shame, so the house of Israel was confounded, along with their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to the wood, »You are my father,» and to the stone, »You gave birth to me.« 

For they have turned their backs on me, and not their faces, and in the time of their misfortune they say, »Arise and save us!« 
28 Where are the gods you made for yourself? Let them stand up, if they can To save you in the time of your misfortune! For as numerous as your cities are your gods, O Judah.

29 Why do you plead against me? You have all been unfaithful to me, — oracle of Yahweh.
30 It is in vain that I have struck your sons; they do not’in have not withdrawn instruction; your sword has devoured your prophets, like a destructive lion.

31 What a race you are! Consider the word of Yahweh: Have I been a desert to Israel, a land of thick darkness? Why did my people say, »We are free; we will not return to you«?« 
32 Does a virgin forget her jewelry, or a bride her sash? Yet my people have forgotten me for countless days!

33 How well you arrange your ways to seek love! For this, even with crime you make your ways familiar!

34 Even on the sides of your clothes, we find the blood of the poor innocents; you hadn't surprised them in offense of breaking and entering, but You killed them for all these things.

35 And you say, »Yes, I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.» Here I am to bring you to trial for what you say: »I have not sinned!« 

36 How hasty you are in changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt, as you were by Assyria.
37 From there you will also return with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you put your trust, and you will not succeed with them.

Chapter 3

1 It is said: When a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes the wife of another man, this man Will he ever return to her? Wouldn't this land truly be desecrated?

And you have prostituted yourself to many lovers; and you will return to me! — oracle of Yahweh.
2 Lift up your eyes to the heights and look: where have you not been defiled?... You sat for them on the roads, like the Arab in the desert!

And you have defiled the land by your prostitution and your wickedness;
3 The autumn showers were held back, the spring rains were lacking. But you had the brow of a courtesan, you refused to blush.

4 And now, do you not say to me: »My father, O you, friend of my youth! Will he always be angry,
5 Will he retain his wrath forever?» That is what you say, and you commit the crime and you consummate it.

6 Yahweh said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has prostituted herself there.
7 And I said, “After she has done all these things, she will return to me!” But she did not return. And her sister, treacherous Judah, saw that ;
8 And I saw that because of all her adulteries, I divorced faithless Israel and gave her a certificate of divorce; and her sister Judah the treacherous was not afraid, and she too went and prostituted herself.

9 By her loud immorality, she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
10 And besides all this her sister, treacherous Judah, has not returned to me with all her heart, but with lies, — oracle of Yahweh.

11 And Yahweh said to me: “Faithless Israel has proved itself righteous, compared to treacherous Judah.”.
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north and say: Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord; I will not show you my face severe, For I am merciful, declares the Lord, and I do not keep my anger forever.

13 Only acknowledge your guilt, for you have been unfaithful to Yahweh your God, and you have wasted your steps among foreigners under your green tree, and you have not listened to my voice, — oracle of Yahweh.

14 Return, faithless sons, — oracle of Yahweh, for I am your master; and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you into Zion.
15 And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will shepherd you with understanding and wisdom.

16 And when you have multiplied and prospered in the land in those days—declares the Lord—then people will no longer say, »The ark of the covenant of the Lord!» It will no longer come to mind, nor will it be remembered, nor will it be mourned, nor will it be made again. another one.

17 At that time Jerusalem will be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather there in Jerusalem in the name of the Lord, and they will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your fathers.

19 And I said, »How shall I place you among my children? And give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful jewel of the nations, as an inheritance?« And I said, “You shall call me ‘My Father,’ and you shall not cease to call me follow.
20 But as a woman betrays her lover, so you have been unfaithful to me, house of Israel, — oracle of Yahweh.

21 A cry is heard on the high places, the weeping of the children of Israel pleading for mercy; for they have perverted their way, forgotten Yahweh their God:

22 — Return, faithless sons, and I will heal your faithlessness.

 »Here we are, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.”.
23 Yes, It is in vain that resounded on the heights, on the mountains, the tumult idolatrous festivals. Yes, it is in Yahweh, our God, that the salvation of Israel lies.
24 Shame idols devoured from our youth the product of our fathers' labor, their sheep and their oxen, their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us! For It is against Yahweh, our God, that "We have sinned, we and our fathers, from our youth until this day; and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God.".

Chapter 4

1 If you wish to return, Israel—declares the Lord—return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my sight, you will no longer be a wanderer!

2 And if you swear »As the Lord lives!» in truth, in uprightness, and in justice, the nations will say, “Blessed are they in him,” and will glory in him.

3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Clear your fallow land, and do not sow among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath break out like fire and consume, with no one to quench it, because of the wickedness of your deeds.

5 Publish in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem; speak, sound the trumpet throughout the land; cry aloud and say, “Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities!”
6 Raise a standard toward Zion, save yourselves, do not stop!

For I am bringing calamity and great disaster from the north.
7 A lion leaps from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set up his tent, left his place, to make your land a desert; your cities will be desolate, without inhabitants.

8 Therefore put on sackcloth; weep and wail; for the fire of the Lord’s anger has not turned away from us.
9 On that day, declares the Lord, the heart will fail the king and the princes; the priests will be dismayed, and the prophets astonished.

10 And I said, »Ah! Lord Yahweh, you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, »You will have peace!’ when the sword will strike them dead!”
11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A scorching wind is coming from the desert hills onto the road who leads to the daughter of my people, not for winnowing, nor for cleaning;
12 A wind stronger than that which drives away the chaff is coming towards me.

Now, in my turn, I will pronounce their sentence.
13 Look, he is coming up like the clouds; his chariots are like the hurricane; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are lost!
14 Purify your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved; how long will your evil thoughts remain in your heart?
15 For a voice part From Dan she announces it; she proclaims the calamity from the mountain of Ephraim.
16 Do-THE inform the nations, announce-their misfortune from Jerusalem.

Besiegers are coming from a distant land; they are raising their cries against the cities of Judah.
17 Like the guardians of the fields, they surround Jerusalem ; for she has rebelled against me, — oracle of Yahweh.

18 This is what your conduct and your criminal acts have earned you; this the fruit of your wickedness, and it is bitter! Yes, it reaches to the heart!

19 My bowels! My bowels! I suffer in the innermost part of my heart! My heart is in turmoil; I cannot keep silent! For you hear; O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the war cry.
20 Ruin upon ruin is announced; for the whole land is devastated. All at once my tents are destroyed, in an instant my pavilions.
21 How long will I see the banner, hear the sound of the trumpet?...

22 My people are foolish! They do not know me; they are senseless children, without understanding; they are skilled at doing evil, but do not know how to do good.

23 I looked at the earth, and behold, it was formless and empty; at the heavens, and their light was gone.
24 I look at the mountains, and behold, they are shaking, and all the hills are swaying.
25 I looked, and behold, there was no man; and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the orchard has become a desert; and all its cities are destroyed before Yahweh, before the fire of his anger.

27 For thus says Yahweh: The whole land shall be desolate; however I will not destroy it entirely.
28 Because of this, the earth mourns, and the heavens above are darkened, because I L'’I said and that I L'’I have resolved, and I do not repent of it and I will not go back on it.
29 At the sound of the rider and the archer, the whole city fled; they went into the woods, they climbed onto the rocks; all the cities were abandoned, there were no more inhabitants.
30 And you, devastated one, what will you do? If you dress yourself in purple, if you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, if you line your eyes with rouge, it is in vain that you make yourself beautiful: your lovers despise you; it is your life they seek.
31 For I hear a voice like that of a woman in labor, cries of’anguish like that of a woman giving birth for the first time; the voice of the daughter of Zion, who groans and stretches out her hands: »Woe is me! For my soul is overcome by the blows Murderers!« 

Chapter 5

1 Go through the streets of Jerusalem and look around, find out; search in its public squares to see if you can find a man who practices justice and seeks loyaltyand I will do without the city.
2 Even when they say, »As the Lord lives!» they swear an oath to a lie.
3 Yahweh, your eyes do not search-they not loyalty You struck them, and they felt no pain; you destroyed them, and they refused to be instructed; they hardened their faces more than rock; they refused to return.
4 And I said, “These are only the little ones. They act foolishly, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.”.
5 So I will go to the great ones and speak to them; for they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God… But they too have all together broken the yoke, torn off the bonds!

6 Therefore the lion of the forest has struck them, the wolf of the desert ravages them; the panther lies in wait outside their cities, every man who comes out of them is torn to pieces; for their transgressions are many, and their rebellions have increased.
7 Why should I show you mercy? Your sons have forsaken me and swear by what is not God. I have satisfied their hunger, yet they have committed adultery; they go in droves to the house of the prostitute.
8 Well-fed, wandering stallions, each of them neighs at his neighbor's wife.
9 And I would not punish them for these crimes — oracle of Yahweh; and I would not take revenge on a nation like that!

10 Climb its walls and destroy it, but not entirely; remove its branches, for they do not belong to Yahweh!
11 For they have been completely unfaithful to me, the house of Israel and the house of Judah, — declares Yahweh.
12 They denied Yahweh and said, »He is not, and no disaster will come upon us; we will not see the sword or famine.
13 The prophets are but wind, and no one speaks through them: let it be done to them so!« 

14 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of hosts, says: Because you have spoken this word, I will put my word in your mouth like fire, and this people will be as wood and this fire will devour them.
15 Here I am, bringing a nation upon you who comes From afar, house of Israel, — oracle of Yahweh; it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, and you do not understand what it says.
16 His quiver is an open tomb; they are all heroes.
17 It will devour your harvest and your bread; it will devour your sons and your daughters; it will devour your sheep and your cattle; it will devour your vine and your fig tree; it will destroy with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.
18 But even in those days, declares the Lord, I will not utterly destroy you.

19 And when you say, »Why, what reason Has Yahweh, our God, done all these things to us?» You shall say to them, »Just as you have forsaken me to serve a foreign god in your land, so you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.»

20 Announce this in the house of Jacob; and publish it in Judah, saying:
21 Listen to this, you foolish and heartless people! They have eyes but do not see, and ears but do not hear!
22 Will you not fear me? declares the Lord. Will you not tremble before me, I who have set the sand as a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross? Its waves may surge, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot overtake it.
23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they turn back and go away.
24 They do not say in their hearts, »Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the early rain and the latter rain in its season, And who keeps us safe during the weeks designated for harvest.« 
25 Your iniquities have disrupted this order; your sins deprive you of these goods.
26 For there are wicked people among my people; they lie in wait like a fowler who crouches, they set traps and catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they become powerful and rich;
28 They grow fat, they shine.

They even exceed the measure of evil; they do not do justice, justice to the orphan… and they prosper!… They do not do justice to the unfortunate.
29 And I would not punish these crimes — oracle of Yahweh; and I would not take vengeance on a nation such as that!…
30 Abominable, horrible things are happening in the country.
31 The prophets prophesy lies, and the priests rule in agreement with them! And my people love it so! And what will you do at the end of All that ?

Chapter 6

1 Flee, children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekua, and raise signals in Beth-carem! For disaster is coming from the north, and great destruction.
2 The beautiful and voluptuous one, I will destroy her, the daughter of Zion!
3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to it; they will pitch their tents around it; each will graze in his own area.
4 Inaugurate the battle against her: rise up, let us mount the assault at midday! Woe to us, for the day is waning, the shadows of evening are lengthening.
5 Arise, let us climb by night, and destroy his palace!
6 For thus says Yahweh of hosts: Cut down her trees, raise siege ramps against Jerusalem; she is the city to be punished, there is nothing but injustice within her.
7 As a well brings forth its waters, so she brings forth her wickedness. n’he hears that violence and ruin; wounds and injuries there are constantly in front of my face.
8 Amend yourself, Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you, lest I make of you a desert, an uninhabited land.
9 This is what the Lord Almighty says: The remnant of Israel will be gleaned like a vine; dishes and put your hand back, as do the grape harvester with the vine shoots.

10 To whom can I speak, to whom can I plead so that he may hear me? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot pay attention. Behold, the word of the Lord has become to them a reproach; and they take no pleasure in it.
11 But I am filled with the anger of the Lord; I am weary of holding it back. Pour it out on the child in the street and on the gathering of young men! For husband and wife, all will be taken, as well as the old man and the man burdened with days.
12 Their houses will pass to others, their fields and their wives as well; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, — oracle of Yahweh.
13 For from the least to the greatest, all give themselves over to robbery, and from the prophet to the priest, all practice falsehood.
14 They treat lightly the wound of the daughter of my people, saying, “Peace, peace!” when there is no peace.
15 They will be put to shame, for they have committed abominations; but they no longer know how to blush, nor do they know shame! Therefore they will fall among those who fall; they will be cast down on the day I visit them, says the Lord.

16 This is what the Lord says: »Stand at the roads and see; ask about the ancient paths; what is the way of salvation? Walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.’ But they replied, “We have not’y We won't walk!« 
17 I have posted watchmen near you: »Listen to the sound of the trumpet!» But they replied, »We will not listen!« 
18 Therefore, listen, you nations; know, you assembly of peoples, what will happen to them;
19 Earth, listen: Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts; for they have not heeded my words; and they have rejected my law.
20 What to me is incense from Sheba or precious reeds from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not pleasing to me, your sacrifices are not acceptable.
21 Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I am going to put stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons will stumble over them together, and both inhabitant and neighbor will perish.”.
22 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, a people will come from the land of the north, and a great nation will arise from the ends of the earth.

23 They wield the bow and the javelin; they are cruel and without pity, their voice roars like the sea; they are mounted on horses, ready to fight like a alone man, against you, daughter of Zion.
24 At the news of their approach, our hands went weak, anguish seized us, the pains of a woman giving birth.
25 Do not go out into the fields, do not go on the roads; for the enemy has the sword, and terror reigns all around.
26 Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, roll in the ashes, mourn as for an only son, make bitter lamentations; for suddenly the destroyer comes upon us.

27 I have appointed you among my people as a tester, a fortress, so that you may know and test their ways.
28 They are all rebels among rebels; they spread slander; they are copper and iron; all are corrupt.
29 The bellows have become prey to the fire, the lead is exhausted; in vain one purifies, one purifies; the wicked do not detach themselves.
30 »Rubbish money!» they will say; for Yahweh has rejected them.

Chapter 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

2 »Stand at the door of the house of Yahweh, and there speak this word and say:

Listen to the word of Yahweh, all you men of Judah, who enter through these gates to worship Yahweh.
3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Amend your ways and your works, and I will make you dwell in this place.
4 Do not trust lying words of those who say, "This is the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh!"» 

5 But if you improve your ways and your works, if you faithfully administer justice between a man and his neighbor;
6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow, if you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go to other gods, to your own harm:
7 Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old and forever.

8 But now you trust in lying words, which do you no good!
9 What! Stealing, killing, committing adultery, swearing falsely, offering incense to Baal, and going after other gods that you do not know!…
10 And you come, you present yourselves before me, in this house which is called by my name, and you say, »We shall escape!» and It is in order to commit all these abominations!
11 Is this house, which bears my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? I too have seen it, declares the Lord.

12 Go now to my dwelling place which was in Shiloh, where I formerly caused my name to dwell, and see what I have done to it, because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, since you have done all these things—declares the Lord—and I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not listened, and I have called to you, and you have not answered,
14 I will do to this house, which is called by my name, in which you put your trust, and to this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh;
15 and I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

16 And you, do not intercede for this people; do not raise up a complaint or a prayer for them, and do not urge me, for I will not listen to you.
17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, women They knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and pour libations to other gods, in order to offend me.
19 Is it me they are offending, declares the Lord, or are they not offending themselves, to the shame of their countenance?

20 Therefore this is what the Lord Yahweh says: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the tree of the field and on the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.

21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat—in the flesh;
22 for I did not speak to your fathers nor did I command them anything on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

23 But as for the commandment that I gave them, I said to them: Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk in all the ways that I will command you, so that you may prosper.

24 But they did not listen, nor did they pay attention, and they walked according to their own counsels, according to the hardness of their evil hearts; they are went backwards, not forwards.
25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, sending them out every morning;
26 But they did not listen to me, they did not pay attention; they stiffened their necks, they did worse than their fathers.

27 You will tell them all these things, but they will not listen to you; you will call them, but they will not answer you.
28 Then you shall say to them: This is the nation that did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, their God, and did not accept instruction; loyalty It perished; it disappeared from his mouth.

29 Shave your hair, and throw awaythere ; and raises a lament on the heights, for Yahweh has scorned and rejected the race object of his anger.
30 For the sons of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord; they have set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, in order to defile it;
31 and they built the high places of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, which I had not commanded, and which had not entered my mind.

32 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no longer be called Topheth, nor Valley of the son of Hinnom, but Valley of Slaughter, and in Topheth they will be buried because there is no room.
33 And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, with no one to THE to hunt.
34 And I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, the singing of bridegroom and the singing of bride, for the land will have become a desert.

Chapter 8

1 At that time, — oracle of Yahweh, the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.
2 They shall be spread out before the sun and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they loved and served, after which they walked, whom they consulted and whom they worshiped; and these bones shall not be gathered, nor buried, but shall become fertilizer on the face of the earth.
3 And death will be preferred to life by all who remain of this wicked race, in all the places where I have driven them, — oracle of Yahweh of armies.

4 Say to them: This is what the Lord says: Do we fall and not get up again? Do we wander and not return?
5 Why then does this people of Jerusalem go astray continually? They cling tightly to lies; they refuse to return!

6 I paid attention and listened: they do not speak as they ought; no one repents of their wickedness, saying, »What have I done?» They all resume their course, like a horse that rushes into battle.

7 Even the stork in the air knows its season; the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their return; but my people do not know the law of Yahweh.

8 How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us”? — Behold, the lying style of the scribes has made it a lie!
9 The wise men are confounded, dismayed, and taken captive; behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what wisdom do they have?...

10 Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to others.’others possessors; for from the least to the greatest, all give themselves over to plunder; and from the prophet to the priest, all practice falsehood.
11 They treat lightly the wound of the daughter of my people, saying, »Peace, peace!» when there is no peace.
12 They will be put to shame, for they have committed abominations. But they no longer even know how to blush, nor do they know shame. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; they will be brought low on the day I visit them, says the Lord.

13 I will gather them up and carry them away, declares the Lord. There will be no more grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf even is withered! And I gave them people who will invade their country.

14 Why are we sitting here? Gather together and let us go to the fortified cities, and there we will perish! For the Lord our God is destroying us and giving us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord!
15 We were waiting peace, And there is nothing good; the time for healing, and behold, terror!

16 From Dan, the snorting of his horses is heard; at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, the whole earth trembles; they come, they devour the land and what is in it, the city and its inhabitants.
17 For behold, I am sending serpents among you, asps against which there is no enchantment; they will bite you, — oracle of Yahweh.

18 O my consolation in my Pain! My heart aches within me.
19 Behold, the cry of distress of the daughter of my people happens to me from a distant land: »Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her king no longer in her midst?» — Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with the vanities of foreigners?
20 »The harvest is over, the reaping is finished, and we are not delivered!»

21 I am grieved by the grieving of the daughter of my people; I mourn; terror has seized me.
22 Is there no more balm of Gilead, no more physician to be found there? Why then has no bandage been put on the daughter of my people?

23 Who will turn my head into waters, and my eyes into a spring of tears, so that I may weep night and day for the slain of the daughter of my people?

Chapter 9

1 Who will give me shelter in the desert for travelers? I will abandon my people and withdraw from them, for they are all adulterers, an assembly of unbelievers.

2 They bend their tongues like their bows, to uncheck the lie; it is not by the truth that they are powerful in the land, for they go from sin to sin; and they do not know me, — oracle of Yahweh.

3 Each of you should beware of your friends, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother only supplants, and every friend goes about spreading slander.
4 They deceive one another; they do not tell the truth; they train their tongues to lie; they study to do evil.
5 You dwell in the midst of bad faith; it is through bad faith that they refuse to know me, — oracle of Yahweh.

6 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am going to refine them and test them; for what else can I do?” something else with the daughter of my people?
7 It is a deadly dart that their language; it born profess that lies; with their mouths they say, "Peace to his neighbor," but in their hearts they lay traps for him.
8 And I would not punish them for all these crimes, — oracle of Yahweh, and I would not take revenge on a nation like that!

9 On the mountains I will cause a sound of mourning and lamentation, on the desert pastures a song of mourning! For they are burned up so that no one passes through them; the sound of flocks is no longer heard there; from the birds of the air to the cattle, all They fled, they disappeared.

10 And I will make heaps of Jerusalem stones, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolate place, where no one lives.

11 Who is the wise man who can understand these things? Who is the one to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, to declare them? Why is the land destroyed, burned up like a desert where no one passes through?

12 And Yahweh said: It is because they have forsaken my law, which I had set before them, that they have not listened to my voice and have not followed it.
13 But they walked according to the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, whom their fathers taught them.

14 Therefore this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: »I am going to feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
15 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword against them until I have exterminated them.

16 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Command the mourners, and let them come! Send to the most skilled, and let them come!”
17 Let them hasten, let them raise a lamentation over us; let tears flow from our eyes, and let weeping stream from our eyelids!

18 For a sound of lamentation has been heard in Zion: »How we are devastated and put to shame, to the point of abandoning the land, because our homes have been torn down!« 
19 Women, therefore, listen to the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word from his mouth! Teach your daughters a lament, and each one of your companions a song of mourning.
20 For death has come up through our windows and entered our palaces, to sweep away the child from the street and the young men from the public squares.

21 Speak: Thus… — oracle of Yahweh: The corpse of man shall fall like dung on a field, and like sheaves behind the reaper, with no one to gather it up.

22 Thus says Yahweh: Let not the wise boast of their wisdom, nor the strong boast of their strength, nor the rich boast of their riches.
23 But let the one who boasts boast in this: that they understand and know me. For I am the Lord, who exercises mercy, justice and righteousness on earth; for this is what I desire, — oracle of Yahweh.

24 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all the circumcised along with the uncircumcised.”
25 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all those who shave their temples, who live in the desert; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.

Chapter 10

1 Listen to the word that the Lord is speaking to you, O house of Israel:
2 This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the ways of the nations, nor be terrified at the signs of heaven, as the nations are terrified at them;
3 For the customs of the nations are worthless; they are like wood cut from the forest, the work of a sculptor's hand, shaped with the scissors,
4 that are decorated with silver and gold.

It is fixed with nails using hammer blows, so that it does not move.
5 These gods are like a pillar made on a lathe; for they are carried, they do not walk. Do not fear them: they do no harm; they can do no good.

6 There is no one like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in power.
7 Who would not fear you, King of the nations! It is to you that the fear is due. For, among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you.

8 Together they are stupid and foolish; a teaching of vanity; it's all wood!
9 Beaten silver brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz; the work of sculpture and the hand of a goldsmith! They are clothed in purple, violet, and red; all are the work of artists.

10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God and the eternal King; at his anger the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure his wrath.

11 This is how you are to speak to them: »The gods who did not make heaven and earth shall be cut off from the earth and from under heaven.« 

12 He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
13 At his voice, the waters gather in the heavens; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning flash from the’downpour, and forces the wind out of its reservoirs.

14 Every man is senseless and foolish; every craftsman is ashamed of his idol, for his cast image is a lie; there is no breath in it.
15 It is vanity, a work of deception; on the day of their punishment it will perish.

16 Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He is the one who formed the universe, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; His name is Yahweh of hosts.

17 Gather your belongings from the ground, you who are under siege!
18 For this is what the Lord says: This time I am going to throw the inhabitants of the land far away; I will press them close, so that the enemy reach.

19 Woe is me because of my bruise! My wound is painful; but I THE Say: "Yes, this is my affliction, and I will bear it.".
20 My tent is devastated, all my ropes are broken; my sons have left me, they are no more; I have no one left to repair my tent, to raise my pennants.« 

21 Ah! the shepherds are foolish; they did not seek Yahweh; therefore they did not prosper, and all their flock was scattered.
22 A noise, a rumor! Here it comes, a great tumult arrived from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desert, a haunt of jackals.

23 I know it, O Yahweh, This does not belong to man which belongs It is not for the man who walks to direct his steps; it is not for him to choose his path.
24 Chastise me, Yahweh, but according to justice, and not in your anger, to reduce me to nothing.

25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, on the peoples that do not call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured him, they are finishing him off, and they are laying waste his dwelling place.

Chapter 11

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

2 Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
3 And you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
4 that I commanded your fathers on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying to them, Obey my voice and do these things, according to all that I command you, and you shall be my people and I will be your God,
5 so that I may fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as It's obvious. today. And I answered, "Yes! Yahweh!"» 

6 And Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant and put them into practice.
7 For I have earnestly warned your fathers from the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt until this day; I have continually warned them, saying, Obey my voice.
8 But they neither listened nor paid attention; each of them walked according to the stubbornness of his evil heart. And I carried out upon them all the words of this covenant, which I their had prescribed observance, and they did not observe it.

9 Yahweh said to me: A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to listen to my words, and have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.

11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I am going to bring disasters on them from which they cannot escape; and even if they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.”.
12 And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go to invoke the gods to whom they offer incense; but these gods will certainly not save them in the time of their calamity.
13 For as numerous as your cities, are your gods, O Judah, and as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem, are the altars you have erected to a shameful idol, the altars that you have drawn up to incense Baal.

14 And you, do not intercede for this people, and do not raise up any supplication or prayer on their behalf; for I will not listen when they call upon me in the time of their calamity.
15 What does my beloved have to do in my house? Deceit? Will vows and sacred flesh take away your sorrows, so that you may give yourself over to joy?
16 A green olive tree, adorned with beautiful fruit: that was the name the Lord had given you. With a great crash, he set it on fire, and its branches were broken.
17 Yahweh of hosts, who had planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the sin of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they committed to provoke me to anger, by incense to Baal.

18 Yahweh informed me of it, and I knew it;… then you made their works known to me!
19 I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter, and I did not know that they were plotting against me: »Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! Let us cut it off from the land of the living, so that its name will be remembered no more!« 

20 But the Lord Almighty judges with justice; he searches the hearts and minds; I will see the vengeance you will pull from them, because it is to you that I have entrusted my cause.
21 Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the men of Anathoth who are seeking your life and who say, »Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand!« 
22 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: I will punish them; their young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die of hunger.
23 None of them will escape; for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth in the year I visit them.

Chapter 12

1 You are too just, O Yahweh; for me to argue with you; I only want to speak justice with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper?; Why Do all the treacherous live in peace?
2 You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bear fruit; you are near their mouths, but far from their hearts.

3 And you, Yahweh, know me, you see me, and you search me that My heart East for you. Take them away like sheep, for the slaughter; consign them to the day of slaughter!
4 How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, livestock and birds perish; for they say, »He will not see our end!« 
5 If you run with foot soldiers and they tire you out, how will you compete with horsemen? If you need a land of peace to trust in, what will you do against the lions of the Jordan?
6 For even your brothers and your father’s house are betraying you; they are shouting after you loudly; do not trust them when they speak good words to you.

7 I left my home, I abandoned my inheritance, I delivered the object of my love into the hands of my enemies.
8 My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; it has raised its voice against me; therefore I have come to hate it.
9 Is my inheritance a mottled vulture, against which the vultures melt From all sides? Come, gather all the beasts of the field, bring them to the slaughter!

10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, trampled my possessions underfoot; they have turned the lot that was dear to me into a desert, into a desolate wasteland.
11 They have made it a ruin; devastated, it mourns before me; the whole land is ravaged, for no one has taken it to heart.
12 On all the hills of the desert the destroyers come; for the Yahweh has a sword that devours from one end of the land to the other; there is no salvation for all flesh.

13 They sowed wheat, they reap thorns; they spent their strength, but without profit. Be ashamed of what you harvest! that's the effect from the fierce anger of Yahweh.

14 This is what the Lord says concerning all my wicked neighbors who attack the inheritance I gave to my people Israel: I am going to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
15 But after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each to their inheritance, each to their own country.
16 And if they learn the ways of my people, swearing by my name, »As the Lord lives!«, just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, they shall be established among my people.
17 But if they do not listen, I will uproot this nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the Lord.

Chapter 13

1 This is what the Lord said to me: »Go and buy yourself a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not put it in the water.« 
2 And I bought myself the belt, according to the word of Yahweh, and I put it around my waist.
3 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying:
4 »Take the belt you bought and that is around your waist; get up, go to the Euphrates, and there hide it in a crevice in the rock.« 
5 I went and hid it near the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me.
6 And after many days Yahweh said to me, »Get up, go to the Euphrates, and there take the belt which I commanded you to hide there.«.
7 I went to the Euphrates, dug, and retrieved the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was lost, it was no longer good for anything.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

9 This is what the Lord says: This is how I will destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This wicked people who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their heart and go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this belt, which is no longer good for anything.
11 For as the belt is fastened around a man's waist, so I had fastened all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah to myself—declares the Lord—that they might be to me a people, a name, an honor, and a glory; but they did not listen!

12 And you shall say to them, »Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Every jar must be filled with wine.» They shall answer you, »Do we not know that every jar must be filled with wine?« 
13 And you shall say to them: »Thus says Yahweh: I am going to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on the throne of David, the priests and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
14 And I will break them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord; I will not spare, I will not have compassion, I will not have pity, lest I destroy them.

15 Listen, pay attention, do not be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
16 Give glory to Yahweh your God before darkness comes, before your feet stumble on the mountains of the night, before he turns the light you expect into a shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
17 If you do not listen to this, my soul will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for Jacob's flock will be taken captive.

18 Tell the king and queen: Sit on the ground, for your crown of glory has fallen from your head.
19 The cities of the south are closed, and no one opens them; all Judah is deported; the deportation is complete.
20 Lift up your eyes and see those who are coming from the north: Where is the flock that was given to you, the sheep that were your glory?

21 What will you say when Yahweh will give you as masters those whom you have instructed against you — your Familiar? Will not pains seize you, like a woman giving birth?
22 And if you say in your heart, »Why these misfortunes "Are they happening to me?... "It is because of the multitude of your iniquities that the tails of your robe have been lifted up, that your heels have been bruised.

23 Will an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard its spots? And you, who have been taught to do evil, could you do good?
24 I will scatter them like chaff that blows away, before the breath of the desert wind.
25 This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you — oracle of Yahweh, because you have forgotten me, and have trusted in falsehood.
26 And I too will lift up the skirts of your robe over your face, and your shame will be seen.
27 Your adulteries, your neighing, your shameless prostitution on the hills in the open country—all your abominations I have seen. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?

Chapter 14

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

2 Judah mourns; her gates languish; they lie desolate on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem rises.
3 The big ones send the little ones seek water; these go to the cisterns, they do not find water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confused, they cover their heads.
4 Because of the cracked ground, because there has been no rain on the land, the plowmen are confused, they cover their heads.
5 Even the doe in the countryside gives birth and abandons her young, because there is no grass.
6 The onagers stand on the heights, sucking in the air like jackals; their eyes are dull, because there is no greenery.

7 If our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the honor of your name; for our infidelities are many; we have sinned against you.
8 O you, the hope of Israel, its deliverer in times of distress, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who pitches his tent there for the night?
9 Why should you be like a man in despair, like a mighty warrior unable to deliver? Yet you dwell in our midst, Yahweh; your name is invoked upon us; do not forsake us!
10 This is what the Lord says concerning this people: Yes, they love to wander about, and they do not restrain their feet. The Lord no longer takes pleasure in them; he will now remember their iniquities and punish their sins.

11 And Yahweh said to me, »Do not intercede for this people.
12 When they fast, I will not listen to their pleas; when they offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.« 
13 And I answered, »Ah, Lord Yahweh, behold, the prophets say to them, «You will not see the sword, nor will you have famine; but I will give you sure peace in this place.’” 
14 Then the Lord said to me, »The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them, nor have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, and the deceit of their own minds.« 

15 Therefore this is what the Lord says: Concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I have not sent them, and who say, »There will be no sword or famine in this land!»… Those prophets will surely perish by the sword and by famine!
16 And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and of the sword, and there will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will pour out on them their wickedness.
17 And you shall say to them this word: My eyes will overflow with tears night and day, without ceasing; for the virgin, daughter of my people, is about to be struck by a great disaster, by a very painful wound.
18 If I go into the fields, here men that the sword has pierced; if I enter the city, behold the pains of hunger. The prophet himself and the priest are wandering, towards a land they did not know.

19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We were waiting peace, and he did not come Nothing good; the time for healing, and here comes the terror.
20 We acknowledge, O Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.
21 For your name’s sake, do not despise, do not profane your glorious throne; remember, do not break your covenant with us.
22 Among the worthless idols of the nations, is there any that can make it rain? Is it the heavens that can send down showers? Is it not you, Yahweh, our God? We put our hope in you, for it is you who do all these things.

Chapter 15

1 Yahweh answered me: Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my soul would not turn toward this people; drive them out from before my face, and let them depart!
2 And if they say to you, »Where shall we go?» you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord: He who is destined for death, to death; he who is destined for the sword, to the sword; he who is destined for famine, to famine; and he who is destined for captivity, to captivity.”.
3 And I will raise up four families against them of plagues, — oracle of Yahweh: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4 I will make it an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

5 Who then will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn away? of his route To find out about your condition?

6 You have rejected me, declares the Lord, to withdraw; and I will stretch out my hand against you to destroy you; I am weary of showing mercy.
7 I will winnow them with the winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I will bereave them of their children, I will destroy my people; they do not turn from their ways.
8 His widows will be more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring them, upon the mother of the young warrior, the destroyer at midday; I will suddenly bring down upon her anguish and terror.
9 The mother of the seven sons feels faint, she is about to die; her sun sets while it is still day; she is ashamed and disgraced. Those who remain I will give up to the sword before their enemies, declares the Lord.

10 Woe is me, O my mother, because you bore me, to be a man of strife and contention to all the land. I have lent nothing, and they have lent me nothing, and everyone curses me.

11 Yahweh says: Yes, I will establish you for your own good; I will certainly bring you your enemy begging you, in times of misfortune and distress.

12 Will iron break the iron of the north and the bronze?
13 I will give your goods and your treasures to plunder, without payment, for all your sins and throughout all your territory;
14 and I THE I will send you and your enemies into a land you do not know; for a fire has been kindled in my anger; it will burn upon you.

15 You know, Yahweh! Remember me, take care of me, and avenge me on my persecutors; do not take me away, in your patience towards them, Know that it is for you that I bear the shame!
16 As soon as your words came, I devoured them; they became my joy, and the gladness of my heart; for your name was invoked upon me, Yahweh, God of hosts.
17 I did not sit in the assembly of the laughers, to indulge in gaiety; under your hand, I sat alone, for you had filled me with wrath.
18 Why is my suffering endless, and my painful wound resistant to healing? Would you be to me like a stream Deceptive, like waters that cannot be relied upon?

19 Therefore Yahweh says thus: If you return to me, I will restore you to stand in my presence; and if you utter the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth; they shall return to you, and you shall not return to them.
20 I will make you a strong wall of bronze for this people; they will make you the war, but they will not be able to do anything to you; for I will be with you to help you and to deliver you, — oracle of Yahweh.
21 I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from the hand of the violent.

Chapter 16

1 The word of Yahweh came to me addressed in these terms:

2 You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

3 For this is what the Lord says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning the mothers who give birth to them, and concerning the fathers who beget them, in this land:
4 They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be given mourning or burial; they will be like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

5 For thus says Yahweh: Do not enter the house of mourning; do not go and weep and wail with them; for I have withdrawn my peace from this people, declares Yahweh, my grace and my compassion.
6 Great and small will die in this land; there will be no burial for them nor tears; no one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them.
7 They shall not be broken bread mourning, to comfort them concerning the dead, and they will not be given the cup of consolation to drink, for a father and for a mother.

8 Do not go into the house of the feast to sit with them, to eat and drink.
9 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: I will put an end in this place, before your very eyes and in your days, to the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the song of bridegroom and the song of bride.
10 When you tell this people all these things, they will say to you, »Why has the Lord announced all these great calamities to us? What is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?« 
11 And you shall say to them, »It is because your fathers forsook me, declares the Lord; and went after other gods, and served and worshiped them, and forsook me, and did not keep my law.
12 And you have done more evil than your fathers, and behold, each of you goes after the perversity of your evil heart, not listening to me.
13 I will drive you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve foreign gods night and day; for I will show you no mercy.« 

14 Therefore, behold, the days are coming—declares the Lord—when it will no longer be said, »As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;« 
15 But: »As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them,» I will bring them back to the land I gave to their ancestors.

16 “Behold, I will summon many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they shall catch them. And after that, I will summon many hunters, and they shall hunt them down from every mountain and hill and from the clefts of the rocks.”.

17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
18 First, I will pay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled my land; they have filled my inheritance with the corpses of their idols and their abominations.

19 Yahweh, my strength, my fortress and my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth and say: Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless vanities.
20 Is it possible? That a man should create gods for himself? And they are not gods!

21 Therefore, behold, I will make known to them, this time, I will make known to them my hand and my power, and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.

Chapter 17

1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, with a diamond point, it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts, and on the horns of your altars.
2 As they remember their children, that is how they remember from their altars and their Asherahs, near the green trees, on the high hills.

3 O my mountain who are in the plain, I will plunder your possessions, all your treasures, your high places, because of your sins throughout your territory.
4 You will leave your inheritance, which I gave you, fallow, and through your own fault; I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know; for you have kindled the fire of my anger, and it burns forever.

5 This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, who makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord!
6 He is like a heather in the heath; he does not rejoice when happiness comes; he will occupy the scorched places in the desert, a salt land where no one dwells.

7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and in the Lord is his trust!
8 He is like a tree planted by the waters, which sends out its roots by the stream; it does not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green; it is not anxious about the year of drought, and does not cease to bear fruit.

9 The heart is crafty above all things and corrupt: who can know it?
10 I, Yahweh, search the hearts and test the minds, to reward each person according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds.

11 A partridge hatches eggs it did not lay; so is the one who acquires riches unjustly; in the middle of his days he will forsake them, and at his end he is but a fool.

12 Throne of glory, eternal height, place of our sanctuary,
13 Hope of Israel, Yahweh, all who forsake you shall be put to shame! Those who turn away from me shall be written in the dust; for they have forsaken the spring of living waters, Yahweh.

14 Heal me, Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say to me, »Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come!« 

16 And I have not refused to be a shepherd in your footsteps; I have not desired the day of misfortune, you know; what came out of my lips was present in your presence.

17 Do not be to me a because of ruin; you are my refuge in the day of trouble!
18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but let me not be put to shame! Let them tremble, but let me not tremble! Bring upon them the day of calamity, and shatter them with a double breach.

19 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter and go out, and at all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 and you shall say to them: Hear the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all you inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter through these gates.

21 Thus says Yahweh: Take heed to yourselves, and do not carry burdens on the Sabbath day, nor bring them through the gates of Jerusalem.
22 Do not carry out any burdens from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work. And keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

23 They did not listen or pay attention; they stiffened their necks so as not to listen; and not to receive instruction.

24 If you listen to me obediently—declares the Lord—by not bringing any burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and by keeping the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work… day-there,
25 Then through the gates of this city shall enter kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding on chariots and horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall be inhabited forever.
26 People will come from the towns of Judah and the region around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of’giving thanks in the house of Yahweh.

27 But if you do not listen to me by keeping the Sabbath day holy, by not carrying any burden when you enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates of the city, and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.

Chapter 18

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah by Yahweh, in these terms:
2 »Get up and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will tell you my word.« 

3 I went down to the potter's house; and behold, he was doing her book about wheels.
4 And the vase he was making failed, as he arrives at the clay in the potter's hand; and he made another vessel, as it seemed good in the potter's eyes to do.

5 And the word of Yahweh came to me addressed in these terms:
6 Can I not do to you as this potter did, O house of Israel? — declares the Lord. Yes, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so you are in my hand, O house of Israel.
7 Sometimes I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to uproot, to tear down, and to destroy.
8 But if this nation, against which I have spoken, turns from its wickedness, then I will relent of the evil that I had resolved to do to it.
9 Sometimes I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, about building and planting.
10 But this nation If she does what is wrong in my eyes, by not listening to my voice, then I repent of the good I said I would do for her.

11 Now therefore speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am plotting disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Therefore turn, each of you, from your evil ways, and reform your ways and your works.
12 But they say, »It’s no use! We will follow our own thoughts, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil hearts.« 

13 Therefore this is what the Lord says: Ask the nations: Who has ever heard of such a thing? The virgin of Israel has committed horrible abominations!
14 Does she leave the rock of the plain, the snow of Lebanon? Do we see the waters that come from afar, fresh and flowing, dry up?
15 But my people have forgotten me; they offer incense to nothing. The idols make them stumble in their ways, the paths of yesteryear, to follow trails, an untrodden road;
16 To make their country a desolation, an object of perpetual mockery; all who pass through it will be astonished; and shake their heads.
17 Like the east wind, I will scatter them before the enemy; I will show them my back and not my face, on the day of their disaster.

18 And they said, »Come, let us plot against Jeremiah; for the law will not perish with the priest, nor counsel with the wise, nor the word of God to the prophet! Come, let us strike him with our tongues, and let us not listen to any of his words.« 

19 Give me your ear, Yahweh, and hear the voice of my adversaries!
20 Shall evil be repaid for good? Shall they dig a pit for my soul? Remember how I stood before you, to speak to you on their behalf, to turn away your anger from them.
21 Therefore, give their children over to famine, and abandon them to the edge of the sword! Let their wives lose their children and their husbands; let their men die by pestilence, and let their young men be struck down by the sword in battle!
22 Let their cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring armed bands against them! For they have dug a pit to capture me, and they have hidden nets before my feet.
23 But you, Yahweh, know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, do not blot out their sin from your sight; let them bow down before you; deal with them in the time of your anger!

Chapter 19

1 Thus says Yahweh: Go, buy yourself a potter's jug; take with you elders of the people and elders from among the priests.
2 And go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate, and there you shall proclaim the words that I shall tell you.

3 You shall say: Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing disaster on this place, such that the ears of all who hear of it will ring;
4 because they have abandoned me, alienated this place, offered incense to foreign gods which neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah knew, and filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
5 They built the high places of Baal, to consume their children by fire as a burnt offering to Baal, things that I had neither commanded nor spoken of, and which had not entered my heart.

6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, nor the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7 I will render vain in this place the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem; I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives; and I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city an object of horror and derision; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will laugh at all its bruises.
9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; they will eat the flesh of one another, in the anguish and distress to which their enemies and those who seek their lives will reduce them.

10 Then you shall break the pitcher in the sight of the men who came with you,
11 and you shall say to them: Thus says Yahweh of armies: I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which can no longer be repaired, and they shall be buried in Topheth, for there is no place to bury.
12 This is what I will do to this place, — declares the Lord, — and to its inhabitants, by making this city like Topheth.
13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be like this place of Topheth, defiled: all the houses on the roofs of which incense has been offered to all the host of heaven and libations poured out to foreign gods.

14 Jeremiah returned from Topheth where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and standing in the court of the Lord’s house, he said to all the people:
15 »This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: «I am going to bring on this city and all the towns around it all the disasters I have announced against it, because they have stiffened their necks and have not obeyed my words.’” 

Chapter 20

1 The priest Phashu, son of Emmer, who was chief overseer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah utter these prophecies.
2 And Phashus struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which is in the house of Yahweh.
3 The next day, Phashr brought Jeremiah out of the stocks, and Jeremiah said to him, »Yahweh is no longer calling you Phashr, but Magor-Missabib.

4 For this is what the Lord says: I am about to deliver you and all your friends into terror; they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will also deliver all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them off to Babylon as captives and put them to the sword.
5 I will deliver all the riches of this city, all its produce, all its precious objects, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah, into the hands of their enemies; and they will plunder them, take them away, and carry them off to Babylon.
6 And you, Phassur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity; you shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die, there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you prophesied the lie.

7 You have seduced me, Yahweh, and I have been seduced; you have overpowered me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
8 For every time I speak, I cry out, I announce violence and devastation, and the word of Yahweh is to me reproach and derision all day long.
9 I said, »I will not mention him anymore, I will not speak in his name anymore…» There was in my heart as it were a consuming fire shut up in my bones; I tried to contain it, and I could not.
10 For I heard the malicious talk of the crowd: »Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!» All those with whom I was at peace are watching my every move: »If he is seduced, we will prevail against him and take revenge on him.« 

11 But the Lord is with me like a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be ashamed of their failure, of an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.
12 Yahweh of hosts, you who test the righteous; who see the hearts and minds, I will see the vengeance that you will take from them, for it is to you that I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the afflicted from the hand of the wicked.

14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, »A male child is born to you!» and filled him with joy!
16 May this man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without repenting! May he hear in the morning the cry the vanquished, and at noon the shouts winners!
17 Because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother might be my tomb, or that her womb might keep me forever!
18 Why did I come from her womb, to see pain and sorrow, and to spend my days in shame?

Chapter 21

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when King Zedekiah sent to him Phassur son of Melkiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maasiah, to tell him:
2 »Please inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, is waging war against us; perhaps the Lord will repeat all his great miracles in our favor, so that he will depart from us.« 

3 Jeremiah answered them, “This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:
4 This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are fighting outside the walls against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you, and I will gather them in the middle of the city;
5 And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great indignation.
6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both men and beasts, and they will die of a great plague.
7 After this, declares the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, the people, and those in this city who have escaped from the plague, the sword, and the famine, I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, into the hands of their enemies and those who seek their lives; and he will put them to the edge of the sword; he will not spare them, he will have neither pity nor compassion.

8 And you shall say to this people: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
9 Whoever remains in this city will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague; whoever leaves it to surrender to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and have his life as plunder.
10 For I have turned my face toward this city to make him evil, and not good, — oracle of Yahweh; it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will consume it with fire.

11 And to the house of the king of Judah you will say Listen to the word of Yahweh,
12 House of David: Thus says Yahweh: Administer justice each morning; rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath break out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the wickedness of your deeds.

13 Here that I come from To you, inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain, — oracle Yahweh, you who say: »Who will come down upon us, and who will enter our hiding places?« 
14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your works, — oracle of Yahweh; I will set fire to its forest, and it will devour all around it.

Chapter 22

1 This is what the Lord says: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there you shall speak these words:
2 You shall say: Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, your servants and your people, who enter through these gates.

3 This is what the Lord says: Do what is right and just; rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor; do not let the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow be silenced. THE do not mistreat, do not THE Do not commit violence, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 If you do exactly what this word says, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter through the gate of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, they, their servants, and their people.
5 But if you do not listen to these words, I swear by myself, — declares the Lord, this house will become a ruin.

6 For thus says Yahweh, concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are to me a Gilead, the summit of Lebanon; therefore! I will make you a desert, cities uninhabited.
7 I am preparing destroyers against you, each with his tools; they will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

8 Many nations will pass through this city, and they will say to one another, »Why has the Lord done this to this great city?« 
9 And it will be said, »Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and bowed down to other gods and served them.« 

10 Do not weep for the dead, nor mourn for him; weep, weep for him who has gone away, for he will not return, nor see the land of his birth!
11 For this is what the Lord says concerning Shellum, son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned in place of Josiah his father, and who left this place: He will not return there again;
12 In the place where they took him captive, he will die, and he will never see that land again.

13 Woe to him who builds his house by injustice, and its upper floors by iniquity, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, without giving him his wages!
14 Whoever says, »I will build myself a large house with spacious rooms,» and makes many windows in it, there He covered it with cedar, and painted it vermilion!
15 Are you king because you are passionate about cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink? He did justice and righteousness, so everything was good for him;
16 He judged the cause of the unfortunate and the poor, then everything was Good. Is this not knowing me, — oracle of Yahweh?

17 But your eyes and your heart do not are filmed than to your interest, to innocent blood for THE to spread, to oppression and violence for THE commit.
18 Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: »They shall not mourn for him, saying, »Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!» They shall not mourn for him, saying, «Alas, my lord! Alas, your majesty!’” 
19 He will be buried like a donkey, he will be dragged out and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

20 Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan! Cry out from the heights of Abarim, for all your lovers are broken.
21 I spoke to you at the time of your prosperity; you said, "I will not listen!" This has been your conduct from your youth; you have not listened to my voice!
22 For the wind will drive away your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity; then you will be covered with shame and disgrace for all your wickedness.
23 You who live in Lebanon, who place your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, convulsions like those of a woman in labor!

24 As I live! — declares the Lord: Even if Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would pull him off from there!
25 I will deliver you into the hands of those who want your life, into the hands of those before whom you tremble, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldeans.
26 I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.
27 And to the land to which they will long to return, they will not return.
28 Is this man, Jeconiah, a despised and broken vessel, or a utensil that no one wants?... Why were they driven out, him and his descendants, and thrown into a land they did not know?
29 Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh!
30 This is what the Lord says: “Mark this man as barren, as a man who will not prosper in his days! For none of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David to reign over Judah again!”

Chapter 23

1 Woe to the shepherds who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, — oracle of Yahweh!
2 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the shepherds who tend my people: You have scattered my sheep, you have driven them away, you have not cared for them; behold, I will take care against you for the evil of your deeds, declares the Lord.

3 And I myself will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their pasture; they shall increase and multiply.
4 And I will raise up shepherds over them who will feed them; they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will they lack. none, — oracle of Yahweh!

5 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, who will reign as king and be wise, and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.”.
6 In his days Judah will be saved, Israel will dwell securely, and this is the name by which he will be called: Yahweh-our-righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days are coming—declares the Lord—when it will no longer be said, »As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,»
8 But "As the Lord lives, who brought up and restored the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where I had banished them;" and they will live in their own land.

9 To the prophets.

My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, before the Lord and before his holy word,
10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns; the pastures of the desert are withered. The object of their course is evil; their strength is injustice,
11 Prophets and priests themselves are profane, and in my own house I have found their wickedness, — oracle of Yahweh.

12 Therefore their path will be like slippery places in darkness; they will be driven down and fall into it; for I will bring disaster on them in the year I visit them, declares the Lord.

13 Among the prophets of Samaria I saw foolishness: they prophesied by Baal, and they led my people Israel astray;
14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horror: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that none of them turns from their wickedness. They are all to me like Sodom, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem like Gomorrah.
15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets: I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem desecration has come throughout the land.

16 This is what the Lord Almighty says: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They lead you astray; they speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
17 They say to those who despise me, »The Lord has said, »You will have peace»«; and to all who walk in the perversion of their hearts they say, “No harm will befall you.” 

18 But who has attended the council of the Lord to see and hear his word? Who has paid attention to his word and heard it?
19 Behold, the storm of the Lord, his fury, is about to break out; the whirlwind is about to break out, it will fall upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of Yahweh will not turn back until it has acted and accomplished the purposes of his heart; at the end of time you will fully understand it.
21 I did not send these prophets, yet they run! I did not speak to them, yet they prophesy!
22 If they had attended my council, they would have made my words heard by my people; they would have turned them back from their evil way, from the wickedness of their actions.

23 Am I only a God in the short term? — declares the Lord. — and not am I not Also A God from afar?
24 Can a man hide in hiding places and not be seen by me — declares the Lord? Do I not fill heaven and earth — declares the Lord?

25 I have heard what these prophets are saying, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, »I had a dream; I had a dream!« 
26 How long will this go on?... Do they want to, these prophets who prophesy lies, these prophets of the deceit of their hearts,
27 Do they think they can make my people forget my name, because of the dreams they tell each other, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal?

28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream; let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What does straw have in common with wheat? declares the Lord.
29 Is not my word like fire, — declares the Lord, like a hammer that breaks a rock?
30 Therefore, behold, I'm coming to those prophets who hide my words from one another.
31 »Behold, I am coming to these prophets,« declares the Lord, “who shake their tongues and say, ‘Declares the Lord!’” 
32 “Behold, I am coming to those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord, “who tell them and mislead my people with their lies and their extravagance. I have not sent them, nor have I sent them.” Nothing commanded; they are of no use to this people; — oracle of Yahweh.

33 When this people, or the prophets, or a priest ask you, »What is the burden of the Lord?» you shall answer them, »You are the burden, and I will cast you off,» declares the Lord.
34 And the prophet, the priest, or the man of the people who says, »Boundary of Yahweh,» I will visit that man and his house.

35 This is how you are to speak to one another, and each to his brother: »What has the Lord answered?» and »What has the Lord said?« 
36 But you shall no longer say, »Boundary of Yahweh!» For each one’s burden shall be his word, because you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.
37 You shall say to the prophet, »What has the Lord answered you? What has the Lord said?« 

38 But if you say, »The burden of the Lord,» then the Lord says this: Because you say this word, »The burden of the Lord,» after I sent to you to say, »Do not say, «The burden of the Lord,’” 
39 Because of this, I will completely forget you and I YOU I will cast out of my sight you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers;
40 and I will bring on you eternal reproach, everlasting shame, which will never be forgotten.

Chapter 24

1 The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were placed before the temple of the Lord; — this was after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, the officials of Judah, the carpenters, and the metalworkers; —
2. One of the baskets contained some very good figs like the figs of the first harvest; the other basket, very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

3 And Yahweh said to me, »What do you see, Jeremiah?» And I answered, »Figs; the good figs are very good, the bad ones are very bad and cannot be eaten, they are so bad.« 

4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

5 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: As we look with these good figs, so I will look with favor upon the captives of Judah, whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
6 I will direct my gaze upon them to their Well, and I will bring them back to this land; I will establish them so that they will not be destroyed again; I will plant them so that they will not be uprooted again.
7 I will give them a heart to know me and knowledge that I am Yahweh; they shall be my people and I shall be their God, for they shall return to me with all their heart.

8 And as we are dealing the bad figs, which are not eaten because they are so bad — thus says Yahweh —, thus I will treat Zedekiah king of Judah, his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem, those who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 I will make them an object of horror, a calamity, in all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach, a fable, a derision, a curse, in all the places where I drive them.
10 And I will send upon them the sword, famine, and plague until they have disappeared from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

Chapter 25

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, — it was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon —;
2. The word that Jeremiah spoke concerning all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in these words:

3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this day, it has been twenty-three years since the word of the Lord came to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened!
4 Yahweh sent you all his servants the prophets, sending them again and again, but you did not listen or pay attention to hear.
5 He said: »Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and from the perversity of your actions, and you will dwell in the land that Yahweh gave to you and to your fathers throughout the generations.
6 Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will not harm you.
7 But you did not listen to me, — declares the Lord, — so as to provoke me to anger by the work of your hands, to your own harm.
8 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: Because you have not listened to my words,
9 Behold, I am sending to take all the tribes of the north, — declares the Lord, — and I bring them to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations, which I will strike with anathema, and of which I will make a desolate place, an object of mockery, an everlasting ruin.
10 I will put away from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the songs of bridegroom and the songs of bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.
11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

12 And when the seventy years are completed, I will convict the king of Babylon and that nation of them — declares the Lord — and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make them a perpetual desolation.
13 And I will bring on this land all the words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.
14 For many nations and great kings will also subjugate them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.« 

15 For thus said to me Yahweh, God of Israel: Take from my hand this cup of the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I see you drink it.
16 They will drink it, they will stagger, they will go mad because of the sword I will send among them.

17 I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and made all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink from it:
18 to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, to its kings and princes, to make it a desolate place, a desolation, an object of mockery and cursing, as It's obvious. Today ;
19 to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to his servants, to his princes, to all his people;
20 to all the mixed people; to all the kings of the land of Uz; to all the kings of the land of the Philistines, in Ashkelon, in Gaza, in Accaron and to the remnant of Azoth;
21 to Edom, to Moab, and to the Ammonites;
22 to all the kings of Tyre, and to all the kings of Sidon, and to the kings of the islands that are beyond the sea;
23 to Dédan, to Théma, to Buz and to all those who shave their temples;
24 to all the kings of Arabia, to all the kings of the mixed peoples who inhabit the desert;
25 to all the kings of Zambri, to all the kings of Elam, and to all the kings of Media;
26 to all the kings of the north, near and far, to one as well as the other, and to all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshak shall drink after them.

27 You shall say to them: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel: Drink, get drunk, vomit and fall down, never to rise again, from the sword which I send among you.
28 And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, you shall say to them: Thus says Yahweh: You shall drink!
29 For behold: it is in the city which is called by my name that I begin to bring evil; and you, shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I call the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.

30 And you shall prophesy all these things to them, and say to them: The Lord roars from on high from the sky ; from his holy dwelling he makes his voice resound; he roars violently against his domain; he raises the cry of the grape harvesters, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 The noise in has reached to the ends of the earth; for Yahweh brings charges against all nations, he enters into judgment with all flesh; he delivers the wicked to the sword, — oracle of Yahweh.

32 This is what the Lord Almighty says: Disaster is spreading from nation to nation, and a great storm is rising from the ends of the earth.
33 And there will be slain of the Lord on that day from one end of the earth to the other; they will not be mourned, nor gathered up, nor buried; they will be like dung on the ground.

34 Howl, shepherds, and shout; roll yourselves in the dust, leaders of the flock, for your days are fulfilled for the slaughter; I will scatter you and you will fall like precious vessels.
35 No more retreat for shepherds, no more refuge for the leaders of the flock!

36 We hear the cries of the shepherds, and the howls of the leaders of the flock, for Yahweh is destroying their pasture.
37 The peaceful countryside is devastated by the fury of Yahweh's anger.
38 He leaves his retreat, like the lion its thicket ; their country will be exchange in the desert before the fury of the destroyer, before the anger of Yahweh.

Chapter 26

1 At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word was addressed to Jeremy from Yahweh:

2 This is what the Lord says: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house and say to those of all the towns of Judah that come to worship in the house of Yahweh, all the words that I commanded you to speak to them; do not’in Don't remove a single word.
3 Perhaps they will listen and each turn from their evil ways; then I will relent concerning the harm I intended to do to them because of the wickedness of their actions.
4 You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you do not obey me, by following the law that I have set before you,
5 by listening to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, whom I sent again and again, but you have not listened to,
6 I will treat this house like Shiloh, and I will make of this city an object of A curse upon all nations of the earth.

7 The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of Yahweh.
8 And when Jeremiah had finished saying all that Yahweh had commanded him to say to all the people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him, saying, »You shall die!
9 Why do you prophesy in the name of Yahweh, saying, »This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate and without inhabitants?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
10 When the princes of Judah heard of these things, they went up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down at the entrance of the New Gate. of the house of Yahweh.
11 Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes and all the people, “This man deserves to die, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”.

12 And Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, »It is Yahweh who has sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the things that you have heard.
13 Now improve your ways and your works, and listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent concerning the evil which he has pronounced against you.
14 As for me, here I am in your hands; do with me as seems good and right in your eyes.
15 Just know that if you kill me, It is innocent blood that You will put this upon yourselves, upon this city and its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to make you hear all these words.« 

16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, »This man does not deserve to die, for It is in the name of Yahweh, our God, who has spoken to us.« 
17 And some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people:
18 »Micah the Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah in these words:

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount a wooded hill.

19 Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah put him to death? Did they not instead Fear the Lord? Have they not implored the Lord? And the Lord relented from what he had pronounced against them. And we would be committing a great crime against our souls!…« 

20 There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemei, from Cariathiarim; he prophesied against this city and against this land exactly the same things as Jeremiah.
21 King Jehoiakim, all his valiant men, and all his princes heard his words, and the king sought to have him killed. Uriah was informed of this, he was afraid, and he fled to Egypt.
22 But King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt, Elnathan, son of Ahobor, and men with him, to Egypt.
23 They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who put him to death with the sword and threw his corpse into the tombs of the common people.

24 But the hand of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, supported Jeremiah, so that he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

Chapter 27

1 At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh:

2 This is what the Lord said to me: Make yourself bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck.
3 Then send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by means of the ambassadors who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah, king of Judah.
4 Give them a message to their masters, in these terms: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:
5 It is I who, by my power and by my outstretched arm, made the earth, man, and the animals that are on the face of the earth, and I give it to whomever I please.
6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I have even given him the animals of the field to serve him.
7 All nations will be subject to him, to his son, and to his son's son, until the time comes for his own land, and many nations and great kings will subject him.
8 The nation and kingdom that will not submit to him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish with the sword, with famine, and with plague, declares the Lord, until I put an end to it by his hand.
9 And you, do not listen to your prophets, nor your diviners, nor your dreams, nor your augurs, nor your magicians, who tell you, »You will not be subject to the king of Babylon.« 
10 For they are prophesying lies to you, so that you will be driven out of your country, so that I will expel you and you will perish.
11 But the nation that puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serves him, I will let it rest in its own land, declares the Lord; it will cultivate it and dwell there.

12 And to Zedekiah, king of Judah, I spoke according to all these words, saying: Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.
13 Why should you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by plague, as Yahweh has said of the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who tell you, »You will not be subject to the king of Babylon.» For they are prophesying lies to you.
15 For I did not send them, declares the Lord, and they prophesy falsely in my name, so that I may drive you out and you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.

16 And to the priests and to all these people I will speak in these words: Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, »Behold, the articles of the house of the Lord will soon be brought back from Babylon.» For they are prophesying lies to you.
17 Do not listen to them; submit to the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this city be left desolate?
18 If they are prophets, if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of hosts so that the articles that remain in the house of the Lord, in the house of the kings of Judah, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon!
19 For this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the other utensils that remain in this city,
20 that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take when he carried captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
21 For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says concerning the articles that remain in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
22 They will be carried off to Babylon, and they will remain there until the day I visit them, — declares the Lord, — and I will bring them up and return to this place.

Chapter 28

1 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, the prophet Hananiah, son of Azure, from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people:
2 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3 In two more years, I will bring back to this place all the articles of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place and carried off to Babylon.
4 And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon, — oracle of Yahweh — for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

5 And Jeremiah the prophet answered Hananiah the prophet, in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who were standing in the house of Yahweh.
6 Jeremiah the prophet said: Amen! So do Yahweh! May Yahweh fulfill the words that you have just prophesied, by bringing back from Babylon to this place the articles of the house of Yahweh and all the captives!
7 However, hear this word that I speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people:
8 The prophets who were before me and before you, from ancient times, prophesied to many countries and great kingdoms the war, misfortune and plague.
9 As for the prophet who prophesies peace, This will be when the word of This prophet that he will be recognized as the prophet truly sent by Yahweh.

10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
11 And Hananiah said in the presence of all the people, “Thus says the Lord: In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.” And Jeremiah the prophet departed.

12 And the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah, — after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, — in these words:
13 Go, speak to Hananiah, saying: Thus says Yahweh: You have broken a yoke of wood, and you have made in its place a yoke of iron.
14 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: I am putting an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations, that they may be subject to Nebuchadnezzar, and they shall be subject to him; I have given him even the beasts of the field.

15 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet: Listen, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in falsehood.
16 Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am sending you away from the face of the earth; this very year you will die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.

17 And Hananiah the prophet died that same year, in the seventh month.

Chapter 29

1 This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remnant of the elders in captivity, to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2 after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the carpenters, and the metalworkers had left Jerusalem:
3 he sent it through Elasa, son of Shaphan, and Gamarias, son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, had sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. She said:

4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all the captives I have exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters; multiply in this land, and do not decrease.
7 Seek the welfare of the city to which I have sent you into captivity, and pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will be your welfare.

8 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not be deceived by your prophets who are among you, nor by your diviners, and do not listen to the dreams that you have for yourselves.
9 For they are prophesying falsely to you in my name; I have not sent them, declares the Lord.

10 For thus says Yahweh: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you and execute for you my good word, bringing you back to this place.
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
12 You will call to me, and you will come, and you will pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek me and find me, because you will seek me with all your heart.
14 And I will let myself be found by you, declares the Lord; I will restore your fortunes, and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.

15 But you say, Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

16 This is what the Lord says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, all the people who live in this city, and your brothers who did not go into exile with you:
17 This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will send against them the sword, famine, and plague; I will treat them like the detestable figs that cannot be eaten because they are so bad.
18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine, and plague, and I will make them an object of terror throughout all the kingdoms of the earth, an object of curse, astonishment, mockery, and reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them:
19 because they did not listen to my words, — declares the Lord, — even though I sent them my servants the prophets, sending them again and again; and you did not listen, — declares the Lord.

20 Therefore, listen to the word of the Lord, all you captives whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon!
21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab son of Colias and Zedekiah son of Maaziah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: I am going to hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.
22 We will draw from them a formula of a curse among all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying: »May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!« 
23 because they committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with women of their neighbor and by speaking lies in my name, which I did not command them; and I know it, and I am a witness, — oracle of Yahweh.

24 And to Shemeiah the Nehelamite, you shall say:
25 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your name to all the people in Jerusalem, to Zephaniah son of Maaziah the priest, and to all the priests, saying:
26 Yahweh has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, so that there may be overseers in the house of Yahweh for every man who acts as a spiritist and a prophet, so that you may put him in stocks or in the stocks.
27 And now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?
28 Thanks to that, He was able to send us to Babylon to say, "It will be a long time; build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit."» 

29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter before Jeremiah the prophet.

30 And the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jérémie in these terms:
31 Send word to all the exiles: This is what the Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and made you trust in a lie,
32 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I will punish Shemeiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he will have no one of his family who dwells in the midst of his people, and he will not see the good that I will do for my people, — oracle of Yahweh — for he has preached rebellion against Yahweh.

Chapter 30

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, in these words:
2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.
3 For behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back into the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

4 These are the words that Yahweh has spoken concerning Israel and Judah:

5 Thus says Yahweh: We have heard a cry of terror: It is Terror reigns, and there is no peace!
6 Ask and see if a male gives birth. Why do I see all the men with their hands on their loins, like a women who is giving birth, and why have all the faces turned livid?

7 Woe! For great is that day; there is no like it. It is a time of distress for Jacob; but he shall be delivered from it.

8 And it will happen on that day—declares the Lord Almighty—that I will break his yoke from off your neck and snap your bonds. Foreigners will no longer enslave you;
9 but they will be subject to Yahweh their God, and to David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

10 “So do not be afraid, my servant Jacob,” declares the Lord, “do not be dismayed, Israel. For behold, I am about to bring you out of a distant land, and your descendants out of the land of their exile. Jacob will return and be at ease and secure, with no one to frighten him.”.
11 For I am with you, declares the Lord, to save you; I will make a complete extermination of all the nations where I have scattered you. But I will not completely exterminate you, but I will discipline you according to justice, and I will not leave you unpunished.

12 For thus says Yahweh: Your wound is incurable, your injury is painful;
13 no one pleads your case for that we take care of you wound, there is no remedy for you that will heal.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not care for you. For I have struck you as one strikes an enemy, with a cruel punishment, because of the multitude of your iniquities, because Your sins have increased.

15 Why cry out because of your injury, because your pain is incurable? It is Because of the multitude of your iniquities, and because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore all who devour you will be devoured, all your oppressors will go into captivity, those who plunder you will be plundered, and I will give over to plunder all who plunder you.
17 For I will bind up your wounds, I will heal them, declares the Lord. For you are called »Rejected,« »Zion, for whom no one cares.« 

18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will restore the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on their dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its hill, and the palace restored in its place.
19 From them will come songs of praise and shouts of joy. I will multiply them, and they will no longer be fewer; I will glorify them, and they will no longer be despised.
20 His children will be as before; his assembly will be established before me, and I will punish all his oppressors.
21 Its leader will be A of his people, and his sovereign will come out of his bosom; I will bring him and he will approach me; for who is the man who would arrange his heart to approach me? — oracle of Yahweh.
22 And you will be my people, and I will be your God.

23 Behold, the storm of the Lord, his fury, is about to break out; the tempest is rushing forth, it will fall upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fire of Yahweh’s anger will not turn back until he has acted and accomplished the purposes of his heart; at the end of time you will understand it.

Chapter 31

1 At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
2 Thus says Yahweh: He has found favor in the wilderness, the people who escaped the sword; I will give Israel rest.
3 The Lord appeared to me from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I have prolonged my love for you. mercy.

4 I will build you again, and you will be rebuilt, virgin Israel; you will again take up your tambourines and go out in the midst of joyful dances.
5 You will again plant your vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; those who plant will plant, and they will harvest.

6 For the day is coming when the watchmen will cry out on the hills of Ephraim, »Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.« 

7 For thus says the Lord: Shout for joy over Jacob, exult for the first of the nations; makeYOU, Listen, sing praises and say: "Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!"» 

8 Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the woman in labor; they will return here in great crowds.

9 They will return weeping; I will bring them back in the midst of their supplications; I will lead them to flowing waters, by a level path where they will not stumble; for I have been a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Nations, hear the word of Yahweh and proclaim it to the distant islands; say: »He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.
11 For the Lord has redeemed Jacob; he has delivered him from the hand of one stronger than he.« 

12 They will come with shouts of joy on the height of Zion; they will stream to the bounty of the Lord, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, to the sheep and the cattle; their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will no longer languish.
13 Then the young girl will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old men together; I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, I will gladden them for their sorrows.
14 I will satisfy the souls of the priests with fat, and my people will be filled with my bounty, — oracle of Yahweh.

15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

16 This is what the Lord says: “Restrain your voice from moaning and your eyes from weeping, for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “They will return from the land of the enemy.”.
17 There is hope for your last days, declares the Lord, and your children will return to their borders.

18 I heard Ephraim groaning: »You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untamed young bull; restore me and I will return, for you are Yahweh my God!”
19 For after I had turned away, I repented, and after I understood, I struck my thigh; I am ashamed and confused, for I bear the reproach of my youth.« 

20 Is Ephraim then my dear son, my beloved child? For though I speak against him, I remember him again. Therefore my heart is moved for him; yes, I will have compassion on him, declares the Lord.
21 Set up signs for yourself, place milestones for yourself; pay attention to the road, to the path you have walked. Return, virgin Israel, return here to your cities.
22 How long will you wander, rebellious daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing on earth: a woman will surround a man.

23 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: »This message will again be spoken in the land of Judah and in its towns when I restore their fortunes: «The Lord bless you, you righteous dwelling place, you holy mountain!’” 
24 Judah and all its towns will live there, along with farmers and herders.
25 For I will give drink to the thirsty soul, and I will satisfy the faint soul.

26 Then I awoke, and I saw that my sleep had been sweet.

27 The days are coming — declares the Lord — when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of animals.
28 And it will come to pass: as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to ruin, to destroy and to harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, — oracle of Yahweh.

29 In those days people will no longer say, »The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.« 
30 But each one will die for his iniquity; every man who eats sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.”,
32 not like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant they broke, although I was their husband.

33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, »Know the Lord!» For they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will remember their sin no more.

35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun to shine by day, and trace laws to the moon and stars to give light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar, — Yahweh of hosts is his name: —
36 If ever these laws cease before me, — oracle of Yahweh, then also the race of Israel will cease forever to be a nation before me.

37 Thus says Yahweh: If the heavens can be measured above, and the foundations of the earth can be searched below, then also I will reject all the descendants of Israel, because of all that they have done, — oracle of Yahweh.

38 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when this city will be rebuilt for the Lord, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
39 The measuring line will be drawn in a straight line up the hill of Gareb, and it will turn towards Goa.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, and as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, toward the east, shall be holy places to Yahweh, and they shall never be desolate or destroyed.

Chapter 32

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah. It was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Now the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard which was in the house of the king of Judah.
3 For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had imprisoned him, in him saying: "Why do you prophesy in these terms: Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
4 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans; he will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon, and he will speak to him face to face, and his eyes will see his eyes.
5 And Nebuchadnezzar will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will remain there until I visit him—declares the Lord. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.« 

6 And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord has come to me.” addressed in these terms:
7 Here is Hanamel, son of Shellum, your uncle, coming to you to say, »Buy my field that is in Anathoth, for you have the right to redeem it.« 
8 Then Hanamel, my uncle's son, came to me in the courtyard of the guard, according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, »Buy my field that is in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, for you have the right of inheritance and the right of redemption; buy it!» Then I knew that it was there a word from Yahweh.
9 And I bought from Hanamel, son of my uncle, the field which is in Anathoth, and I weighed out the silver to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
10 Then I executed the deed and sealed it; I took witnesses and weighed the money in the balance.
11 Then I took the deed of acquisition, the one that was sealed, containing the stipulations and clauses, and the one that was open.
12 And I handed over the deed of purchase to Baruch, son of Neri, son of Maaziah, in the presence of Hanamel, son of my uncle, and in the presence of the witnesses who had signed the deed of acquisition, and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the guardyard.
13 And I gave this order to Baruch in their presence:
14 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase, and this open deed, and put them in an earthen vessel so that they may be preserved for a long time.
15 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.

16 After I had handed over the deed of purchase to Baruch, son of Neri, I addressed this prayer to Yahweh:

17 Ah! Lord Yahweh, it is you who made heaven and earth by your great power and outstretched arm; nothing will be impossible for you.
18 You are the one who shows mercy to thousands, and who pays the salary of the iniquity of the fathers in the bosom of their children, after them; God, great and mighty, whose name is Yahweh of hosts;
19 great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of Adam, to reward each one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works.

20 It was you who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, And to this day, in Israel and among men, and who have made such a name for yourself as we see it Today ;
21 It was you who brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt, with signs and wonders, by your mighty hand and outstretched arm, and by spreading a great terror;
22 and you gave them this land, which you had sworn to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

23 They entered it, they took possession of it; but they did not listen to your voice, they did not walk in your law; and all that you had commanded them to do, they did not do; and you brought all these calamities upon them.
24 Look, siege ramps are coming up to the city to take it; and the city is going to be given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are attacking it with the sword, famine and plague; what you have said is coming to pass, and you see it.
25 And you, Lord Yahweh, said to me, »Buy this field for money, and take witnesses»; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans!…

26 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jérémie in these terms:

27 I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh; is there anything impossible for me?
28 Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.
29 The Chaldeans who attack this city will enter it; they will set fire to this city, and they will burn it, as well as the houses on the roofs of which incense has been offered to Baal, and libations poured out to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.

30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; and the children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, — oracle of Yahweh.
31 For this city has only aroused my anger and my fury from the day they built it until this day, so that I may remove it from my sight,
32 because of all the evil that the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their leaders, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

33 They turned their backs on me and not their faces, and when I instructed them, instructing them from morning on, they did not listen to receive instruction.
34 And they have placed their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
35 They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, passing by fire their sons and their daughters for Moloch: which I had not commanded them, and which had not entered my mind, doing this abomination to make Judah sin.

36 Now therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning this city of which you say, »It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, famine, and plague:« 
37 Behold, I will gather them from all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, in my indignation, and in my great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and I will make them dwell there in safety.
38 They will be my people, and I will be their God.
39 I will give them one heart and I will forward them one way, so that they may always fear me, for their happiness and that of their children after them.

40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, so that I will not turn away from them, by ceasing to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me.
41 I will take pleasure in doing them good, and I will plant them faithfully in this land, with all my heart and with all my soul.

42 For thus says Yahweh: Just as I have brought upon this people all these great calamities, so I will bring upon them all these blessings which I speak concerning them.
43 And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, »It is a desolate land, where there is neither man nor beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.« 
44 Fields will be bought for money, deeds will be executed, sealed, and witnesses will be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and in the vicinity of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the hill towns, in the towns of the Shephelah, and in the towns of the Negev; for I will restore the captives, declares the Lord.

Chapter 33

1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah a second time, when he was still confined in the guardyard, — in these terms:

2 Thus says the Lord who does this, the Lord who designs it to accomplish it—the Lord is his name:
3 Call upon me and I will answer you; I will show you great and unsearchable things that you do not know.
4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the king of Judah, which were demolished for face to war machines and to the sword;
5 And concerning those who will fight the Chaldeans, to fill these houses the corpses of men, whom I strike down in my anger and fury, and because of whose wickedness I hide my face from this city:

6 Here I am putting a bandage on him, and I there I will heal her; and I will show them an abundance of peace and security.
7 I will bring back the exiles of Judah and the exiles of Israel, and I will restore them as they were formerly.
8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; I will forgive them all their iniquities, by which they have offended me, by which they have rebelled against me.
9 And the name of this city will be for me a name of joy, praise, and glory among all the nations of the earth, who will learn of all the good I will do for them; they will be terrified and tremble, seeing all the happiness and prosperity that I will give them.

10 This is what the Lord says: »In this place of which you say, »It is a desolate wasteland, without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, which are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast,
11 the shouts of joy and gladness, the songs of bridegroom and bride, the voices of those who say, »Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever!» of those who bring their sacrifices of thanksgiving at the house of Yahweh. For I will bring back the exiles from this land, so that they are as in the beginning, says Yahweh.

12 This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this place, a desolate wasteland without man or beast, and in all its towns, there will again be shelters for shepherds who y will let their herds rest.
13 In the towns of the hill country and in the towns of the Shephelah and in the towns of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them, says Yahweh.

14 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”.

15 In those days and at that time I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, who will execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

16 In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and it will be called Yahweh-our-righteousness.

17 For thus says Yahweh: David will never lack a descendant to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
18 And there shall never be a lack of man among the Levite priests before me to offer the burnt offering, to burn the grain offering, and to make the sacrifice every day.

19 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
20 This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed times,
21 Then also my covenant will be broken with David my servant, so that he will no longer have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levite priests who serve me.

22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, and as the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
24 Have you not seen what this people is saying, saying, »The Lord has rejected the two families he chose!» So they despise my people, to the point that, before them, they are no longer a nation!

25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with the day and the night, and have not set down the laws of heaven and earth,
26 I will also reject the descendants of Jacob and of David my servant, to the point that I will no longer choose leaders from among his descendants, for the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! For I will restore the fortunes of the captives and I will have compassion on them.

Chapter 34

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth subject to his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its dependent cities — in these terms:

2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go and speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and say to him: This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
3 And you will not escape from his hand, for you will certainly be taken and delivered into his hands; your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, he will speak to you mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
4 However, listen to the word of the Lord, Zedekiah, king of Judah! This is what the Lord says concerning you: You shall not die by the sword.
5 You will die in peace, and just as incense was burned for your ancestors, the ancient kings who preceded you, so it will be burned for you, and people will mourn for you. saying Alas, Lord! For I have spoken this word, — oracle of Yahweh.

6 Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem.
7 Now the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were still standing, against Lachish and against Azekah; for from the fortified cities of Judah, he born there was nothing left that Those ones.

8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people of Jerusalem to proclaim to their address a postage,
9 so that each man would set free his male and female slave, whether Hebrew or Hebrew, and that no one would hold a fellow Jew in bondage.
10 All the leaders and all the people, who had entered into this agreement, agreed to set free each one his slave and each one his maid, so as not to hold them in servitude any longer; they agreed to this and set them free.
11 But then they changed their minds and brought back the slaves, both men and women, whom they had set free, and forced them to become slaves again.

12 And the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh in these terms:
13 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying to them:
14 At the end of seven years, each of you shall set free his fellow Hebrew who was sold to you; he shall serve you six years, and then you shall set him free from your home. But your fathers did not listen to me; they did not pay attention.
15 Today you returned and did what was right in my eyes, proclaiming liberty, each for his neighbor; you made an agreement in my presence, in the house which is called by my name.
16 But you have changed your minds and profaned my name by bringing back each of your male and female slaves whom you had freed. and rendered to themselves, and by forcing them to become your slaves and servants again.

17 Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming freedom, each for his brother and each for his neighbor; behold, I proclaim freedom for you — declares the Lord; I am sending you back to the sword, to plague, and to famine, and I will make of you an object of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not carried out the terms of the covenant they made in my presence, I will make them such as the young bull that they cut in half to fit between the pieces:
19 the leaders of Judah and the leaders of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the young bull.
20 I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies and into the hands of those who seek their lives; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his princes, I will deliver into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their lives, into the hands of the army of Babylon, which has departed from you.
22 Behold, I give orders, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back against this city; they shall fight against it, and capture it and burn it; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolate wasteland without inhabitants!

Chapter 35

1 The word that was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, in these words:

2 Go to the family of the Rechabites, and speak to them. You shall bring them to the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and you shall offer them wine to drink.

3 So I took Jezoniah, son of Jeremiah, son of Habsanias, his brothers, all his sons, and all the family of the Rechabites;
4 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, son of Jegdelias, the man of God, near the chamber of the princes, and above the chamber of Maaziah, son of Shellum, the gatekeeper.
5 I placed before the sons of the family of the Rechabites vases filled with wine and cups, and I said to them, »Drink wine.« 
6 But they said, »We do not drink wine; for Jonadab, son of Rechab, our father, commanded us: ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons, forever;
7 and you shall not build houses, you shall not sow; you shall not plant vineyards nor own any; but you shall dwell in tents all your days, so that you may live many days in the land where you are as strangers.
8 So we have observed the word of Jonadab, son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, so that we never drink wine, we, our wives, our sons, our daughters;
9 so that we do not build houses to dwell in, nor do we have vineyards or fields, nor lands sown.
10 We live in tents; we obey and do everything Jonadab our father commanded us.
11 And when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against This country, we said, 'Come, let us withdraw to Jerusalem, before the army of the Chaldeans and the army of Syria'; and we remained in Jerusalem.« 

12 And the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jérémie in these terms:
13 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not accept instruction by listening to my words? — declares the Lord.
14 We have observed the words of Jonadab, son of Rechab; he commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this day, in obedience to their father's command; and I have spoken to you, spoken again and again, and you have not listened to me!
15 I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them again and again, to YOU say: Turn, each of you, from your evil ways, amend your conduct, and do not go after other gods to serve them; and you will inhabit the land that I YOU I gave to you and to your fathers. But you did not lend an ear and you did not listen to me.
16 Yes, the sons of Jonadab, son of Rechab, have observed the commandment that their father gave them; and this people does not listen to me!
17 Therefore this is what Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am going to bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disasters I have spoken against them, because I spoke to them, but they did not listen to me; I called to them, but they did not answer me.

18 And Jeremiah said to the family of the Rechabites, »Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his commandments and done according to all that he commanded you,
19 Therefore, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never lack descendants to stand before me.« 

Chapter 36

1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word was addressed to Jeremiah from Yahweh, in these words:
2 »Take a volume, and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, until today.
3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear of all the evil I intend to do to them, so that each of them will turn from their evil ways, and I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.« 

4 So Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote in the volume, at Jeremiah’s dictation, all the words that Yahweh had spoken to him.

5 And Jeremiah gave this order to Baruch, saying, »I am prevented, and cannot go to the house of Yahweh.
6 You will therefore go, and you will read, from the volume which you have written at my dictation, the words of Yahweh in the hearing of the people, in the house of Yahweh, on the day of the fast; You will read them also to the ears of all those from Judah who will have come from their cities.
7 Perhaps their supplication will reach the Lord, and each of them will turn from their evil ways; for great is the anger and indignation that the Lord has expressed against this people.« 

8 And Baruch, son of Neriah, did all that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him, reading from the book the words of Yahweh, in the house of Yahweh.

9 In the fifth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, a fast was proclaimed before Yahweh for all the people of Jerusalem and for all the people who would come from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.
10 Then Baruch read from the book the words of Yahweh, in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gamarias, son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper court, at the entrance of the New Gate of the house of Yahweh, in the hearing of all the people.
11 Micah, son of Gamariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord contents in the book.
12 He went down to the king’s house, to the secretary’s chamber; and behold, all the officials were sitting there, Elishama the secretary, Dalaiah son of Shemeiah, Elnathan son of Ahobor, Gamarias son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the officials.
13 And Micah told them all the words he had heard when Baruch read from the book in the ears of the people.

14 Then all the leaders sent to Baruch Judi, son of Nathanias, son of Selemiah, son of Chusi, to say to him, »Take the scroll from which you read in the hearing of the people, and come!» Baruch, son of Neriah, took the scroll and went to them.
15 They said to him, »Sit down and read this book "To our ears!" And Baruch read it to them.
16 When they had heard all these words, they looked They were terrified and said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."» 
17 Then they questioned Baruch, saying, »Tell us how you wrote all these words.” exits from his mouth.« 
18 Baruch said to them, »He dictated all these words to me from his own mouth, and I THE I wrote them on the book with ink.« 
19 Then the leaders said to Baruch, »Go, hide yourself and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.« 

20 They then went to the king's house in the courtyard, leaving the volume in the room of Elisama, the secretary, and they told the king the whole story.
21 The king sent Judi to retrieve the volume; and Judi He took it into the chamber of Elisama, the secretary, and read it aloud to the king and to all the chiefs who were standing before the king.
22 Now the king was sitting in the winter chamber in the ninth month, and the fire was burning before him.
23 As soon as Judi had read three or four columns, the king cut the book with the secretary's penknife, and THE threw into the fire of the brazier, until the entire volume was consumed by the fire of the brazier.
24 The king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their clothes.
25 Yet Elnathan, Dalaias and Gamarias had pleaded with the king not to burn the volume; but he had not listened to them.
26 Then the king ordered Jeremiah the king’s son, and Saraiah the son of Ezriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

27 And the word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the volume containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, in these terms:
28 Go and take another volume, and write in it all the first words that were in the first volume which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned.
29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim, king of Judah: Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, »Why did you write in it that the king of Babylon will surely come and devastate this land, and that he will wipe out both man and beast?« 
30 Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will not have one of his own sitting on the throne of David; and his corpse shall be thrown out, to the heat during the day, and to the cold during the night.
31 I will punish him, his descendants, and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring upon them, upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have announced to them, though they have not listened to me.

32 So Jeremiah took another volume and gave it to Baruch, son of Neriah, the secretary; and Baruch He wrote there, at Jeremiah's dictation, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned in the fire; and many other similar words were added to it.

Chapter 37

1 King Zedekiah, son of Josiah, reigned in place of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, — Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had made him king over the land of Judah.
2 And he did not listen, neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, to the words that Yahweh had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

3 King Zedekiah sent Juchal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah son of Maaziah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, »Please intercede for us with the Lord our God.« 
4 Jeremiah was walking back and forth among the people, and they had not yet put him in prison.
5 Now Pharaoh's army had left Egypt, and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem, having heard the news, had withdrawn from Jerusalem.

6 Then the word of the Lord came addressed to Jeremiah the prophet in these terms:
7 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: You shall say this to the king of Judah who sent you to question me: Behold, the army of Pharaoh which came out to help you will return to its own land, to Egypt.
8 And the Chaldeans will return, and they will fight against this city; they will take it and burn it.
9 This is what the Lord says: Do not delude yourselves by saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us.” For they will not depart.
10 And even if you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would rise up, each in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

11 While the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
12 Jeremiah left Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin, in order to withdraw from there its portion in the middle of the people.
13 But while he was at the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, named Jeriah, son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, »You are going over to the Chaldeans!« 
14 Jeremiah replied, »That’s false, I’m not going over to the Chaldeans!» But Jerias would not listen to him; he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
15 And the leaders became enraged against Jeremiah; they beat him and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan, the secretary; for they had made it a prison.

16 When Jeremiah had gone into the lower pit under the vaults, and had remained there for many days,
17 Zedekiah sent for him to come out of there. He questioned him privately in his house, and said to him, »Is there a word from the Lord?» And Jeremiah answered, »Yes!» and he added, »You will be handed over to the king of Babylon.« 
18 Jeremiah said again to King Zedekiah, »What offense have I committed against you, against your servants, and against this people, that you have put me in prison?
19 And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, “The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?”
20 And now listen, I beg you, O king, my lord! Let my supplication come before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, to die there.« 
21 King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be kept in the courtyard of the prison and to give him a loaf of bread each day from Bakers' Street, until all the bread in the city was eaten. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the prison.

Chapter 38

1 Then Shaphatias son of Mathan, Gedeliah son of Pishr, Juchal son of Shelemiah, and Pishr son of Melkiah heard the words that Jeremiah addressed to all the people, saying:
2 »This is what the Lord says: Whoever remains in this city will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague; but whoever leaves to get He will live among the Chaldeans; he will have his life as his prize, and he will live.
3 This is what the Lord says: This city will be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.« 

4 And the officials said to the king, »Let this man be put to death! For he discourages the fighting men who remain in the city, and all the people, by speaking these words to them. For this man does not seek the good of these people, but their harm.« 
5 And King Zedekiah said, »It is in your power, for the king can do nothing against you.« 
6 So they took Jeremiah and lowered him into the cistern of Melkias, the king's son, in the courtyard of the guard; they lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern; there was no water, only mud. And Jeremiah sank into the mud.

7 Abdemelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch in the king's household, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the cistern. — Now the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate.
8 Abd al-Melech came out of the king's house and spoke to the king in these words:
9 »O king, my lord, these men have acted wrongly in treating Jeremiah the prophet in this way; they have lowered him into the cistern; he will die of hunger there, for there is no more bread in the city.»
10 And the king gave this order to Abdemelech the Ethiopian: »Take thirty men with you here, and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cistern before he dies.« 
11 So Abd al-Melech took with him these men and entered the king's house, below the treasury. He took worn-out linens and old clothes, and he passed them with ropes to Jeremiah into the cistern.
12 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, »Put these worn-out cloths and these rags under your armpits, under the ropes.» Jeremiah did so.
13 And they pulled him up with ropes, and brought him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet, and brought him in to him at the third entrance of the house of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, »I have one thing to ask you; do not hide anything from me!« 
15 And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, »If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, will you not listen to me?« 
16 King Zedekiah secretly swore to Jeremiah: »As the Lord lives, who gave us this life, I will not put you to death, nor will I hand you over to these men who seek your life.« 
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, »This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: If you go out to make you to the leaders of the king of Babylon, you will have your life spared, and this city will not be burned; you and your household will live.
18 But if you do not go out to the officials of the king of Babylon, this city will be handed over to the Chaldeans, who will burn it; and you will not escape them.« 

19 And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, »I fear the Judeans who have gone over to the Chaldeans; they will hand me over to them, and they will make fun of me.« 
20 Jeremiah replied, »They will not hand you over. Listen to the voice of the Lord in what I tell you; it will go well with you, and you will save your life.
21 But if you refuse to come out, this is what Yahweh has revealed to me:
22 Here is all women those who remained from the house of the king of Judah shall be brought to the officials of the king of Babylon, and they you They will say: Your friends have seduced and dominated you; your feet have sunk into the mud, and they have slipped away.
23 And all your wives and children will be taken to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape them; but you will be captured by the king of Babylon, and you will have burned this city.« 

24 And Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, »Let no one know Nothing from this conversation, and you will not die.
25 If the officials learn that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say, “Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide anything from us, and we will not put you to death,”,
26 You shall answer them: I have presented my supplication to the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan, where I would die.« 

27 All the leaders came Indeed They went to Jeremiah and questioned him; he answered them entirely according to the words that the king had prescribed for him; and they left him in peace, for the conversation had not been heard.

28 So Jeremiah remained in the court of guard until the capture of Jerusalem, and he was there when Jerusalem was captured.

Chapter 39

1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army before Jerusalem; and they besieged it.

2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
3 All the officials of the king of Babylon entered and took their places at the middle gate: Nergal-Serezer, keeper of the treasury, Nabu-Sarsakim, chief of the eunuchs, Nergal-Serezer, chief of the magi, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

4 When Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the fighting men saw them, they fled and left the city by night to the road to the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they took the road to the plain.
5 But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Having captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, at Riblah in the land of Emath, and he pronounced judgments upon him.
6 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; the king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.
7 Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with two bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
8 Then the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the people’s houses, and demolished the walls of Jerusalem.
9 Nebuzardan, captain of the guard, carried captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had surrendered to him, and the rest of the people of the land who remained there.
10 Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing; and he gave them vineyards and fields on that day.

11 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, gave an order to Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, concerning Jeremiah, in these terms:
12 »Take him, keep your eyes on him, and do him no harm; but deal with him as he tells you to THE will say.« 
13 Nebuzardan, chief of the guards, Nabusezban, chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-Serezer, chief of the Magi, and all the officials of the king of Babylon
14 sent and took Jeremiah from the courtyard of the guard, and they handed him over to Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, to bring him into its house. And he remained among the people.

15 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jeremiah, while he was confined in the guardroom, in these words:

16 Go, speak to Abd el-Ma'melech the Ethiopian, and tell him, “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to carry out my words against this city, for harm and not for good,’” these things will be before your eyes on that day.
17 But I will deliver you on that day, declares the Lord, and you will not be handed over to the men you fear.
18 I will surely deliver you, and you will not fall by the sword; your life will be your prize, because you have trusted in me, — oracle of Yahweh.

Chapter 40

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzardan, the commander of the guard, had sent him from Ramah, having taken him captive while he was bound in chains in the midst of all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried away to Babylon.

2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, »The Lord your God had announced this disaster against this place,
3 and he brought him; and Yahweh did as he had said; because you have sinned against Yahweh and have not obeyed his voice, this thing has happened to you.
4 And now, behold, I release you today from the chains that you had in your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will keep my eyes on you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me to Babylon, leave it. Look, the whole land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient to you to go, go.« 
5 As Jeremiah delayed leaving, he said: »Go back, he added, to Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and remain with him among the people; or go wherever you please.» And the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and dismissed him.

6 And Jeremiah went to Gedaliah at Maspha, and he stayed with him in the midst of the people left in the land.

7 When all the commanders of troops who were in the field, they and their men, had learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, governor of the land, and had put the men in his charge, women and the children, and those the poor of the country who were not deported to Babylon,
8 They came to Gedaliah at Masphah, namely: Ishmael son of Nathaniah, Johanan and Jonathan sons of Karea, Saraiah son of Tanehumeth, the sons of Ephoi, of Netophah, and Jezoniah son of the Maahathite, they and their men.
9 Godolias, son of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, said to them and their men with an oath: »Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans; remain in the land, serve the king of Babylon, and you will be well off.
10 As for me, here I am, staying in Maspha to be under the orders of the Chaldeans who will come to you. And you, gather the wine, the fruit, and the oil; put them in your vessels, and settle in the cities you are occupying.« 

11 All the Judeans who were in the country of Moab, among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and who learned in all these country-there that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah, and that he had given them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor.
12 Then all the Judeans returned from all the places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah at Maspjah; and they gathered wine and fruit in abundance.

13 But Johanan, son of Carea, and all the commanders of the troops who were in the field, came to Godolias at Maspha,
14 and said to him, »Do you know that Baalis, king of the Ammonites, has sent Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, to take your life?» But Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, did not believe them.
15 Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Masphah, saying, »Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Natiniah, without anyone knowing. Why should he take your life, and all the Jews who have gathered around you be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?« 
16 Gedaliah, son of Ahicham, said to Johanan, son of Kareah, »Do not do that, for what you are saying about Ishmael is false.« 

Chapter 41

1 In the seventh month, Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal line, came, accompanied by nobles officers from the king and ten men, to Godolias, son of Ahicam, at Maspha; and they ate together at Maspha,
2 Then Ishmael son of Nathaniah rose up, he and the ten men who were with him, and they struck down Gedaliah son of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him—he whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor of the land,
3 — as well as all the Judeans who were with him, — with Gedaliah, — at Maspha; Ishmael also killed the Chaldeans who were there, the fighting men.

4 The second day after Godolias' murder, before anyone knew,
Five men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, number of eighty, with a shaved beard and torn clothes, and the body covered with incisions; they carried offerings and incense, to present them to the house of Yahweh.
6 Ishmael, son of Nathanaë, went out from Maspha to meet them, weeping; and when he reached them, he said to them, »Come to Gedaliah, son of Ahicham.« 
7 But as soon as they entered the city, Ishmael, son of Natiniah, slaughtered them and threw them in the middle of the cistern, he and the men who were with him.

8 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, »Do not kill us, for we have hidden stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the fields.» So he stopped and did not kill them in the midst of their brothers.
9 The cistern into which Ishmael threw the corpses of the men he had struck down because of Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had made for Baasha, king of Israel; it was the one that Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, filled with corpses.

10 And Ishmael took captive the rest of the people who were at Maspha, the king's daughters and all the people who had remained at Maspha, to whom Nebuzardan, the commander of the guard, had appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, as their leader; Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, took them captive, and departed to cross over to the Ammonites.

11 Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the commanders of troops who were with him, having heard of all the evil that Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, had done,
12 took all their men and set out to fight Ishmael, son of Nathaniah; they caught up with him near the great pool of Gibeon.
13 And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the troops who were with him, they rejoiced.
14 And all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Masphah turned around and came to join Johanan, son of Kareah.
15 But Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, escaped with eight men before Johanan, and went to the sons of Ammon.
16 And Johanan, son of Karea, and all the commanders of the troops who were with him, took all the rest of the people whom Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, had brought from Masphah, after killing Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, men of war, women, children and eunuchs, and they brought them back from Gibeon.
17 They went and stopped at the caravanserai of Shamaam, near Bethlehemto withdraw Next in Egypt,
18 away from the Chaldeans whom they feared, because Ishmael, son of Nathaniah, had killed Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor of the land.

Chapter 42

1 Then all the commanders of the troops, as well as Johanan son of Kareah, Jezoniah son of Hosaiah, and all the people, both small and great, approached
2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, »Let our supplication come before you; intercede for us with the Lord your God for all this remaining.” of Judah; because, by many that we were, We are reduced to a small number, as your eyes see us.
3 May the Lord your God show us the way we should go and what we should do.« 
4 Jeremiah the prophet answered them, »I have heard; behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words, and all that the Lord answers you I will tell you, hiding nothing from you.« 
5 They said to Jeremiah, »May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do everything according to the word that the Lord your God will send us.” communicate.
6 Whether it be good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, so that good may come to us, by obeying the voice of the Lord our God.« 

7 And at the end of ten days, the word of Yahweh came addressed to Jérémie.
8 And he called Johanan, son of Kareah, all the commanders of the troops who were with him, and all the people, both small and great;
9 and he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, to whom you have sent me to present your supplication before him:
10 If you continue to live in this land, I will establish you and not destroy you, I will plant you and not uproot you; for I relent of the evil I have done to you.
11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.
12 I will grant you compassion, and he will have compassion on you, and he will bring you back to your country.
13 If you say, “We will not remain in this land,” so that you do not obey the voice of Yahweh your God;
14 If you say, “No! But we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, where we will not hear the sound of the trumpet, where we will not feel…” hunger, And It is there that we will live, —
15 Then hear the word of the Lord, you remnant of Judah: This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: If you look toward Egypt for y go, and that you y come in to live there,
16 The sword you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you dread will cling to you there in Egypt; and there you will die.
17 All those who have set their eyes on Egypt to go there and to live there will die by the sword, by famine and by plague, and there will not be any of them who will survive and escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
18 For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: As my anger and wrath were upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be upon you when you go into Egypt; you will be an object of’execration, astonishment, curses and outrages, and you will never see this place again.
19 Remnant of Judah, Yahweh says to you: Do not enter Egypt; know well that I solemnly warn you today.
20 For you were deceiving yourselves when you sent me to Yahweh our God, saying, “Intercede for us with Yahweh our God, and whatever Yahweh our God says, declare to us, and we will do it.”.
21 I have told you this today, but you have not listened to the voice of the Lord your God, nor to anything he sent me. communicate.
22 Now therefore, know well that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague, in the place where you have chosen to live.« 

Chapter 43

1 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, all these words that the Lord their God had sent him, communicate,
2 Azariah son of Hosaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, »You are lying; the Lord our God has not sent you to We say: Do not enter Egypt to live there.
3 But it is Baruch, son of Neriah, who is stirring you up against us, to hand us over to the Chaldeans, to kill us and carry us off to Babylon.« 
4 So Johanan, son of Kareah, all the commanders of the troops, and all the people did not listen to the voice of Yahweh who ordered them to remain in the land of Judah.
5 But Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the troops took all the remnant of Judah, those who had returned from all the nations where they had been scattered, to live in the land of Judah,
6 men, women and children, the king's daughters and all the people that Nebuzardan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah, son of Ahicam, son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch, son of Neriah.
7 They entered the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh; and they came as far as Tahnes.

8 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah at Tahnesh, saying:
9 Take large stones in your hand and hide them, in the presence of the men of Judah, in the cement of the brick platform that is at the entrance of Pharaoh's house at Tahnesh,
10 and say to them: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I am going to send and take Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will place his throne upon these stones which I have hidden; he shall spread his carpet upon them.
11 He will come and strike the land of Egypt: whoever is for death, to death! whoever is for captivity, into captivity! whoever is for the sword, to the sword.
12 And I will set fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt; he will burn them down and take them away the gods captives; he will wrap himself in the land of Egypt, as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will come out of it peacefully.
13 He will smash the pillars of the house of the Sun which is in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt!

Chapter 44

1 The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, living in Migdol, Tahnesh, Noph, and the land of Phatures, in these words:

2 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah; today they lie desolate and without inhabitants,
3 because of the evil they did to provoke me to anger, by going and offering incense and tribute to foreign gods which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.
4 I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying, “Do not do this abomination that I hate.”.
5 But they did not listen, they did not pay attention to turn from their wickedness and no longer offer incense to foreign gods.
6 Therefore my indignation and my anger fell upon them and burned against the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, which became a desolate and deserted place, as It's obvious. Today.
7 And now, this is what the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you This It is a great evil for you to be exterminated from the midst of Judah, your men and your women, your children and your infants, without leaving you any leftovers,
8 to provoke me to anger at the works of your hands, in burning incense to foreign gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live, in order to be destroyed, and in order to become an object of curse and d’disgrace among all the peoples of the earth?
9 Have you forgotten the sins of your fathers, the sins of the kings of Judah, the sins of the women of Judah, your crimes and the crimes of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They have not been contrite to this day, they have not been afraid, they have not walked in my law nor in my commandments which I set before you and before your fathers.
11 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to turn my face against you for your harm and to destroy all Judah.”.
12 I will take the remnant of Judah, who have looked towards the land of Egypt, to y come to live. They will all be consumed in the land of Egypt and they will fall; they will be consumed by the sword and by famine; both small and great will die by the sword and by famine, and they will be an object of’execration, of stupefaction, of curse and d’disgrace.
13 I will visit those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I visited Jerusalem, by the sword, by famine, and by plague.
14 None of the remnant of Judah, who came to dwell here in the land of Egypt and to return to the land of Judah, where their desire compels them to return and dwell, will escape or survive. For they will not return, except for a few survivors.

15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to foreign gods, and all women gathered there, In a great assembly, and all the people who remained in the land of Egypt, in Pathures, answered Jeremiah in these words:
16 »As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we do not listen to you.
17 But we will certainly fulfill every promise we have made, by burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of bread, we were happy, and we did not see the trouble.
18 But since we stopped offering incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we lacked everything and were consumed by the sword and by famine.
19 And when we offered incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out libations to her, was it apart from our husbands that we made cakes to represent her and poured out libations to her?

20 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people against men, against women and against those who had answered him in this way, and he said to them:
21 "Is it not the incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, that Yahweh remembered and that came up into his heart?
22 Yahweh could not THE to endure longer, because of the wickedness of your actions and the abominations you have committed; and your land has become a desolate, devastated, and cursed place, where no one lives, as we can see it Today.
23 It is because you have offered incense and sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, his statutes, his ordinances, and his precepts; therefore this calamity has befallen you, as It's obvious. Today. "« 

24 And Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, »Hear the word of the Lord, all of you, men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.
25 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives, you L'’You have declared with your mouths and carried out with your hands, saying: Yes, we will fulfill the vows we have made, to offer incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out libations to her. Well then, fulfill your vows, do not fail to fulfill your vows!
26 Listen, all of you, to the word of the Lord!, men of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt. Behold, I swear by my great name, says Yahweh: My name shall no more be spoken in all the land of Egypt by the mouth of any man of Judah saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives!”
27 Behold, I am watching over them, for their harm and not for their good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until their extermination.
28 And those who escape the sword, few in number, will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah. And all the remnant of Judah, those who came to Egypt to live there, will know whose word will be fulfilled, mine or theirs.
29 And this will be for you, declares the Lord, the sign that I will visit you in this place, so that you may know that my words will certainly come true for your harm:
30 This is what the Lord says: I am about to deliver Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemies and into the hands of those who want to kill him, just as I delivered Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, his enemy, who wanted to kill him.« 

Chapter 45

1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in the book at Jeremiah's dictation, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, — in these words:
2 »This is what the Lord, king of Israel, says about you, Baruch:
3 You say: Woe to me! For Yahweh adds to my sorrow pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
4 Thus you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I will destroy; what I have planted I will uproot, and It is all this land.
5 And you, you would seek great things for yourself! Do not THE Do not seek! For behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord; but I will give you your life as a prize in all the places where you go.« 

Chapter 46

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the pagan nations.

2 Concerning Egypt. — Against the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was near the river Euphrates, at Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah.

3 Prepare the shield and buckler, and march into battle!
4 Harness the horses; mount up, riders! To your ranks, you who wear The helmet! Sharpen the spears, put on the breastplate!

5 What do I see? They are struck with terror, they turn their backs! Their warriors are defeated, they flee without looking back! Terror on all sides! — oracle of Yahweh.

6. That the’man Let not the agile flee, let not the valiant escape! In the north, on the banks of the river Euphrates, they stumbled, they fell!

7 Who is this that rises like the Nile, whose waters surge like rivers?
8 It is Egypt that is going up, like the Nile, whose waters are surging like rivers. She has said: I will go up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the cities and their inhabitants.

9 Mount up, horses! Chariots, rush forth! Onward, warriors! Ethiopians and Libyans who wield shields, Lydians who wield And They draw their bows!

10 But this day belongs to the Lord Yahweh of hosts; a day of vengeance to avenge himself on his enemies! The sword devours and is satisfied, it drinks its fill of their blood. For it is a sacrifice to the Lord Yahweh of hosts, in the land of the north, by the river Euphrates.

11 Go up to Gilead and get some balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain you multiply remedies; there is no healing for you.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cries of distress fill the earth. For warrior against warrior; both fall.

13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.

14 Publish it in Egypt, make it heard in Migdol, make it heard in Noph and Taphnes; say: To your ranks, stand ready; already the sword devours around you!

15 What! Your hero is overthrown! He did not stand, for Yahweh threw him to the ground.
16 He multiplies those who stumble; they fall one upon another, and they say, Let us rise up, let us return to our people and to our native land, away from the murderous sword.
17 There they cried out: “Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is lost; he has let the time pass.” favorable.

18 I live! — oracle of the king whose name is Yahweh of hosts: Like Tabor among the mountains, like Carmel above the sea, he comes.

19 Prepare your belongings, captive, inhabitant, daughter of Egypt; for Noph will become a desert; it will be burned and without inhabitants.

20 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; a horsefly comes, comes from the north.
21 Her mercenaries in her midst are like fattened calves. They too turn their backs, they flee all together; they do not resist; for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

22 Her voice is like the sound of a snake slithering away; for they came in force, they arrived at her with axes, like woodcutters.

23 They have cut down his forest, — declares Yahweh, when it was impenetrable; for they are more numerous than locusts, and cannot be counted.
24 The daughter of Egypt is ashamed; she has been given into the hands of a people from the north!

25 Yahweh of armies, God of Israel, said: Behold, I am going to visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and its gods, and its kings, and Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.
26 And I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants. And afterward, it will be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the Lord.

27 Therefore, do not be afraid, my servant Jacob; do not be dismayed, Israel. For behold, I will bring you out of a distant land, and your descendants from the land of their exile; Jacob will return and be at ease and secure, with no one to frighten him.

28 “Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob,” declares the Lord, “for I am with you! I will make a complete extermination of all the nations where I have driven you. But I will not completely exterminate you; I will discipline you according to justice and will not leave you unpunished.”.

Chapter 47

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

2 This is what the Lord says: “Behold, waters are rising from the north; they will become like an overflowing torrent, and will overwhelm the land and everything in it, the city and its inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all the inhabitants of the land will mourn.”.
3 At the sound of the hooves of his steeds, at the crash of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels, fathers no longer turn towards their children, so powerless are their hands!

4 This is because of the day that has come, when all the Philistines will be destroyed, all the last allies of Tyre and Sidon will be exterminated; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.
5 Gaza is bald, Ashkelon is ruined, along with the valley that surrounds them; how long will you cut yourself?
6 Ah! Sword of Yahweh, how long will you not have rest? Return to your sheath, cease and be still!
7 How could you rest, when the Lord has commanded you? Toward Ashkelon and the seashore, It is there that’He runs it.

Chapter 48

1 A Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste; Cariathaim is covered with shame, it is captured; the fortress is covered with shame, it is demolished;
2 The glory of Moab is no more! In Hesebon they plot evil against him: Let us go and exterminate him from among the nations! You too, Madmen, will be silenced, the sword marches behind you.
3. Screams leave of Horonaim; devastation and great ruin!

4 Moab is broken; her little children cry out.
5 Yes! at the ascent of Luith there is weeping, they go up it weeping; yes! at the descent of Horonaim, they hear cries of distress.

6 Flee, save your lives! May they be like heather in the heath!
7 For, since you put Your confidence in your works and your treasures will also lead to your downfall; and Chamos will go into exile., with his priests and his princes, all together.

8 The destroyer will come against all the cities, and not one city will escape; the valleys will be ruined, and the plateau ravaged, as Yahweh has said.
9 Give wings to Moab, for it must fly; its cities will be devastated, without inhabitants.
10 Cursed be he who does the work of the Lord half-heartedly! Cursed be he who refuses to shed blood by his sword!

11 Moab has been at peace since his youth; he has rested on his lees; he has not been emptied from one vessel to another, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste has remained, and his fragrance has not faded.

12 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will send him potters who will pour him out; they will empty his vessels and break his jugs.
13 And Moab will be ashamed of Hamosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in whom was his confidence.

14 How can you say, »We are warriors, valiant men in battle?« 
15 Moab is devastated, its cities rise in smoke, the elite of his young men go down to the slaughter; — oracle of the king, whose name is Yahweh of armies.

16 The ruin of Moab draws near, its calamity comes with great haste.
17 Comfort him, all you his neighbors, and all you who know his name, and say, »How is it that such a mighty staff, such a magnificent scepter, was broken?« 

18 Descend from your glory and sit on the dry land, inhabitant, daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has torn down your walls.

19 Stand by the road and observe, inhabitant of Aroer; question him who flees and her who escapes; say, »What happened?”
20 »Moab is confounded, for it is overthrown. Wail and cry out! Proclaim on the Arnon that Moab is ravaged!« 

21 Judgment has come upon the land of the plain, upon Helon, upon Jasa, upon Mephaath,
22 on Dibon, on Nabo, on Beth-Deblathaim,
23 on Caryathaim, on Beth-Gamul, on Beth-Maon,
24 on Carioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, both far and near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and its arm is broken, — oracle of Yahweh.

26 Make him drunk, for he has risen up against the Lord! Let Moab wallow in his vomit, and let him become an object of He was ridiculed too!
27 Has not Israel been for you an object of Ridiculed? Was he caught with thieves, so that every time you talk about him, you nod your head?

28 Abandon the cities; dwell in the rocks, inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove that makes its nest above the gaping precipice.

29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, the very proud, his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the pride of his heart.

30 Me Also I know, — oracle of Yahweh, his boasting, and his empty words, and his vain works.

31 Therefore I lament over Moab; over all Moab I cry out; there is groaning over the people of Kir-Heres.
32 More than for Jazer, I weep for you, O vine of Sabama. Your branches reached beyond the sea, they touched the Sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen upon your harvest and your vintage.
33 Joy And joy has vanished from the orchards and the land of Moab; I have dried up the wine from the vats; it is no longer trodden. noise of Hurrahs; the hurrah is no longer the hurrah.

34 Because of the cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; as far as Jasa, they raise their cry; from Segor to Horonaim, until Eglath-Selisia; For even the waters of Nemrim will dry up.
35 I will put an end to Moab, — declares Yahweh, to him who goes up to his high place and offers incense to his god.

36 Therefore my heart mourns like a flute for Moab, yes, my heart mourns like a flute for the people of Kir-heres. Therefore the gain they had made is lost.

37 For every head is shaved, and every beard cut off; on every hand There is incisions; and on the kidneys, sacs.

38 On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel that is no longer wanted, — oracle of Yahweh.

39 How broken it is! Wail! How shamefully Moab has turned its back! Moab has become a object of ridicule, and terror for all his neighbors.

40 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he will soar on wings like an eagle, and spread his wings over Moab.
41 Carioth is taken, the fortresses are carried away, and the heart of the warriors of Moab is, on this day, like the heart of a woman in labor.
42 Moab is exterminated of the rank of the peoples, because he has risen up against Yahweh.

43 Terror, pit, and snare are upon you, inhabitant of Moab! — oracle of Yahweh.
44 He who flees from the object of’terror will fall into the pit, and he who comes up from the pit will be caught in the net; for I am going to bring upon him, upon Moab, the year of his visitation, — oracle of Yahweh.

45 In the shadow of Heshbon they stopped, the fleeing ones exhausted; but a fire came out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sehon; it devoured the sides of Moab and the skull of the sons of tumult.

46 Woe to you, Moab! The people of Hamos are lost; for your sons are taken into exile, and your daughters into captivity.

47 But I will bring back the captives of Moab; at the end of days, — declares the Lord.

So far, the judgment of Moab.

Chapter 49

1 Against the children of Ammon.

Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no son, no heir? Why then has Melchum taken possession of Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites. She will become a heap of ruins, and her daughters will be given over to the fire, and Israel will inherit from those who inherited from him, declares the Lord.
3 Wail, Heshebon, for Ai has been plundered; cry out, daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth and wail; wander along the walls; for Melchom is going into exile, and with him his priests and his leaders.
4 Why boast of your Valleys? — Your valley is rich! — Rebellious girl, you who trust in your treasures, saying "Who would dare to come against me?"» 
5 Behold, I am bringing terror against you, — oracle of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, from all around; you shall be driven out, each straight ahead, and no one shall rally the fugitives.
6 But after that, I will bring back the captives of the children of Ammon, — oracle of Yahweh.

7 Against Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Have the wise ceased to offer counsel? Has their wisdom vanished?
8 Flee, turn back, huddle together, inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring ruin upon Esau at the time of my visitation.
9 If grape harvesters come to you, they leave nothing to glean; if they are thieves by night, they plunder to their heart's content.
10 For it is I who have uncovered Esau and discovered his hiding places, and he can no longer hide; his descendants are ruined, his brothers, his neighbors, — and he is no more.
11 Abandon your orphans, I will give them life, and let your widows trust in me!
12 For this is what the Lord says: “Those who were not to drink this cup will surely drink it; but will you be exempt? No, you will not be exempt; you will surely drink it!”
13 For I have sworn by myself, — declares the Lord: Bozra shall be a subject of astonishment and d’disgrace, a place deserted and cursed, and all its cities will be ruins forever.

14 I have heard the news from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: »Assemble yourselves and march against him! Rise up for battle!« 
15 For behold, I have made you small among the nations, despised among men.
16 The terror you inspired has led you astray, as has the pride of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the top of the hill. But though you raise your nest like an eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.

17 Edom will be a subject of’astonishment; all passers-by will be astonished, and will whistle at the sight of all his wounds.
18 This will be like the disaster of Sodom, Gomorrah and the neighboring cities, says Yahweh; no one will live there, no son of man will sojourn there.

19 Like a lion, behold, he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to the perpetual pasture; suddenly I will make him flee Edom, and I will install there the one I have chosen. For who is like me? Who would provoke me, and who is the shepherd who would stand against me?
20 Listen now to the plan that the Lord has taken against Edom, and the purposes he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: Yes, they will be swept away as weak sheep; yes, their pasture will be in astonishment.
21 At the sound of their fall, the earth trembled; the sound of their voices was heard as far as the Red Sea.
22 Behold, he ascends and takes flight like an eagle, he spreads his wings over Bozrah; and the heart of the warriors of Edom is that day like the heart of a woman in labor.

23 Against Damascus.

Hamath and Arphad are in confusion because they have received bad news; they melt with fear; it is the stormy sea that cannot be calmed.
24 Damascus is powerless, she turns to flee, and terror seizes her; anguish and pains grip her, like a woman giving birth.
25 How utterly abandoned is the glorious city, the city of delights and joy!
26 Also her young men will fall in her squares, as well as all her fighting men; they will perish on that day, — oracle of Yahweh of armies.
27 I will kindle a fire in the walls of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

28 Against Kedar and the kingdoms of Hasor, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, struck down.

Thus says Yahweh: Arise! March against Cedar, exterminate the sons of the East!
29 Let their tents and their flocks be taken away! Let their curtains, all their baggage, and their camels be removed! And let them shout: Terror on every side!
30 Flee with all your might, huddle together, inhabitants of Hasor! — oracle of the Lord. For Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has devised a plan against you, he has conceived a scheme against you.

31 Arise! March against a people at ease, secure in their dwelling, — oracle of Yahweh, who have neither gates nor bars, who live apart.
32 Their camels will be your booty, and the multitude of their flocks your spoils. I will scatter them to all the winds, these men with shaved temples, and from all sides I will bring them to their ruin, — oracle of Yahweh.
33 And Hasor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever; no one will dwell there, no son of man will stay there.

34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet for Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:

35 Thus says Yahweh of armies: Behold, I am about to break the bow of Elam, the source of its strength.
36 I will bring against Elam four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds; and there will not be a nation where fugitives from Elam will not arrive.
37 I will make Elam tremble before its enemies and before those who seek its life. I will bring disaster upon them, the fire of my fierce anger, declares the Lord. I will send the sword after them until I have destroyed them.
38 I will place my throne in Elam, and I will destroy its king and chiefs, — oracle of Yahweh.
39 But at the end of days I will bring back the captives of Elam, declares the Lord.

Chapter 50

1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet.

2 Announce it among the nations, proclaim it; raise a banner, proclaim it; do not hide it, say: Babel has fallen! Bel is put to shame, Merodach is struck down; her idols are put to shame, her false gods are struck down.
3 For from the north a people is coming up against her; they will make her land a desolate place, there will be no inhabitant left; men and beasts have fled, have gone away.

4 In those days and at that time, declares the Lord, the children of Israel will return, they and the children of Judah with them; they will walk weeping and seek the Lord their God.
5 They will ask for Zion and turn their faces toward it. »Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.« 
6 My people were a flock of sheep that went astray; their shepherds led them astray on treacherous mountains; they went from mountain to hill, forgetting their fold.
7 All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, »We are innocent!» Because they had sinned against Yahweh, the dwelling place of righteousness, against Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

8 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the goats, at the head of the flock.
9 For behold, I am about to raise up and bring against Babel a gathering of great peoples from the land of the north. They will unite against it, And from that direction she will be taken; their arrows are those of a skilled warrior, who does not return empty-handed.
10 And Chaldea will be plundered, and all who plunder it will be satisfied, — oracle of Yahweh.

11 Yes, rejoice; yes, give yourselves over to jubilation, plunderers of my inheritance; yes, leap like a heifer in the meadow, neigh like stallions!
12 Your mother is covered with shame; she who bore you is blushing with disgrace. Behold, she is the last of the nations, a desert, a steppe, a parched land.
13 Because of the anger of Yahweh, it will no longer be inhabited, it will be a desolate place; whoever passes by Babel will be astonished and hiss at the sight of its wounds.

14 Take up your positions against Babel all around, all you archers! Shoot at her, do not spare the arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh.
15 Raise a war cry against her on every side; she stretches out her hands; her towers crumble, her walls are overturned. For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take revenge on her; do to her as she has done!
16 Destroy from Babel the sower, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. Before the destructive sword, let each turn to his people, let each flee to his country.
17 Israel is a lost sheep, hunted by lions; the first devoured it: the king of Assyria; then another broke its bones: Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.
18 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “I am going to visit the king of Babylon and his land, just as I visited the king of Assyria.”.
19 And I will bring Israel back to its place; and it will graze in Carmel and in Bashan; and on the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead, it ira to satisfy one's hunger.
20 In those days and at that time, declares the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; the sin of Judah, but it shall not be found; for I will forgive the remnant that I have left.

21 Go up against the land of Rebellion and against the inhabitants of Punishment; destroy, exterminate-some after the others, — oracle of Yahweh, and do to them all that I have commanded you.
22 Sounds of battle in the country and a great massacre!
23 How was the hammer of the whole earth broken and shattered? How did Babel become a object of’Horror, in the midst of nations?
24 I laid snares, and you were caught, Babel, without knowing it; you were found and seized, because you went to war against Yahweh.
25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his anger; for the Lord Yahweh of armies has a matter to deal with in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from all sides, open her granaries, pile up All like sheaves, and exterminate; let nothing remain!
27 Kill all the bulls, let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them, for their day has come, the time when they will be visited.
28 Cries of the fugitives and those who escape from the land of Babel! They announce in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh, our God, the vengeance of his temple.

29 Summon archers against Babel, all who bend the bow; encamp around her: let no one escape! Repay her according to her deeds, do to her all that she has done; for she has risen up against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her fighting men will perish on that day, — oracle of Yahweh.
31 Here I am against you, insolent one! — oracle of the Lord Yahweh of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will visit.
32 She will stumble, the insolent one, she will fall, and no one will raise her up; I will set fire to her cities, and it will devour all around her.
33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel are oppressed, and with them the children of Judah; all who took them captive hold them fast; and refuse to let them go.
34 But their avenger is strong; Yahweh of armies is his name; he will powerfully defend their cause, to give rest to the earth, and to make the inhabitants of Babel tremble.

35 A sword against the Chaldeans, — oracle of Yahweh, and against the inhabitants of Babel, and against its leaders and against its wise men!
36 Sword against the imposters, and let them lose their senses! Sword against his brave men, and let them tremble!
37 A sword against her horses and chariots, and against all the rabble who are in her midst, and let them be like women! A sword against her treasures, and let them be plundered!
38 Drought upon its waters, and let them dry up! For it is a land of idols, and before these frightening things they rave.
39 Also the desert animals will settle there with the jackals; the ostriches will make their home there; it will never again be populated; it will never again be inhabited from age to age.
40 As when God destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah and the surrounding towns, — declares Yahweh, no one will remain there, no son of man will sojourn there.

41 Behold, a people is coming from the North; a great nation and many kings are rising from the ends of the earth.
42 They hold the bow and the javelin in their hands; they are cruel and without pity. Their voice roars like the sea; they are mounted on horses, lined up as one man to the war, against you, daughter of Babel.
43 The king of Babel heard the news, and his hands went weak; anguish seized him, like the pains of a woman giving birth.
44 Like a lion, behold, he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to the perennial pasture; and suddenly I will drive them away from it, and I will establish there the one I have chosen. For who is like me? Who would provoke me, and what shepherd would stand against me?
45 Listen now to the plan of the Lord that he has taken against Babel, and the purposes that he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Yes, they will be drawn away as weak sheep; yes, the pasture will be in awe!
46 At the sound of the fall of Babel, the earth trembles, a cry is heard among the nations!

Chapter 51

1 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am going to raise up against Babel, and against the inhabitants of Chaldea, the spirit of a destroyer.
2 And I will send winnowers to Babel who will winnow it; and they will empty its land, for they will come upon it from all sides in the day of calamity.
3 Let the archer bend his bow against the archer and against him who struts in his armor! Do not spare his young men, annihilate his entire army.
4 Let the mortally wounded fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the pierced in the streets of Babel!
5 For Israel and Judah are not widows of their God, of Yahweh of armies, and the land of the Chaldeans is filled with iniquities against the Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and let each of you save your life! Do not perish for her crime; for it is the time of vengeance for Yahweh; he will repay her what she deserves.

7 Babel was a golden cup in the hand of Yahweh; it made the whole earth drunk; the nations drank of its wine, therefore the nations are mad.
8 Suddenly Babel fell and was shattered; howl at her; take balm for her wound; perhaps she will be healed!
9 »We wanted to heal Babel, but it was not healed; leave it! Let each of us go to our own country! For its judgment reaches to the heavens and ascends to the clouds.« 
10 Yahweh has demonstrated the justice of our cause; come, let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
11 Sharpen your arrows, take up your shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of Media, for his purpose is to destroy Babel. This is the Lord's vengeance, the vengeance for his temple.
12 Raise the standard against the walls of Babylon; strengthen the blockade, post sentries, set ambushes! For Yahweh has formed a plan, he is carrying out what he has said against the inhabitants of Babel.
13 You who dwell by the great waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the end of your plundering!
14 Yahweh of armies has sworn by himself: I will fill you with men, like locusts, and they will shout for joy over you.

15 He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
16 At his voice, the waters gather in the heavens; he makes the clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he makes the lightning flash from which the downpour bursts forth, and brings the wind from its storehouses.
17 Every man is senseless and foolish; every craftsman is ashamed of his idol, for his idols are falsehood; there is no breath in them.
18 They are vanity, a work of deception; on the day of punishment they will perish.
19 Such is not the portion of Jacob; he formed the universe; his portion of inheritance is he who is called Yahweh of hosts.

20 You serve as my hammer, my weapon of war: by you I crush peoples; by you I destroy kingdoms;
21 Through you I crush the horse and its rider; through you I crush the chariot and its rider;
22 Through you I crush man and woman; through you I crush old man and child; through you I crush young man and young girl;
23 Through you I crush the shepherd and his flock; through you I crush the plowman and his team; through you I crush the governors and the leaders.
24 But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes, declares the Lord.

25 Here I am against you, mountain of destruction, — oracle of Yahweh who destroys all the earth; I stretch out my hand against you, I roll you down from the top of the rocks and I make you a burnt mountain.
26 They will not take from you cornerstones, nor stones for foundations, for you will be a ruin forever, — oracle of Yahweh.

27 Raise a standard on the earth; sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her; summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Menni and Ascenez! Appoint against her a commander of the army; send forth the horses like bristling locusts.
28 Consecrate against her the nations, the kings of Media, her captains and her leaders, and all the land over which they rule.
29 The earth quakes and trembles; for the purpose of the Lord is fulfilled against Babel, to turn the land of Babel into a place of terror, without inhabitants.
30 The mighty warriors of Babel have ceased fighting; they remain in the fortresses; their strength is spent, they have become like women. Their dwellings have been set on fire, their bars have been broken down. of its doors.
31 The couriers run to meet the couriers, the messengers to meet the messengers, to announce to the king of Babel that his city is taken on all sides.
32 The passes are occupied, the marshes are burned, and the men of war are dismayed!
33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babel is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest will come for her.
34 He devoured me, he consumed me, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel; he set me there like an empty vessel; like a dragon, he swallowed me up; he filled his belly with my best food: he drove me out.
35 “Let my torn flesh be on Babel!” the people of Zion will say; “and my blood on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I have taken up your cause and executed your vengeance; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.”.
37 And Babel will be a heap of stones, a den of jackals, a subject of terror and of mockery, without inhabitants.

38 They all roar together like lions; they growl like lionesses' cubs.
39 While they are in a fever, I will pour out a drink for them, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice; and they will fall asleep forever and not wake up again, — oracle of Yahweh.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

41 How was Sesak taken, how was the glory of all the earth conquered? How did it become an object of terror, Babel, among the nations?
42 The sea rose over Babel, and covered it with the sound of its waves.
43 Its cities have become an object of terror, a desolate and deserted land, a land where no one dwells, where no son of man passes.
44 I will visit Bel at Babel; and I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; and the nations will no longer stream to him. The very wall of Babel has fallen:
45 Come out of the midst of her, O my people; and let each of you save his life from the fierce anger of Yahweh.
46 Do not let your hearts fail, and do not be alarmed by the rumors that will be heard in the land. For one year a rumor will come, and the next a other noise : there will be violence in the country, tyrant against tyrant.
47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will visit the idols of Babel, and all her land will be confounded, and all her slain will fall in the midst of her.
48 Heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babel; for out of the north destroyers will come against her, — oracle of Yahweh.
49 Babel must fall, O slain of Israel, as to Babel have fallen the slain of all the earth.

50 Escapees from the sword, depart, do not stop! From the distant land remember Yahweh, and let Jerusalem be present in your heart!
51 We were ashamed, for we had learned of the outrage; shame covered our faces, for strangers had come against the sanctuary of the house of Yahweh.
52 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish his idols, and throughout his land those who are slaughtered will groan.
53 Though Babel should rise to the heavens, though it should make its high fortress inaccessible; by my command destroyers would come to it, — oracle of Yahweh.
54 A cry resounded from the direction of Babel: great disaster in the land of the Chaldeans!
55 For Yahweh devastates Babel, and he puts an end to its great noise; their waves roar like the great waters; and make their crashing heard.
56 For he has come against her, the destroyer, — against Babel; her warriors are captured, their bows are broken; for Yahweh is the God of retribution, he will surely pay!
57 I will make her princes and her wise men, her governors, her magistrates and her warriors drunk, and they will fall asleep a perpetual sleep, and will not wake up again, — oracle of the King, whose name is Yahweh of armies.
58 This is what the Lord Almighty says: The walls of Babel, so broad, will be utterly razed, and its high gates burned down. So the peoples labor for nothing, and the nations for the sake of fire, and they waste away by it.

59 The command that Jeremiah the prophet gave to Saraiah, son of Neriah, son of Maaziah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign. Saraiah was chief chamberlain.

60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disasters that were to happen to Babylon, all these words written about Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Saraiah, »When you arrive in Babylon, be sure to read all these words,
62 and you shall say: »Yahweh, you yourself have said concerning this place that it shall be destroyed, so that there shall be no inhabitant, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be a desolate place forever.« 
63 And when you have finished reading this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,
64 and you will say: Thus Babylon will perish, and she will not rise from the disaster I will bring upon her, and they will fall exhausted.« 

So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.

Chapter 52

1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Amital, daughter of Jeremiah, from Lobnah.
2 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, imitating all that Joakim had done.
3 This happened in Jerusalem and Judah, because of the anger of Yahweh, until he cast them out of his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 The ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah, the tenth month, the tenth day In the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came with all his army against Jerusalem; they camped before it and built approach walls all around it.

5 The city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

6 In the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, as the famine was great in the city, and there was no more bread for the people of the land,
7 A breach was made in the city, and all the fighting men fled out of the city during the night, through the gate between the two walls, near the king's garden, while the Chaldeans surrounded the city; and they took the road to the plain.
8 But the Chaldean army pursued the king; they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army scattered from him.
9 Having seized the king, they brought him up to the king of Babylon at Rebla in the land of Emath, and he pronounced judgments upon him.

10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before the eyes of their father ; He also slaughtered all the leaders of Judah at Rebla.
11 Then he gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with two bronze chains; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and held him captive. prison until the day of his death.

12 The fifth month, the tenth day of the month, — it was the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, — Nebuzardan, captain of the guard, who was minister to the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
13 He burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he gave over all the great houses to the fire.
14 The entire Chaldean army that was with the captain of the guards demolished the walls forming the enclosure of Jerusalem.

15 Nebuzardan, captain of the guards, led away captives a part the poorest of the people, with the rest of the people who had remained in the city, the deserters who had surrendered to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans.
16 But Nebuzardan, captain of the guards, left some of the poor of the country as vinedressers and farmers.

17 The Chaldeans broke the bronze pillars that belonged to the house of Yahweh, as well as the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
18 They took the pots, the shovels, the knives, the cups, the bowls, and all the bronze utensils used for serving.
19 The captain of the guards also took the basins, the censers, the cups, the pots, the candlesticks, the spoons and the urns, which were of gold and which were of silver.
20 As for the two pillars, the sea, the twelve bronze oxen that were beneath it, and the bases that King Solomon had made in the house of Yahweh, the bronze of all these utensils could not be weighed.
21 As for the columns, the height of a column was eighteen cubits, and a cord of twelve cubits measured its circumference; its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
22 Above it was a bronze capital, and the height of a capital was five cubits long; and all around the capital there was a latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze. The same was true of the second column; with the pomegranates.
23 There were ninety-six grenades on the faces, and all the grenades were number of a hundred on the trellis, all around.

24 The captain of the guards took Saraias the high priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three gatekeepers.
25 From the city he took an officer who commanded the men of war, seven men who were part of the king's privy council and who were found in the city, the secretary of the army commander in charge of enlisting the people of the country, and sixty men of the people of the country who were in the city.
26 Having taken them, Nebuzardan, captain of the guards, brought them to the king of Babylon at Rebla.
27 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Rebla, in the land of Emath.

Thus Judah was taken captive far from his homeland.

28 Here is the number men whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three men from Judah;
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two people from the population of Jerusalem;
In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzardan, captain of the guards, led Again Seven hundred and forty-five captives from Judah; in all four thousand six hundred people.

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, the twenty-fifth day In the month of Evil-Merodach, king of Babylon, in the year of his accession, restored the head of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and brought him out of prison.
32 He spoke kindly to him and placed his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 He made him change his clothes prison, And Joachin He ate in her presence, always, every day of his life.
34 As for his maintenance, his perpetual maintenance, the king of Babylon provided for it every day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.