Jeremiah, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that
Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me
in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the
people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. {28:3}
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the
vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took
away from this place, and carried to Babylon: {28:4} and I will bring
again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with
all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I
will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. {28:5} Then the prophet
Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests,
and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of
Yahweh, {28:6} even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so;
Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again
the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from
Babylon to this place. {28:7} Nevertheless hear you now this word that
I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people: {28:8} The
prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied
against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of
evil, and of pestilence. {28:9} The prophet who prophesies of peace,
when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be
known, that Yahweh has truly sent him. {28:10} Then Hananiah the
prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke
it. {28:11} Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying,
Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations.
The prophet Jeremiah went his way. {28:12} Then the word of Yahweh
came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar
from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {28:13} Go, and
tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of
wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron. {28:14} For thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on
the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals
of the field also. {28:15} Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah
the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make
this people to trust in a lie. {28:16} Therefore thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this
year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
{28:17} So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
{29:1} Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the
captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the
people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon, {29:2} (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother,
and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem), {29:3} by
the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of
Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying, {29:4} Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to
be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: {29:5} Build you
houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of
them. {29:6} Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives
for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear
sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.
{29:7} Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be
carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of
it shall you have peace. {29:8} For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you,
and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams
which you cause to be dreamed. {29:9} For they prophesy falsely to you
in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh. {29:10} For thus says
Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit
you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to
this place. {29:11} For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in
your latter end. {29:12} You shall call on me, and you shall go and
pray to me, and I will listen to you. {29:13} You shall seek me, and
find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. {29:14} I
will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your
captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all
the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you
again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
{29:15} Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in
Babylon; {29:16} thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the
throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city,
your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity; {29:17}
thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that
can't be eaten, they are so bad. {29:18} I will pursue after them with
the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver
them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth,
to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a
reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them; {29:19}
because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I
sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh. {29:20} Hear you therefore
the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away
from Jerusalem to Babylon. {29:21} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah
the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I
will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and
he shall kill them before your eyes; {29:22} and of them shall be
taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon,
saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of
Babylon roasted in the fire; {29:23} because they have worked folly in
Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and
have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and
I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. {29:24} Concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, {29:25} Thus speaks
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent
letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and
to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests,
saying, {29:26} Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada
the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for
every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put
him in the stocks and in shackles. {29:27} Now therefore, why have you
not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
{29:28} because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity]
is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and
eat the fruit of them? {29:29} Zephaniah the priest read this letter
in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. {29:30} Then came the word of
Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, {29:31} Send to all them of the captivity,
saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because
Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has
caused you to trust in a lie; {29:32} therefore thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall
not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the
good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken
rebellion against Yahweh.
{30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {30:2}
Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words
that I have spoken to you in a book. {30:3} For, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people
Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the
land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. {30:4}
These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning
Judah. {30:5} For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask now, and see whether
a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands
on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness? {30:7} Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it:
it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of
it. {30:8} It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies,
that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your
bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; {30:9}
but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I
will raise up to them. {30:10} Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob
my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I
will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and
none shall make him afraid. {30:11} For I am with you, says Yahweh, to
save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have
scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will
correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
{30:12} For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound
grievous. {30:13} There is none to plead your cause, that you may be
bound up: you have no healing medicines. {30:14} All your lovers have
forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the
wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the
greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. {30:15}
Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness
of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these
things to you. {30:16} Therefore all those who devour you shall be
devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into
captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who
prey on you will I give for a prey. {30:17} For I will restore health
to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they
have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks
after. {30:18} Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the
captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his
dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the
palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. {30:19} Out of them
shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify
them, and they shall not be small. {30:20} Their children also shall
be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me;
and I will punish all who oppress them. {30:21} Their prince shall be
of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them;
and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for
who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh. {30:22}
You shall be my people, and I will be your God. {30:23} Behold, the
tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. {30:24} The fierce
anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he
have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall
understand it.
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