Jeremiah, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and
[take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
{19:2} and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I
shall tell you; {19:3} and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of
Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever
hears, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they have forsaken me,
and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other
gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of
Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, {19:5}
and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire
for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it,
neither came it into my mind: {19:6} therefore, behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. {19:7} I
will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I
will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the
hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give
to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
{19:8} I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone
who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its
plagues. {19:9} I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and
the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of
his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their
enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them. {19:10}
Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with
you, {19:11} and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so
will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's
vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in
Topheth, until there be no place to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do to
this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city
as Topheth: {19:13} and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth,
even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the
army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
{19:14} Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all
the people: {19:15} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil
that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck
stiff, that they may not hear my words.
{20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief
officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these
things. {20:2} Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him
in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in
the house of Yahweh. {20:3} It happened on the next day, that Pashhur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him,
Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. {20:4} For
thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to
all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies,
and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and
shall kill them with the sword. {20:5} Moreover I will give all the
riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of
it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them,
and carry them to Babylon. {20:6} You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in
your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and
there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your
friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. {20:7} Yahweh, you have
persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have
prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks
me. {20:8} For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and
destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and
a derision, all the day. {20:9} If I say, I will not make mention of
him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it
were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with
forbearing, and I can't [contain]. {20:10} For I have heard the
defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce
him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall;
peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him. {20:11} But Yahweh is with me as
an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and
they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because
they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which
shall never be forgotten. {20:12} But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the
righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance
on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. {20:13} Sing to Yahweh,
praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the
hand of evildoers. {20:14} Cursed be the day in which I was born:
don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. {20:15}
Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born
to you; making him very glad. {20:16} Let that man be as the cities
which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in
the morning, and shouting at noontime; {20:17} because he didn't kill
me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her
womb always great. {20:18} Why came I forth out of the womb to see
labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
{21:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king
Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, {21:2} Please inquire of Yahweh
for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us:
peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Jeremiah to them,
You shall tell Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,
with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them
into the midst of this city. {21:5} I myself will fight against you
with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation. {21:6} I will strike the inhabitants
of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great
pestilence. {21:7} Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah
king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left
in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he
shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them,
neither have pity, nor have mercy. {21:8} To this people you shall
say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and
the way of death. {21:9} He who remains in this city shall die by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out,
and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and
his life shall be to him for a prey. {21:10} For I have set my face on
this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
{21:11} Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of
Yahweh: {21:12} House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in
the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the
oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings. {21:13} Behold, I am
against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the
plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or
who shall enter into our habitations? {21:14} I will punish you
according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle
a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.
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