Jeremiah, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
{34:2} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire: {34:3} and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall
surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see
the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to
mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. {34:4} Yet hear the word of
Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You
shall not die by the sword; {34:5} you shall die in peace; and with
the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so
shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you,
[saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh. {34:6}
Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of
Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} when the king of Babylon's army was
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that
were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone]
remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. {34:8} The word
that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had
made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim
liberty to them; {34:9} that every man should let his male servant,
and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go
free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew
his brother. {34:10} All the princes and all the people obeyed, who
had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male
servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should
make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
{34:11} but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids. {34:12} Therefore the word
of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {34:13} Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the
day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven years you shall
let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to
you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you:
but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
{34:15} You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my
eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
{34:16} but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their
pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to
you for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus says
Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to
his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you
a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} I will give the men who have
transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and
passed between its parts; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people
of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; {34:20} I will
even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to
the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth. {34:21}
Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from
you. {34:22} Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to
return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and
burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.
{35:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go to the
house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the
house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to
drink. {35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of Yahweh,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of
God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
{35:5} I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full
of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine. {35:6} But they
said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you,
nor your sons, forever: {35:7} neither shall you build house, nor sow
seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall
dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you
sojourn. {35:8} We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our
days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build
houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor
seed: {35:10} but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. {35:11} But it
happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land,
that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of
the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at
Jerusalem. {35:12} Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
{35:13} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not
receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh. {35:14} The
words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to
drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they
obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up
early and speaking; and you have not listened to me. {35:15} I have
sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and
amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and
you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
{35:16} Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this
people has not listened to me; {35:17} therefore thus says Yahweh, the
God of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced
against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard;
and I have called to them, but they have not answered. {35:18}
Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of
Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to
all that he commanded you; {35:19} therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a
man to stand before me forever.
{36:1} It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {36:2} Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the
words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of
Josiah, even to this day. {36:3} It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may
return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah;
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh,
which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. {36:5} Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of
Yahweh: {36:6} therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you
have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the
people in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them
in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. {36:7} It may
be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return
everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that
Yahweh has pronounced against this people. {36:8} Baruch the son of
Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. {36:9} Now
it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all
the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed
a fast before Yahweh. {36:10} Then read Baruch in the book the words
of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son
of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new
gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people. {36:11} When
Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the
book all the words of Yahweh, {36:12} he went down into the king's
house, into the scribe's chamber: and behold, all the princes were
sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of
Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of
Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
{36:13} Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. {36:14} Therefore
all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the
scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So
Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to
them. {36:15} They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
So Baruch read it in their ears. {36:16} Now it happened, when they
had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and
said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
{36:17} They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all
these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch answered them, He
pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with
ink in the book. {36:19} Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide
you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are. {36:20} They
went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in
the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the
ears of the king. {36:21} So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll;
and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read
it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who
stood beside the king. {36:22} Now the king was sitting in the winter
house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier
burning before him. {36:23} It happened, when Jehudi had read three or
four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it
into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was
consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. {36:24} They were not
afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants who heard all these words. {36:25} Moreover Elnathan and
Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would
not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them. {36:26} The king
commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and
Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah
the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. {36:27} Then the word of Yahweh came
to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words
which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28} Take
again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were
in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
{36:29} Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says
Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal? {36:30}
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He
shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall
be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
{36:31} I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn't listen. {36:32} Then took
Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of
Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and
there were added besides to them many like words.
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