Jeremiah, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
{10:2} Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and
don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are
dismayed at them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. {10:5}
They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must
be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they
can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good." {10:6} There is none
like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.
{10:7} Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains
to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all
their royal estate, there is none like you. {10:8} But they are
together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a
stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of
the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they
are all the work of skillful men. {10:10} But Yahweh is the true God;
he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth
trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
{10:11} You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from
under the heavens. {10:12} He has made the earth by his power, he has
established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he
stretched out the heavens: {10:13} when he utters his voice, there is
a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and
brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. {10:14} Every man is
become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is
disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them. {10:15} They are vanity, a work of
delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. {10:16}
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all
things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies
is his name. {10:17} Gather up your wares out of the land, you who
abide in the siege. {10:18} For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling
out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them,
that they may feel [it]. {10:19} Woe is me because of my hurt! my
wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must
bear it. {10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my
children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none
to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. {10:21} For the
shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh:
therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
{10:22} The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out
of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a
dwelling place of jackals. {10:23} Yahweh, I know that the way of man
is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
{10:24} Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest
you bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out your wrath on the nations
that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name:
for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed
him, and have laid waste his habitation.
{11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {11:2}
Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} and say to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn't hear the
words of this covenant, {11:4} which I commanded your fathers in the
day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so you shall be my people, and I will be your
God; {11:5} that I may establish the oath which I swore to your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this
day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh. {11:6} 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 do
them. {11:7} For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that
I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising
early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they didn't
obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of
their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this
covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.
{11:9} Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned
back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my
words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of
Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made
with their fathers. {11:11} Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they
shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them. {11:12} Then shall the
cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the
gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all
in the time of their trouble. {11:13} For according to the number of
your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing,
even altars to burn incense to Baal. {11:14} Therefore don't pray for
this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not
hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
{11:15} What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked
lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you
do evil, then you rejoice. {11:16} Yahweh called your name, A green
olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great
tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken. {11:17}
For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against
you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of
Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger
by offering incense to Baal. {11:18} Yahweh gave me knowledge of it,
and I knew it: then you showed me their doings. {11:19} But I was like
a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that
they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree
with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered. {11:20} But, Yahweh of
Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I
shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
{11:21} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who
seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh,
that you not die by our hand; {11:22} therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the
sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; {11:23} and
there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of
Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
{12:1} You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I
would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked
prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? {12:2}
You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they
bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their
heart. {12:3} But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart
toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare
them for the day of slaughter. {12:4} How long shall the land mourn,
and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those
who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because
they said, He shall not see our latter end. {12:5} If you have run
with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend
with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how
will you do in the pride of the Jordan? {12:6} For even your brothers,
and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with
you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though
they speak beautiful words to you. {12:7} I have forsaken my house, I
have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul
into the hand of her enemies. {12:8} My heritage is become to me as a
lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I
have hated her. {12:9} Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of
prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all
the animals of the field, bring them to devour. {12:10} Many shepherds
have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot,
they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They
have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole
land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. {12:12}
Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the
sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other
end of the land: no flesh has peace. {12:13} They have sown wheat, and
have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit
nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the
fierce anger of Yahweh. {12:14} Thus says Yahweh against all my evil
neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people
Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land,
and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. {12:15} It shall
happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land. {12:16} It shall happen, if they
will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As
Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then
shall they be built up in the midst of my people. {12:17} But if they
will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and
destroying it, says Yahweh.
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