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
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 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 its peace you
shall 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 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 and a
future. {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 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 Nebuchadnezzar 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 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 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 waist, 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 do you cry 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 storm
of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall
burst on the head of the wicked. {30:24} The fierce anger of Yahweh
will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the
intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.
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