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 the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all
the people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD'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 the LORD; 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 the
LORD, {28:6} even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so; the
LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the
vessels of the LORD'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 the LORD 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 the LORD: 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
the LORD 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 the LORD: You have broken the
bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron. {28:14}
For thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the prophet
Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: the LORD
has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. {28:16}
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will send you away from off
the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have
spoken rebellion against the LORD. {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 the LORD of
Hosts, 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 the LORD for it; for in its peace
you shall have peace. {29:8} For thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD. {29:10} For thus says the
LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD; 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, the LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
{29:16} thus says the LORD 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 the LORD of Hosts; 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 the LORD, with which
I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them; but you would not hear, says the LORD. {29:20} Hear therefore
the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away
from Jerusalem to Babylon. {29:21} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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, the LORD 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 the
LORD. {29:24} Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak,
saying, {29:25} Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, 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} The LORD has made you
priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers
in the house of the LORD, 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 the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
{29:31} Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD
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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against the
LORD.
{30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {30:2}
Thus speaks the LORD, 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 the LORD, that I will turn again the captivity of my people
Israel and Judah, says the LORD; 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 the LORD spoke concerning Israel and
concerning Judah. {30:5} For thus says the LORD: 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 the LORD of
Hosts, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD; 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
the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD; because they have called you an outcast,
[saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. {30:18} Thus says the
LORD: 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 in its own way.
{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 the LORD. {30:22} You shall be my people, and I will be
your God. {30:23} Behold, the storm of the LORD, [even his] wrath, is
gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the
wicked. {30:24} The fierce anger of the LORD 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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