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Jeremiah, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle,
and take some 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 the word of the LORD, kings of
Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD of Hosts: 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 is no place to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do to
this place, says the LORD, 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 the LORD
had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's
house, and said to all the people: {19:15} Thus says the LORD of
Hosts, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD. {20:3} It happened on the next day, that
Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said
to him, the LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
{20:4} For thus says the LORD, 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} LORD, 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 the LORD 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. {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; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him. {20:11} But the LORD 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, the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD, praise the LORD; for he has delivered the soul of the
needy from the hand of evildoers. {20:14} Cursed is the day in which I
was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
{20:15} Cursed is 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD
for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us:
perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then Jeremiah said to them,
You shall tell Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus says the LORD, 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
Kasdim 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD: 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 Kasdim 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 the LORD: 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 the word of the
LORD: {21:12} House of David, thus says the LORD, 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 the LORD; 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 the LORD; and I will kindle a fire
in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.
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