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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, 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, the queen mother, the
eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the
smiths, had 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 their fruit. {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
their fruit? {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 their midst; 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, his wrath, has 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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