Jeremiah, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word, {22:2} Say, Hear the word of the
LORD, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your
servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. {22:3} Thus
says the LORD: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who
is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no
violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither
shed innocent blood in this place. {22:4} For if you do this thing
indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings
sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he,
and his servants, and his people. {22:5} But if you will not hear
these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall
become a desolation. {22:6} For thus says the LORD concerning the
house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon.
Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not
inhabited. {22:7} I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with
his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire. {22:8} Many nations shall pass by this city, and they
shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to
this great city? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Because they forsook
the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and
served them. {22:10} Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but
weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor
see his native country. {22:11} For thus says the LORD touching
Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of
Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not
return there any more. {22:12} But in the place where they have led
him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
{22:13} Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his
rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and
doesn't give him his hire; {22:14} who says, I will build me a wide
house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling
with cedar, and painted with vermilion. {22:15} Shall you reign,
because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and
drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
{22:16} He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.
Wasn't this to know me? says the LORD. {22:17} But your eyes and your
heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent
blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. {22:18}
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother!
or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah
his glory! {22:19} He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. {22:20} Go up to
Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from
Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed. {22:21} I spoke to you in
your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way
from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice. {22:22} The wind shall
feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity:
surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your
wickedness. {22:23} Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the
cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you,
the pain as of a woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, says the LORD,
though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my
right hand, yet would I pluck you there; {22:25} and I will give you
into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them
of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of the Kasdim. {22:26} I will cast you out,
and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not
born; and there you will die. {22:27} But to the land whereunto their
soul longs to return, there shall they not return. {22:28} Is this man
Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none
delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into
the land which they don't know? {22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear
the word of the LORD. {22:30} Thus says the LORD, Write you this man
childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall
a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling
in Judah.
{23:1} Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! says the LORD. {23:2} Therefore thus says the LORD, the God
of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have
scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them;
behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
{23:3} I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries
where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
and they shall be fruitful and multiply. {23:4} I will set up
shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more,
nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says the LORD. {23:5}
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise to David a
righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and
shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. {23:6} In his
days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is
his name by which he shall be called: the LORD our righteousness.
{23:7} Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall
no more say, As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt; {23:8} but, As the LORD lives, who brought
up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north
country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They
shall dwell in their own land. {23:9} Concerning the prophets. My
heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken
man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and
because of his holy words. {23:10} For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the
wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not
right; {23:11} for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my
house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD. {23:12} Therefore
their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they
shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them,
even the year of their visitation, says the LORD. {23:13} I have seen
folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused
my people Israel to err. {23:14} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I
have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies;
and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return
from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and
its inhabitants as Gomorrah. {23:15} Therefore thus says the LORD of
Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land. {23:16} Thus
says the LORD of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who
prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their
own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. {23:17} They say
continually to those who despise me, the LORD has said, You shall have
peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart
they say, No evil shall come on you. {23:18} For who has stood in the
council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? who
has marked my word, and heard it? {23:19} Behold, the storm of the
LORD, his wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It shall burst
on the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger of the LORD shall not
return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
{23:21} I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to
them, yet they prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in my
council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had
turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
{23:23} Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?
{23:24} Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see
him? says the LORD. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
{23:25} I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in
my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. {23:26} How long
shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the
prophets of the deceit of their own heart? {23:27} who think to cause
my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man
to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. {23:28} The
prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word,
let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says
the LORD. {23:29} Isn't my word like fire? says the LORD; and like a
hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? {23:30} Therefore behold, I am
against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words everyone from
his neighbor. {23:31} Behold, I am against the prophets, says the
LORD, who use their tongues, and say, He says. {23:32} Behold, I am
against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and do tell
them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain
boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they
profit this people at all, says the LORD. {23:33} When this people, or
the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of
the LORD? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off,
says the LORD. {23:34} As for the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that
man and his house. {23:35} You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and
everyone to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the
LORD spoken? {23:36} You shall mention the burden of the LORD no more:
for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted
the words of the living God, of the LORD of Hosts our God. {23:37} You
shall say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What
has the LORD spoken? {23:38} But if you say, The burden of the LORD;
therefore thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, The burden of
the LORD, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The
burden of the LORD; {23:39} therefore, behold, I will utterly forget
you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to
your fathers, away from my presence: {23:40} and I will bring an
everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be
forgotten.
{24:1} The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set
before the LORD's temple, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One basket had very
good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had
very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Then
the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good
figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are
so bad. {24:4} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {24:5} Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I
regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into
the land of the Kasdim, for good. {24:6} For I will set my eyes on
them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will
build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not
pluck them up. {24:7} I will give them a heart to know me, that I am
the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for
they shall return to me with their whole heart. {24:8} As the bad
figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says the
LORD, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes,
and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who
dwell in the land of Egypt, {24:9} I will even give them up to be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to
be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where
I shall drive them. {24:10} I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that
I gave to them and to their fathers.
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