Jeremiah, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
{34:2} Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I
will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
burn it with fire: {34:3} and you shall not escape out of his hand,
but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes
shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you
mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. {34:4} Yet hear the word
of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says the LORD concerning
you, You shall not die by the sword; {34:5} you shall die in peace;
and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were
before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall
lament you, saying, Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says the
LORD. {34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to
Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} when the king of Babylon's
army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of
Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these
alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. {34:8} The
word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah
had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to
proclaim liberty to them; {34:9} that every man should let his male
servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a
Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, of a
Jew his brother. {34:10} All the princes and all the people obeyed,
who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male
servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should
make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
{34:11} but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids. {34:12} Therefore the word
of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {34:13} Thus says
the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in
the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven years you shall
let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to
you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you:
but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
{34:15} You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my
eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
{34:16} but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their
pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to
you for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus says the
LORD: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to
his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you
a liberty, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} I will give the men who have
transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and
passed between its parts; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people
of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; {34:20} I will
even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to
the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth. {34:21}
Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from
you. {34:22} Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to
return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and
burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.
{35:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go to the
house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the
house of the LORD, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.
{35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of the
LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man
of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room
of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. {35:5} I
set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine,
and cups; and I said to them, Drink wine! {35:6} But they said, We
will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father,
commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your
sons, forever: {35:7} neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor
plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in
tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.
{35:8} We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days,
we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build houses
for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
{35:10} but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. {35:11} But it
happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land,
that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of
the Kasdim, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at
Jerusalem. {35:12} Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
{35:13} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not
receive instruction to listen to my words? says the LORD. {35:14} The
words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to
drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they
obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up
early and speaking; and you have not listened to me. {35:15} I have
sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and
amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and
you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
{35:16} Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this
people has not listened to me; {35:17} therefore thus says the LORD,
the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and
on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have
pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have
not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.
{35:18} Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the
commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and
done according to all that he commanded you; {35:19} therefore thus
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab
shall not want a man to stand before me forever.
{36:1} It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, {36:2} Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the
words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of
Josiah, even to this day. {36:3} It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may
return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah;
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD,
which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. {36:5} Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of
the LORD: {36:6} therefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you
have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the
people in the LORD's house on the fast day; and also you shall read
them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. {36:7} It
may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will
return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the
wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people. {36:8} Baruch
the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's
house. {36:9} Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in
Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to
Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the LORD. {36:10} Then read Baruch
in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the
room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court,
at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all
the people. {36:11} When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, {36:12}
he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room: and
behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and
Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all
the princes. {36:13} Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that
he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
{36:14} Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in
your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people,
and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and
came to them. {36:15} They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in
our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. {36:16} Now it happened,
when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward
another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these
words. {36:17} They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you
write all these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch answered them,
He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them
with ink in the book. {36:19} Then the princes said to Baruch, Go,
hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are. {36:20}
They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the
scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words
in the ears of the king. {36:21} So the king sent Jehudi to get the
scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi
read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes
who stood beside the king. {36:22} Now the king was sitting in the
winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier
burning before him. {36:23} It happened, when Jehudi had read three or
four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into
the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in
the fire that was in the brazier. {36:24} They were not afraid, nor
tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who
heard all these words. {36:25} Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and
Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the
scroll; but he would not hear them. {36:26} The king commanded
Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah
the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet;
but the LORD hid them. {36:27} Then the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words
which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28} Take
again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were
in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
{36:29} Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says
the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal? {36:30}
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He
shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall
be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
{36:31} I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn't listen. {36:32} Then took
Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of
Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and
there were added besides to them many like words.
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