Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Hear you the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of
Yisra'el: {10:2} thus says the LORD, "Don't learn the way of the
nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the
nations are dismayed at them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples
are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the
hands of the workman with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and
with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not
move. {10:5} They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't
speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of
them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good. {10:6}
There is none like you, LORD; you are great, and your name is great in
might. {10:7} Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you
does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and
in all their royal estate, there is none like you. {10:8} But they are
together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a
stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Ufaz, the work of the artificer and of
the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they
are all the work of skillful men. {10:10} But the LORD is the true
God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the
[1>]eretz[<1] trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his
indignation. {10:11} Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have
not made the heavens and the [2>]eretz[<2], these shall perish from
the [3>]eretz[<3], and from under the heavens. {10:12} He has made the
[4>]eretz[<4] by his power, he has established the world by his
wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
{10:13} when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the
[5>]eretz[<5]; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the
wind out of his treasuries. {10:14} Every man is become brutish [and
is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his engraved
image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
them. {10:15} They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish. {10:16} The portion of Ya`akov is
not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Yisra'el is
the tribe of his inheritance: the LORD of Hosts is his name. {10:17}
Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.
{10:18} For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that
they may feel [it]. {10:19} Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is
grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
{10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children
are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread
my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. {10:21} For the shepherds
are become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD: therefore they
have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. {10:22} The
voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the
north country, to make the cities of Yehudah a desolation, a
dwelling-place of jackals. {10:23} LORD, I know that the way of man is
not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
{10:24} LORD, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you
bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out your wrath on the nations that
don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for
they have devoured Ya`akov, yes, they have devoured him and consumed
him, and have laid waste his habitation.
{11:1} The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying, {11:2}
Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Yehudah,
and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; {11:3} and say you to them,
Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Cursed be the man who doesn't
hear the words of this covenant, {11:4} which I commanded your fathers
in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, out
of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to
all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your
God; {11:5} that I may establish the oath which I swore to your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this
day. Then answered I, and said, Amein, LORD. {11:6} The LORD said to
me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Yehudah, and in the
streets of Yerushalayim, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant,
and do them. {11:7} For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the
day that I brought them up out of the land of Mitzrayim, even to this
day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet
they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the
stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the
words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't
do them. {11:9} The LORD said to me, A conspiracy is found among the
men of Yehudah, and among the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. {11:10}
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who
refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve
them: the house of Yisra'el and the house of Yehudah have broken my
covenant which I made with their fathers. {11:11} Therefore thus says
the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be
able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to
them. {11:12} Then shall the cities of Yehudah and the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but
they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. {11:13}
For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Yehudah; and
according to the number of the streets of Yerushalayim have you set up
altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Ba`al.
{11:14} Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry
nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they
cry to me because of their trouble. {11:15} What has my beloved to do
in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy
flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice. {11:16}
The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly
fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and
the branches of it are broken. {11:17} For the LORD of Hosts, who
planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of
the house of Yisra'el and of the house of Yehudah, which they have
worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to
Ba`al. {11:18} The LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then
you shown me their doings. {11:19} But I was like a gentle lamb that
is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised
devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his
name may be no more remembered. {11:20} But, the LORD of Hosts, who
judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your
vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. {11:21}
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of `Anatot, who seek
your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of the LORD,
that you not die by our hand; {11:22} therefore thus says the LORD of
hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the
sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; {11:23} and
there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of
`Anatot, even the year of their visitation.
{12:1} Righteous are you, LORD, when I contend with you; yet would I
reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why
are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? {12:2} You have
planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring
forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
{12:3} But you, LORD, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward
you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for
the day of slaughter. {12:4} How long shall the land mourn, and the
herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who
dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they
said, He shall not see our latter end. {12:5} If you have run with the
footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with
horses? and though in a land of shalom you are secure, yet how will
you do in the pride of the Yarden? {12:6} For even your brothers, and
the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you;
even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they
speak beautiful words to you. {12:7} I have forsaken my house, I have
cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into
the hand of her enemies. {12:8} My heritage is become to me as a lion
in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have
hated her. {12:9} Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are
the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the
animals of the field, bring them to devour. {12:10} Many shepherds
have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot,
they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They
have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole
land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. {12:12}
Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the
sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the
other end of the land: no flesh has shalom. {12:13} They have sown
wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and
profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of
the fierce anger of the LORD. {12:14} Thus says the LORD against all
my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my
people Yisra'el to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off
their land, and will pluck up the house of Yehudah from among them.
{12:15} It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will
return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every
man to his heritage, and every man to his land. {12:16} It shall
happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear
by my name, As the LORD lives; even as they taught my people to swear
by Ba`al; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
{12:17} But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation,
plucking up and destroying it, says the LORD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:10} earth
[2] {10:11} earth
[3] {10:11} earth
[4] {10:12} earth
[5] {10:13} earth
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