Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} The word of the LORD came also to me, saying, {16:2} You
shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in
this place. {16:3} For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning
their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became
the father of them in this land: {16:4} They shall die grievous
deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they
shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be
consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be
food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the
[1>]eretz[<1]. {16:5} For thus says the LORD, Don't enter into the
house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I
have taken away my shalom from this people, says the LORD, even
lovingkindness and tender mercies. {16:6} Both great and small shall
die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament
for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
{16:7} neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of
consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. {16:8} You
shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and
to drink. {16:9} For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el:
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and
in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. {16:10} It shall happen,
when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell
you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or
what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed
against the LORD our God? {16:11} Then shall you tell them, Because
your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law; {16:12} and you have done evil
more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the
stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
{16:13} therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land
that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall
you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.
{16:14} Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall
no more be said, As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of
Yisra'el out of the land of Mitzrayim; {16:15} but, As the LORD lives,
who brought up the children of Yisra'el from the land of the north,
and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them
again into their land that I gave to their fathers. {16:16} Behold, I
will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them
up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt
them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts
of the rocks. {16:17} For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not
hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
{16:18} First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double,
because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their
detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their
abominations. {16:19} LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from
the ends of the [2>]eretz[<2], and shall say, Our fathers have
inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is
no profit. {16:20} Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no
gods? {16:21} Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once
will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know
that my name is the LORD.
{17:1} The sin of Yehudah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with
the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart,
and on the horns of your altars; {17:2} while their children remember
their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
{17:3} My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all
your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin,
throughout all your borders. {17:4} You, even of yourself, shall
discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you
to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have
kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. {17:5} Thus says
the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his
arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. {17:6} For he shall be
like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but
shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and
not inhabited. {17:7} Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and
whose trust the LORD is. {17:8} For he shall be as a tree planted by
the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear
when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful
in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
{17:9} The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly
corrupt: who can know it? {17:10} I, the LORD, search the mind, I try
the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to
the fruit of his doings. {17:11} As the partridge that sits on [eggs]
which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in
the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be
a fool. {17:12} A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary. {17:13} LORD, the hope of Yisra'el, all
who forsake you shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall
be written in the [1>]eretz[<1], because they have forsaken the LORD,
the spring of living waters. {17:14} Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be
healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. {17:15}
Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
{17:16} As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you;
neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out
of my lips was before your face. {17:17} Don't be a terror to me: you
are my refuge in the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be put to shame who
persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed,
but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and
destroy them with double destruction. {17:19} Thus said the LORD to
me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through
which the kings of Yehudah come in, and by which they go out, and in
all the gates of Yerushalayim; {17:20} and tell them, Hear you the
word of the LORD, you kings of Yehudah, and all Yehudah, and all the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, that enter in by these gates: {17:21}
Thus says the LORD, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the
day of Shabbat, nor bring it in by the gates of Yerushalayim; {17:22}
neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the day of Shabbat
holy, neither do any work: but make the day of Shabbat, as I commanded
your fathers. {17:23} But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear,
but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not
receive instruction. {17:24} It shall happen, if you diligently listen
to me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this
city on the day of Shabbat, but to make the day of Shabbat holy, to do
no work therein; {17:25} then shall there enter in by the gates of
this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Yehudah,
and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; and this city shall remain
forever. {17:26} They shall come from the cities of Yehudah, and from
the places round about Yerushalayim, and from the land of Binyamin,
and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South,
bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and
frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house
of the LORD. {17:27} But if you will not listen to me to make the day
of Shabbat holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of
Yerushalayim on the day of Shabbat; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim, and it
shall not be quenched.
{18:1} The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,
{18:2} Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
cause you to hear my words. {18:3} Then I went down to the potter's
house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels. {18:4} When
the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the
potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter
to make it. {18:5} Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
{18:6} House of Yisra'el, can't I do with you as this potter? says the
LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand,
house of Yisra'el. {18:7} At what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to
destroy it; {18:8} if that nation, concerning which I have spoken,
turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
to them. {18:9} At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; {18:10} if they do
that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I
will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
{18:11} Now therefore, speak to the men of Yehudah, and to the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I
frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you
now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
{18:12} But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own
devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil
heart. {18:13} Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask you now among the
nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Yisra'el has done a
very horrible thing. {18:14} Shall the snow of Levanon fail from the
rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar
be dried up? {18:15} For my people have forgotten me, they have burned
incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their
ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
{18:16} to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing;
everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
{18:17} I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I
will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
calamity. {18:18} Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices
against Yirmeyahu; for the law shall not perish from the
[1>]Kohen[<1], nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the
prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not
give heed to any of his words. {18:19} Give heed to me, LORD, and
listen to the voice of those who contend with me. {18:20} Shall evil
be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember
how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath
from them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives
become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death,
[and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. {18:22} Let a cry
be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on
them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
{18:23} Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me;
don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your
sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in
the time of your anger.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:4} earth
[2] {16:19} earth
[1] {17:13} earth
[1] {18:18} priest
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