Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle,
and [take] of the Zakenim of the people, and of the Zakenim of the
[1>]Kohanim[<1]; {19:2} and go forth to the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there
the words that I shall tell you; {19:3} and say, Hear you the word of
the LORD, kings of Yehudah, and inhabitants of Yerushalayim: thus says
the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, Behold, I will bring evil on
this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because
they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their
fathers and the kings of Yehudah; and have filled this place with the
blood of innocents, {19:5} and have built the high places of Ba`al, to
burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Ba`al; which I
didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: {19:6}
therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall
no more be called Tofet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
valley of Slaughter. {19:7} I will make void the counsel of Yehudah
and Yerushalayim in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the
sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their
life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of
the sky, and for the animals of the [2>]eretz[<2]. {19:8} I will make
this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby
shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it. {19:9}
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of
their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend,
in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those
who seek their life, shall distress them. {19:10} Then shall you break
the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you, {19:11} and shall
tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Even so will I break this
people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be
made whole again; and they shall bury in Tofet, until there be no
place to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD,
and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Tofet: {19:13}
and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of
Yehudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Tofet, even all
the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of
the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods. {19:14}
Then came Yirmeyahu from Tofet, where the LORD had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to
all the people: {19:15} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Yisra'el, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all
the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made
their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
{20:1} Now Pashchur, the son of Immer the [1>]Kohen[<1], who was
chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Yirmeyahu prophesying
these things. {20:2} Then Pashchur struck Yirmeyahu the prophet, and
put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Binyamin, which
was in the house of the LORD. {20:3} It happened on the next day, that
Pashchur brought forth Yirmeyahu out of the stocks. Then said
Yirmeyahu to him, the LORD has not called your name Pashchur, but
Magor-Missaviv. {20:4} For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you
a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by
the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will
give all Yehudah into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall
carry them captive to Bavel, and shall kill them with the sword.
{20:5} Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the
gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures
of the kings of Yehudah will I give into the hand of their enemies;
and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to
Bavel. {20:6} You, Pashchur, and all who dwell in your house shall go
into captivity; and you shall come to Bavel, and there you shall die,
and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you
have prophesied falsely. {20:7} LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was
persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. {20:8} For as often as
I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word
of the LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
{20:9} If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in
his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up
in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
{20:10} For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side.
Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends,
those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we
shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
{20:11} But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be
utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an
everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. {20:12} But, the
LORD of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the
mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my
cause. {20:13} Sing to the LORD, praise you the LORD; for he has
delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. {20:14}
Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my
mother bore me be blessed. {20:15} Cursed be the man who brought news
to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very
glad. {20:16} Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting
at noontime; {20:17} because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so
my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. {20:18}
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days
should be consumed with shame?
{21:1} The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, when king
Tzidkiyahu sent to him Pashchur the son of Malkiyah, and Tzefanyah the
son of Ma`aseyah, the [1>]Kohen[<1], saying, {21:2} Please inquire of
the LORD for us; for Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel makes war against
us: peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all his
wondrous works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Yirmeyahu
to them, Thus shall you tell Tzidkiyahu: {21:4} Thus says the LORD,
the God of Yisra'el, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that
are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Bavel, and
against the Kasdim who besiege you, without the walls; and I will
gather them into the midst of this city. {21:5} I myself will fight
against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in
anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation. {21:6} I will strike
the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a
great pestilence. {21:7} Afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver
Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah, and his servants, and the people, even
such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and
from the famine, into the hand of Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel, and
into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek
their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he
shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. {21:8} To
this people you shall say, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before
you the way of life and the way of death. {21:9} He who remains in
this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Kasdim who
besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.
{21:10} For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for
good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of
Bavel, and he shall burn it with fire. {21:11} Touching the house of
the king of Yehudah, hear you the word of the LORD: {21:12} House of
David, thus says the LORD, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver
him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go
forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the
evil of your doings. {21:13} Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of
the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says the LORD; you that
say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our
habitations? {21:14} I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, says the LORD; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it
shall devour all that is round about her.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:1} priests
[2] {19:7} earth
[1] {20:1} priest
[1] {21:1} priest
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