Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of
Yehudah, and speak there this word, {22:2} Say, Hear the word of the
LORD, king of Yehudah, 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 you 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 sojourner, 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 Yehudah: You are Gil`ad to me, [and] the head of
Levanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] 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 you weep for the dead, neither
bemoan him; but weep sore 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 Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, who reigned
instead of Yoshiyahu 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 chambers 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 chambers,
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 Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah: 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 Yerushalayim. {22:20} Go up to Levanon, and cry;
and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from `Avarimen; 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 manner 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 shall
you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. {22:23}
Inhabitant of Levanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly
to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a
woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, says the LORD, though Konyahu the
son of Yehoiakim king of Yehudah 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 Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel, 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
shall you die. {22:27} But to the land whereunto their soul longs to
return, there shall they not return. {22:28} Is this man Konyahu 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 [1>]eretz[<1], [2>]eretz[<2], [3>]eretz[<3],
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 Yehudah.
{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 Yisra'el, 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 Yehudah shall be saved, and Yisra'el 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
Yisra'el out of the land of Mitzrayim; {23:8} but, As the LORD lives,
who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Yisra'el 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 [1>]Kohen[<1] 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 Shomron; they prophesied
by Ba`al, and caused my people Yisra'el to err. {23:14} In the
prophets of Yerushalayim also I have seen a horrible thing: they
commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of
evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all
of them become to me as Sedom, and the inhabitants of it as `Amorah.
{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 Yerushalayim 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 shalom; 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 tempest of the LORD, [even his] wrath,
is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: 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 [2>]eretz[<2]? 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 Ba`al. {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 [3>]Kohen[<3], shall ask you, saying, What is the burden
of the LORD? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you
off, says the LORD. {23:34} As for the prophet, and the [4>]Kohen[<4],
and the people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even
punish that man and his house. {23:35} Thus shall you say everyone to
his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the LORD answered?
and, What has the LORD spoken? {23:36} The burden of the LORD shall
you mention 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} Thus shall you 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 shown me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set
before the temple of the LORD, after that Nevukhadretztzar king of
Bavel had carried away captive Yekhonyah the son of Yehoiakim, king of
Yehudah, and the princes of Yehudah, with the craftsmen and smiths,
from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Bavel. {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 said the LORD to me, What see you, Yirmeyahu? 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 Yisra'el: Like these
good figs, so will I regard the captives of Yehudah, 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 Tzidkiyahu the king of Yehudah, and
his princes, and the residue of Yerushalayim, who remain in this land,
and those who dwell in the land of Mitzrayim, {24:9} I will even give
them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the
[1>]eretz[<1] 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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Footnotes:
[1] {22:29} earth
[2] {22:29} earth
[3] {22:29} earth
[1] {23:11} priest
[2] {23:24} earth
[3] {23:33} priest
[4] {23:34} priest
[1] {24:9} earth
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