Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, when
Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the [1>]eretz[<1] that were under his dominion, and all the
peoples, were fighting against Yerushalayim, and against all the
cities of it, saying: {34:2} Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el,
Go, and speak to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah, and tell him, Thus says
the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Bavel, 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 Bavel, and he
shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Bavel. {34:4}
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah: thus says
the LORD concerning you, You shall not die by the sword; {34:5} you
shall die in shalom; 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 Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke all these words
to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah in Yerushalayim, {34:7} when the king of
Bavel's army was fighting against Yerushalayim, and against all the
cities of Yehudah that were left, against Lakhish and against `Azeka;
for these [alone] remained of the cities of Yehudah [as] fortified
cities. {34:8} The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, after
that the king Tzidkiyahu had made a covenant with all the people who
were at Yerushalayim, to proclaim liberty to them; {34:9} that every
man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is
a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants
of them, [to wit], of a Yehudi his brother. {34:10} All the princes
and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that
everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-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 Yirmeyahu
from the LORD, saying, {34:13} Thus says the LORD, the God of
Yisra'el: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I
brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, 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
were 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 [2>]eretz[<2]. {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 the parts of it; {34:19} the princes of Yehudah, and
the princes of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the [3>]Kohanim[<3], 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
[4>]eretz[<4]. {34:21} Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah 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 Bavel'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 Yehudah a desolation, without inhabitant.
{35:1} The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD in the days of
Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, saying, {35:2} Go to
the house of the Rechavim, and speak to them, and bring them into the
house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to
drink. {35:3} Then I took Ya`azanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son of
Havatztzinyah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechavim; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of the LORD,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Yigdalyahu, the man
of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Ma`aseyah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
{35:5} I set before the sons of the house of the Rechavim bowls full
of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine. {35:6} But they
said, We will drink no wine; for Yehonadav the son of Rechav, 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
sojourn. {35:8} We have obeyed the voice of Yehonadav the son of
Rechav, our father, in all that he charged 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 Yehonadav our father commanded us. {35:11}
But it happened, when Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel came up into the
land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Yerushalayim for fear of
the army of the Kasdim, and for fear of the army of the Aram; so we
dwell at Yerushalayim. {35:12} Then came the word of the LORD to
Yirmeyahu, saying, {35:13} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Yisra'el: Go, and tell the men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?
says the LORD. {35:14} The words of Yehonadav the son of Rechav, that
he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this
day they drink none, for they obey their father's [1>]mitzvah[<1]: 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 you 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 Yehonadav the son of
Rechav have performed the [2>]mitzvah[<2] of their father which he
commanded them, but this people has not listened to me; {35:17}
therefore thus says the LORD, the God [3>]Tzva'ot[<3],, the God of
Yisra'el: Behold, I will bring on Yehudah and on all the inhabitants
of Yerushalayim 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} Yirmeyahu said to
the house of the Rechavim, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Yisra'el: Because you have obeyed the [4>]mitzvah[<4] of Yehonadav
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 Yisra'el: Yehonadav the son of Rechav shall not want a man to
stand before me forever.
{36:1} It happened in the fourth year of Yehoiakim the son of
Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, that this word came to Yirmeyahu 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 Yisra'el, and against
Yehudah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
from the days of Yoshiyahu, even to this day. {36:3} It may be that
the house of Yehudah 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 Yirmeyahu called
Barukh the son of Neriyah; and Barukh wrote from the mouth of
Yirmeyahu all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken to him, on a
scroll of a book. {36:5} Yirmeyahu commanded Barukh, saying, I am shut
up; I can't go into the house of the LORD: {36:6} therefore go you,
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 Yehudah 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} Barukh the son of Neriyah did according to
all that Yirmeyahu 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 Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, in the
ninth month, that all the people in Yerushalayim, and all the people
who came from the cities of Yehudah to Yerushalayim, proclaimed a fast
before the LORD. {36:10} Then read Barukh in the book the words of
Yirmeyahu in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemaryah the son
of Shafan, the [1>]Sofer[<1], 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 Mikhayahu the son of Gemaryah, the son of Shafan, had heard out
of the book all the words of the LORD, {36:12} he went down into the
king's house, into the [2>]Sofer[<2]'s chamber: and, behold, all the
princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the [3>]Sofer[<3], and
Delayah the son of Shemayah, and Elnatan the son of `Akhbor, and
Gemaryah the son of Shafan, and Tzidkiyahu the son of Hananyah, and
all the princes. {36:13} Then Mikhayahu declared to them all the words
that he had heard, when Barukh read the book in the ears of the
people. {36:14} Therefore all the princes sent Yehudi the son of
Netanyah, the son of Shelemyahu, the son of Kushi, to Barukh, saying,
Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the
people, and come. So Barukh the son of Neriyah 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 Barukh 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 Barukh, We will surely tell the king of
all these words. {36:17} They asked Barukh, saying, Tell us now, How
did you write all these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Barukh
answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and
I wrote them with ink in the book. {36:19} Then said the princes to
Barukh, Go, hide you, you and Yirmeyahu; 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 chamber of Elishama the [4>]Sofer[<4]; and
they told all the words in the ears of the king. {36:21} So the king
sent Yehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of
Elishama the [5>]Sofer[<5]. Yehudi 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 Yehudi 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 Elnatan and Delayah and Gemaryah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he
would not hear them. {36:26} The king commanded Yerachme'el the king's
son, and Serayah the son of `Azri'el, and Shelemyahu the son of
`Avde'el, to take Barukh the [6>]Sofer[<6] and Yirmeyahu the prophet;
but the LORD hid them. {36:27} Then the word of the LORD came to
Yirmeyahu, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words
which Barukh wrote at the mouth of Yirmeyahu, saying, {36:28} Take
again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were
in the first scroll, which Yehoiakim the king of Yehudah has burned.
{36:29} Concerning Yehoiakim king of Yehudah you shall say, Thus says
the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Bavel 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 Yehoiakim king of Yehudah: 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
Yerushalayim, and on the men of Yehudah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn't listen. {36:32} Then took
Yirmeyahu another scroll, and gave it to Barukh the [7>]Sofer[<7], the
son of Neriyah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Yirmeyahu all the
words of the book which Yehoiakim king of Yehudah had burned in the
fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:1} earth
[2] {34:17} earth
[3] {34:19} priests
[4] {34:20} earth
[1] {35:14} commandment
[2] {35:16} commandment
[3] {35:17} of hosts or of armies
[4] {35:18} commandment
[1] {36:10} scribe
[2] {36:12} scribe
[3] {36:12} scribe
[4] {36:20} scribe
[5] {36:21} scribe
[6] {36:26} scribe
[7] {36:32} scribe
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