Jeremiah read by Chuck Smith

Jeremiah 1

1 These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

2 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 31-35

8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

9 Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

14 Then the LORD said to me, "Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

15 For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north," declares the LORD. "Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

19 They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

Jeremiah 2

3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,'" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

9 Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children's children.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

13 "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Read from KJV · Broken Cisterns

15 The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

19 Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me," declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

26 As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophetsRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

30 "I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

31 You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: "Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to You no more'?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

34 Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these thingsRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

36 How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

37 Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

Jeremiah 3

4 Have you not just called to Me, 'My Father, You are my friend from youth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

7 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

8 She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

9 Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

10 Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

11 And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: 'Return, O faithless Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD. 'I will not be angry forever.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

13 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,'" declares the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · Genuine or Fake

14 "Return, O faithless children," declares the LORD, "for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.Read from KJV · Genuine or Fake

15 Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

19 Then I said, 'How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!' I thought you would call Me 'Father' and never turn away from following Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

20 But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

21 A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

22 "Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness." "Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

24 From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

25 Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

Jeremiah 4

3 For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

5 Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: "Blow the ram's horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, 'Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

6 Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

9 "In that day," declares the LORD, "the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

12 a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

13 Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

16 Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: "A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

17 They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

20 Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

21 How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

22 "For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

27 For this is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

29 Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

Jeremiah 5

2 Although they say, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' they are swearing falsely."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

4 Then I said, "They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

5 I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

7 "Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

9 Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

10 Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

12 They have lied about the LORD and said: "He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

18 "Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not make a full end of you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

20 Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

29 Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

30 A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 3-5

Jeremiah 6

2 Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

4 'Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

5 Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!'"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

8 Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

10 To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

11 But I am full of the LORD's wrath; I am tired of holding it back. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

12 Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

14 They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse," says the LORD.Read from KJV · The Good Way

16 This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: 'Where is the good way?' Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it!'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

17 I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen for the sound of the ram's horn.' But they answered, 'We will not listen!'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

22 This is what the LORD says: "Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

23 They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

25 Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

27 "I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

28 All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

29 The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

Jeremiah 7

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

2 "Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.Read from KJV · Lying Vanities

3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

4 Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

5 For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,Read from NKJV · Lying Vanities

6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,Read from KJV · Lying Vanities

7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.Read from NKJV · Lying Vanities

11 Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Lying Vanities

15 And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

16 As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

19 But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

26 Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

30 For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

34 I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

Jeremiah 8

1 "At that time," declares the LORD, "the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life," declares the LORD of Hosts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

11 They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

14 Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

17 "For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

18 My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

20 "The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved."Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

Jeremiah 9

1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ My Glory

2 If only I had a traveler's lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

4 "Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

5 Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

6 You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

7 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

9 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

12 Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

13 And the LORD answered, "It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

14 Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

15 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

16 I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.Read from KJV · Jesus Christ My Glory

24 But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Jesus Christ My Glory

Jeremiah 10

2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

11 Thus you are to tell them: "These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

14 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

17 Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

18 For this is what the LORD says: "Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

19 Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, "This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

21 For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

23 I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

25 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

Jeremiah 11

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

2 "Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

3 You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

4 which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, 'Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

6 Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

7 For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, 'Obey My voice.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

8 Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

9 And the LORD told me, "There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

10 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

11 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

14 As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.Read from KJV · Crossed Over the Line

19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

22 So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

23 There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

Jeremiah 12

7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

8 My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

14 This is what the LORD says: "As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

15 But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

16 And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, 'As surely as the LORD lives'—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

Jeremiah 13

3 Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 1-2

7 So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

8 Then the word of the LORD came to me:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 31-35

9 "This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

11 For just as a loincloth clings to a man's waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

13 then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: 'I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

14 I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

15 Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

17 But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

20 Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

24 "I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

26 So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

Jeremiah 14

1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

3 The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

4 The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

6 Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

7 Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

10 This is what the LORD says about this people: "Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

11 Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the well-being of this people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

15 Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, 'No sword or famine will touch this land.' By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

17 You are to speak this word to them: 'My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

20 We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

21 For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

Jeremiah 15

1 Then the LORD said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

3 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

5 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

7 I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

11 The LORD said: "Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

12 Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

18 Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

20 Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

21 I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 11-15

Jeremiah 16

2 "You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

4 "They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

5 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: "Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

6 "Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

8 You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

9 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

10 When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

11 Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

14 Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

15 Instead they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.' For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

16 But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

18 And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, "Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

20 Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

21 "Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

Jeremiah 17

2 Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

3 O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

4 And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

5 This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?Read from NKJV · Looking on the Heart

10 I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.Read from KJV · Looking on the Heart

12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

15 Behold, they keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

16 But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

17 Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

19 This is what the LORD said to me: "Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

20 Say to them, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

21 This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

22 You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

24 If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

26 And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

27 But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

Jeremiah 18

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

2 "Go down at once to the potter's house, and there I will reveal My message to you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

3 So I went down to the potter's house and saw him working at the wheel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

4 But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

6 "O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

7 At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

9 And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

10 and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

11 Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: 'Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

12 But they will reply, 'It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

18 Then some said, "Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

19 Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

Jeremiah 19

2 and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

3 saying, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

6 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

7 And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

10 Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

11 and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter's jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

12 This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

15 "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

Jeremiah 20

1 When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

4 For this is what the LORD says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

5 I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

8 For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

12 O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 16-20

Jeremiah 21

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

3 But Jeremiah answered, "You are to tell Zedekiah thatRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

4 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

5 And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

6 I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

7 'After that,' declares the LORD, 'I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

12 O house of David, this is what the LORD says: 'Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

13 Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau— declares the LORD— you who say, "Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

14 I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

Jeremiah 22

3 This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

4 For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

5 But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

6 For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

7 I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

8 And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

9 Then people will reply, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

16 He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

19 He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

24 "As surely as I live," declares the LORD, "even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

27 You will never return to the land for which you long."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 21-22

30 This is what the LORD says: "Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Luke 3-4

Jeremiah 23

1 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: "You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

3 Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

4 I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

6 In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

7 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

8 Instead they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.' Then they will dwell once more in their own land."Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

9 As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.Read from KJV · Son of God or Son of Man

10 For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

11 "For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

12 "Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

13 "Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

15 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: "I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

16 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

17 They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD says that you will have peace,' and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, 'No harm will come to you.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

18 But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

19 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

21 I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

22 But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

23 "Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

25 "I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'Read from KJV · False Prophets

26 How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

27 They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.Read from KJV · False Prophets

28 Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

29 "Is not My word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that smashes a rock?"Read from KJV · False Prophets

30 "Therefore behold," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me."Read from KJV · False Prophets

31 "Yes," declares the LORD, "I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, 'The LORD declares it.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

32 "Indeed," declares the LORD, "I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · False Prophets

33 "Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, 'What is the burden of the LORD?' you are to say to them, 'What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.'Read from KJV · False Prophets

34 As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, 'This is the burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.Read from KJV · False Prophets

36 But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man's word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

37 Thus you are to say to the prophet: 'What has the LORD answered you?' and 'What has the LORD spoken?'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

38 But if you claim, 'This is the burden of the LORD,' then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, 'This is the burden of the LORD,' and I specifically told you not to make this claim,Read from KJV · False Prophets

39 therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.Read from KJV · False Prophets

40 And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten."Read from NKJV · False Prophets

Jeremiah 24

2 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

4 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 11-15

5 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

6 I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

7 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

8 But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, 'so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

9 I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

Jeremiah 25

6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

8 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Because you have not obeyed My words,Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

11 And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Ezra

12 But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezra

13 I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

14 For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

16 And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

17 So I took the cup from the LORD's hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

27 "Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

29 For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

30 So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: 'The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

31 The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,'" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

32 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

35 Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

37 The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD's burning anger.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

38 He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 23-25

Jeremiah 26

2 "This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

3 Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

4 And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: 'If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

5 and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

7 Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

8 and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, "You must surely die!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

11 Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, "This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

13 So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

16 Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, "This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

17 Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

18 "Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

21 King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

24 Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

Jeremiah 27

1 At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

2 This is what the LORD said to me: "Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

5 By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

8 As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

11 But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

12 And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: "Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

15 For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you."Read from KJV · False Prophets

21 Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

22 'They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 26-27

Jeremiah 28

1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

2 "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

3 Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

4 And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the LORD, 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

7 Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

8 The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

9 As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

11 And in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, "This is what the LORD says: 'In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.'" At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

14 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

Jeremiah 29

1 This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

4 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

5 "Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

9 For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

10 For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezra

14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

15 Because you may say, "The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

17 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

19 I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

20 So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

24 You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite thatRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

25 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

26 'The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

29 (Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

30 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

Jeremiah 30

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

3 For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

4 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

5 Yes, this is what the LORD says: "A cry of panic is heard— a cry of terror, not of peace.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

7 How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob's distress, but he will be saved out of it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

8 On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

9 Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

10 As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

12 For this is what the LORD says: "Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

16 Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

17 But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

19 Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

21 Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

22 "And you will be My people, and I will be your God."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

23 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

Jeremiah 31

1 "At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

2 This is what the LORD says: "The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

4 Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

6 For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

7 For this is what the LORD says: "Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, 'O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

8 Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

9 They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel's Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

10 Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: "The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

11 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

13 Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

14 I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

15 This is what the LORD says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

16 This is what the LORD says: "Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

18 I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning: 'You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

19 After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

20 Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

21 "Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

22 How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

23 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: 'May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

25 for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

27 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

29 "In those days, it will no longer be said: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.'Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, " declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

33 "But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

36 "Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel's descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

37 This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel's descendants because of all they have done," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

38 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

Jeremiah 32

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

7 Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, 'Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

8 Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, 'Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.'" Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

9 So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

11 Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

14 "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

15 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

19 the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

26 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

27 "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?Read from ESV · Fear vs. Faith

30 For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

31 For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presenceRead from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

32 because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

33 They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

34 They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

36 Now therefore, about this city of which you say, 'It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,' this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

37 I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

38 They will be My people, and I will be their God.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Zechariah 6-10

39 I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

41 Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

42 For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

43 And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, 'It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

44 Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

Jeremiah 33

1 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

3 Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.Read from KJV · Invitation to Prayer

4 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

5 The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

6 Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

7 I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

9 So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

10 This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard againRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

11 the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: 'Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.' For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

13 In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

14 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

15 In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

17 For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

18 nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

19 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

20 "This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,Read from KJV · God at the First

21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

23 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

25 This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

26 then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

Jeremiah 34

3 And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

8 After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORDRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

19 The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

20 I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

Jeremiah 35

2 "Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine."Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

3 So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the entire house of the Rechabites—Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

4 and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

5 Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, "Drink some wine."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

8 And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

10 But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

13 "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: 'Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?' declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

16 Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

17 Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

19 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 31-35

Jeremiah 36

2 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

6 so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

7 Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

9 Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

10 From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

11 When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

13 And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

15 "Please sit down," they said, "and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

17 "Tell us now," they asked Baruch, "how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah's dictation?"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

24 Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

26 Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

27 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

29 You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

30 Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David's throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.Read from KJV · Matthew 1-4

31 I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

Jeremiah 37

1 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

2 But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

4 Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

6 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 28-30

7 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

8 Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

9 This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, 'The Chaldeans will go away for good,' for they will not!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

11 When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

12 Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

16 So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

17 Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, "Is there a word from the LORD?" "There is," Jeremiah replied. "You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

18 Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

19 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land'?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

20 But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

Jeremiah 38

1 Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

3 This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

6 So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

7 Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

8 Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and said to the king,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

11 Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king's palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. "I am going to ask you something," said the king to Jeremiah. "Do not hide anything from me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

16 But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

18 But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

20 "They will not hand you over," Jeremiah replied. "Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

22 All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: 'They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

23 All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

26 then tell them, 'I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

28 And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

Jeremiah 39

4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

7 Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

8 The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

10 But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

15 And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

17 But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

18 For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

Jeremiah 40

2 The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

5 But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, "Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right." Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

13 Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at MizpahRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

16 But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, "Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie."Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 36-40

Jeremiah 42

3 Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

4 "I have heard you," replied Jeremiah the prophet. "I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you."Read from KJV · The High Cost of Deception

6 Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice of the LORD our God!"Read from KJV · The High Cost of Deception

10 'If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

12 And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

13 But if you say, 'We will not stay in this land,' and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,Read from KJV · The High Cost of Deception

14 and if you say, 'No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram's horn or hunger for bread,'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

15 then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

17 So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

18 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

19 The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, 'Do not go to Egypt.' Know for sure that I have warned you today!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

21 For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

22 Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

Jeremiah 43

7 So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

10 Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

12 I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

13 He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

Jeremiah 44

3 because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

7 So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

12 And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

13 I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

14 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

19 "Moreover," said the women, "when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

24 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all those of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: 'We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.' Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

27 I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

Jeremiah 45

3 You have said, 'Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.'"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

4 Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: "This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 41-45

Jeremiah 46

1 This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophetRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

2 concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

5 Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

6 "The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

7 Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

8 Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, 'I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

9 Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth— Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

10 For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

11 Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

13 This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

15 Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

16 They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, 'Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

17 There they will cry out: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

18 As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

19 Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

21 Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

22 Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

23 They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

24 The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

25 The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

27 But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

28 And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

Jeremiah 47

1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

3 at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

4 For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

6 'Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

7 How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

Jeremiah 48

2 There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.' You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

4 Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

5 For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

6 'Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

12 Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

14 How can you say, 'We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle'?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

15 Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

17 Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered— the glorious staff!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

25 The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

26 "Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

28 Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

30 I know his insolence," declares the LORD, "but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

32 I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

33 Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

35 In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

37 For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

38 On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

39 "How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

40 For this is what the LORD says: "Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

42 Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

44 "Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

45 "Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon's shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

46 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

47 Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity, " declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

Jeremiah 49

3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

6 Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity, " declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

12 For this is what the LORD says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

14 I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: "Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

15 "For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

18 As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors," says the LORD, "no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

20 Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

22 Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom's mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

23 Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

26 For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD of Hosts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

27 "I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad."Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor," declares the LORD, "for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

31 Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely," declares the LORD. "They have no gates or bars; they live alone.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

33 "Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

34 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

35 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold, I will shatter Elam's bow, the mainstay of their might.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

36 I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam's exiles will not go.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

37 So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger," declares the LORD. "I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

38 I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

39 "Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity, " declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 46-49

Jeremiah 50

1 This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

3 For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

8 Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

9 For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

13 Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

15 Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

17 Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

18 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

19 I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel's guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah's sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

22 "The noise of battle is in the land— the noise of great destruction.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

23 How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

25 The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

26 Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

27 Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

28 Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

30 Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

32 The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

33 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

35 A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

36 A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

37 A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

38 A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors," declares the LORD, "no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

41 Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

42 They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

43 The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

44 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

45 Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

46 At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

Jeremiah 51

1 This is what the LORD says: "Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

2 I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

3 Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

4 And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

5 For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

6 Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

7 Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

9 "We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

10 "The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

12 Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

14 The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

15 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

16 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

18 They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 6-10

20 "You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

21 With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

22 With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

24 Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

25 "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

26 No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

27 "Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram's horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

29 The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD's intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

36 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

45 Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

46 Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year— and then another the next year— of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

49 "Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

50 You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

52 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

53 Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

54 "The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

56 For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Babylon's thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

62 and say, 'O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

64 Then you are to say, 'In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.'" Here end the words of Jeremiah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

Jeremiah 52

2 And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

3 For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

5 And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

11 Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

14 And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

15 Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

24 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

32 And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52

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