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Jeremiah · read by William Skates
45 verses, in order. Only the verses William read aloud are shown.
Jeremiah 7
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This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,Read from ESV · God's last man standing
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"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 · God's last man standing
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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 · God's last man standing
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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 · God's last man standing
Jeremiah 8
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Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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How can you say, 'We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,' when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?Read from KJV · God's last man standing
Jeremiah 30
Jeremiah 36
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In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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"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 · The weeping prophet
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, "Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here." So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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"Please sit down," they said, "and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, "Surely we must report all these words to the king."Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
Jeremiah 37
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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 NKJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
Jeremiah 38
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and said to the king,Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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"My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city."Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, "Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes." Jeremiah did so,Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · The weeping prophet
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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 · The weeping prophet
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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 · The weeping prophet
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But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me."Read from KJV · The weeping prophet
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"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 · Our response to the Word of God
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But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, "Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
Jeremiah 39
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And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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"Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
Jeremiah 42
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'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 · Our response to the Word of God
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Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
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then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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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 · Our response to the Word of God
Jeremiah 44
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Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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"As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God
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Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.Read from KJV · Our response to the Word of God