# bible

book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">{Sanctify}<note>Or "Consecrate"</note> war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shadows of evening are lengthened.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Cut down trees and heap up a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the city that must be punished, its oppression <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in its midst.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and wounds<note>Hebrew "wound"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> continually {before me}.<note>Literally "at the face of me"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">Be warned, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Jerusalem, lest I turn away from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, a land that is not inhabited."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine, turn back your hand over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> branches like a grape-gatherer.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {closed},<note>Literally "uncircumcised"</note> and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in. Pour <transChange type="added">it</transChange> out on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children<note>Hebrew "child"</note> in the street, and on the assemblies<note>Hebrew "assembly"</note> of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old with <transChange type="added">him who is</transChange> full of days.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And their houses will be turned over to others, <transChange type="added">their</transChange> fields and <transChange type="added">their</transChange> wives together. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">"For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, {everyone}<note>Literally "all of him"</note> makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, {everyone}<note>Literally "all of him"</note> practices deceit.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> they will fall among <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roads and look, and ask for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ancient paths, where the way of the good <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves.<note>Hebrew "inner self"</note> But they said, 'We will not walk <transChange type="added">in it</transChange>.'<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">And I raised up watchmen over you: 'Listen attentively to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a horn.' But they said, 'We will not listen attentively.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> hear, O nations, and know, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> community, {what will happen to them}.<note>Literally "what among them"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">Hear, O earth, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, and the precious spice reed from a distant land. Your burnt offerings <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not {acceptable},<note>Literally "for acceptance"</note> your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Thus says Yahweh: "Look, a people <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, a great nation is woken up from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> farthest part of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> bow and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> short sword they grasp <transChange type="added">are</transChange> cruel, and they show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a <transChange type="added">woman who</transChange> gives birth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">You must not go out <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the field, and you must not walk on the road, for {the enemy has a sword},<note>Literally "a sword for enemy"</note> terror <transChange type="added">is</transChange> all around.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">O daughter of my people, gird yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">"I have made you an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways.<note>Hebrew "way"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="28">All of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> stubborn rebels, going about <transChange type="added">talking</transChange> slander. <transChange type="added">They are</transChange> bronze and iron, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all behaving corruptly.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> bellows<note>Hebrew "bellow"</note> are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain}<note>Literally "To the vanity"</note> {he keeps on refining},<note>Literally "he refines refining"</note> but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked are not torn apart.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="30">{They are called}<note>Literally "They call to them"</note> rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Make your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">Do not trust in {the deceitful words},<note>Literally "the words of the deception"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the temple of Yahweh.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">you do not oppress <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alien, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods {to your harm},<note>Literally "to harm to you"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> {forever and ever}.<note>Literally "from eternity and until eternity"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> relying for yourselves on {deceitful words}<note>Literally "the words of the deception"</note> without benefiting.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear {falsely}?<note>Literally "to the lie"</note> And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And then you come and you stand {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> me in this house, which is called {by my name},<note>Literally "my name over it"</note> and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing}<note>Literally "for the sake of the doing of"</note> all of these detestable things.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Has this house, which is called {by my name},<note>Literally "my name over it"</note> become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen <transChange type="added">it</transChange>," <note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">"For go now to my place that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it {because of}<note>Literally "from face"</note> the wickedness of my people Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And now, because of your doing all these things," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and {I have spoken to you over and over again},<note>Literally "I spoke to you doing early and speaking"</note> and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">therefore I will do to the house that is called {by my name},<note>Literally "my name over it"</note> in which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> {what}<note>Literally "as that"</note> I did to Shiloh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">And I will cast you {out of my sight}<note>Literally "from at my face"</note> just as I cast out all of your blood relatives,<note>Or "brothers"</note> all of the offspring of Ephraim." ' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">"And you, you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty or a prayer, and you must not plead with me, for I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not hear you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">Do</transChange> you not see what they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">The children <transChange type="added">are</transChange> gathering wood, and the fathers <transChange type="added">are</transChange> kindling the fire, and the women <transChange type="added">are</transChange> kneading dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods for the sake of provoking me to anger.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">Are</transChange> they provoking me to anger? " {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not themselves <transChange type="added">they hurt</transChange>, for the sake of the shame of their faces?"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flesh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">For I did not speak with your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="23">But I only commanded them this word, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in <transChange type="added">their own</transChange> plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.<note>Literally "they were to backward and not to face"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="25">From the day that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, {sending again and again}.<note>Literally "doing early and sending"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="28">"And you shall say to them, 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.<note>Hebrew "mouth"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="29">Shear your hair and throw <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">For the people <note>Or "children"</note> of Judah have done evil in my eyes," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called {by my name},<note>Literally "my name over it"</note> to defile it.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="31">And they built the high place of Topheth, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.<note>Or "heart"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="32">Therefore look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to come," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and it will no longer be called Topheth or <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth {until there is no more place}.<note>Literally "from there is no place"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="33">And the dead bodies<note>Hebrew "body"</note> of this people <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> as food for the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the heavens,<note>Or "sky"</note> and for the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the earth, without anyone to scare <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> away.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="34">And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of jubilation, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of joy, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride, for the land will become a site of ruins. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">"At that time," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Judah from their graves.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">And they shall spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gone after, and which they have inquired about, and to which they have bowed in worship. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan<note>Or "family"</note> in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away <transChange type="added">in</transChange> enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.<note>Or "repent"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">Even <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> turtledove, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> swallow, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance<note>Or "law"</note> of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">How can you say, 'We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wise and the law of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us'? Look, surely {the lying stylus of the scribes}<note>Literally "stylus of lie of scribes"</note> has made it a lie.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wisdom to them?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smallest to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatest, all of them make profit <transChange type="added">for</transChange> unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">Were they ashamed, for they had committed a detestable thing? What's worse,<note>Or "also"</note> they were not ashamed at all, and they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> they will fall among <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">"{I will take away their harvest},"<note>Literally "I will take away, I will make an end <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "There are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree, and the leaves wither, and <transChange type="added">what</transChange> I gave to them passed over them." '"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">We</transChange> hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">"From Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, from the sound of the neighing of their stallions all the land quakes, for they come and devour the land, and that which fills <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> live in it.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">For look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> letting loose among you snakes, adders for which there is no incantation, and they will bite you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">"My comfort <transChange type="added">is gone</transChange> from me, sorrow <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on me, my heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sick.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> harvest has passed, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> summer has come to an end, and we have not received help.<note>Or "been saved"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1"><note>Jeremiah 9:1-26 in the English Bible is 8:23-9:25 in the Hebrew Bible</note> {Oh that my head were waters},<note>Literally "Who he gives my head waters"</note> and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the slain of the daughter of my people.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">{Oh that I had}<note>Literally "Who he gives me"</note> in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> adulterers, a band of traitors.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">And they bend their tongue <transChange type="added">like</transChange> their bow, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth<note>Or "proceed"</note> from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about <transChange type="added">with</transChange> slander.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak <transChange type="added">the</transChange> truth, they have taught their tongues<note>Hebrew "tongue"</note> to speak lies,<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> they are tired <transChange type="added">from</transChange> going astray.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Your dwelling <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the midst of deceit, upon<note>Or "through"</note> deceit they refuse to know me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Their tongue <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Because of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> shall I not punish them?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "On a nation that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like this shall I not take revenge?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, and for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pastures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert a lament, because they are laid waste so that no man passes through. And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sounds<note>Hebrew "sound"</note> of cattle are not heard, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of heaven to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> they have fled, they are gone.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">And I will make Jerusalem as heaps <transChange type="added">of ruins</transChange>, a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, {without inhabitants}.<note>Literally "from no inhabitant"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the wise man that can understand this? And to whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed? It is laid waste like the desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> so that no one passes through."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> taught them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">and I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, they and their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and I will send the sword after them until I bring them to an end." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt <transChange type="added">with</transChange> tears, and our eyelids may flow <transChange type="added">with</transChange> water.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How we are devastated! We are very ashamed because we have left the land, because they have overthrown our dwelling places.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">For hear, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> women, the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a lament.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children<note>Hebrew "child"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets,<note>Hebrew "street"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young men from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> public squares.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">{But only}<note>Literally "But it"</note> in this must the one who boasts boast, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he has insight, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he knows me, that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I delight," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">"Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foreskin:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side, those who live in the desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> for all the nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel <transChange type="added">are</transChange> uncircumcised of heart." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Hear the word that Yahweh speaks to you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For the statutes of the peoples <transChange type="added">are</transChange> vanity, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a tree cut down from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forest, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands of a craftsman with the tool.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like scarecrows<note>Hebrew "scarecrow"</note> in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not in them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">There is none like you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> great and your name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great in might.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Who would not revere you, O king of the nations? For you it is fitting. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,<note>Hebrew "kingdom"</note> there is none like you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">{At the same time}<note>Literally "And in one"</note> they are stupid and foolish, <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> instruction of idols, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wood.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> craftsman and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their clothing, all of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the work of skillful people.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">But Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the true God, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the living God, and {an everlasting king}.<note>Literally "a king of eternity"</note> Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations cannot endure his anger.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">He is</transChange> the maker of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth by his power, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">{When he utters his voice}<note>Literally "At the voice of his giving"</note> <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a noise of water in the heavens, and he causes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mist to rise from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends<note>Hebrew "end"</note> of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he causes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind to go out from his storehouses.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">{Everyone}<note>Literally "All humankind"</note> is stupid, {without knowledge},<note>Literally "from knowledge"</note> every goldsmith is ashamed by <transChange type="added">his</transChange> divine image, for his cast image <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an illusion, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no breath in them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">The portion of Jacob <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not like these, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the creator of everything, and Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the tribe of his inheritance, Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Gather your bundle from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground, you who live under the siege.'"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound <transChange type="added">is</transChange> incurable. But I said, "Surely this <transChange type="added">is my</transChange> sickness, and I must bear it."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out <transChange type="added">from</transChange> me, and they are not. There is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> pitches my tent again, or <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> puts up my tent curtains.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Listen, news:<note>Or "a report"</note> Look, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> coming, a great roar from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">I know, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, that to the human <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> way, nor to a person <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> walking and the directing of his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> step.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Chastise<note>Or "Discipline"</note> me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the {people}<note>Literally "man"</note> of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "The man is cursed who does not obey the words of this covenant,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">which I commanded your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Listen to my voice and do according to all that I command you, {so will you be my people, and I will be your God}.'<note>Literally "and you shall be to me as people and I will be to you as God"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">in order to keep the oath that I swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day." '" Then I answered and said, "{Let it be so},<note>Literally "Amen"</note> O Yahweh." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And Yahweh said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">for I solemnly admonished your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the day of my leading them out from the land of Egypt and up to this day, {admonishing persistently},<note>Literally "do early and admonishing"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Obey my voice."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">But they did not obey and they did not incline their ear. Instead each one walked in the stubbornness of his<note>Hebrew "their"</note> evil heart. Therefore, I brought on them all the words of this covenant which I commanded <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to do, and they did not <transChange type="added">do it</transChange>.'"<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And Yahweh said to me, "A conspiracy is found among the {people}<note>Literally "man"</note> of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> who refused to obey my words, and they have gone after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with their ancestors."<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">For the number of your towns are your gods, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">{What rights has my beloved in my house}<note>Literally "What for my beloved in my house"</note> <transChange type="added">when</transChange> she has done many wicked things?<note>Hebrew "wicked thing"</note> Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For {you engage in your wickedness},<note>Literally "your wickedness"</note> then you exult.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Yahweh called your name, 'A leafy olive tree, {beautiful with fine fruit}.'<note>Literally "beautiful of fruit of appearance"</note> With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">And Yahweh of hosts, the <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, that they have done to themselves, to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Moreover, Yahweh let <transChange type="added">it be</transChange> made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">And I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">But <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh of hosts, who judges <transChange type="added">in</transChange> righteousness, who tests <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {inmost being},<note>Literally "kidney"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {mind},<note>Literally "heart"</note> let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh concerning the people<note>Or "men"</note> of Anathoth who seek your life, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh {or}<note>Literally "and not"</note> you will die by our hand."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am about to</transChange> punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">And a remnant will not be <transChange type="added">left</transChange> for them, for I will bring disaster to the people<note>Or "men"</note> of Anathoth, the year of their punishment." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">You <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> in the right, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak <transChange type="added">my</transChange> claims with you. Why does <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> near in their mouths, but far from their {inmost beings}.<note>Literally "kidneys"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">But you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test <transChange type="added">that</transChange> my heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you. Tear them apart like sheep for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slaughtering, and set them apart for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of slaughter.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up, because of the wickedness of those who live in it? <transChange type="added">The</transChange> animals and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> are swept away, because they have said, "He does not see our future."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">"If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in {a peaceful land},<note>Literally "a land of peace"</note> then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly}<note>Literally "full"</note> after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my {heart}<note>Literally "soul"</note> into the hand of her enemies.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; {therefore}<note>Literally "unto thus"</note> I hate her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">The lair of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hyena <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my inheritance to me, the birds of prey<note>Hebrew "bird of prey"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all around her. Go, gather all of the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the field, bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> {to come and devour}.<note>Literally "to food"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made {my pleasant field}<note>Literally "the plot of land of my desire"</note> like the desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> of desolation.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to heart.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Upon all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights in the desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> destroyers have come, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword of Yahweh devours, from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> end of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end of the land, there is no peace for all flesh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of {the burning anger}<note>Literally "the blaze of the nose"</note> of Yahweh."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my people Israel: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">{And then},<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, '{as Yahweh lives},'<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">But if they do not listen, then {I will completely uproot and destroy that nation}."<note>Literally "I will drive out the nation that driving out and destroying"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Thus Yahweh said to me: "Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not {place}<note>Literally "bring"</note> it in water."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on my loins. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">"Take the loincloth that you bought, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on your loins, and stand up, go <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">So I went and hid it by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">{And then},<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> {after a long time},<note>Literally "from the end of many days"</note> then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Then I went <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">"Thus says Yahweh: 'So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go<note>Or "walk"</note> in the stubbornness of their hearts,<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">For as the loincloth clings to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">"Therefore, you shall say to them this word, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Every jar must be filled with wine." ' And they will say to you, 'Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem <transChange type="added">with</transChange> drunkenness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "I will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Give glory to Yahweh your God {before}<note>Literally "at not yet"</note> he brings darkness, and {before}<note>Literally "at not yet"</note> your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> as thick darkness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">But if you will not listen to it, my inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of}<note>Literally "the face of"</note> <transChange type="added">your</transChange> pride. And my eyes<note>Hebrew "eye"</note> will weep bitterly, and they will melt <transChange type="added">in</transChange> tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat},<note>Literally "Bring low sit"</note> for {your beautiful crown}<note>Literally "the crown of your beauty"</note> has come down from your head.'<note>Or "at the head of you"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> opens <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> All of Judah is deported; it is deported <transChange type="added">in</transChange> completeness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Lift up your eyes and see those coming from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north. Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the flock that was given to you, {your magnificent flock}?<note>Literally "the flock of your splendor"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">What will you say when he sets over you-- and you have taught them--allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> you also will be able to do good, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> are accustomed to doing evil.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert.<note>Or "wilderness"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your lot, the portion of your measure from me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face, and your shame will become visible.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Jerusalem! {How long will you continue to be unclean}?<note>Literally "Not you are clean after how long still"</note>"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">That</transChange> which came <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter<note>Hebrew "matters"</note> of the severe drought. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">And their nobles send their servants for water. They come to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pits, they find no water. They return <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their vessels {empty}.<note>Literally "without success"</note> They are ashamed, and they are confounded, and they cover their heads.<note>Hebrew "head"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Because of the ground, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> is cracked because there was no rain on the ground. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.<note>Hebrew "head"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">For even <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doe in the field gives birth and forsakes <transChange type="added">her young</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> because there is no green growth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And wild asses stand on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights, they gasp <transChange type="added">for</transChange> breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Although our iniquities testify against us, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">You are</transChange> the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out <transChange type="added">his tent</transChange> <note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to spend the night?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Why should you be like a confused man, like a warrior <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is not able to help? Yet you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in our midst, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, and your name is called upon us. You must not leave us!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">So Yahweh said to me, "You must not pray for this people, for <transChange type="added">their</transChange> happiness.<note>Or "good"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Although they fast, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to destroy them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, look, the prophets <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying to them, 'You will not see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and famine will not be yours, but reliable peace I will give to you in this place.'"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And Yahweh said to me, "The prophets <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying lies<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> in my name. I have not sent them, and I have not commanded them, and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, and a divination, worthless, and the deceitfulness of their {minds}."<note>Literally "heart"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And the people <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem {because of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the famine and the sword. And there will be no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> buries them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. And I will pour out on them their wickedness. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">If I go out <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the field, then look, those slain by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword. And if I enter the city, then look, the sickness of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> famine. For both prophet and priest wander around through the land, {they do not know what is going on}.'"<note>Literally "and not they know"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul<note>Or "inner self"</note> loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">We know, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> for we have sinned against you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">You must not spurn <transChange type="added">us</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> for the sake of your name, you must not dishonor {your glorious throne}.<note>Literally "the throne of your glory"</note> Remember <transChange type="added">us</transChange>!<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> You must not break your covenant with us.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Are there <transChange type="added">any</transChange> among the idols of the nation <transChange type="added">who</transChange> cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Then Yahweh said to me, "<transChange type="added">Even</transChange> if Moses and Samuel stood {before me},<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> my heart <transChange type="added">would</transChange> not <transChange type="added">be</transChange> to this people. Send <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away from my {sight},<note>Literally "face"</note> and let them go out.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> if they say to you, 'Where shall we go?' Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">"And I will summon<note>Or "appoint"</note> over them four types of calamity," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the air and the wild animals<note>Hebrew "wild animal"</note> of the earth to devour and to destroy.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">"For who will have compassion on you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Jerusalem, or who will show sympathy to you, or who will turn aside {to ask about your welfare}?<note>Literally "to ask to the welfare of you"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">You have forsaken me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land. I am bereaved. I have destroyed my people. They did not turn back from their ways.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Their widows<note>Hebrew "widow"</note> will be more numerous before me than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas. I have brought to them, against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mothers<note>Hebrew "mother"</note> of young men,<note>Hebrew "man"</note> a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.<note>Hebrew "horrors"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">She who gave birth to seven has withered away. She gasps her breath. Her sun {set}<note>Literally "came"</note> while still day. She has been put to shame and disgraced. And the remainder of them I will give to the sword {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> their enemies," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Woe to me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling {to the whole land}.<note>Literally "to all of the land"</note> I have not lent out and {I have not borrowed}.<note>Literally "not they have lent out for me"</note> All of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> cursing me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">I will give your wealth and your treasures as plunder without price, even because of all your sins, and throughout all your territories.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And I will make you serve your enemies in a land <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not know, for a fire will kindle in my anger. Upon you it will be kindled."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">You who know, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors {in your forbearance}.<note>Literally "in the length of your nose"</note> You must take me away. Know <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> carrying disgrace because of you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh God of hosts.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">I sat not in the assembly of jokers, <transChange type="added">nor did</transChange> I exult. Because of the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> indignation.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Why is my pain endless, and my wound incurable? It refuses to become healed. Truly you are to me like a deceitful <transChange type="added">brook</transChange>, waters <transChange type="added">that</transChange> are not trustworthy.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">And I will make you to this people a wall of fortified bronze, and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you, to save you, and to deliver you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">"And I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tyrant."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">"They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies<note>Hebrew "dead body"</note> will become food for the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the air, and for the wild animals<note>Hebrew "wild animal"</note> of the earth." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">For thus says Yahweh, "You must not enter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the loyal love and the compassion.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And they will not break bread for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead. And they will not give drink to them, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cup of desolation, for their fathers,<note>Hebrew "father"</note> or for their mothers.<note>Hebrew "mother"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And you shall not enter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of jubilation, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of joy, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, '{Why}<note>Literally "On what"</note> has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our iniquity, and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Then you shall say to them, '{Because}<note>Literally "On that"</note> your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have forsaken me,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">And {you have behaved badly}<note>Literally "you have done evil to do"</note> more than your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and it will no longer be said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> who led up the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from the land of Egypt,"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">{but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> who led up the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and from all the lands where he had driven them," for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> sending for many fishermen,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and they will fish them out, and {afterward}<note>Literally "after thus"</note> I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">For my eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me},<note>Literally "from to the face of me"</note> and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">And {I will first doubly repay}<note>Literally "I will reward first second"</note> their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies<note>Hebrew "dead body"</note> of their abhorrences, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of distress, to you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations will come from the ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have inherited only lies,<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> vanity, and there is no profit in them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not gods!"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> and my might, and they will know that my name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">"The sin of Judah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> written with an iron stylus, with a point of diamond <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">As the remembering of their children, <transChange type="added">so is the remembering of</transChange> their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside <transChange type="added">the</transChange> leafy trees<note>Hebrew "tree"</note> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> high hills.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> my mountain in the open country, I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil, your high places, because of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> sin, throughout all your territories.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And {you will let go your hand from your inheritance}<note>Literally "you shall loose and in you from your inheritance"</note> that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in the land that you do not know, for you kindled a fire in my anger, until eternity it will be kindled."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness,<note>Or "Arabah"</note> and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> parched places in the desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a land of salt flats,<note>Hebrew "salt flat"</note> where no one lives.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves<note>Hebrew "leaf"</note> will be luxuriant, and in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">The heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> deceitful more than anything else, and it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> disastrous. Who can understand it?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">I, Yahweh, examine <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {mind},<note>Literally "heart"</note> <transChange type="added">I</transChange> test <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {heart},<note>Literally "kidneys"</note> and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">Like</transChange> a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will <transChange type="added">prove to</transChange> be a fool."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">A lofty throne of glory from the beginning <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the place of our sanctuary.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> forsake you will be put to shame, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Heal me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my praise.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Look, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying to me, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word of Yahweh? Please let it come."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd {who follows you},<note>Literally "after you"</note> and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">You must not become to me a terror, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my refuge in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of disaster.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Let my persecutors be put to shame, {but as for me},<note>Literally "I"</note> <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, {but as for me},<note>Literally "I"</note> <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of disaster, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> double destruction, destroy them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Thus said Yahweh to me, "Go, and you must stand in the {People's Gate}<note>Literally "gate of the sons/children of the people"</note> through which the kings of Judah enter, and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">And you must say to them, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">Thus says Yahweh, "Be on your guard for the sake of yourselves, that you must not carry a burden on the day of the Sabbath, and you must <transChange type="added">not</transChange> bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> through the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And you must not carry a burden from your houses on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not do any work. But you must declare holy the day of Sabbath, just as I commanded your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to not hear, nor to receive discipline. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">"And it will happen, if you carefully listen to me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, but to declare holy the day of Sabbath, not to do on it any work,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">then kings and officials who sit on the throne of David will enter through the gates of this city riding in chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and on horses, they, and their officials, the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited {forever}.<note>Literally "to eternity"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings,<note>Hebrew "burnt offering"</note> and sacrifices,<note>Hebrew "sacrifice"</note> and grain offerings,<note>Hebrew "grain offering"</note> and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings<note>Hebrew "thank offering"</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">But if you do not listen to me, to declare holy the day of the Sabbath, and to not carry a burden and enter through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Stand up and go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of the potter, and there I will let you hear my words."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">So I went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of the potter and look, there he was doing work at the potter's wheels.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And the vessel that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> making with the clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter, so {he made again}<note>Literally "he turned back and he made it"</note> another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">"Like this potter, am I not able to do to you, O house of Israel?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you in my hand, O house of Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">But <transChange type="added">if</transChange> that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And the <transChange type="added">next</transChange> moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">But <transChange type="added">if</transChange> it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do <transChange type="added">to</transChange> it. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">"So now then, say, please, to the {people}<note>Literally "man"</note> of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> preparing evil against you, and <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your ways and your deeds." '</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">But they will say, '<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> hopeless, for we will go after our <transChange type="added">own</transChange> plans, and each one of us will act <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> the stubbornness of his evil heart.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">Does the snow of Lebanon leave from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> crags<note>Hebrew "crag"</note> of Sirion? Or are <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols,<note>Hebrew "idol"</note> and they caused them to stumble in their ways, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ancient ways, to go <transChange type="added">into</transChange> {bypaths},<note>Literally "paths of way"</note> not <transChange type="added">one that</transChange> is built up.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">To make their land a horror, <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> whistling for eternity. All <transChange type="added">who</transChange> pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Like the wind from the east I will scatter them {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy. I will show them <transChange type="added">my</transChange> back and not <transChange type="added">my</transChange> face in the day of their disaster.'"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> priest, nor advice from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise man, nor <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him},<note>Literally "let us strike him with the tongue"</note> and let us not listen attentively to any of his words." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Listen attentively to me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, and listen to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of my opponents.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> give their children to the famine, and hand them over to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> sword in the battle.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them <transChange type="added">the</transChange> raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">But you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, you know {all their plans of assassination against me}.<note>Literally "all of their plan against me to the death"</note> You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from {before you}.<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> But let them be overthrown {before you}.<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> Deal with them in the time of your anger.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Thus said Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and <transChange type="added">take</transChange> some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which <transChange type="added">is at</transChange> the entrance of the Gate of the Potsherd, and proclaim there the words that I speak to you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">And you shall say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring disaster upon this place so that {everyone who hears it},<note>Literally "all hears it"</note> his ears will ring.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Because they have forsaken me, and they have defaced this place, and they have made smoke offerings in it to other gods whom they have not known, they, nor their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> blood of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to come," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, {but}<note>Literally "surely if"</note> the Valley of the Slaughter.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I will lay waste the plans<note>Hebrew "plan"</note> of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodies<note>Hebrew "dead body"</note> as food to the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of heaven and to the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the earth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And I will make this city a horror, and <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> hissing, everyone <transChange type="added">who</transChange> passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> siege and in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them." ' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">And you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "So I will break this people and this city as one breaks the vessel of the potter, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury {until there is no room to bury}.<note>Literally "from there is no place to bury"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">Thus will I do to this place," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean like the place of Topheth, all the houses where they made smoke offerings upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and <transChange type="added">where</transChange> they poured out libations to other gods." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring to this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their neck to not hear my words.'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Now Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> officer in charge in the temple of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> by the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> on the next day, when Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Yahweh will not call your name Pashhur, {but}<note>Literally "but if"</note> Terror From All Around.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">For thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> seeing <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> And all Judah I will give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will deport them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">And I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its acquisitions, and all its precious items, and all of the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, and they will seize them, and they will bring them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And you, Pashhur, and all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> live <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your house will go into captivity, and you will go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends to whom you have prophesied {falsely}.<note>Literally "in the lie"</note>'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">You have persuaded me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day <transChange type="added">long</transChange>. {Everyone}<note>Literally "All of him"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mocking me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">For {as often as}<note>Literally "from enough"</note> I speak, I must cry out violence and destruction. I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me a disgrace and derision all day <transChange type="added">long</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">But <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I say, "I will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name," then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and I am not able.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from all around, denounce <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> yes, let us denounce him!" {All my close friends}<note>Literally "All the human being of my peace"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> watchers of my stumbling, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">But Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. <transChange type="added">Their</transChange> {everlasting insult}<note>Literally "insult of eternity"</note> will not be forgotten.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Yet, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh of hosts, who tests <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, who sees <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {heart}<note>Literally "kidneys"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {mind},<note>Literally "heart"</note> let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered <transChange type="added">the</transChange> life of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of evildoers.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Cursed be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which I was born, let not the day <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Cursed be the man who brought the news <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my father, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And let that man be like the cities that Yahweh demolished without regret, and let him hear a cry for help in the morning, and an alarm at the time of noon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Because he did not kill me in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and <transChange type="added">her</transChange> womb <transChange type="added">would be</transChange> pregnant forever.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">{Why}<note>Literally "To what this"</note> did I come out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> {end my days in shame}?<note>Literally "my days will come to an end in shame"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Please inquire <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Yahweh on behalf of us, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fighting against us. Perhaps Yahweh will do with us according to all his miraculous acts, so that he may go up from against us." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to turn back the weapons of war that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your hands,<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fighting against them, the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the center of this city.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">And I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand, and with strong arm, and in {anger},<note>Literally "nose"</note> and in fury, and in great wrath.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both humankind and animal; by a great plague they will die.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And {afterward},"<note>Literally "after thus"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "I will give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives, and he will strike them with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {edge}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword. He will not take pity on them, and he will not have compassion, nor will he show compassion." ' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">"And to this people you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> setting {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> the way of life and the way of death.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">He who stays in this city will die by the sword, or by the famine, or by the plague. And he who goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you will live, and his life will be to him as booty.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire." ' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against you, O inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of the valley, O rock of the plain," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh; "you who say, 'Who can descend against us, or who can enter into our hiding place?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings." '"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Thus says Yahweh: "Go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of the king of Judah and you must speak this word there.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">And you must say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter through these gates.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Thus says Yahweh, "Act <transChange type="added">with</transChange> justice and righteousness, and deliver <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who has been seized from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressor. And you must not oppress <transChange type="added">the</transChange> immigrant, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And if you indeed obey this word, then kings who sit for David on his throne will enter through the gates of this house, riding in chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">But if you do not obey these words, I swear by myself," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "that this house will become a site of ruins." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I will consecrate against you destroyers, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down {your choicest cedars},<note>Literally "the choicest thing of your cedars"</note> and cast <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on the fire.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And many nations will pass by this city and they will say each one to his neighbor, '{Why}<note>Literally "Over what"</note> has Yahweh done in this manner to this great city?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Then they will answer, 'Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and bowed down in worship to other gods, and served them.'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">You must not weep for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">For thus says Yahweh concerning Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned as king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: "He will not return here again.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">But in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> place where they have deported him, there he will die, and he will not see this land again. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Woe <transChange type="added">to the one who</transChange> builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.<note>Hebrew "wage"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Who says 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and <transChange type="added">it is</transChange><note>Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation</note> paneled with cedar, and he paints <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> with vermilion.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Do you reign as king because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">He judged <transChange type="added">the</transChange> legal cause of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?<note>Literally "Not that the knowledge me"</note>" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">"But there is nothing <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your eyes and your heart {except}<note>Literally "but if"</note> your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">He will be buried <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the burial of a donkey. <transChange type="added">He will be</transChange><note>Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation</note> dragged away and thrown {outside}<note>Literally "from beyond"</note> the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Lebanon and cry out, and in Bashan lift up your voice, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are shattered.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">I spoke to you {in the times you were secure},<note>Literally "in your security"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> you said, 'I will not listen!' This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">All your shepherds will shepherd <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind, and your lovers will go into captivity. Yes, then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Inhabitants<note>Hebrew "Inhabitant"</note> of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the <transChange type="added">woman who</transChange> gives birth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">"As I live," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">And I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you to another country where you were not born, and there you will die.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">As for the land to which they are {longing}<note>Literally "lifting their inner self"</note> to return, they will not return. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel? Or a vessel <transChange type="added">in which</transChange> there is no delight? Why are he and his offspring thrown far, and cast away to the land that they do not know?"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">"Woe <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them. Look, I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> punish you <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the evil of your deeds," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">"Then I myself will gather together the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their grazing place, and they will be fruitful, and they will become numerous.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And I will raise up over them shepherds, and they will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear, and they will not be dismayed, and they will not be missing," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">"Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign <transChange type="added">as</transChange> king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell {in safety},<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which he will be called: 'Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our righteousness.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "when they will no longer say, '{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> who led up the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from the land of Egypt,'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">but '{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> north and from all the lands where he had driven them.' Then they will live in their land." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">For the land is full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> pastures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not right.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">"For both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the year of their punishment," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">"Now in the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing. They prophesied by Baal and they caused my people Israel to err.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible. They commit adultery, and they walk in lies,<note>Hebrew "the lie"</note> and they make strong <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands of evildoers, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that they have not turned back each from his wickedness. All of them have become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">They are</transChange><note>Here the subject and verb are supplied from context in the English translation</note> continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, 'Peace it will be to you,' and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> {each one}<note>Literally "all"</note> who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively <transChange type="added">to</transChange> his word and heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>?<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth <transChange type="added">in</transChange> wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">The {anger}<note>Literally "nose"</note> of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note> {In latter days}<note>Literally "In the last of the days"</note> you will look closely at it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> understanding.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I a God from near," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and not a God from far?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "<transChange type="added">Do</transChange> I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="25">"I have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> have said in my name, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> <transChange type="added">will</transChange> this be in the hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the prophets who prophesy lies,<note>Hebrew "the lie"</note> even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,<note>Hebrew "heart"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> forgot my name through Baal?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">The prophet who <transChange type="added">has</transChange> with him a dream, let him tell <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dream. But <transChange type="added">the prophet</transChange><note>Here the subject is supplied from context in the English translation</note> who <transChange type="added">has</transChange> my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?"<note>Literally "What to the straw in comparison with the wheat"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">"<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not my word like fire?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and like a blacksmith's hammer <transChange type="added">that</transChange> breaks a rock into pieces? </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against the prophets," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "who steal my words each one from his neighbor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against the prophets," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "who take their tongues<note>Hebrew "tongue"</note> and declare as prophets, '<transChange type="added">Yahweh</transChange> {declares}.'<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against those who prophesy dreams of lies,"<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="33">"Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh?' then you shall say to them, '{You are the burden},<note>Literally "What burden"</note> and I will forsake you,'" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">"And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="35">Thus you shall say, each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother: 'What has Yahweh answered?' or, 'What has Yahweh spoken?'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="36">But you shall not mention the burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh, for the burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="37">Thus you shall say to that prophet, 'What has Yahweh answered you?' or, 'What has Yahweh spoken?'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="38">But if you say, 'The burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh,' {therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, 'because of your saying these words,<note>Hebrew "word"</note> "The burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh," then I will send to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You shall not say, 'The burden<note>Or "oracle"</note> of Yahweh.'" '</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, here I am, and I will surely lift you up and forsake you and the city that I gave to you and to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from {my presence}<note>Literally "my face"</note>,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="40">and I will bring upon you {an everlasting disgrace}<note>Literally "a disgrace of eternity"</note> and {an everlasting shame}<note>Literally "a shame of eternity"</note> that will not be forgotten." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the temple of Yahweh--after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths,<note>Hebrew "smith"</note> from Jerusalem and had brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">The one basket <transChange type="added">had</transChange> very good figs, like {early figs},<note>Literally "the figs of the early ripened fruit"</note> and the other basket <transChange type="added">had</transChange> very bad figs that could not be eaten because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bad quality.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">And Yahweh asked me, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs--the good figs, very good, and the bad <transChange type="added">figs</transChange>, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bad quality." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> of Judah whom I have sent away from this place <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">For I will set my eyes<note>Hebrew "eye"</note> on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and I will plant them and not uproot <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, and {they will be my people},<note>Literally "they shall be for me as a people"</note> and {I will be their God},<note>Literally "I will be for them as God"</note> for they will return to me with the whole of their heart. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bad quality--for thus says Yahweh--so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the first year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">"From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even up to this day, these twenty-three years<note>Hebrew "year"</note> the word of Yahweh has come to me, and {I have spoken to you over and over again},<note>Literally "I have spoken to you doing early and speaking"</note> but you have not listened.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">though</transChange> Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you {over and over again}<note>Literally "do early and sending"</note> you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">{saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Turn back please, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from a long time back and until forever,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">and you must not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, and you must not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will not do something bad to you.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">'Yet you have not listened to me,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'so that you<note>Hebrew "they"</note> have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed my words,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to send and take all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clans<note>Or "families"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and <transChange type="added">I will send</transChange><note>Here the subject and verb are supplied from context in the English translation</note> to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> hissing, and {everlasting ruins}.<note>Literally "sites of ruins of eternity"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> millstones, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lamp.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<note>Hebrew "year"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seventy years<note>Hebrew "year"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'for their iniquity, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans, and I will make it {an everlasting waste}.<note>Literally "a waste of eternity"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, "Take this cup of the wine <transChange type="added">of</transChange> wrath from my hand, and you must give it <transChange type="added">to</transChange> all the nations to whom I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> sending you to drink.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of the sword that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> sending among them." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an <transChange type="added">object of</transChange> hissing, and a curse, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">and all the other<note>Or "foreign"</note> people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines--<note>Hebrew "Philistine"</note>Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> across the sea;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who are trimmed to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the other<note>Or "foreign"</note> people who dwell in the desert;<note>Or "wilderness"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">"And you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Drink and become drunk, and vomit, and fall, and you must not rise because of the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of the sword that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> sending among you." '</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "You must certainly drink!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">For look, on the city that is called {by}<note>Literally "on it"</note> my name I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them: </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> rage of battle will resound to the end of the earth, for <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a lawsuit of Yahweh against the nations. He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> entering into judgment with all wicked flesh, he will give them to the sword,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">And the slain <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> of Yahweh will be on that day from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> end of the earth to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end of the earth, and they will not be mourned, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried. They will become like dung on the {surface}<note>Literally "face"</note> of the ground.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning <transChange type="added">in the dust</transChange>, O leaders<note>Or "nobles"</note> of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the leaders<note>Or "nobles"</note> of the flock.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">A sound, the cry of distress of the shepherds and the wailing of the leaders<note>Or "nobles"</note> of the flock, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> despoiling their pasture.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">And the {peaceful settlements}<note>Literally "settlements of the peace"</note> are devastated because of {the burning anger of Yahweh}.<note>Literally "the blaze of the nose of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">He has left his den like a lion, for their land has become a horror, because of the anger of the oppressors, and because of {his burning anger}."<note>Literally "the blaze of his nose"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh: 'Stand in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and you must speak to all the cities of Judah that come to bow in worship <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Yahweh all the words that I command you to speak to them. You must not omit a word.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> planning to do to them because of their evil deeds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And you shall say to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set<note>Or "given"</note> {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, {over and over again},<note>Literally "and doing early and sending"</note> though you have not listened,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.'" '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded <transChange type="added">him</transChange> to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You will die!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be in ruins, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh's <transChange type="added">temple</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "{This man deserves the death sentence},<note>Literally "A sentence of death <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to this man"</note> because he has prophesied against this city as that <transChange type="added">which</transChange> you have heard with your ears." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and to all the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Now {therefore}<note>Literally "so then"</note> amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">But <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> me, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in your hand, do to me what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good and right in your eyes.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for {truly}<note>Literally "in truth"</note> Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve}<note>Literally "Not to this man"</note> a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Then men from the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembly of the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">"Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, {saying}:<note>Literally "to say"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">Did</transChange> Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all Judah actually put him to death? <transChange type="added">Was he</transChange> not in fear of Yahweh? And he entreated the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster that he had spoken against them. But we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to do great disaster to ourselves." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">Indeed, there also was a man prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-Jearim, and he prophesied against this city and against this land like all the words of Jeremiah.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And when King Jehoiakim, and all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard, and he was afraid, and he fled and went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">Then King Jehoiakim sent men <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt. Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and men with him <transChange type="added">went</transChange> to Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And they brought out Uriah from Egypt and they brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword, and he threw his dead body into the burial sites of the sons of the people.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="24">However, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hand of the people to put him to death. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying}<note>Literally "to say"</note>--</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">thus said Yahweh to me--"Make for yourself fetters and yokes and put them on your neck,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> envoys who have come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, the king of Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">And you must command them for their masters, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, this you shall say to your masters:</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">"I have made the earth with humankind and animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the face of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomever is right in my eyes.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and also the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the field I have given to him to serve him.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and {his grandson},<note>Literally "the son of his son"</note> until the coming of the time of {his own}<note>Literally "also his"</note> land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">"But it will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the nation or kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "until I have destroyed it with my hand.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">For they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying to you a lie, so that you <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it." '" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And I spoke words like these to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">Why should you die--you and your people--by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You must not serve the king of Babylon,' for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying a lie to you.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">For I have not sent them," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "but they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying in my name {falsely},<note>Literally "to the lie"</note> so that I will drive them away. And you will perish--you and the prophets who are prophesying to you." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Thus says Yahweh, 'You must not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Look, the vessels of the house of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to be quickly brought back from Babylon", for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying a lie to you.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins?</verse>


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<verse num="18">But if they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophets, and if there is with them the word of Yahweh, let them please plead with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels that are left over in the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh, and the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, must not go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">For thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,</verse>


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<verse num="20">which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, did not take when he deported Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of the king of Judah, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Jerusalem:</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">'They will be brought <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, and there they will stay until the day of my attending to them,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. 'Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.'" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">And it was in that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur, the prophet who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Gibeon, said to me in the house of Yahweh before the eyes of the priests and all the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="3">{Within two years}<note>Literally "In still two years days"</note> I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took away from this place and brought <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> from Judah who went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> bring back to this place,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who were standing in the house of Yahweh,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">and Jeremiah the prophet said, "Amen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh fulfill your words that you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> from Babylon to this place.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">Nevertheless listen please <transChange type="added">to</transChange> this word that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking in your {hearing}<note>Literally "ears"</note> and in the {hearing}<note>Literally "ears"</note> of all the people,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">The prophets who were {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> me and {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> you from ancient <transChange type="added">times</transChange> prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms of war, and of disaster, and of plague.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">The prophet who prophesies peace, at the coming of the word of the prophet, will become known <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the prophet that Yahweh has {truly}<note>Literally "in truth"</note> sent." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">Then Hananiah said before the eyes of all the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Thus says Yahweh, 'This is how I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, {within two years},<note>Literally "in still two years days"</note> from the neck of all the nations.'" And Jeremiah the prophet went on his way. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet broke the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">"Go, and you must say to Hananiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and they will serve him, and I have even given the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the open field to him." '" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Please listen, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to send you from the face of the earth. This year you <transChange type="added">will</transChange> die because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">And Hananiah the prophet died in that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> year in the seventh month. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the exiles,<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">after the going out of Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, and the artisans,<note>Hebrew "artisan"</note> and the smiths<note>Hebrew "smith"</note> from Jerusalem,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, the king of Judah, sent to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> whom I have deported from Jerusalem <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">'Build houses and live <transChange type="added">in them</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">And seek the prosperity of the city where I have deported you, and pray on behalf of it to Yahweh, for in its prosperity you will have prosperity.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> causing <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to dream.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">For they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying {falsely}<note>Literally "in a lie"</note> to you in my name; I have not sent them,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">For thus says Yahweh, '{As soon as the time has passed},<note>Literally "When to the mouth of being full"</note> seventy years<note>Hebrew "year"</note> for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">For I know the plans that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> planning concerning you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">Then <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">When you search for me, then you will find <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, if you seek me with all your heart.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">And I will let myself be found by you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will restore your fortunes,<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places to which I have driven you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will bring you back to the place from which I deported you.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">Because you have said, 'Yahweh has raised up prophets for us <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Babylon'--</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">for thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and concerning all the people who live in this city, your fellow kinsmen who did not go with you into the exile--</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bad quality.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, and a horror, and <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">because they did not listen to my words,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again},<note>Literally "doing early and sending"</note> and they would not listen,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> whom I sent away from Jerusalem <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name a lie, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and he will strike them before your eyes.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And a curse will be taken <transChange type="added">up</transChange> because of them by all the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> of Judah who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Babylon, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> in my name, lies<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> that I have not commanded them, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he who knows, and <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> a witness,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="24">And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="25">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Because you yourself sent <transChange type="added">a</transChange> letter<note>Hebrew "letters"</note> in your name to all the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="26">"Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Yahweh over any mad man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">and so then why have you not rebuked Jeremiah the Anathothite who exhibits the behavior of a prophet for you?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="28">{Because}<note>Literally "Seeing that unto thus"</note> he has sent to us <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Babylon, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'It <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a long time, build houses and live <transChange type="added">in them</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'" '"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="29">And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the {hearing}<note>Literally "ears"</note> of Jeremiah the prophet. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="30">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="31">"Send to all the exiles,<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I have not sent him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="32">{therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. There will not be for him a man who lives in the midst of this people, and he will not see the good that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to do to my people," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "For he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'when I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of my people Israel and Judah,' says Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they will take possession of it.'" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why <transChange type="added">do</transChange> I see every strong man <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And <transChange type="added">why</transChange> are all <transChange type="added">their</transChange> faces changed to paleness?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">Alas! For that day <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great, {there is none like it}.<note>Literally "from none like it"</note> And it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And it will happen on that day,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, 'I will break his yoke from your neck and your bonds I will tear to pieces. And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">But they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and you must not be dismayed, Israel, for look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be at rest, and he will be at ease, and there will be no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> makes <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> afraid.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">For I am with you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">There is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> pleads your cause, for <transChange type="added">your</transChange> boil there is no healing for you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not care for you. I have struck you <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> blow of an enemy, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> punishment of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cruel, because of the greatness of your guilt, your sins are numerous.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Why do you cry because of your wound? Your pain <transChange type="added">is</transChange> incurable. Because of the greatness of your guilt--your sins are vast-- I have done these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> devour you will be devoured, and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> plunder you will be as plunder, and all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> plunder you I will make as plunder.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "It is Zion, there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> cares for her." '</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">And thanksgiving and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">And their children will be as of old, and their community will be established {before me}.<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> And I will punish all their oppressors.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Look, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">{The burning anger of Yahweh}<note>Literally "The blaze of the nose of Yahweh"</note> will not turn back until his doing, and until his accomplishing the plans of his {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note> In the last of the days you will understand it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">From afar Yahweh appeared to me, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "I have loved you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> an everlasting love. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> I have drawn you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> loyal love.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your tambourines, and you will go forth in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dancing in a ring of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> merrymakers.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> planters will plant, and they will enjoy <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">For there will be a day <transChange type="added">when</transChange> watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, 'Stand up, and let us go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion, to Yahweh our God.'"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and I will gather them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remotest part of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. Among them <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blind, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lame, <transChange type="added">those who are</transChange> pregnant, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my firstborn."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Hear the word of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> nations, and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say, "The scatterer of Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and he has redeemed him from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> person {stronger}<note>Literally "strong"</note> than he.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grain, and over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wine, and over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> olive oil, and over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young ones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flock, and over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">"Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young woman will rejoice in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dancing in a ring, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young men and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And I will saturate the appetite of the priests <transChange type="added">with</transChange> fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Thus says Yahweh, "A voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> heard in Ramah, lamentation, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> weeping of bitterness. Rachel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no <transChange type="added">more</transChange>."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">And there is hope for your future," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and <transChange type="added">your</transChange> children will return to their territory.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Yahweh my God.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck <transChange type="added">my</transChange> thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> Ephraim my dear son, or <transChange type="added">the</transChange> child of <transChange type="added">my</transChange> delight? For {as often as}<note>Literally "from enough"</note> I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">"Set up for yourself road markers, make for yourself signposts, set your {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> to the main road, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> road <transChange type="added">by which</transChange> you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "They will again say these words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes,<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it, farmers and those who travel with the flocks.<note>Hebrew "flock"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">For I will saturate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirst of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> weary, and every person <transChange type="added">who</transChange> languishes I will replenish."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">"Look, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> seed of humankind, and <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> seed of animals.<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">"In those days they will say no longer, '{Parents}<note>Literally "Fathers"</note> have eaten unripe fruit, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> teeth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children {are set on edge}<note>Literally "have become blunt"</note>.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">{But}<note>Literally "But if"</note> each will die because of his iniquity, {everyone}<note>Literally "all of the humankind"</note> who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will {be set on edge}.<note>Literally "become blunt"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">Look, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">not like the covenant that I {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> on the day of my grasping <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">"But this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the covenant that I will {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with the house of Israel after those days," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their {smallest}<note>Literally "small"</note> and up to their {greatest},"<note>Literally "great"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">Thus says Yahweh, who gives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun for light by day, the regulations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars for light <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar--Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">"If these rules would cease from {before me},"<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation {before me}<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> {forever}."<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">Thus says Yahweh, "If <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens above can be measured, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">"Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the Corner Gate.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">And {the measuring line}<note>Literally "the string of the measurement"</note> will still go out immediately in front <transChange type="added">of</transChange> it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Goah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="40">And the whole of the valley <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the corpses, and the ashes, and all the cultivated fields up to the wadi of Kidron, up to the corner of the Gate of the Horses <transChange type="added">toward the</transChange> east <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> holy to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again {forever}."<note>Literally "to eternity"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah, that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> laying siege to Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard that <transChange type="added">was in</transChange> the palace of the king of Judah,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">where Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you prophesying, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">and Zedekiah, the king of Judah, will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but surely he will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and {he will speak face to face with him}<note>Literally "his mouth shall speak with his mouth"</note> and {he will see him eye to eye},<note>Literally "his eyes shall see his eyes"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon he will bring Zedekiah, and there he will be until my attending to him," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not be successful" '?" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And Jeremiah said, "The word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">'Look, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going to come to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Buy for yourself my field that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at Anathoth, for {you have}<note>Literally "to you is"</note> the right of redemption to buy <transChange type="added">it</transChange>." '<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard {according to}<note>Literally "as"</note> the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, 'Please buy my field that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at Anathoth, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Benjamin, for to you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> for yourself.' Then I knew that this <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the word of Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And I signed on the letter<note>Or "scroll"</note> and sealed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Then I took the deed<note>Or "scroll"</note> of the purchase, the sealed <transChange type="added">copy containing</transChange> the commandments<note>Hebrew "commandment"</note> and the rules, together with the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> that was open.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, {in the presence of}<note>Literally "before the eyes of"</note> Hanamel, <transChange type="added">the son of</transChange> my uncle, and {in the presence of}<note>Literally "before the eyes of"</note> the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, {in the presence of}<note>Literally "before the eyes of"</note> the Judeans<note>Hebrew "Judean"</note> who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And I commanded Baruch {in their presence},<note>Literally "before their eyes"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds,<note>Or "scrolls"</note> this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an {earthenware jar}<note>Literally "jar of earthenware"</note> so that they may be kept preserved many days."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land." ' </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And I prayed to Yahweh--after giving my deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah--{saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">'Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. {Nothing}<note>Literally "Not all a thing"</note> is too difficult for you,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">showing loyal love to the thousands, and repaying the guilt of {parents}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> into the laps<note>Hebrew "lap"</note> of their children after them. Powerful, great, mighty, his name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh of hosts,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">great in counsel and great <transChange type="added">in</transChange> deed, whose eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> opened to all the ways of the children of humankind, to give to each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">who accomplished signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, up to this day, and in Israel, and among humankind, and you have made for yourself a name, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">And you brought out your people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an arm stretched out, and with great terror.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And you gave to them this land, which you swore to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">And they entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice, and they did not follow your law. They did nothing of all that you commanded to them to do, and you caused to happen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them all this disaster.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Look, the siege ramps have come up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague, and what you spoke happened, and look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeing <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">"Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> God of all flesh; is {anything}<note>Literally "all thing"</note> too difficult for me?"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and they will burn it, and the houses where they have made smoke offerings on their roofs to Baal, and <transChange type="added">where</transChange> they have devoted libations to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">For the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Israel and the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">"For this city has been for me <transChange type="added">a cause</transChange> of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, <transChange type="added">so I will</transChange> remove it from my {sight},<note>Literally "face"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">because of all the evil of the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Israel and the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger--they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">And they have turned to me <transChange type="added">their</transChange> backs<note>Hebrew "back"</note> and not <transChange type="added">their</transChange> faces, though {I have taught them over and over again},<note>Literally "I have taught them doing early and teaching"</note> but they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not listening to accept discipline.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">And they set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">And they built the high places of Baal that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to present as offerings their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I had not commanded them, and it had not come to my {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">"So now {therefore},<note>Literally "to thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, 'It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague':</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to gather them from all the lands <transChange type="added">to</transChange> which I driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath, and I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell {in safety}.<note>Literally "with confidence"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me {forever},<note>Literally "all the days"</note> for good to them, and to their children after them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="40">And I will {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with them {an everlasting covenant}<note>Literally "a covenant of eternity"</note> that I will not turn away from them, my doing good <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them, and my reverence I will put in their hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> so that <transChange type="added">they will</transChange> not turn aside from me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="41">And I will rejoice over them to do good <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart, and with all my inner self."<note>Or "soul"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="42">"For thus says Yahweh, 'Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> bring upon them all the good that I promise to them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="43">And the fields<note>Hebrew "field"</note> will be bought in this land <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a desolation, {without humankind or animals}.<note>Literally "from there is not humankind and animal"</note> It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="44">They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds,<note>Hebrew "scroll"</note> and they will seal <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,'<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah <transChange type="added">a</transChange> second <transChange type="added">time</transChange> while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still held back in the courtyard of the guard, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh who made <transChange type="added">the earth</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> Yahweh who formed it to establish it, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great <transChange type="added">things</transChange> and inaccessible <transChange type="added">things that</transChange> you have not known.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that were torn down <transChange type="added">to make a defense</transChange> against the siege ramps and against the sword:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">'<transChange type="added">They are</transChange> coming to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of the people whom I will strike in my anger and in my wrath, for whom I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring healing and health to it, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and reliability.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of Judah and the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of Israel, and I will rebuild them as in the beginning.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">And it will be to me a name of jubilation, a praise, and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear all the good that I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> do <transChange type="added">for</transChange> them, and they will fear,<note>Or "tremble"</note> and they will tremble because of all the good, and because of all the prosperity that I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> provide for it.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">"Thus says Yahweh: 'Again will be heard in this place, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a waste, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> people and {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> animals,"<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> people and {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> and {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> animals,<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of jubilation, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of joy, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voices<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> of <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> say, "Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good, for his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {forever},"<note>Literally "to eternity"</note> <transChange type="added">the voices of those who</transChange> bring thank offerings<note>Hebrew "thank offering"</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of the land as in the beginning,' says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Again there will be in this waste place, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> people and animals,<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> and in all its towns, pasture for shepherds allowing <transChange type="added">their</transChange> flock to lie down.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the Shephelah, and in the towns of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> counter,' says Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">'Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will fulfill the good promise<note>Or "word"</note> that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell {safely},<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what they shall call it: "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our righteousness." '</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">For thus says Yahweh: 'A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">And for the priests, a man from the Levites <transChange type="added">who</transChange> offers burnt offerings<note>Hebrew "burnt offering"</note> and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> burns grain offerings<note>Hebrew "grain offering"</note> and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> brings sacrifices<note>Hebrew "sacrifice"</note> will not be cut off {before me}<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> {forever}.'"<note>Literally "all the days"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">"Thus says Yahweh: 'If you could break my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the day, and my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the night, so that day and night <transChange type="added">would</transChange> not come at their time,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from {having}<note>Literally "being for him"</note> a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites <transChange type="added">who</transChange> minister <transChange type="added">to</transChange> me.'"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="23">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="24">"Have you not seen how these people speak, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'The two clans<note>Or "families"</note> whom Yahweh chose, he has also rejected them'? Thus they spurn my people from being a nation {before them}<note>Literally "to the face of them"</note> <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="25">Thus says Yahweh: 'If my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> day and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> night, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> regulations of heaven and earth, I had not established,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="26">then the offspring of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from choosing rulers from his offspring over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will restore their fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> and I will have compassion on them.'" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and all his army, with all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdoms of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth <transChange type="added">under</transChange> the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples <transChange type="added">were</transChange> fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Go and say to Zedekiah the king of Judah, now you must say to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">And you will not escape from his hand, but surely you will be captured, and into his hand you will be given, and {you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye},<note>Literally "your eyes shall see with the eyes of the king of Babylon"</note> and {you will speak face to face with him},<note>Literally "his mouth shall speak with your mouth"</note> and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon you will go.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">However, hear the word of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Zedekiah, the king of Judah. Thus says Yahweh concerning you: 'You will not die by the sword.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">In peace you will die, and as <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> burning for your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> the former kings who were {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!" For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word I have spoken,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh." '"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Zedekiah the king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">when the army of the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left over--Lachish and Azekah, for these remained among the cities of Judah, the cities of fortification. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">to let go each one his <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slave and each one his female slave, the Hebrew and the free Hebrew, <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> no one among the Judeans<note>Hebrew "Judean"</note> <transChange type="added">should</transChange> enslave his fellow countryman.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant to let go each one his <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slave and each one his female slave, not enslaving them again, and they obeyed and they let <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> go.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">But {afterward}<note>Literally "after thus"</note> they turned back and they brought back the <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slaves and the female slaves whom they had let go free, and they subdued them as <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slaves and female slaves. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> on the day of my bringing them out from the land of Egypt, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of slaves, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">"At <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of seven years you must let go each one his fellow countryman, the Hebrew who has been sold to you and who has served you six years, and you must let him go free from you." But your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ears.<note>Hebrew "ear"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">And you turned back {recently}<note>Literally "the day"</note> and you did right in my eyes, to proclaim release each one to his neighbor, and you {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant {before me}<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> in the house that is called {by}<note>Literally "on it"</note> my name.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slave and each one his female slave, whom you had let go free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be to you as <transChange type="added">male</transChange> slaves and as female slaves.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, 'You have not listened to me to proclaim release each one to his fellow countryman and each one to his neighbor. Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to proclaim to you a release,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine, and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who have not kept the words of the covenant that they {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> {before me},<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> <transChange type="added">like</transChange> the calf which they cut in two and they passed between its parts--</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">the officials of Judah, and the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf--</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">and I will give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and their dead bodies<note>Hebrew "dead body"</note> will become as food for the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the heavens<note>Or "sky"</note> and for the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the earth.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">And Zedekiah the king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, who retreated from you.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to command,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> an inhabitant.'" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">So I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole of the house of the Rechabites,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">and I brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beside the chamber of the officials, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">Then I {set}<note>Literally "gave"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, "Drink wine."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">But they answered, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> commanded us, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You shall not drink wine, you or your children, {forever}.<note>Literally "until eternity"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard, and it shall not be for you, but in tents you shall live all your days, so that you may live many days on the surface of the land where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dwelling as aliens.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">And we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">and not to build houses <transChange type="added">for</transChange> our living, and there is not vineyard, or field, or seed for us.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> commanded us.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">{But then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> at the coming up against the land of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, then we said, 'Come and let us go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem {before}<note>"from the face of"</note> the army of the Chaldeans, and {before}<note>"from the face of"</note> the army of the Arameans.'<note>Hebrew "Aramean"</note> That is why we are living in Jerusalem." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Go and say to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "Can you not learn a lesson to listen to my words?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">"The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants<note>Or "children"</note> to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note> But {I have spoken to you over and over again},<note>Literally "I have spoken to you doing early and speaking"</note> and you have not listened to me.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, {I have sent them over and over again},<note>Literally "doing early and sending"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Turn back please each one from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and you must not go after other gods to serve them, {so that you may live}<note>Literally "and live"</note> on the land that I gave to you and to your ancestors.'<note>Or "fathers"</note> But you did not incline your ear and you did not listen to me.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">For the descendants<note>Or "children"</note> of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have carried out the command of their ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> that he commanded them, but this people did not listen to me." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring to Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every disaster that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, and I have called to them and they have not answered." '"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> and you have kept all his commands, and you have done all that he commanded you,'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">{therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'A man will not be cut off for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, to stand {before me}<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> {always}.'"<note>Literally "all the days"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Take for yourself {a scroll}<note>Literally "a scroll of a scroll"</note> and you must write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, and until this day.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">Perhaps <transChange type="added">when</transChange> the house of Judah hears all the disasters<note>Hebrew "disaster"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> planning to do to them, then they may turn back each one from his evil way, and I will forgive their guilt and their sin." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="4">Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh that he had spoken to him on {a scroll}.<note>Literally "a scroll of a scroll"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> held back, I am not able to enter the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">So you must go and you shall read aloud from the scroll that you have written from my mouth the words of Yahweh in the hearing of the people <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh on a day of fast, and also you shall read aloud in the hearing of all those of Judah who came from their towns.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">Perhaps their plea will fall {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh and each one will turn away from his evil way, for great <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the anger and wrath that Yahweh pronounced against this people."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, to read aloud from the scroll the words of Yahweh <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Then Baruch read aloud from the scroll the words of Jeremiah <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper courtyard <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the New Gate of the temple of Yahweh in the hearing of all the people. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the scroll,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">he went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of the king, to the chamber of the secretary, and look, all the officials <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sitting there: Elishama the secretary, and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> officials.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard at the reading aloud of Baruch from the scroll in the hearing of the people. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="14">Then all the officials sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "The scroll that you read aloud from in the hearing of the people, take it in your hand and come." And Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and he came to them.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">And they said to him, "Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing." So Baruch read aloud in their hearing.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">{And then},<note>Literally "And it was"</note> the moment of their hearing all the words, {they turned to one another in alarm}<note>Literally "they approached in trepidation each one to his neighbor"</note> and they said to Baruch, "We must certainly report all these words to the king!"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">Then they asked Baruch, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Tell us please, how did you write all these words, from his mouth?"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">And Baruch said to them, "From his mouth. He dictated to me all these words and I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> writing on the scroll with the ink."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let not a man know where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange>." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">And they went to the king, <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> courtyard, and they {put}<note>Literally "gave"</note> the scroll for safe-keeping in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words in the hearing of the king.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">Then the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read it aloud in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the officials who stood next to the king.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Now the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot <transChange type="added">was</transChange> burning {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> him.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">{And then},<note>Literally "and it was"</note> as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into the fire that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll <transChange type="added">was</transChange> consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">And even <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">And the king commanded Jerahmeel, the son of the king, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king burned the scroll and the words that Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">"{Take again}<note>Literally "Turn back take"</note> for yourself another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, has burned.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have burned this scroll, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Why have you written in it, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "The king of Babylon will certainly come and he will destroy this land, and he will cause to disappear from it humankind and animals"?'"<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, "There will not be for him <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And I will punish him, and his offspring, and his servants for their guilt, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen." '"</verse>


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<verse num="32">Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the secretary, and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, had burned in the fire, and furthermore was added to them many words like these. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had made king, reigned as king in the land of Judah in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But he and his servants and the people of the land did not listen to the words of Yahweh that he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Please pray for us to Yahweh our God."</verse>


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<verse num="4">Now Jeremiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming and going out in the midst of the people and they had not put him <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of imprisonment.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the army of Pharaoh had come out from Egypt, and the Chaldeans, who were laying siege to Jerusalem, heard their report and they withdrew from Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'This is what you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire <transChange type="added">of</transChange> me, "Look, the army of Pharaoh, which set out to help you, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going to return to his land Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the Chaldeans will return, and they will fight against this city, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire." '</verse>


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<verse num="9">Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go.</verse>


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<verse num="10">For <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if you struck the whole army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and <transChange type="added">only</transChange> men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.'" </verse>


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<verse num="11">{And then},<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> at the withdrawing of the army of the Chaldeans from Jerusalem {before}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the army of Pharaoh,</verse>


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<verse num="12">Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Benjamin to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.</verse>


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<verse num="13">{And when}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the Gate of Benjamin, there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {a sentry on duty}<note>Literally "an owner of supervision"</note> whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> deserting to the Chaldeans!"</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Jeremiah said, "<transChange type="added">That is</transChange> a lie! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not deserting to the Chaldeans." But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him <transChange type="added">in</transChange> {prison},<note>Literally "the house of the fetters"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the {prison}<note>Literally "house of the imprisonment"</note>.</verse>


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<verse num="16">So Jeremiah came to the {dungeon}<note>Literally "house of the cistern"</note>, even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then King Zedekiah sent and fetched him. And the king questioned him in secrecy in his house, and he said, "Is there a word from Yahweh?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." And he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon." </verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What did I do wrong to you, or to your servants, or to this people, that you have put me in {prison}?<note>Literally "the house of the imprisonment"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your prophets who prophesied to you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?</verse>


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<verse num="20">Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall {before you}.<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> You must not send me back <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there."</verse>


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<verse num="21">So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers {every day}<note>Literally "for the day"</note> until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> saying to all the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh, 'The <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> stays in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But the <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> goes out to the Chaldeans will live. And his life will be for him as booty, and he will live.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">Thus says Yahweh, 'Surely this city will be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.'" </verse>


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<verse num="4">Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, {because}<note>Literally "unto thus"</note> he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> making slack the hands of {the soldiers}<note>Literally "the men of the war"</note> who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not seeking for welfare<note>Or "peace"</note> to this people, {but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> for harm."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Zedekiah the king said, "Look, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your hand, for the king is not able <transChange type="added">to do</transChange> a thing against you."</verse>


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<verse num="6">So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Malchiah, the son of the king, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note> there was no water,<note>Hebrew "waters"</note> {but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. </verse>


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<verse num="7">When Ebed-melech the Cushite, {a eunuch}<note>Literally "a man of a eunuch"</note> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note>--now the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting at the Gate of Benjamin--</verse>


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<verse num="8">Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">"My lord the king, these men have done evil <transChange type="added">in</transChange> all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> that they have thrown <transChange type="added">him</transChange> into the pit,<note>Or "cistern"</note> and he will die {there}<note>Literally "in it"</note> {because of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> starvation, for there is no longer any bread in the city."</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Take {with you}<note>Literally "in your hand"</note> these thirty men and pull Jeremiah the prophet up from the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note> {before}<note>Literally "at not yet"</note> he dies." </verse>


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<verse num="11">So Ebed-melech took the men {with him}<note>Literally "in his hand"</note> and went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the palace of the king, to <transChange type="added">a place</transChange> beneath the storehouse, and he took from there {rags}<note>Literally "the rags of rags"</note> and {worn-out clothes}.<note>Literally "rags of ragged clothes"</note> And he let them down into the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note> by ropes to Jeremiah.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, "Please put {the rags}<note>Literally "rags of the rags"</note> and {worn-out clothes}<note>Literally "ragged clothes"</note> under the joints of your arms under the ropes," and Jeremiah did so.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And they pulled Jeremiah by the ropes and brought him up from the pit.<note>Or "cistern"</note> And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And Zedekiah the king sent and made someone bring Jeremiah the prophet to him, to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third entrance that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> asking you {something},<note>Literally "a thing"</note> you must not hide {anything}<note>Literally "a thing"</note> from me."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell you, will you not surely kill me? {Besides},<note>Literally "And"</note> if I advise you, you will not listen to me.</verse>


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<verse num="16">So Zedekiah the king swore to Jeremiah in secret, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "Life of Yahweh"</note> who has made for us this life, I will not kill you and I will not give you into the hand of these men who are seeking your life." </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'If only you will go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then {you}<note>Literally "your life" or "your soul"</note> will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house.</verse>


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<verse num="18">But if you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not escape from their hand.'" </verse>


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<verse num="19">And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jeremiah said, "They will not give <transChange type="added">you over</transChange>. Please obey the voice of Yahweh with regard to what I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> saying to you, and it will go well with you, and {you}<note>Literally "your life" or "your soul"</note> will live.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> refusing to surrender, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the thing that Yahweh has shown me.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah <transChange type="added">are</transChange> being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> saying, </verse>


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<verse num="23">And all your wives and your children <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> led out to the Chaldeans, and you will not escape from their hand, but by the hand of the king of Babylon you will be seized, and this city will burn with fire." </verse>


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<verse num="24">And Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "No man must know about these words so that you will not die.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And if the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, 'Please tell us what you said to the king. You must not conceal <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from us so that we will not kill you. And what did the king say to you?'</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then you shall say to them, 'I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> presenting my plea {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the king, to not cause me to return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Jonathan to die there.'"</verse>


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<verse num="27">And all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he informed them like all these words that the king commanded. So they fell silent, for the {conversation}<note>Literally "word"</note> was not heard.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day that Jerusalem was captured. And it happened that Jerusalem was captured.<note>Jeremiah 38:28b in the Hebrew Bible is 39:1a in the English Bible</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and laid siege to it.</verse>


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<verse num="2">In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ninth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, the city was taken by assault.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chief officer, Nergal-sharezer <transChange type="added">the</transChange> high official, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="4">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> {when}<note>Literally "as that"</note> Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all {the soldiers}<note>Literally "the men of the war"</note> <transChange type="added">with him</transChange>, they fled and went out <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night from the city <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the way of the garden of the king through <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley.</verse>


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<verse num="5">But the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced {sentence}<note>Literally "judgments"</note> on him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and tied him up with bronze fetters to bring him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the Chaldeans burned the palace<note>Or "house"</note> of the king and the houses<note>Hebrew "house"</note> of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those deserting who had deserted to him, and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> deported <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And some of the poor people, {who had nothing},<note>Literally "who there was not for them something"</note> Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> left in the land of Judah. And he gave them vineyards and fields on that day. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah {through}<note>Literally "in the hand of"</note> Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">"Take him and set your eyes on him. And you must not do something bad to him, {but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> that which he speaks to you, so do with him."</verse>


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<verse num="13">So Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange>, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> Nebushazban <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer <transChange type="added">the</transChange> high official, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they sent and took Jeremiah from the courtyard of the guard and gave him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to the house, so he stayed in the midst of the people. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah at his confinement in the courtyard of the guard, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">"Go and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring my words to pass against this city for evil and not for good. And they will be {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> on that day.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But I will rescue you on that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and you will not be given into the hand of the men {of whom you are frightened}.<note>Literally "who you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> frightened from the face of them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">For surely I will save you, and you will not fall by the sword. But your life will be for you as booty because you have trusted in me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.'" </verse>


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<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> had let him go from Ramah, {where he had been taken}<note>Literally "at his taking him</note> bound in chains in the midst of all the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> of Jerusalem and Judah who were being deported <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> took Jeremiah and said to him, "Yahweh your God threatened this disaster to this place,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and <transChange type="added">now</transChange> he has brought <transChange type="added">it about</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and Yahweh has done {just as}<note>Literally "as that"</note> he threatened. Because you sinned against Yahweh and did not listen to his voice, so this thing <transChange type="added">has</transChange> happened to you.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And so then look, I have released you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> from the chains that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on your hands.<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> If it is good in your eyes to come with me <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> come, and {I will take care of you}.<note>Literally "I will place my eye on you"</note> But if it is bad in your eyes to come with me <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> refrain. Look, the whole land <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {before you}.<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> To <transChange type="added">wherever it is</transChange> good and right in your eyes to go, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> go there."</verse>


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<verse num="5">While he still had not turned back, <transChange type="added">Nebuzaradan</transChange> added, "Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed <transChange type="added">in an official position</transChange> over the towns of Judah, and stay with him in the midst of the people. Or to <transChange type="added">wherever it is</transChange> right in your eyes to go, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> go <transChange type="added">there</transChange>."<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> gave him an allowance of provisions and a present, and let him go.</verse>


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<verse num="6">So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah and stayed with him in the midst of the people who were left in the land. </verse>


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<verse num="7">When all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam <transChange type="added">in an official position</transChange> in the land, and that {he had put him in charge of}<note>Literally "he had appointed to him"</note> men, and women, and little children, and of the poor of the land, of <transChange type="added">all those</transChange> who had not been deported <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon,</verse>


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<verse num="8">then they went to Gedaliah <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, and Jehonathan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You must not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.</verse>


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<verse num="10">{As for me},<note>Literally "And I"</note> look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> staying at Mizpah to represent <transChange type="added">you</transChange> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in your vessels, and live in your towns that you have seized."</verse>


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<verse num="11">And also all the Judeans who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Moab, and among the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> and in Edom, and who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in all the lands, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, <transChange type="added">in an official position</transChange> over them,</verse>


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<verse num="12">then all the Judeans returned from all the places <transChange type="added">to</transChange> which they were scattered. And they came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Judah, to Gedaliah <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded {in great abundance}.<note>Literally "very numerous"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="13">And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the open country came to Gedaliah <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah</verse>


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<verse num="14">and said to him, "{Are you at all aware}<note>Literally "know you know"</note> that Baalis, the king of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Please let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and {nobody}<note>Literally "not a man"</note> will know. Why should he kill you, so that all of Judah who are gathered to you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish?"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You must not do this thing, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> telling a lie about Ishmael." </verse>


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<verse num="1">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, from the offspring of the kingship, and <transChange type="added">one of</transChange> the chief officers of the king, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> ten men. And they ate bread together there at Mizpah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah got up, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> the ten men who were with him, and they struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and killed him whom the king of Babylon had appointed <transChange type="added">in an official position</transChange> over the land.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Ishmael killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> the Chaldeans who were found there, {the soldiers}.<note>Literally "the men of the war"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="4">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> on the second day of the killing of Gedaliah--and {no one}<note>Literally "not a man"</note> knew--</verse>


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<verse num="5">then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men <transChange type="added">with</transChange> shaven beards<note>Hebrew "beard"</note> and torn garments, <transChange type="added">who had</transChange> cut themselves with blades, {having}<note>Literally "and"</note> grain offerings<note>Hebrew "grain offering"</note> and frankincense in their hands<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> to bring <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out to meet them from Mizpah, {weeping as he came}.<note>Literally "coming he came and weeping"</note> {And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> as <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> meeting them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">{And then},<note>Literally "And it was"</note> the moment of their coming to the middle of the city, then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, slaughtered<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> them <transChange type="added">and threw them</transChange> to the middle of the pit.<note>Or "cistern"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">But ten men were found among them, and they said to Ishmael, "You must not kill us, for {we have}<note>Literally "there is to us"</note> hidden treasures in the field, wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he refrained and he did not kill them in the midst of their fellow countrymen.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Now the pit<note>Or "cistern"</note> <transChange type="added">into</transChange> which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men whom he had killed {along with}<note>Literally "by the hand of"</note> Gedaliah <transChange type="added">was the same one</transChange> that King Asa had made because of Baasha the king of Israel, <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> against him. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled <transChange type="added">it with</transChange> the slain ones. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, <transChange type="added">over</transChange> whom Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael took them captive and set out to cross over to the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">When Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, heard<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,</verse>


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<verse num="12">then they took all the men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they met him at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great pool that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Gibeon.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">{And then},<note>Literally "And it was"</note> the moment that all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, they were glad.</verse>


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<verse num="14">So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped with eight men {from}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> Johanan, and they went to the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, strong men, {soldiers},<note>Literally "the men of the war"</note> and women, and little children, and eunuchs whom he brought back from Gibeon.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">And they set out and stayed at the lodging place of Chimham that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near Bethlehem, {intending}<note>Literally "going"</note> to go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid {of them},<note>Literally "from the face of them"</note> because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed <transChange type="added">in an official position</transChange> over the land. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">Then all the commanders of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smallest to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatest, approached</verse>


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<verse num="2">and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "May our plea please fall {before you},<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left <transChange type="added">but</transChange> a few of many, as your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeing us.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And let Yahweh your God inform us the way in which we should go and the thing that we should do."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to pray to Yahweh your God according to your words, {and then}<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> all the words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> that Yahweh answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word."</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then they said to Jeremiah, "May Yahweh be against us as {a true and faithful witness}<note>Literally "a witness of faithfulness and trustworthy"</note> if we do not do according to all the words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> that Yahweh sends you for us.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of ten days the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the armies who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and all the people from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smallest to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatest,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="9">and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to cause your plea to fall {before him}:<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">'If only you will stay in this land, then I will build you and I will not tear <transChange type="added">you</transChange> down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck <transChange type="added">you</transChange> up, for I relent of the disaster that I have brought to you.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">You must not be afraid {of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the king of Babylon whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {afraid of}.<note>Literally "in fear from the presence of him"</note> You must not be afraid of him,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and will restore you to your soil. </verse>


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<verse num="13">But if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, "We will not stay in this land," <transChange type="added">so as to</transChange> not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,</verse>


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<verse num="14">saying, "No, for we will go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Egypt where we will not see war, and we will not hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a horn, and we will not be hungry for bread, and there we will stay,"</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="15">then {therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "{If you are determined}<note>Literally "If you indeed set your face"</note> to go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, and you go to dwell as aliens there,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">then it will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the sword that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in fear of will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> anxious of will pursue after you there <transChange type="added">into</transChange> Egypt, and there you will die.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">So all the people who {are determined}<note>Literally "have set their faces"</note> to go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt to dwell as aliens there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, and there will not be for them an escapee or a survivor from the disaster that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> bringing upon them."</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will pour out on you at your going <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, and you will become a curse, and a horror, and a curse <transChange type="added">formula</transChange>, and a disgrace, and you will no longer see this place." ' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, 'You must not go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt.' You must certainly know that I have warned you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">that {you have made a fatal mistake},<note>Literally "you have caused them to err for your lives"</note> for you sent me to Yahweh your God, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Pray for us to Yahweh our God, and all that Yahweh our God says, so tell us and we will do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.'<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">So I have told you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of {anything}<note>Literally "all"</note> that he sent me for you.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Now then, certainly you must know that by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague you will die in the place where you desire to go, to dwell as aliens there." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">{And then},<note>Literally "And it was"</note> when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, for which Yahweh their God had sent him to them with all these words,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke,<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> saying to Jeremiah, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You must not go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt to dwell as aliens there.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">But Baruch the son of Neriah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> inciting you against us in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to kill us and to deport us <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon." </verse>


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<verse num="4">So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies, and all the people did not listen<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="5">But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations <transChange type="added">to</transChange> which they had been scattered to dwell as aliens in the land of Judah--</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="6">the men, and the women, and the little children, and the daughters of the king, and {everyone}<note>Literally "all of the person"</note> whom Nebuzaradan <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {guard}<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah--</verse>


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<verse num="7">and they came <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. And they came up to Tahpanhes. </verse>


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<verse num="9">"Take in your hands<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> large stones and bury them in the mortar in the clay floor that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at the entrance of the palace<note>Or "house"</note> of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes before the eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people<note>Or "men"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Judeans,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread out his canopy over them.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">And he will come and ravage the land of Egypt, <transChange type="added">and deliver those</transChange> who <transChange type="added">are appointed</transChange> for the plague, to the plague, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who <transChange type="added">are appointed</transChange> for the captivity, to the captivity, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who <transChange type="added">are appointed</transChange> for the sword, to the sword.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then he will kindle a fire in the {temples}<note>Literally "houses"</note> of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. And he will wrap up the land of Egypt just as the shepherd wraps up his cloak. And he will go forth from there in peace.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he will break the stone pillars of Heliopolis, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Egypt. And he will burn the {temples}<note>Literally "houses"</note> of the gods of Egypt with fire." '" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="1">The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, who were living at Migdol, and Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the towns of Judah. And look, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a site of ruins this day, and there is not in them an inhabitant,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">{because of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> their wickedness that they committed to provoke me to anger by going to make smoke offerings, serving other gods whom they had not known, <transChange type="added">neither</transChange> they, you, or your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again},<note>Literally "doing early and sending"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "Please, you must not do this detestable thing that I hate."</verse>


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<verse num="5">But they did not listen and they did not incline their ears<note>Hebrew "ear"</note> to turn back from their wickedness, to not make smoke offerings to other gods.</verse>


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<verse num="6">So my wrath and my anger were poured out<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> and burned<note>The Hebrew verb is singular</note> in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became as a site of ruins, as a desolation, as <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> this day.' </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="7">So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you doing great harm to {yourselves},<note>Literally "your lives"</note> to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant,</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="8">provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you <transChange type="added">have</transChange> come to dwell as aliens, so as to cut off yourselves, and so that you are becoming as a curse, and as a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?</verse>


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<verse num="9">Have you forgotten the wicked things of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and the wicked things of the kings of Judah, and the wicked things of their wives, and your wicked things, and the wicked things of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="10">They have not shown contrition up to this day, and they have not shown reverence, and they have not walked in my law and in my statutes that I set {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> and {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> your ancestors.'<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="11">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Look, {I am determined to bring disaster on you},<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> setting my face against you for disaster"</note> even to exterminate all Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="12">And I will take <transChange type="added">away</transChange> the remnant of Judah {who are determined}<note>Literally "who set their faces"</note> to come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there, and everyone will perish. They will fall in the land of Egypt by the sword; they will perish by the famine, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smallest to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatest. By the sword and by the famine they will die and become as a curse, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a disgrace.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="13">So I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And there will not be a survivor or an escapee of the remnant of Judah, those who have come to dwell as an alien there in the land of Egypt, to return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Judah where they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {longing}<note>Literally "lifting up their soul"</note> to return to dwell there, for they will not turn back, {but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> <transChange type="added">some</transChange> survivors.'" </verse>


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<verse num="15">Then all the men who knew that their wives <transChange type="added">were</transChange> making smoke offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood <transChange type="added">by</transChange>, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="16">"<transChange type="added">Concerning</transChange> the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not going to listen to you!</verse>


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<verse num="17">But certainly we will do {everything}<note>Literally "all the word"</note> that went out from our mouths,<note>Hebrew "mouth"</note> to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> then {we had enough to eat},<note>Literally "we satisfied ourselves with food"</note> and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="18">But {since}<note>Literally "from"</note> we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="19">And indeed, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> we <transChange type="added">were</transChange> making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and {pouring out}<note>Literally "to pour out"</note> to her libations, <transChange type="added">was it not</transChange> {with the consent of}<note>Literally "from apart from"</note> our husbands <transChange type="added">that</transChange> we made for her sacrificial cakes {marked with her image},<note>Literally "to the copying of her"</note> and we poured out to her libations?" </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="20">Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who answered him a word, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">"The offering that you made, smoke offerings in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> your kings, and your officials, and the people of the land, <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not Yahweh remember them, and <transChange type="added">did</transChange> it <transChange type="added">not</transChange> come to his {mind}?<note>Literally "heart"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">And Yahweh was no longer able to bear<note>Or "endure"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, {because of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the evil of your deeds, {because of}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the detestable things that you committed. Thus your land became as a site of ruins, and as a horror, and as a curse, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitants, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="23">{Because of}<note>Literally "From the face of"</note> <transChange type="added">the fact</transChange> that you made smoke offerings, and that you sinned against Yahweh, and you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you have not walked in his law, and in his statute, and in his legal provisions, {therefore}<note>Literally "unto thus"</note> this disaster has happened to you, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day." </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="24">Then Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="25">Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You and your wives have promised with your mouths<note>Hebrew "mouth"</note> and with your hands<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> you have fulfilled, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "We certainly will carry out our vows that we vowed, to make smoke offerings to the queen of the heavens,<note>Hebrew "heaven"</note> and to pour out to her libations." You must certainly keep your vows and you must certainly carry out your vows.'</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="26">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah, those who live in the land of Egypt: 'Look, I hereby swear by my great name,' says Yahweh, 'surely my name will no longer be called in the mouth of any man of Judah, saying, "{as the Lord Yahweh lives},"<note>Literally "the life of Lord Yahweh"</note> in all the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to watch over them for harm and not for good, and all people<note>Or "men"</note> of Judah who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the land of Egypt will perish by the sword and by the famine until their perishing.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="28">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> survivors of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword will return from the land of Egypt <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Judah {few in number}.<note>Literally "males of number"</note> And all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there will know whose word will endure, from me or from them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">And this <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to you the sign,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that surely my words will endure against you for evil.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to give Pharaoh Hophra, the king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah the king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, his enemy and the one who sought his life.'" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, the son of Neriah, at his writing these words on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Baruch:</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">'You said, "Woe please to me, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary in my groaning and I do not find rest." '</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Thus you will say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, what I have built I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to tear down, and what I have planted I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to pluck up, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> all the land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">And you, <transChange type="added">do</transChange> you seek great <transChange type="added">things</transChange> for yourself? <transChange type="added">Do</transChange> not seek <transChange type="added">great things</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> for look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring disaster upon all flesh," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "but to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go." '" </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">Concerning Egypt: Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Why do I see them terrified? <transChange type="added">They are</transChange> turning back and their warriors are beaten down. And they have fled <transChange type="added">to</transChange> a place of refuge and they do not turn <transChange type="added">back</transChange>. Terror <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from all around," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Egypt rises like the Nile, even like the rivers <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> waters surge. And he says, "Let me rise, let me cover <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, let me destroy cities, and the inhabitants in them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Go up, O horses, and drive madly, O chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and let the warriors go forth; Cush and Put, who wield <transChange type="added">the</transChange> small shield, and Lud, who wield <transChange type="added">and</transChange> bend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">For that day <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to the Lord Yahweh of hosts a day of retribution, to take revenge on his foes. And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword will devour and be satisfied, and it will drink its fill of their blood, for a sacrifice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north by the Euphrates River.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain}<note>Literally "To the vanity"</note> you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> nations have heard your shame, and your cry of lament fills the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, together they have fallen, the two of them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt: </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">"Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Memphis and in Tahpanhes, say, 'Take your stand and be prepared, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword will devour <transChange type="added">those</transChange> all around you.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Why are your bulls defeated? He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">He multiplied <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ones<note>Hebrew "one"</note> stumbling. Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor, and said, 'Stand up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, {because of}<note>Literally "from"</note> the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of the sword of the oppressor.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">They will call there, 'Pharaoh, the king of Egypt <transChange type="added">is but</transChange> a roar, {he missed the opportunity}.'<note>Literally "he has allowed to pass over the appointed time"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">{As I live},"<note>Literally "Life I"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> the king, Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name, "one will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Pack <transChange type="added">your</transChange> baggage for exile, O inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of the daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become as a horror, and it will be destroyed, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitant.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Egypt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a beautiful heifer, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> a gadfly from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north <transChange type="added">will</transChange> come against her.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="21">Even her mercenaries in her midst <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like calves of fattening, for they also have turned away, they have fled together. They stand not, for the day of their calamity has come, the time of their punishment.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="22">Her sound <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a snake <transChange type="added">that</transChange> glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">They will cut down her forest," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "for {it is impenetrable}.<note>Literally "it cannot be searched out"</note> Yes, they are more numerous than locusts,<note>Hebrew "locust"</note> and {they are without number}.<note>Literally "there is not to them a number"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="24">The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed, she will be given into the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, said, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">And I will give them into the hand of the seekers of their lives,<note>Hebrew "life"</note> and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of his troops. But {afterward}<note>Literally "after thus"</note> it will <transChange type="added">be</transChange> inhabited, as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> days of old," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="27">"But <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, my servant Jacob, you must not be afraid, and Israel, you must not be dismayed, for look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be quiet, and he will be at ease, and without <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> makes <transChange type="added">him</transChange> afraid.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you. For I will make a complete destruction in all the nations where I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction, though I will chastise you to the measure, and I will certainly not leave you unpunished."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines {before}<note>Literally "at not yet"</note> Pharaoh attacked Gaza.</verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="3">from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to <transChange type="added">their</transChange> children because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slackness of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> hands.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Because of the day that is coming to destroy all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor <transChange type="added">who could</transChange> help, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> destroying <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, {how long}<note>Literally "until when"</note> will you cut yourself with a blade?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Ah, sword of Yahweh, {how long}<note>Literally "until when"</note> will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">How can you be quiet when Yahweh has given an order to it? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">The glory of Moab is no longer. In Heshbon they planned evil against her. Come and let us cut her off from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> a nation. Also, Madmen, you will be silent. After you will go <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> sound of a cry of distress <transChange type="added">arises</transChange> from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Moab is broken, her little ones {make heard}<note>Literally "cause to hear"</note> a cry for help.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">For the ascent of Luhith, in weeping they go weeping, For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> distresses of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cry of distress of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Flee! Save your life! {For}<note>Literally "And"</note> you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures, even you yourselves will be taken, and Chemosh will go out into the exile, his priests and his officials together.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyer will come to every town, and a town will not escape. And the valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> an inhabitant in them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The one who</transChange> does the work of Yahweh <transChange type="added">with</transChange> slackness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> cursed, and <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> keeps away blood from his sword <transChange type="added">is</transChange> cursed.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has been quiet on his dregs, and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, and he has not gone into exile. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will send to him {decanters},<note>Literally "those who tilt"</note> and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">How can you say, 'we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> warriors, and men of might for the battle.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> the King, Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">"The disaster of Moab <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near to come, and his disaster {approaches very quickly}.<note>Literally "hastens greatly"</note></verse>


book: Jer
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<verse num="17">Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, 'How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> staff of might is broken, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> staff of glory.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your fortifications.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Stand by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> road and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer. Ask <transChange type="added">the man who is</transChange> fleeing and <transChange type="added">the woman who is</transChange> escaping, say, 'What has happened?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell <transChange type="added">it</transChange> by Arnon that Moab is devastated.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">Judgment has also come to the land of the plain, to Holon, and to Jahaz, and on Mephaath,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, the far and the near.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">"Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">Now <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as}<note>Literally "from enough"</note> you spoke over him you shook <transChange type="added">your head</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">Leave <transChange type="added">the</transChange> towns and dwell on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dove, it nests on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sides of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of a ravine.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">We have heard <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the pride of Moab --<transChange type="added">he is</transChange> very proud-- his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">I know his insolence," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and his boastings <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {false};<note>Literally "not right"</note> they act {falsely}.<note>Literally "not right"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">{Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the people<note>Or "men"</note> of Kir-heres I moan.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyer has fallen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wine from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread <transChange type="added">with</transChange> exuberant shouts.<note>Hebrew "exuberant shout"</note> Exuberant shouts<note>Hebrew "Exuberant shout"</note> <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not <transChange type="added">be</transChange> exuberant shouts.<note>Hebrew "exuberant shout"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, <transChange type="added">up to</transChange> Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">And I will cause to disappear for Moab," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who presents a sacrifice <transChange type="added">at</transChange> a high place, and <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> burns a smoke offering to his gods.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">{Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> my heart moans for Moab like the flute.<note>Hebrew "flutes"</note> It moans for the people<note>Or "men"</note> of Kir-heres like the flute.<note>Hebrew "flutes"</note> {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wealth they gained has perished.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">For <transChange type="added">on</transChange> every head <transChange type="added">is</transChange> baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands, slashes, and on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loins, sackcloth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">"How it is filled with terror! <transChange type="added">How</transChange> they wail! How Moab has turned <transChange type="added">his</transChange> back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding <transChange type="added">peoples</transChange>."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="41">Kerioth will be taken, and the strongholds will be conquered, and the hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the warriors of Moab will be on that day like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart of a woman <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is in labor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="42">And Moab will be destroyed from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> a people, because against Yahweh he magnified himself.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="43">Dread, and pit, and a trapping net <transChange type="added">are</transChange> against you, O inhabitant of Moab," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="44">"He <transChange type="added">who</transChange> flees {before}<note>Literally "from the face of"</note> the dread will fall into the pit, and the <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="45">"In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls<note>Hebrew "skull"</note> of the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of tumult.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="46">Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="47">Yet I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of Moab in the last of the days," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Concerning the {Ammonites}:<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> Thus says Yahweh, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will sound against Rabbah, the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alarm of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">"Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Why do you boast in <transChange type="added">your</transChange> valleys? Your valleys<note>Hebrew "valley"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, <transChange type="added">who said</transChange>, 'Who will come against me?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring dread on you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Lord Yahweh of hosts, "from all your surrounding <transChange type="added">neighbors</transChange>. And you will be scattered, each one {before it},<note>Literally "to the face of it"</note> and there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> gathers the fugitives.<note>Hebrew "fugitive"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Yet {afterward}<note>Literally "after thus"</note> I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of the {Ammonites},"<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Flee! Turn back! {Get down low}!<note>Literally "make deep to dwell"</note> O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> time <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I will punish him.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy <transChange type="added">only</transChange> {enough for them}.<note>Literally "their enough"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to hide himself. His offspring are devastated, {along with}<note>Literally "and"</note> his brothers, and his neighbors, and {he is no more}.<note>Literally "and not he"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Leave your orphans. I will let <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> live. And your widows, let them trust in me."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those {who are not condemned}<note>Literally "who there is not their justice"</note> to drink the cup must certainly drink <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> And <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">For I have sworn by myself," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be {everlasting sites of ruins}."<note>Literally "sites of ruins of eternity"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. "Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">"For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, <transChange type="added">O you who</transChange> dwell in the clefts of the rock, <transChange type="added">you who</transChange> seize <transChange type="added">the</transChange> height of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">"And Edom will become as a horror, {everyone who passes by it}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">who</transChange> passes by it"</note> will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," says Yahweh, "{no one}<note>Literally "not a man"</note> will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}.<note>Literally "a pasture of everflowing"</note> So {I will chase him away hurriedly}<note>Literally "I will do in an instant I will chase him away"</note> from it. And whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> chosen I will appoint over it. For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like me, and who can summon me? And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shepherd who can stand {before me}?"<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. {Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> they will drag them away, the little <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> of the flock. {Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at {the Red Sea}.<note>Hebrew "Sea of Reeds"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart of a woman <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is in labor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized <transChange type="added">her</transChange>, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {the soldiers}<note>Literally "the men of the battle"</note> will perish in that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">"And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, 'Terror <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from all around.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">Flee! Wander far away! {Get down low}!<note>Literally "Make deep to dwell"</note> O inhabitants of Hazor," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed<note>Or "planned"</note> a scheme<note>Or "plan"</note> against you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">Rise up, go up against a nation <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> at ease, living {securely},"<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "<transChange type="added">There are</transChange> no gates and <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> no bars<note>Hebrew "bar"</note> for them, they dwell alone.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> are trimmed to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side, and from {every side}<note>Literally "all his sides"</note> I will bring their disaster," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">"And Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no one will live there, and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">And I will bring to Elam four winds, from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will not be a nation where the scattered people of Elam will not go.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">So I will shatter Elam {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> their enemies, and {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, {my burning anger},<note>Literally "the blaze of my nose"</note>' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. 'And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">'{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> in the last of the days I will restore the fortunes<note>Hebrew "fortune"</note> of Elam,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet: </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For a nation will come up against her from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north. It will make her land as a horror, and an inhabitant will not be in her. From humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> to animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> they <transChange type="added">all</transChange> will wander <transChange type="added">off</transChange>. They will go <transChange type="added">away</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">In those days and in that time,'" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Israel will come, they and the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah together. {Weeping as they go},<note>Literally "They shall go and weeping"</note> they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">They will ask <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion, <transChange type="added">turning</transChange> their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh <transChange type="added">by</transChange> {an everlasting covenant}<note>Literally "a covenant of eternity"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> will not be forgotten.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">All <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, 'We are not guilty, {because}<note>Literally "under that"</note> they have sinned against Yahweh, the {true pasture},<note>Literally "settlement of righteousness"</note> even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.'<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans. Go out and be like he-goats {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flock.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">For look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to stir up, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a warrior <transChange type="added">who has</transChange> achieved success, he does not return without success.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And Chaldea will be as booty, all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> plunder her will be satisfied," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">"Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">your mother will be very ashamed. <transChange type="added">She who</transChange> gave birth <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you will be humiliated.<note>Or "ashamed"</note> Look, <transChange type="added">she will be the</transChange> least of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, a desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> dry land, and wilderness.<note>Or "Arabah"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone <transChange type="added">who</transChange> passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows,<note>Hebrew "arrow"</note> for she has sinned against Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Raise a war cry against her on all sides. {She has surrendered}.<note>Literally "She has given her hand"</note> Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done <transChange type="added">to others</transChange>, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> do to her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Cut off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sower from Babylon, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who uses <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sickle in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of harvest. {Because of}<note>Literally "From the face of"</note> the sword of the oppressor each one will turn to their people, and each one will flee to their land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a sheep scattered, lions drove <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> first who devoured it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the king of Assyria, and now <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed <transChange type="added">on</transChange> Carmel, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Bashan, and on the hills<note>Hebrew "hill"</note> of Ephraim, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Gilead its hunger will be satisfied.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">In those days and at that time," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and do according to all that I have commanded you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> sound of battle <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land, and great destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Babylon. But you yourself <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">Come against her from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for <transChange type="added">their</transChange> day has come, the time of their punishment.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28"><transChange type="added">There is the</transChange> sound of fugitives and survivors from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance for his temple.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {her soldiers}<note>Literally "her the men of war"</note> will perish on that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">"Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> arrogant <transChange type="added">one</transChange>," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I will punish you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arrogant <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will stumble and fall, and there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> raises <transChange type="added">him</transChange> up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">Their redeemer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> strong, his name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">A sword against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">A sword against his horses, and against his chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and against all the foreign troops who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">A drought <transChange type="added">will come</transChange> against her waters, and they will dry up, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a land of images, and because of the frightful <transChange type="added">objects</transChange>, they act like madmen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> desert creatures will live <transChange type="added">there</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> with jackals, and daughters of ostriches<note>Hebrew "ostrich"</note> will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again {forever},<note>Literally "to eternity"</note> and she will not be dwelt in {for all generations}.<note>Literally "until generation and generation"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="40">As <transChange type="added">when</transChange> God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "no one will live there, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="41">Look, a people <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to come from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remotest part of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="42">They keep hold of bow and short sword. They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="43">The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the <transChange type="added">woman who</transChange> gives birth.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="44">Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets<note>Hebrew "thicket"</note> of the Jordan against {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream},<note>Literally "a pasture of ever-flowing"</note> so {I will chase them away quickly}<note>Literally "I will do in an instant I will cause them to run"</note> from her, and I will appoint whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> chosen over her. For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like me, and who can summon me, and who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this shepherd who can stand {before me}?<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="45">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans. {Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> they will drag them away, the little <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> of the flock. {Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> he will cause <transChange type="added">their</transChange> grazing place to be desolate over them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="46">At <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">And I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will lay waste her land, for they will be against her from all sides on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of disaster.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Let not him who bends the bow shoot his bow, and let him not rise high in his body armor. And you must not spare her young men; destroy her whole army.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">And they will fall slain in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">For neither Israel nor Judah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> time of vengeance for Yahweh, he <transChange type="added">will</transChange> repay her what is deserved.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Babylon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> nations drank of her wine. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations acted like madmen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> skies.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; {post a strong watch},<note>Literally "make strong the guard"</note> post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">O you who</transChange> live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, {the measure of your life}.<note>Literally "the cubit of your severing"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> troops like the creeping locusts,<note>Hebrew "locust"</note> and they will sing over you a war cry."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">He is the one who</transChange> made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth by his power, <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> created <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">At the giving of his voice <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> patches of mist to go up from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind from his storehouses.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> divine image. For his cast image <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a lie, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no breath in them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">The portion of Jacob <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not like these, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the creator of {everything},<note>Literally "the all"</note> and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">He says</transChange>, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">And I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horse with you, and its rider, and I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chariot with you, and its rider.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old man and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> boy with you, and I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young man and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young woman with you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">And I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> farmer and his team with you, and I smash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> governors and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> officials with you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">"Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> against you, O mountain of the destruction," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be {an everlasting desolation},"<note>Literally "a desolation of everlasting"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses<note>Hebrew "horse"</note> like bristling creeping locusts.<note>Hebrew "locust"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">Prepare <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitant.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31"><transChange type="added">one</transChange> runner runs to meet <transChange type="added">another</transChange> runner, and <transChange type="added">one</transChange> messenger to meet <transChange type="added">another</transChange> messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, {from end to end}.<note>Literally "from end"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and {the soldiers}<note>Literally "the men of the war"</note> are horrified.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me <transChange type="added">and</transChange> sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">"<transChange type="added">May</transChange> the violence done to me and to my flesh <transChange type="added">be</transChange> on Babylon," the inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of Zion will say; and "My blood <transChange type="added">be</transChange> upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> horror, and <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> hissing, {without}<note>Literally "from there is not"</note> inhabitants.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="38">They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="39">At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep {an everlasting sleep},<note>Literally "a sleep of eternity"</note> and they will not wake up," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="41">How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an <transChange type="added">object of</transChange> horror among the nations!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="42">The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="43">Her cities have become as an <transChange type="added">object of</transChange> horror, a dry land and a wilderness,<note>Or "Arabah"</note> a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="44">And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth {what he has swallowed}.<note>Literally "what has been swallowed by him"</note> And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations will not stream towards him <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer {what's worse},<note>Literally "also"</note> the wall of Babylon has fallen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="45">Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from {the burning anger of}<note>Literally "the blazing of the nose of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="46">Now {so that you are not fainthearted},<note>Literally "so that your heart is not timid"</note> and you are afraid at the rumors<note>Hebrew "rumor"</note> that are heard in the land-- and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land, with ruler against ruler--</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="47">{therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="48">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heaven and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north the destroyers will come to it," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="49">Babylon must fall not only <transChange type="added">because of</transChange> the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="50">Survivors of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far <transChange type="added">away</transChange>, and let Jerusalem come to your {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="51">We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts,<note>Hebrew "taunt"</note> disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="52">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I will punish her images, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fatally wounded will sigh through all her land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="53">Though Babylon goes up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="54"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="55">For Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> devastating Babylon, and he obliterates <transChange type="added">her</transChange> loud noise<note>Or "voice"</note> from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> resounds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="56">For a destroyer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a God of recompense, certainly he will repay.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="57">"And I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep {an everlasting sleep},<note>Literally "a sleep of eternity"</note> and they will not wake up," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> the King, Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="59">The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah <transChange type="added">was the</transChange> {quartermaster}.<note>Literally "official of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> resting place"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="60">And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters<note>Hebrew "disaster"</note> that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="61">And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "At your coming <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, then you must see <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you read aloud all these words.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="62">And you must say, 'Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that <transChange type="added">there will</transChange> not be in it <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> living, from humankind to animals,<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> for it will be {an everlasting desolation}.'<note>Literally "a desolation of eternity"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="63">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Euphrates.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="64">And you must say, 'Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, {because of}<note>Literally "from"</note> the face of the disasters<note>Hebrew "disaster"</note> that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> bringing on her, and they will grow weary.'" {Thus far}<note>Literally "Up to here"</note> the words of Jeremiah. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Zedekiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {twenty-one years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty-one year"</note> at his beginning to reign, and he reigned eleven years<note>Hebrew "year"</note> in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For because of the {anger}<note>Literally "nose"</note> of Yahweh this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until his casting them from his {presence}.<note>Literally "face"</note> And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">{And then}<note>Literally "And it was"</note> in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works<note>Literally "siege work"</note> against it all around.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">So the city came {under siege}<note>Literally "into the siege"</note> until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eleventh year of King Zedekiah. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">In the fourth month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ninth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">Then the city was breached, and all {the soldiers}<note>Literally "the men of the battle"</note> fled and went out from the city <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> way of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gate between the two walls that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> at the garden of the king, though <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all around the city. And they went <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the direction of the Jordan Valley.<note>Or "Arabah"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">But the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans pursued after the king and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Riblah in the land of Hamath, and {he passed sentence on him}.<note>Literally "he spoke to him judgments"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon. And he put him in {prison}<note>Literally "the house of the watch"</note> until the day of his death. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Now in the fifth month, on the tenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, which <transChange type="added">was the</transChange> nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> who stood {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And he burned the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh, and the palace<note>Or "house"</note> of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">And all the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">And Nebuzaradan <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> deported <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">But Nebuzaradan <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> left <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the poor of the land <transChange type="added">to serve</transChange> as vinedressers and farmers. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which <transChange type="added">were used in temple</transChange> service.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> <transChange type="added">took</transChange> the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, {those made of solid gold}<note>Literally "which gold gold"</note> and {those made of solid silver}.<note>Literally "which silver silver"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Yahweh--there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels!</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">Now the pillars, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> height of one pillar <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eighteen cubits,<note>Hebrew "cubit"</note> and a thread of twelve cubits<note>Hebrew "cubit"</note> surrounded it, and its thickness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> four fingers, hollowed out.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">And a capital upon it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> bronze and the height of the one capital <transChange type="added">was</transChange> five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the capital on all sides, all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> bronze. And like these <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the second pillar with pomegranates.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">And there were ninety-six pomegranates {on the sides};<note>Literally "breath"</note> all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides <transChange type="added">were</transChange> a hundred. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> took Seraiah {the chief priest},<note>Literally "the priest of the head"</note> and Zephaniah {the second priest},<note>Literally "the priest of the second"</note> and three keepers of the threshold.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over {the soldiers},<note>Literally "the men of the battle"</note> and seven men of {the king's advisors}<note>Literally "those who see the face of the king"</note> who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">Then Nebuzaradan <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> took them and brought them to the king of Babylon <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Riblah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">This <transChange type="added">is the number of</transChange> the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons<note>Hebrew "person"</note> from Jerusalem;</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guard,<note>Hebrew "guards"</note> deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;<note>Hebrew "person"</note> <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> four thousand six hundred persons<note>Hebrew "person"</note> in all. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">{And then}<note>Literally "and it was"</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twelfth month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-fifth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the <transChange type="added">first</transChange> year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from {prison}.<note>Literally "the house of the imprisonment"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seats<note>Hebrew "seat"</note> of the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in Babylon.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food {before him}<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note> continually all the days of his life.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon {on a daily basis}<note>Literally "a matter of a day in its day"</note> all the days of his life up to the day of his death. </verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="1">How desolate the city sits <transChange type="added">that</transChange> was full of people! She has become like a widow, <transChange type="added">once</transChange> great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="2">She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="3">Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst <transChange type="added">her</transChange> distress.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="4">The roads of Zion <transChange type="added">are</transChange> mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates <transChange type="added">are</transChange> desolate, her priests groan; her young women <transChange type="added">are</transChange> worried, and she herself suffers bitterly.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="5">Her foes have become <transChange type="added">her</transChange> {master},<note>Literally "head"</note> her enemies are at ease; Yahweh has made her suffer because of the greatness of her transgressions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="6">All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="7">Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="8">Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="9">Her uncleanness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in her skirts; she did not remember her future, she has descended beyond understanding, there is no comforter for her. See, O Yahweh, my persecution! <transChange type="added">My</transChange> enemy has been made great!</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="10">The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="11">All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, <transChange type="added">how</transChange> I am despised.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="12">Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}?<note>Literally "all who cross a road"</note> Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow,<note>Or "pain like my pain"</note> which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.<note>Literally "on the day of the blaze of his nose"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="13">From heaven he sent fire, into my bones he let it descend. He spread out a net for my feet; he turned me back, he gave me devastation, fainting all day.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="14">My rebellion was bound <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck <transChange type="added">and</transChange> caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands <transChange type="added">of those whom</transChange> I cannot withstand.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="15">The Lord has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst. He called an assembly against me, to crush my young men; <transChange type="added">like in</transChange> a wine press, the Lord has trodden <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the virgin daughter of Judah.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="16">For these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears};<note>Literally "my eye my eye is going down <transChange type="added">with</transChange> water"</note> because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy has prevailed.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="17">Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> those surrounding him<note>NRSV translates "his neighbors"</note> <transChange type="added">should be</transChange> his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="18">Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled <transChange type="added">against</transChange> {his word}.<note>Literally "his mouth"</note> Please hear, all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, And see my pain; My young women<note>Or "virgins"</note> and young men went into captivity.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="19">I have called to my lovers, they themselves deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city when they sought food for themselves to revive their life.<note>Or "their soul"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="20">See, O Yahweh, that {I am in distress};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">there is</transChange> distress for me"</note> {my stomach}<note>Literally "inner parts"</note> is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> like death.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="21">They hear that I was groaning; <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring <transChange type="added">that</transChange> day that you have proclaimed,<note>Or "you have called"</note> And let them be like me.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="22">Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> faint.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="1">How, {in his anger},<note>Literally "in his nose"</note> the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens <transChange type="added">to</transChange> earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.<note>Literally "his nose"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="2">The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders.<note>Or "her commanders"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="3">He has cut down {in fierce anger}<note>Literally "in a fierce nose"</note> all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from the faces of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, it has consumed all around.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="4">He has bent his bow like an enemy; he has set his right hand like a foe, and he has slain all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> treasures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eye;<note>NRSV translates "all in whom we took pride"</note> in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his anger like fire.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="5">The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;<note>Or "her citadel fortresses"</note> he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="6">He has broken down {his dwelling}<note>Literally "his booth"; or "his tabernacle"</note> place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made <transChange type="added">them</transChange> forget in Zion {festival}<note>Literally "appointed time"</note> and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="7">The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses.<note>Or "her citadel fortress"</note> They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="8">Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="9">Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> among the nations; there is no more law.<note>Hebrew torah</note> Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="10">They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="11">My eyes have {spent all their tears};<note>Literally "finished with the weeping"</note> {my stomach}<note>Literally "my inward parts"</note> is in torment, {my heart}<note>Literally "my liver"</note> is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> public squares of a city.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="12">To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="13">What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction <transChange type="added">is</transChange> as vast as the sea; who can heal you?</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="14">Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="15">They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="16">They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed <transChange type="added">her</transChange>! Surely this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the day we have hoped for; we have found <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, we have seen <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!"</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="17">Yahweh has done what he has planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he ordained from the days of old; he has demolished and not shown mercy; he has made an enemy rejoice over you, he has exalted the {might}<note>Literally "horn"</note> of your foes.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="18">Their heart cried to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a river; day and night, do not give yourself relief, do not give your eyes rest.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="19">"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="20">See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="21">They lie in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> soil of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets, young and old; my young women<note>Or "my virgins"</note> and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of {your anger},<note>Literally "your nose"</note> you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="22">You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="5">{He has besieged}<note>Literally "he has built against"</note> and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="6">In darkness he has let me dwell like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead of long ago.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="7">He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="10">To me he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="13">He shot {the arrows of his quiver}<note>Literally "the offspring of his arrow quiver"</note> into my kidneys.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="14">I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="15">He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wormwood.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="19">Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood<note>Or "the bitter substance"</note> and venom!</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="21">This {I have reminded myself},<note>Literally "I have brought back to my heart"</note> therefore I will hope.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="22">The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">They</transChange> are new in the morning, great is your faithfulness.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="26"><transChange type="added">It is</transChange> good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">It is</transChange> good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="28">Let him sit alone and be silent when he<note>Yahweh</note> has laid it on him.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="29">Let {him put}<note>Literally "him give"</note> his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="32">For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="33">He does not {afflict willingly},<note>Literally "afflict from the heart"</note> or grieve {anyone}.<note>Literally "the sons of men"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="34">To crush under his feet all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prisoners of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth;</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="35">{to deprive one of justice}<note>Literally "to turn aside the judgment of a man"</note> before the face of the Most High;</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="36">to subvert a person in a legal dispute --the Lord has not found delight <transChange type="added">in these things</transChange>.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="37">{Who can speak}<note>Literally "Who is this that speaks"</note> and it will happen <transChange type="added">if</transChange> the Lord has not commanded <transChange type="added">it</transChange>?</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="38"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not from the mouth of the Most High <transChange type="added">that</transChange> disaster and good will come?</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="43">You have covered <transChange type="added">yourself</transChange> {in anger}<note>Literally "in the nose"</note> and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="44">You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}.<note>Literally "from a passing prayer"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="48">Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="53">{They have silenced me in a pit},<note>Literally "they have put to silence my life in a pit"</note> they have thrown a stone at me.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="56">You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="57">You came near on a day <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I called you, you said, "Do not fear!"</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="58">O Lord, you have pleaded for {my cause},<note>Literally "the legal disputes of my soul"</note> you have redeemed my life.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="62">The lips and meditation of my assailants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> against me all day long.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="63">Look at their sitting and their standing, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> their mocking song.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="64">Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="66">Pursue them {in anger}<note>Literally "in nose"</note> and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="1">How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="2">The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter's hands.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="3">Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; <transChange type="added">but</transChange> the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="4">The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg <transChange type="added">for</transChange> food, {no one lays it out before them}.<note>Literally "nothing spreads to them"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="5">The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie <transChange type="added">on</transChange> piles of trash.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="6">The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="7">Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">Now</transChange> their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="9">Happier were <transChange type="added">the</transChange> victims of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out {his fierce anger};<note>Literally "the fierce anger of his nose"</note> he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her<note>Or "its"</note> foundations.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> kings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth did not believe, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="13">Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="14">They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="15">"Go away! Defiled!" they shout to them. "Go away! Go away! Do not touch!" so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, "{They will no longer dwell with us}."<note>Literally "They will no longer be <transChange type="added">here</transChange> as aliens"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="16">The presence of Yahweh has scattered them, he will no longer watch over them; {they did not honor the priests},<note>Literally "they did not lift up the faces of the priests"</note> they did not show mercy <transChange type="added">to</transChange> elders.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="17">Still our eyes failed, <transChange type="added">looking for</transChange> our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="18">They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished},<note>Literally "our days are filled"</note> our end has come.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="19">Our pursuers were swifter than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eagles of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="20">The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations."</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="21">Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="22">The <transChange type="added">punishment</transChange> of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; <transChange type="added">but</transChange> he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="2">Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="4">{We pay for water with money},<note>Literally "we drink our water by money"</note> our wood comes <transChange type="added">to us</transChange> at a price.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="6">We have made a deal with Egypt <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Assyria to be satisfied <transChange type="added">with</transChange> food.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="9">{We risk our life for food}<note>Literally "We take our food at our life"</note> because of the sword of the desert.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="11">They raped women in Zion, young women<note>Or "virgins"</note> in the cities of Judah.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="14">Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="15">The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="17">Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="18">Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, {foxes tread on it}.<note>Literally "foxes go on it"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="19">You, O Yahweh, will sit forever <transChange type="added">on</transChange> your throne for generation to generation.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="20">Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us {for so long}?<note>Literally "for long days"</note></verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="21">Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old.</verse>


book: Lam
content:
<verse num="22">Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="1">And it was in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirtieth year, in the fourth <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, on the fifth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, and I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the midst of<note>Or "among"</note> the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> by the {Kebar River}.<note>Literally "river of Kebar"</note> The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="2">On the fifth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of the king Jehoiachin--</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="3">the word of Yahweh {came}<note>Literally "was"</note> clearly<note>Or "certainly"</note> to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans at the {Kebar River},<note>Literally "river of Kebar"</note> and the hand of Yahweh was on him there. </verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="4">And I looked,<note>Or "saw"</note> and look! A storm wind <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {within it},<note>Literally "for it"</note> and from its midst<note>Or "middle"</note> <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outward appearance of amber stone from the midst<note>Or "middle"</note> of the fire.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="5">And from its midst<note>Or "middle"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the likeness of four living creatures, and this <transChange type="added">was</transChange> their appearance: {a human form},<note>Literally "this their appearance the likeness of a human to them"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="6">and {each had four faces},<note>Literally "and four faces to each"</note> and {each of them had four wings}.<note>Literally "and four wings to each for them"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="7">And their legs <transChange type="added">were</transChange> straight legs, and the sole of their feet <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the sole of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foot of a calf, and <transChange type="added">they</transChange> were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="8">And under their wings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {human hands}<note>Literally "hand his a man"</note> on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them <transChange type="added">were as follows</transChange>:</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="9">{their wings were touching one another};<note>Literally "their wings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> touching each her sister"</note> {each of them went straight forward},<note>Literally "they did not turn at their going"</note> {without turning right or left}.<note>Literally "each toward the side of his face they went"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="10">The likeness of their faces <transChange type="added">was the</transChange> face of a human <transChange type="added">in front</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of a lion on the right {of each of them},<note>Literally "of the four of them"</note> and the face of an ox on the left {of each of them},<note>Literally "of the four of them"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of an eagle {for each of them}.<note>Literally "of the four of them"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="11">So <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their faces; their wings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> spread out {upward};<note>Literally "from to above"</note> each <transChange type="added">had</transChange> two touching one another and two covering their bodies.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="12">And each {went straight forward};<note>Literally "toward the side of his face they went"</note> {wherever the spirit went}<note>Literally "towards which it was there the spirit"</note> they went, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {they did not turn as they went}.<note>Literally "they did not turn at their going"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="13">As for<note>Or "And"</note> the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It<note>That is, the fire</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> moving to and fro between the living creatures, and {the fire was very bright}<note>Literally "brightness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for the fire"</note> and lightning <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going out from the fire.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="14">And the living creatures {were speeding to and fro}<note>Literally "sped forth and returned"</note> like the appearance of lightning. </verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="15">And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earth<note>Or "ground"</note> beside {each of the living creatures that had four faces}.<note>Literally "the living creatures for the four of his/its faces." The LXX has "for the four of them."</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="16">The appearance of the wheels and their construction <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of beryl,<note>Or "chrysolite," or "topaz"; this stone is difficult to identify exactly</note> and {they all looked alike},<note>Literally "likeness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one for the four of them"</note> and their appearance and their construction <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {like a wheel within a wheel}.<note>Literally "as that it was a wheel in the midst of a wheel"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="17">When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not {veer at all as they went}.<note>Literally "turn away when they went"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="18">And their rims {were high and awesome},<note>Literally "height <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for them and awesomeness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for them"</note> and {all four of}<note>Literally "of the four of them"</note> their rims <transChange type="added">were</transChange> full of eyes <transChange type="added">all</transChange> around.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="19">And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them <transChange type="added">also</transChange> went, and {when the creatures were lifted from the ground}<note>Literally "and at the lifting up of the creatures from the earth"</note> the wheels <transChange type="added">also</transChange> rose.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="20">{Wherever}<note>Literally "Toward which"</note> the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures<note>Hebrew "creature"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the wheels.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="21">At their<note>That is, the living creatures</note> going, they<note>That is, the wheels</note> go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth,<note>Or "ground"</note> the wheels rose,<note>Or "were lifted up"</note> for the spirit of the living creatures<note>Hebrew "creature"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the wheels. </verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="22">Now<note>Or "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> likeness above the heads of the living creatures <transChange type="added">was</transChange> an expanse like the outward appearance of {awesome}<note>Literally "terrible"</note> {ice}<note>Literally "frozen water"</note> spread out above their heads {upward}.<note>Literally "from to upward"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="23">And under the expanse their wings <transChange type="added">were stretched out</transChange> straight {one toward the other};<note>Literally "each towards its sister"</note> each had two <transChange type="added">wings</transChange> covering them, and each had two <transChange type="added">wings</transChange> covering their bodies.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="24">And I heard the sound of their wings like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of many waters, like the voice of Shaddai,<note>Often translated "Almighty"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {when they moved}<note>Literally "at their going"</note> <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a sound of tumult like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of an army; {when they stood still}<note>Literally "at their standing"</note> they lowered their wings.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="25">And there was<note>Or "it was"</note> a sound from above the expanse that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> above their heads, {and when they stood}<note>Literally "at their standing"</note> they lowered their wings.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="26">And from above the expanse that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> above their heads <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> the likeness of a throne, {looking like a sapphire},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of a stone of sapphire"</note> and above the likeness of the throne <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a likeness similar to<note>Or "like"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of a human on it, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> {above it}.<note>Literally "from to above"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="27">And I saw <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outward appearance of amber, <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of fire, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a covering around <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, from the likeness of his loins and {upward}.<note>Literally "to above"</note> And from the likeness of his loins and {downward}<note>Literally "to down"</note> I saw <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of fire, and {it was radiant all around}.<note>Literally "brightness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for it around"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="28">Like the appearance<note>Or "likeness"</note> of a bow that is in the cloud on {a rainy day},<note>Literally "the day of the rain"</note> such <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the radiance<note>Or "brightness"</note> around it; <transChange type="added">thus was</transChange> the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And I saw, and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speaking. </verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="1">And he said to me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you."</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Spirit<note>Or "<transChange type="added">a</transChange> spirit"</note> came into me as he was speaking to me, and it set me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="3">And he said to me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> I am sending you to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to nations<note>Or "a people"</note> <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors,<note>Hebrew "fathers"</note> they transgressed against me {until this very day}.<note>Literally "until the day the this"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="4">And the children<note>Or "sons"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {impudent}<note>Literally "hard of face"</note> and {stubborn},<note>Literally "strong of heart"</note> <transChange type="added">and so</transChange> I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="5">And they, whether they listen or whether they fail <transChange type="added">to listen</transChange>, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="6">And you, son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because<note>Or "although"</note> briers and thorns <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you, and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their {looks},<note>Literally "faces"</note> for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a rebellious house.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="7">And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail <transChange type="added">to listen</transChange>, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> rebellious.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="8">And you, son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> hear what I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking to you: you must not be rebellious like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to you."</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="9">And I looked,<note>Or "saw"</note> and look! There was a hand stretched out to me, and look! In it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {a scroll with writing}.<note>Literally "a scroll of a book"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="10">And he rolled it out<note>Or "he spread it out"</note> {before me},<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> and it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> written <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> front and back, and there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> written on it laments and mourning and wailing.<note>Or "woe"</note> </verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="1">And he said to me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> what you find, eat! Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="3">and he said to me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> you must give your stomach <transChange type="added">this</transChange> to eat, and you must fill your belly <transChange type="added">with</transChange> this scroll that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to you." And I ate, and it became {like sweet honey}<note>Literally "like honey for sweetness"</note> in my mouth.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="4">And he said to me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> come! Go to the house of Israel, and you must speak to them with my words.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="5">For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people {of obscure speech}<note>Literally "obscure of lip"</note> and {of a difficult language},<note>Literally "heavy/thick of tongue"</note></verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">and</transChange> not to many nations {of obscure speech}<note>Literally "obscure of tongue"</note> and {a difficult language}<note>Literally "heavy/thick of tongue"</note> {whose words}<note>Literally "their words"</note> you do not understand, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.</verse>


