# bible_fts_content

c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem. And in Tekoa blow a horn, and on Beth-haccherem lift up a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great destruction.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his {portion}.Literally "hand"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{Sanctify}Or "Consecrate" war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for the shadows of evening are lengthened.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Cut down trees and heap up a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished, its oppression is in its midst.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and woundsHebrew "wound" are continually {before me}.Literally "at the face of me"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn away from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, a land that is not inhabited."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine, turn back your hand over the branches like a grape-gatherer.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears are {closed},Literally "uncircumcised" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation in. Pour it out on the childrenHebrew "child" in the street, and on the assembliesHebrew "assembly" of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, the old with him who is full of days.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, {everyone}Literally "all of him" makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, {everyone}Literally "all of him" practices deceit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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}Literally "To thus" they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at the roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is, and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves.Hebrew "inner self" But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I raised up watchmen over you: 'Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.' But they said, 'We will not listen attentively.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" hear, O nations, and know, O community, {what will happen to them}.Literally "what among them"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Hear, O earth, look, I am 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
What is this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, and the precious spice reed from a distant land. Your burnt offerings are not {acceptable},Literally "for acceptance" your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "Look, a people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation is woken up from the farthest part of the earth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The bow and the short sword they grasp are 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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a woman who gives birth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
You must not go out into the field, and you must not walk on the road, for {the enemy has a sword},Literally "a sword for enemy" terror is all around.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony as for an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"I have made you an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways.Hebrew "way"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
All of them are stubborn rebels, going about talking slander. They are bronze and iron, they are all behaving corruptly.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The bellowsHebrew "bellow" are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain}Literally "To the vanity" {he keeps on refining},Literally "he refines refining" but the wicked are not torn apart.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, those who enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Do not trust in {the deceitful words},Literally "the words of the deception" {saying},Literally "to say" 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they are the temple of Yahweh.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods {to your harm},Literally "to harm to you"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestorsOr "fathers" {forever and ever}.Literally "from eternity and until eternity" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look, you are relying for yourselves on {deceitful words}Literally "the words of the deception" without benefiting.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear {falsely}?Literally "to the lie" And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And then you come and you stand {before}Literally "to the face of" me in this house, which is called {by my name},Literally "my name over it" and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing}Literally "for the sake of the doing of" all of these detestable things.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Has this house, which is called {by my name},Literally "my name over it" become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it," Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"For go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it {because of}Literally "from face" the wickedness of my people Israel.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And now, because of your doing all these things," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and {I have spoken to you over and over again},Literally "I spoke to you doing early and speaking" and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
therefore I will do to the house that is called {by my name},Literally "my name over it" in which you are trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestorsOr "fathers" {what}Literally "as that" I did to Shiloh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I will cast you {out of my sight}Literally "from at my face" just as I cast out all of your blood relatives,Or "brothers" all of the offspring of Ephraim." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"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 will not hear you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The children are gathering wood, and the fathers are kindling the fire, and the women are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Are they provoking me to anger? " {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "Is it not themselves they hurt, for the sake of the shame of their faces?"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For I did not speak with your ancestors,Or "fathers" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But I only commanded them this word, {saying},Literally "to say" '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.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.Literally "they were to backward and not to face"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
From the day that your ancestorsOr "fathers" 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}.Literally "doing early and sending"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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.Or "fathers"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"And you shall say to them, 'This is 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.Hebrew "mouth"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Shear your hair and throw itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 30
c3content:
For the people Or "children" of Judah have done evil in my eyes," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called {by my name},Literally "my name over it" to defile it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And they built the high place of Topheth, which is in the 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.Or "heart"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Therefore look, days are about to come," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth {until there is no more place}.Literally "from there is no place"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And the dead bodiesHebrew "body" of this people will be as food for the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavens,Or "sky" and for the animalsHebrew "animal" of the earth, without anyone to scare themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation away.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"At that time," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clanOr "family" in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.Or "repent"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man who regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them are turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Even the stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and the turtledove, and the swallow, and the song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinanceOr "law" of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
How can you say, 'We are wise and the law of Yahweh is with us'? Look, surely {the lying stylus of the scribes}Literally "stylus of lie of scribes" has made it a lie.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The 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 is wisdom to them?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from the smallest to the greatest, all of them make profit for unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Were they ashamed, for they had committed a detestable thing? What's worse,Or "also" they were not ashamed at all, and they did not know to feel humiliated. {Therefore}Literally "To thus" they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble," says Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"{I will take away their harvest},"Literally "I will take away, I will make an end to them" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "There are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree, and the leaves wither, and what I gave to them passed over them." '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Why are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"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 the city, and those who live in it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For look, I am letting loose among you snakes, adders for which there is no incantation, and they will bite you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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?"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The harvest has passed, the summer has come to an end, and we have not received help.Or "been saved"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Jeremiah 9:1-26 in the English Bible is 8:23-9:25 in the Hebrew Bible {Oh that my head were waters},Literally "Who he gives my head waters" and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of my people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Oh that I had}Literally "Who he gives me" in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And they bend their tongue like their bow, for falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forthOr "proceed" from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"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 with slander.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth, they have taught their tonguesHebrew "tongue" to speak lies,Hebrew "lie" they are tired from going astray.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit, uponOr "through" deceit they refuse to know me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Their tongue is 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Because of these things shall I not punish them?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "On a nation that is like this shall I not take revenge?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the desert a lament, because they are laid waste so that no man passes through. And the soundsHebrew "sound" of cattle are not heard, from the birdsHebrew "bird" of heaven to the animalsHebrew "animal" they have fled, they are gone.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will make Jerusalem as heaps of ruins, a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, {without inhabitants}.Literally "from no inhabitant"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Who is 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 desertOr "wilderness" so that no one passes through."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set {before}Literally "to the face of" them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestorsOr "fathers" taught them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, they and their ancestors,Or "fathers" and I will send the sword after them until I bring them to an end." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt with tears, and our eyelids may flow with water.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For hear, O 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off the childrenHebrew "child" from the streets,Hebrew "street" the young men from the public squares.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{But only}Literally "But it" in this must the one who boasts boast, that he has insight, and that he knows me, that I am Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"Look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in the foreskin:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the {Ammonites},Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to the side, those who live in the desert,Or "wilderness" for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, for it is a tree cut down from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They are like scarecrowsHebrew "scarecrow" 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 is not in them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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,Hebrew "kingdom" there is none like you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{At the same time}Literally "And in one" they are stupid and foolish, in the instruction of idols, it is wood.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple are their clothing, all of them are the work of skillful people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and {an everlasting king}.Literally "a king of eternity" Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He is the maker of the earth by his power, who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{When he utters his voice}Literally "At the voice of his giving" there is a noise of water in the heavens, and he causes the mist to rise from the endsHebrew "end" of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he causes the wind to go out from his storehouses.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{Everyone}Literally "All humankind" is stupid, {without knowledge},Literally "from knowledge" every goldsmith is ashamed by his divine image, for his cast image is an illusion, and there is no breath in them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of everything, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance, Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Listen, news:Or "a report" Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 23
c3content:
I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the {people}Literally "man" of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "The man is cursed who does not obey the words of this covenant,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
which I commanded your ancestorsOr "fathers" in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, {saying},Literally "to say" '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}.'Literally "and you shall be to me as people and I will be to you as God"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
in order to keep the oath that I swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day." '" Then I answered and said, "{Let it be so},Literally "Amen" O Yahweh." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
for I solemnly admonished your ancestorsOr "fathers" in the day of my leading them out from the land of Egypt and up to this day, {admonishing persistently},Literally "do early and admonishing" {saying},Literally "to say" "Obey my voice."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But they did not obey and they did not incline their ear. Instead each one walked in the stubbornness of hisHebrew "their" evil heart. Therefore, I brought on them all the words of this covenant which I commanded themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to do, and they did not do it.'"Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "A conspiracy is found among the {people}Literally "man" of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors,Or "fathers" 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}Literally "cut" with their ancestors."Or "fathers" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh, "I am 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{What rights has my beloved in my house}Literally "What for my beloved in my house" when she has done many wicked things?Hebrew "wicked thing" Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For {you engage in your wickedness},Literally "your wickedness" then you exult.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Yahweh called your name, 'A leafy olive tree, {beautiful with fine fruit}.'Literally "beautiful of fruit of appearance" With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Yahweh of hosts, the one who 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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges in righteousness, who tests the {inmost being},Literally "kidney" and the {mind},Literally "heart" let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh concerning the peopleOr "men" of Anathoth who seek your life, {saying},Literally "to say" "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh {or}Literally "and not" you will die by our hand."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And a remnant will not be left for them, for I will bring disaster to the peopleOr "men" of Anathoth, the year of their punishment." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You are near in their mouths, but far from their {inmost beings}.Literally "kidneys"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But you, O Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test that my heart is with you. Tear them apart like sheep for the slaughtering, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{How long}Literally "Until when" will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up, because of the wickedness of those who live in it? The animals and the birdsHebrew "bird" are swept away, because they have said, "He does not see our future."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"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},Literally "a land of peace" then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly}Literally "full" after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my {heart}Literally "soul" into the hand of her enemies.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; {therefore}Literally "unto thus" I hate her.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me, the birds of preyHebrew "bird of prey" are all around her. Go, gather all of the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field, bring them {to come and devour}.Literally "to food"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made {my pleasant field}Literally "the plot of land of my desire" like the desertOr "wilderness" of desolation.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking it to heart.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Upon all the barren heights in the desertOr "wilderness" destroyers have come, for the sword of Yahweh devours, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, there is no peace for all flesh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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}Literally "the blaze of the nose" of Yahweh."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: "Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it will happen" if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, '{as Yahweh lives},'Literally "the life of Yahweh" even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But if they do not listen, then {I will completely uproot and destroy that nation}."Literally "I will drive out the nation that driving out and destroying" {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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}Literally "bring" it in water."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on my loins. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it happened" {after a long time},Literally "from the end of many days" then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then I went to the 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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who goOr "walk" in the stubbornness of their hearts,Hebrew "heart" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"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?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am 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 with drunkenness.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "I will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Give glory to Yahweh your God {before}Literally "at not yet" he brings darkness, and {before}Literally "at not yet" your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation as thick darkness.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But if you will not listen to it, my inner selfOr "soul" will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of}Literally "the face of" your pride. And my eyesHebrew "eye" will weep bitterly, and they will melt in tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat},Literally "Bring low sit" for {your beautiful crown}Literally "the crown of your beauty" has come down from your head.'Or "at the head of you"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no one who opens them.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation All of Judah is deported; it is deported in completeness.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, {your magnificent flock}?Literally "the flock of your splendor"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
This is your lot, the portion of your measure from me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on the hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! {How long will you continue to be unclean}?Literally "Not you are clean after how long still""


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matterHebrew "matters" of the severe drought. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And their nobles send their servants for water. They come to the pits, they find no water. They return with their vessels {empty}.Literally "without success" They are ashamed, and they are confounded, and they cover their heads.Hebrew "head"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Because of the ground, which is cracked because there was no rain on the ground. The farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.Hebrew "head"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For even the doe in the field gives birth and forsakes her young,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation because there is no green growth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And wild asses stand on the barren heights, they gasp for breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Although our iniquities testify against us, O Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You are 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 his tent Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to spend the night?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Why should you be like a confused man, like a warrior who is not able to help? Yet you are in our midst, O Yahweh, and your name is called upon us. You must not leave us!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Although they fast, I am not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I am not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I am about to destroy them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, look, the prophets are saying to them, 'You will not see the sword, and famine will not be yours, but reliable peace I will give to you in this place.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "The prophets are prophesying liesHebrew "lie" 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}."Literally "heart"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the people to whom they are prophesying will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem {because of}Literally "from the face of" the famine and the sword. And there will be no one who buries them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. And I will pour out on them their wickedness. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
If I go out into the field, then look, those slain by the sword. And if I enter the city, then look, the sickness of the famine. For both prophet and priest wander around through the land, {they do not know what is going on}.'"Literally "and not they know"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soulOr "inner self" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors,Or "fathers" for we have sinned against you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
You must not spurn usHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation for the sake of your name, you must not dishonor {your glorious throne}.Literally "the throne of your glory" Remember us!Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation You must not break your covenant with us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Are there any among the idols of the nation who cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these things.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood {before me},Literally "to the face of me" my heart would not be to this people. Send them away from my {sight},Literally "face" and let them go out.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" if they say to you, 'Where shall we go?' Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"And I will summonOr "appoint" over them four types of calamity," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birdsHebrew "bird" of the air and the wild animalsHebrew "wild animal" of the earth to devour and to destroy.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem, or who will show sympathy to you, or who will turn aside {to ask about your welfare}?Literally "to ask to the welfare of you"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You have forsaken me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Their widowsHebrew "widow" will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas. I have brought to them, against the mothersHebrew "mother" of young men,Hebrew "man" a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.Hebrew "horrors"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
She who gave birth to seven has withered away. She gasps her breath. Her sun {set}Literally "came" while still day. She has been put to shame and disgraced. And the remainder of them I will give to the sword {before}Literally "to the face of" their enemies," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling {to the whole land}.Literally "to all of the land" I have not lent out and {I have not borrowed}.Literally "not they have lent out for me" All of them are cursing me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I will give your wealth and your treasures as plunder without price, even because of all your sins, and throughout all your territories.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for a fire will kindle in my anger. Upon you it will be kindled."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You who know, O Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors {in your forbearance}.Literally "in the length of your nose" You must take me away. Know that I am carrying disgrace because of you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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, O Yahweh God of hosts.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I sat not in the assembly of jokers, nor did I exult. Because of the {presence}Literally "face" of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Why is my pain endless, and my wound incurable? It refuses to become healed. Truly you are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that are not trustworthy.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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 am with you, to save you, and to deliver you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"And I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from the hand of the tyrant."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"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 bodiesHebrew "dead body" will become food for the birdsHebrew "bird" of the air, and for the wild animalsHebrew "wild animal" of the earth." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, "You must not enter the house of the 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the loyal love and the compassion.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers,Hebrew "father" or for their mothers.Hebrew "mother"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, '{Why}Literally "On what" has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then you shall say to them, '{Because}Literally "On that" your ancestorsOr "fathers" have forsaken me,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And {you have behaved badly}Literally "you have done evil to do" more than your ancestors,Or "fathers" and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,Or "fathers" and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are coming,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and it will no longer be said, "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" who led up the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from the land of Egypt,"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{but only}Literally "but if" "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "The life of Yahweh" who led up the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from the land of the 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.Or "fathers"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Look, I am sending for many fishermen,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and they will fish them out, and {afterward}Literally "after thus" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me},Literally "from to the face of me" and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And {I will first doubly repay}Literally "I will reward first second" their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodiesHebrew "dead body" of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth, and they will say, "Our ancestorsOr "fathers" have inherited only lies,Hebrew "lie" vanity, and there is no profit in them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my {power}Literally "hand" and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
As the remembering of their children, so is the remembering of their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside the leafy treesHebrew "tree" on the high hills.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
O my mountain in the open country, I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil, your high places, because of your sin, throughout all your territories.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And {you will let go your hand from your inheritance}Literally "you shall loose and in you from your inheritance" 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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness,Or "Arabah" and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert,Or "wilderness" in a land of salt flats,Hebrew "salt flat" where no one lives.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to the stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leavesHebrew "leaf" will be luxuriant, and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I, Yahweh, examine the {mind},Literally "heart" I test the {heart},Literally "kidneys" and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will prove to be a fool."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all those who forsake you will be put to shame, and those who turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd {who follows you},Literally "after you" and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Let my persecutors be put to shame, {but as for me},Literally "I" do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, {but as for me},Literally "I" do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of disaster, and with double destruction, destroy them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Thus said Yahweh to me, "Go, and you must stand in the {People's Gate}Literally "gate of the sons/children of the people" through which the kings of Judah enter, and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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 not bring itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation through the gates of Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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.Or "fathers"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck so as to not hear, nor to receive discipline. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"And it will happen, if you carefully listen to me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 25
c3content:
then kings and officials who sit on the throne of David will enter through the gates of this city riding in chariotsHebrew "chariot" and on horses, they, and their officials, the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited {forever}.Literally "to eternity"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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,Hebrew "burnt offering" and sacrifices,Hebrew "sacrifice" and grain offerings,Hebrew "grain offering" and frankincense, and bringing thank offeringsHebrew "thank offering" to the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 27
c3content:
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." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the vessel that he was making with the clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter, so {he made again}Literally "he turned back and he made it" another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Like this potter, am I not able to do to you, O house of Israel?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But if 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the next moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But if 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 to it. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"So now then, say, please, to the {people}Literally "man" of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am preparing evil against you, and I am planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly in your ways and your deeds." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But they will say, 'It is hopeless, for we will go after our own plans, and each one of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the cragsHebrew "crag" of Sirion? Or are the cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols,Hebrew "idol" and they caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient ways, to go into {bypaths},Literally "paths of way" not one that is built up.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
To make their land a horror, an object of whistling for eternity. All who pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Like the wind from the east I will scatter them {before}Literally "to the face of" the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from the priest, nor advice from the wise man, nor the word from the prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him},Literally "let us strike him with the tongue" and let us not listen attentively to any of his words." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you}Literally "to the face of you" to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" give their children to the famine, and hand them over to the {power}Literally "hand" of the sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead by the sword in the battle.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But you, O Yahweh, you know {all their plans of assassination against me}.Literally "all of their plan against me to the death" You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from {before you}.Literally "to the face of you" But let them be overthrown {before you}.Literally "to the face of you" Deal with them in the time of your anger.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Thus said Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Gate of the Potsherd, and proclaim there the words that I speak to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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 am about to bring disaster upon this place so that {everyone who hears it},Literally "all hears it" his ears will ring.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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,Or "fathers" nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place with the blood of the innocent,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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}.Literally "heart" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are about to come," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, {but}Literally "surely if" the Valley of the Slaughter.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will lay waste the plansHebrew "plan" of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword {before}Literally "to the face of" their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodiesHebrew "dead body" as food to the birdsHebrew "bird" of heaven and to the animalsHebrew "animal" of the earth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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 the siege and in the distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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, so that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury {until there is no room to bury}.Literally "from there is no place to bury"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Thus will I do to this place," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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 where they poured out libations to other gods." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I am 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.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest who was officer in charge in the temple of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" on the next day, when Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Yahweh will not call your name Pashhur, {but}Literally "but if" Terror From All Around.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will be seeing it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation And all Judah I will give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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 to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity, and you will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends to whom you have prophesied {falsely}.Literally "in the lie"'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You have persuaded me, O Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long. {Everyone}Literally "All of him" is mocking me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For {as often as}Literally "from enough" 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 long.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But if 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 it,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and I am not able.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror is from all around, denounce him,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation yes, let us denounce him!" {All my close friends}Literally "All the human being of my peace" are watchers of my stumbling, saying, "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. Their {everlasting insult}Literally "insult of eternity" will not be forgotten.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the {heart}Literally "kidneys" and the {mind},Literally "heart" let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Cursed be the day on which I was born, let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, {saying},Literally "to say" "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{Why}Literally "To what this" did I come out from the womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and to {end my days in shame}?Literally "my days will come to an end in shame"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Please inquire of Yahweh on behalf of us, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon is fighting against us. Perhaps Yahweh will do with us according to all his miraculous acts, so that he may go up from against us." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Look, I am about to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,Hebrew "hand" with which you are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand, and with strong arm, and in {anger},Literally "nose" and in fury, and in great wrath.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both humankind and animal; by a great plague they will die.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And {afterward},"Literally "after thus" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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 the {edge}Literally "mouth" of the sword. He will not take pity on them, and he will not have compassion, nor will he show compassion." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"And to this people you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am setting {before you}Literally "to the face of you" the way of life and the way of death.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Look, I am against you, O inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of the valley, O rock of the plain," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh; "you who say, 'Who can descend against us, or who can enter into our hiding place?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings." '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, "Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor. And you must not oppress the immigrant, the orphan, and the widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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 chariotsHebrew "chariot" and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But if you do not obey these words, I swear by myself," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "that this house will become a site of ruins." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will consecrate against you destroyers, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down {your choicest cedars},Literally "the choicest thing of your cedars" and cast themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on the fire.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And many nations will pass by this city and they will say each one to his neighbor, '{Why}Literally "Over what" has Yahweh done in this manner to this great city?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then they will answer, 'Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and bowed down in worship to other gods, and served them.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You must not weep for the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But in the place where they have deported him, there he will die, and he will not see this land again. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Woe to the one who 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.Hebrew "wage"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Who says 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and it isHere the subject is supplied from context in the English translation paneled with cedar, and he paints itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation with vermilion.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor, and then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?Literally "Not that the knowledge me"" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"But there is nothing in your eyes and your heart {except}Literally "but if" your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey. He will beHere the subject is supplied from context in the English translation dragged away and thrown {outside}Literally "from beyond" the gates of Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and in Bashan lift up your voice, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are shattered.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
I spoke to you {in the times you were secure},Literally "in your security" and you said, 'I will not listen!' This was your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
All your shepherds will shepherd the wind, and your lovers will go into captivity. Yes, then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
InhabitantsHebrew "Inhabitant" of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the woman who gives birth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"As I live," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
As for the land to which they are {longing}Literally "lifting their inner self" to return, they will not return. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel? Or a vessel in which there is no delight? Why are he and his offspring thrown far, and cast away to the land that they do not know?"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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 will punish you for the evil of your deeds," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell {in safety},Literally "with confidence" and this is his name by which he will be called: 'Yahweh is our righteousness.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "when they will no longer say, '{As Yahweh lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh" who led up the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from the land of Egypt,'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
but '{As Yahweh lives},Literally "the life of Yahweh" who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.' Then they will live in their land." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For the land is full of adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the desertOr "wilderness" are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power is not right.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"For both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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 in the year of their punishment," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Now in the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing. They prophesied by Baal and they caused my people Israel to err.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible. They commit adultery, and they walk in lies,Hebrew "the lie" and they make strong the hands of evildoers, so that they have not turned back each from his wickedness. All of them have become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They areHere the subject and verb are supplied from context in the English translation continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, 'Peace it will be to you,' and to {each one}Literally "all" who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively to his word and heard it?Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The {anger}Literally "nose" of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his {mind}.Literally "heart" {In latter days}Literally "In the last of the days" you will look closely at it with understanding.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "Do I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"I have heard what the prophets who prophesy liesHebrew "lie" have said in my name, {saying},Literally "to say" 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{How long}Literally "Until when" will this be in the heartsHebrew "heart" of the prophets who prophesy lies,Hebrew "the lie" even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,Hebrew "heart"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestorsOr "fathers" forgot my name through Baal?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophetHere the subject is supplied from context in the English translation who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?"Literally "What to the straw in comparison with the wheat" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"Is not my word like fire?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and like a blacksmith's hammer that breaks a rock into pieces? 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, I am against the prophets," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "who steal my words each one from his neighbor.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Look, I am against the prophets," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "who take their tonguesHebrew "tongue" and declare as prophets, 'Yahweh {declares}.'Literally "a declaration of"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,"Hebrew "lie" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'What is the burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh?' then you shall say to them, '{You are the burden},Literally "What burden" and I will forsake you,'" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 34
c3content:
"And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Thus you shall say, each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother: 'What has Yahweh answered?' or, 'What has Yahweh spoken?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 36
c3content:
But you shall not mention the burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh, for the burdenOr "oracle" is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But if you say, 'The burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh,' {therefore}Literally "to thus" thus says Yahweh, 'because of your saying these words,Hebrew "word" "The burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh," then I will send to you, {saying},Literally "to say" "You shall not say, 'The burdenOr "oracle" of Yahweh.'" '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 39
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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 ancestorsOr "fathers" from {my presence}Literally "my face",


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 40
c3content:
and I will bring upon you {an everlasting disgrace}Literally "a disgrace of eternity" and {an everlasting shame}Literally "a shame of eternity" that will not be forgotten." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed {before}Literally "to the face of" 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,Hebrew "smith" from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The one basket had very good figs, like {early figs},Literally "the figs of the early ripened fruit" and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because of their bad quality.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Yahweh asked me, "What are you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs--the good figs, very good, and the bad figs, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exilesHebrew "exile" of Judah whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For I will set my eyesHebrew "eye" on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate them, and I will plant them and not uproot them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and {they will be my people},Literally "they shall be for me as a people" and {I will be their God},Literally "I will be for them as God" for they will return to me with the whole of their heart. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.'"Or "fathers" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even up to this day, these twenty-three yearsHebrew "year" the word of Yahweh has come to me, and {I have spoken to you over and over again},Literally "I have spoken to you doing early and speaking" but you have not listened.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And though Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you {over and over again}Literally "do early and sending" you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{saying},Literally "to say" '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 ancestorsOr "fathers" from a long time back and until forever,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
'Yet you have not listened to me,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'so that youHebrew "they" have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
look, I am going to send and take all the clansOr "families" of the north,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and I will sendHere the subject and verb are supplied from context in the English translation 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 an object of hissing, and {everlasting ruins}.Literally "sites of ruins of eternity"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.Hebrew "year" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" when the seventy yearsHebrew "year" are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it {an everlasting waste}.Literally "a waste of eternity"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the {presence}Literally "face" of the sword that I am sending among them." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and all the otherOr "foreign" people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines--Hebrew "Philistine"Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 22
c3content:
and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea;


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 24
c3content:
and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the otherOr "foreign" people who dwell in the desert;Or "wilderness"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 26
c3content:
and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"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}Literally "face" of the sword that I am sending among you." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
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!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For look, on the city that is called {by}Literally "on it" my name I am beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh of hosts.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The rage of battle will resound to the end of the earth, for there is a lawsuit of Yahweh against the nations. He is entering into judgment with all wicked flesh, he will give them to the sword,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And the slain ones of Yahweh will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other 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}Literally "face" of the ground.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning in the dust, O leadersOr "nobles" of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 36
c3content:
A sound, the cry of distress of the shepherds and the wailing of the leadersOr "nobles" of the flock, for Yahweh is despoiling their pasture.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And the {peaceful settlements}Literally "settlements of the peace" are devastated because of {the burning anger of Yahweh}.Literally "the blaze of the nose of Yahweh"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 38
c3content:
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}."Literally "the blaze of his nose"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"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 in the house of Yahweh all the words that I command you to speak to them. You must not omit a word.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I am planning to do to them because of their evil deeds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And you shall say to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have setOr "given" {before you},Literally "to the face of you"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, {over and over again},Literally "and doing early and sending" though you have not listened,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.'" '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, {saying},Literally "to say" "You will die!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, {saying},Literally "to say" 'This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be in ruins, {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king to the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh's temple.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, {saying},Literally "to say" "{This man deserves the death sentence},Literally "A sentence of death is to this man" because he has prophesied against this city as that which you have heard with your ears." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and to all the people, {saying},Literally "to say" "Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now {therefore}Literally "so then" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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}Literally "in truth" Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve}Literally "Not to this man" a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then men from the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembly of the people, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, {saying}:Literally "to say" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Did Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all Judah actually put him to death? Was he 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 are about to do great disaster to ourselves." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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 to Egypt.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 23
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 24
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying}Literally "to say"--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon in the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, the king of Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And you must command them for their masters, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, this you shall say to your masters:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"I have made the earth with humankind and animalsHebrew "animal" that are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and also the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field I have given to him to serve him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and {his grandson},Literally "the son of his son" until the coming of the time of {his own}Literally "also his" land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"But it will be that 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "until I have destroyed it with my hand.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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},Literally "to say" 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I spoke words like these to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, {saying},Literally "to say" "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You must not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying a lie to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For I have not sent them," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "but they are prophesying in my name {falsely},Literally "to the lie" so that I will drive them away. And you will perish--you and the prophets who are prophesying to you." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, {saying},Literally "to say" "Thus says Yahweh, 'You must not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, {saying},Literally "to say" "Look, the vessels of the house of Yahweh are about to be quickly brought back from Babylon", for they are prophesying a lie to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But if they are 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}Literally "house" of Yahweh, and the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, must not go to Babylon.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, did not take when he deported Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, {along with}Literally "and" all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
'They will be brought to Babylon, and there they will stay until the day of my attending to them,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 'Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it was in that same 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 was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of Yahweh before the eyes of the priests and all the people, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{Within two years}Literally "In still two years days" I will 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 to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exilesHebrew "exile" from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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 exilesHebrew "exile" from Babylon to this place.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Nevertheless listen please to this word that I am speaking in your {hearing}Literally "ears" and in the {hearing}Literally "ears" of all the people,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The prophets who were {before}Literally "to the face of" me and {before}Literally "to the face of" you from ancient times prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms of war, and of disaster, and of plague.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The prophet who prophesies peace, at the coming of the word of the prophet, will become known as the prophet that Yahweh has {truly}Literally "in truth" sent." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Hananiah said before the eyes of all the people, {saying},Literally "to say" "Thus says Yahweh, 'This is how I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, {within two years},Literally "in still two years days" from the neck of all the nations.'" And Jeremiah the prophet went on his way. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet broke the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Go, and you must say to Hananiah, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 animalsHebrew "animal" of the open field to him." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am going to send you from the face of the earth. This year you will die because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the exiles,Hebrew "exile" and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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,Hebrew "artisan" and the smithsHebrew "smith" from Jerusalem,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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, to Babylon, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exilesHebrew "exile" whom I have deported from Jerusalem to Babylon,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
'Build houses and live in them,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and plant gardens and eat their fruit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you are causing them to dream.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For they are prophesying {falsely}Literally "in a lie" to you in my name; I have not sent them,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, '{As soon as the time has passed},Literally "When to the mouth of being full" seventy yearsHebrew "year" for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will let myself be found by you,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and I will restore your fortunes,Hebrew "fortune" and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places to which I have driven you,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and I will bring you back to the place from which I deported you.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Look, I am 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 their bad quality.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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 an object of hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
because they did not listen to my words,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again},Literally "doing early and sending" and they would not listen,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all you exilesHebrew "exile" whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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 am going to give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and he will strike them before your eyes.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And a curse will be taken up because of them by all the exilesHebrew "exile" of Judah who are in Babylon, {saying},Literally "to say" "May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken wordsHebrew "word" in my name, liesHebrew "lie" that I have not commanded them, and I am he who knows, and I am a witness,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Because you yourself sent a letterHebrew "letters" in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers in the house of Yahweh over any mad man who exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and so then why have you not rebuked Jeremiah the Anathothite who exhibits the behavior of a prophet for you?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{Because}Literally "Seeing that unto thus" he has sent to us in Babylon, {saying},Literally "to say" 'It will be a long time, build houses and live in them,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'" '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the {hearing}Literally "ears" of Jeremiah the prophet. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 31
c3content:
"Send to all the exiles,Hebrew "exile" {saying},Literally "to say" '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,"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 32
c3content:
{therefore}Literally "to thus" thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am 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 am going to do to my people," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "For he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For look, days are coming,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'when I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of my people Israel and Judah,' says Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestorsOr "fathers" and they will take possession of it.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why do I see every strong man with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And why are all their faces changed to paleness?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Alas! For that day is great, {there is none like it}.Literally "from none like it" And it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it will happen on that day,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and you must not be dismayed, Israel, for look, I am 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 one who makes himHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation afraid.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For I am with you,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not care for you. I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, the punishment of the cruel, because of the greatness of your guilt, your sins are numerous.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Why do you cry because of your wound? Your pain is incurable. Because of the greatness of your guilt--your sins are vast-- I have done these things to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" all those who devour you will be devoured, and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity, and those who plunder you will be as plunder, and all those who plunder you I will make as plunder.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying, "It is Zion, there is no one who cares for her." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And thanksgiving and the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And their children will be as of old, and their community will be established {before me}.Literally "to the face of me" And I will punish all their oppressors.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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 is he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Look, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{The burning anger of Yahweh}Literally "The blaze of the nose of Yahweh" will not turn back until his doing, and until his accomplishing the plans of his {mind}.Literally "heart" In the last of the days you will understand it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
From afar Yahweh appeared to me, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" I have drawn you with loyal love.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines, and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For there will be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, 'Stand up, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth. Among them the blind, and the lame, those who are pregnant, and those who give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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 is my firstborn."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Hear the word of Yahweh, O 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and he has redeemed him from the hand of the person {stronger}Literally "strong" than he.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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 the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil, and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring, and the young men and the old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, the weeping of bitterness. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no more."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And there is hope for your future," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and your children will return to their territory.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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 are Yahweh my God.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Is Ephraim my dear son, or the child of my delight? For {as often as}Literally "from enough" I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Set up for yourself road markers, make for yourself signposts, set your {mind}Literally "heart" to the main road, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{How long}Literally "Until when" will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "They will again say these wordsHebrew "word" in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes,Hebrew "fortune" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it, farmers and those who travel with the flocks.Hebrew "flock"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Look, the days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals.Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"In those days they will say no longer, '{Parents}Literally "Fathers" have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children {are set on edge}Literally "have become blunt".'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{But}Literally "But if" each will die because of his iniquity, {everyone}Literally "all of the humankind" who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will {be set on edge}.Literally "become blunt" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Look, the days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will {make}Literally "cut" a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 32
c3content:
not like the covenant that I {made}Literally "cut" with their ancestorsOr "fathers" on the day of my grasping themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"But this is the covenant that I will {make}Literally "cut" with the house of Israel after those days," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their heartsHebrew "heart" I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their {smallest}Literally "small" and up to their {greatest},"Literally "great" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for light by day, the regulations of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar--Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 36
c3content:
"If these rules would cease from {before me},"Literally "to the face of me" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation {before me}Literally "to the face of me" {forever}."Literally "all the days"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 38
c3content:
"Look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And {the measuring line}Literally "the string of the measurement" will still go out immediately in front of it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn to Goah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And the whole of the valley of 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 toward the east will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again {forever}."Literally "to eternity" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah, that was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was laying siege to Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 3
c3content:
where Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, {saying},Literally "to say" "Why are you prophesying, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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}Literally "his mouth shall speak with his mouth" and {he will see him eye to eye},Literally "his eyes shall see his eyes"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and to Babylon he will bring Zedekiah, and there he will be until my attending to him," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not be successful" '?" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
'Look, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, is going to come to you, {saying},Literally "to say" "Buy for yourself my field that is at Anathoth, for {you have}Literally "to you is" the right of redemption to buy it." 'Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard {according to}Literally "as" the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, 'Please buy my field that is at Anathoth, that is in the land of Benjamin, for to you is the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that was at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I signed on the letterOr "scroll" and sealed it,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then I took the deedOr "scroll" of the purchase, the sealed copy containing the commandmentsHebrew "commandment" and the rules, together with the one that was open.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, {in the presence of}Literally "before the eyes of" Hanamel, the son of my uncle, and {in the presence of}Literally "before the eyes of" the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, {in the presence of}Literally "before the eyes of" the JudeansHebrew "Judean" who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I commanded Baruch {in their presence},Literally "before their eyes" {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds,Or "scrolls" this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an {earthenware jar}Literally "jar of earthenware" so that they may be kept preserved many days."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I prayed to Yahweh--after giving my deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah--{saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
'Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. {Nothing}Literally "Not all a thing" is too difficult for you,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
showing loyal love to the thousands, and repaying the guilt of {parents}Literally "fathers" into the lapsHebrew "lap" of their children after them. Powerful, great, mighty, his name is Yahweh of hosts,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
great in counsel and great in deed, whose eyes are 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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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 it is this day. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And you gave to them this land, which you swore to their ancestorsOr "fathers" to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 23
c3content:
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 to them all this disaster.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Look, the siege ramps have come up to 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 are seeing it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
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.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
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 where they have devoted libations to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 30
c3content:
For the peopleOr "sons/children" of Israel and the peopleOr "sons/children" of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the peopleOr "sons/children" of Israel were only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 31
c3content:
"For this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my {sight},Literally "face"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
because of all the evil of the peopleOr "sons/children" of Israel and the peopleOr "sons/children" of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger--they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the menHebrew "man" of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And they have turned to me their backsHebrew "back" and not their faces, though {I have taught them over and over again},Literally "I have taught them doing early and teaching" but they were not listening to accept discipline.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And they built the high places of Baal that are 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}Literally "heart" to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 36
c3content:
"So now {therefore},Literally "to thus" thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you are saying, 'It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague':


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Look, I am going to gather them from all the lands to 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}.Literally "with confidence"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me {forever},Literally "all the days" for good to them, and to their children after them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And I will {make}Literally "cut" with them {an everlasting covenant}Literally "a covenant of eternity" that I will not turn away from them, my doing good to them, and my reverence I will put in their heartsHebrew "heart" so that they will not turn aside from me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And I will rejoice over them to do good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart, and with all my inner self."Or "soul" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 42
c3content:
"For thus says Yahweh, 'Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And the fieldsHebrew "field" will be bought in this land of which you are saying, "It is a desolation, {without humankind or animals}.Literally "from there is not humankind and animal" It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 44
c3content:
They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds,Hebrew "scroll" and they will seal them,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation 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,'Hebrew "fortune" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still held back in the courtyard of the guard, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh who made the earth,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation Yahweh who formed it to establish it, Yahweh is his name:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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 to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
'They are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look, I am going to bring healing and health to it, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and reliability.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of Judah and the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of Israel, and I will rebuild them as in the beginning.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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 will do for them, and they will fear,Or "tremble" and they will tremble because of all the good, and because of all the prosperity that I will provide for it.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh: 'Again will be heard in this place, of which you are saying, "It is a waste, {without}Literally "from there is not" people and {without}Literally "from there is not" animals,"Hebrew "animal" in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, {without}Literally "from there is not" people and {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" and {without}Literally "from there is not" animals,Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voicesHebrew "voice" of those who say, "Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loyal love is {forever},"Literally "to eternity" the voices of those who bring thank offeringsHebrew "thank offering" to the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of the land as in the beginning,' says Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Again there will be in this waste place, {without}Literally "from there is not" people and animals,Hebrew "animal" and in all its towns, pasture for shepherds allowing their flock to lie down.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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 of Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the counter,' says Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
'Look, days are coming,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'and I will fulfill the good promiseOr "word" that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell {safely},Literally "with confidence" and this is what they shall call it: "Yahweh is our righteousness." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh: 'A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And for the priests, a man from the Levites who offers burnt offeringsHebrew "burnt offering" and who burns grain offeringsHebrew "grain offering" and who brings sacrificesHebrew "sacrifice" will not be cut off {before me}Literally "to the face of me" {forever}.'"Literally "all the days" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh: 'If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 21
c3content:
then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from {having}Literally "being for him" a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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 who minister to me.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Have you not seen how these people speak, {saying},Literally "to say" 'The two clansOr "families" whom Yahweh chose, he has also rejected them'? Thus they spurn my people from being a nation {before them}Literally "to the face of them" any longer.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: 'If my covenant with day and with night, the regulations of heaven and earth, I had not established,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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 fortunesHebrew "fortune" and I will have compassion on them.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth under the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"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 am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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},Literally "your eyes shall see with the eyes of the king of Babylon" and {you will speak face to face with him},Literally "his mouth shall speak with your mouth" and to Babylon you will go.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 4
c3content:
However, hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah, the king of Judah. Thus says Yahweh concerning you: 'You will not die by the sword.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 5
c3content:
In peace you will die, and as there was burning for your ancestors,Or "fathers" the former kings who were {before you},Literally "to the face of you" so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!" For the word I have spoken,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh." '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 7
c3content:
when the army of the king of Babylon was 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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 9
c3content:
to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, the Hebrew and the free Hebrew, so that no one among the JudeansHebrew "Judean" should enslave his fellow countryman.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, not enslaving them again, and they obeyed and they let themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation go.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But {afterward}Literally "after thus" they turned back and they brought back the male slaves and the female slaves whom they had let go free, and they subdued them as male slaves and female slaves. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with your ancestorsOr "fathers" on the day of my bringing them out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"At the 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 ancestorsOr "fathers" did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ears.Hebrew "ear"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And you turned back {recently}Literally "the day" and you did right in my eyes, to proclaim release each one to his neighbor, and you {made}Literally "cut" a covenant {before me}Literally "to the face of me" in the house that is called {by}Literally "on it" my name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his male 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 male slaves and as female slaves.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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 am going to proclaim to you a release,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who have not kept the words of the covenant that they {made}Literally "cut" {before me},Literally "to the face of me" like the calf which they cut in two and they passed between its parts--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and I will give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and their dead bodiesHebrew "dead body" will become as food for the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavensOr "sky" and for the animalsHebrew "animal" of the earth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Look, I am going to command,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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}Literally "from there is not" an inhabitant.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of Yahweh into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and I brought them to the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was beside the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then I {set}Literally "gave" {before}Literally "to the face of" the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, "Drink wine."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But they answered, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor,Or "father" commanded us, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You shall not drink wine, you or your children, {forever}.Literally "until eternity"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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 are dwelling as aliens.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor,Or "father" in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor,Or "father" commanded us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{But then}Literally "And it was" at the coming up against the land of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, then we said, 'Come and let us go to Jerusalem {before}"from the face of" the army of the Chaldeans, and {before}"from the face of" the army of the Arameans.'Hebrew "Aramean" That is why we are living in Jerusalem." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendantsOr "children" to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor.Or "father" But {I have spoken to you over and over again},Literally "I have spoken to you doing early and speaking" and you have not listened to me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, {I have sent them over and over again},Literally "doing early and sending" {saying},Literally "to say" '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}Literally "and live" on the land that I gave to you and to your ancestors.'Or "fathers" But you did not incline your ear and you did not listen to me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For the descendantsOr "children" of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have carried out the command of their ancestorOr "father" that he commanded them, but this people did not listen to me." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am 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." '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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,Or "father" and you have kept all his commands, and you have done all that he commanded you,'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{therefore}Literally "to thus" 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}Literally "to the face of me" {always}.'"Literally "all the days" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Take for yourself {a scroll}Literally "a scroll of a scroll" 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 the day that I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, and until this day.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Perhaps when the house of Judah hears all the disastersHebrew "disaster" that I am 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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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}.Literally "a scroll of a scroll"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, {saying},Literally "to say" "I am held back, I am not able to enter the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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 in 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Perhaps their plea will fall {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh and each one will turn away from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that Yahweh pronounced against this people."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, to read aloud from the scroll the words of Yahweh in the temple of Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" 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}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Baruch read aloud from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple of Yahweh in the hearing of all the people. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the scroll,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
he went down to the house of the king, to the chamber of the secretary, and look, all the officials were 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 other officials.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then all the officials sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, {saying},Literally "to say" "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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they said to him, "Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing." So Baruch read aloud in their hearing.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it was" the moment of their hearing all the words, {they turned to one another in alarm}Literally "they approached in trepidation each one to his neighbor" and they said to Baruch, "We must certainly report all these words to the king!"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then they asked Baruch, {saying},Literally "to say" "Tell us please, how did you write all these words, from his mouth?"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Baruch said to them, "From his mouth. He dictated to me all these words and I was writing on the scroll with the ink."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let not a man know where you are." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And they went to the king, to the courtyard, and they {put}Literally "gave" the scroll for safe-keeping in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words in the hearing of the king.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now the king was sitting in the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot was burning {before}Literally "to the face of" him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{And then},Literally "and it was" as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation into the fire that was in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And even when Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 27
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"{Take again}Literally "Turn back take" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have burned this scroll, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Why have you written in it, {saying},Literally "to say" "The king of Babylon will certainly come and he will destroy this land, and he will cause to disappear from it humankind and animals"?'"Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, "There will not be for him one who 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 31
c3content:
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." '"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 32
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},Literally "to say" "Please pray for us to Yahweh our God."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now Jeremiah was coming and going out in the midst of the people and they had not put him in the house of imprisonment.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"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 of me, "Look, the army of Pharaoh, which set out to help you, is going to return to his land Egypt.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Chaldeans will return, and they will fight against this city, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, {saying},Literally "to say" "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For even if you struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and only men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it will happen" at the withdrawing of the army of the Chaldeans from Jerusalem {before}Literally "from the face of" the army of Pharaoh,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{And when}Literally "And it was" he was at the Gate of Benjamin, there was {a sentry on duty}Literally "an owner of supervision" whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, {saying},Literally "to say" "You are deserting to the Chaldeans!"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Jeremiah said, "That is a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him in {prison},Literally "the house of the fetters" in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the {prison}Literally "house of the imprisonment".


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So Jeremiah came to the {dungeon}Literally "house of the cistern", even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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}?Literally "the house of the imprisonment"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall {before you}.Literally "to the face of you" You must not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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}Literally "for the day" until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 was saying to all the people, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh, 'The one who stays in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But the one who goes out to the Chaldeans will live. And his life will be for him as booty, and he will live.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, {because}Literally "unto thus" he is making slack the hands of {the soldiers}Literally "the men of the war" who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man is not seeking for welfareOr "peace" to this people, {but only}Literally "but if" for harm."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Zedekiah the king said, "Look, he is in your hand, for the king is not able to do a thing against you."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pitOr "cistern" of Malchiah, the son of the king, which was in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pitOr "cistern" there was no water,Hebrew "waters" {but only}Literally "but if" mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When Ebed-melech the Cushite, {a eunuch}Literally "a man of a eunuch" who was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pitOr "cistern"--now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, in that they have thrown him into the pit,Or "cistern" and he will die {there}Literally "in it" {because of}Literally "from the face of" starvation, for there is no longer any bread in the city."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, {saying},Literally "to say" "Take {with you}Literally "in your hand" these thirty men and pull Jeremiah the prophet up from the pitOr "cistern" {before}Literally "at not yet" he dies." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Ebed-melech took the men {with him}Literally "in his hand" and went to the palace of the king, to a place beneath the storehouse, and he took from there {rags}Literally "the rags of rags" and {worn-out clothes}.Literally "rags of ragged clothes" And he let them down into the pitOr "cistern" by ropes to Jeremiah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, "Please put {the rags}Literally "rags of the rags" and {worn-out clothes}Literally "ragged clothes" under the joints of your arms under the ropes," and Jeremiah did so.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And they pulled Jeremiah by the ropes and brought him up from the pit.Or "cistern" And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Zedekiah the king sent and made someone bring Jeremiah the prophet to him, to the third entrance that was at the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I am asking you {something},Literally "a thing" you must not hide {anything}Literally "a thing" from me."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell you, will you not surely kill me? {Besides},Literally "And" if I advise you, you will not listen to me.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So Zedekiah the king swore to Jeremiah in secret, {saying},Literally "to say" "{As Yahweh lives},Literally "Life of Yahweh" 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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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}Literally "your life" or "your soul" will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But if you do 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.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jeremiah said, "They will not give you over. Please obey the voice of Yahweh with regard to what I am saying to you, and it will go well with you, and {you}Literally "your life" or "your soul" will live.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah are being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, they are saying, 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And all your wives and your children will be 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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 25
c3content:
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 it from us so that we will not kill you. And what did the king say to you?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then you shall say to them, 'I was presenting my plea {before}Literally "to the face of" the king, to not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 27
c3content:
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}Literally "word" was not heard.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And it happened that Jerusalem was captured.Jeremiah 38:28b in the Hebrew Bible is 39:1a in the English Bible 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 2
c3content:
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was taken by assault.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the chief officer, Nergal-sharezer the high official, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" {when}Literally "as that" Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all {the soldiers}Literally "the men of the war" with him, they fled and went out at night from the city by the way of the garden of the king through the gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But the army of the 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 at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced {sentence}Literally "judgments" on him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Chaldeans burned the palaceOr "house" of the king and the housesHebrew "house" of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" deported to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And some of the poor people, {who had nothing},Literally "who there was not for them something" Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" left in the land of Judah. And he gave them vineyards and fields on that day. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah {through}Literally "in the hand of" Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Take him and set your eyes on him. And you must not do something bad to him, {but only}Literally "but if" that which he speaks to you, so do with him."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" sent word, {along with}Literally "and" Nebushazban the chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer the high official, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah at his confinement in the courtyard of the guard, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Go and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I am about to bring my words to pass against this city for evil and not for good. And they will be {before you}Literally "to the face of you" on that day.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But I will rescue you on that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and you will not be given into the hand of the men {of whom you are frightened}.Literally "who you are frightened from the face of them"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" had let him go from Ramah, {where he had been taken}Literally "at his taking him bound in chains in the midst of all the exilesHebrew "exile" of Jerusalem and Judah who were being deported to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" took Jeremiah and said to him, "Yahweh your God threatened this disaster to this place,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and now he has brought it about,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and Yahweh has done {just as}Literally "as that" he threatened. Because you sinned against Yahweh and did not listen to his voice, so this thing has happened to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And so then look, I have released you {today}Literally "the day" from the chains that were on your hands.Hebrew "hand" If it is good in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then come, and {I will take care of you}.Literally "I will place my eye on you" But if it is bad in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then refrain. Look, the whole land is {before you}.Literally "to the face of you" To wherever it is good and right in your eyes to go, then go there."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 5
c3content:
While he still had not turned back, Nebuzaradan added, "Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed in an official position over the towns of Judah, and stay with him in the midst of the people. Or to wherever it is right in your eyes to go, then go there."Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation Then the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" gave him an allowance of provisions and a present, and let him go.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah and stayed with him in the midst of the people who were left in the land. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in an official position in the land, and that {he had put him in charge of}Literally "he had appointed to him" men, and women, and little children, and of the poor of the land, of all those who had not been deported to Babylon,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 8
c3content:
then they went to Gedaliah at 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, {saying},Literally "to say" "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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{As for me},Literally "And I" look, I am staying at Mizpah to represent you {before}Literally "to the face of" the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your towns that you have seized."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when 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, in an official position over them,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 12
c3content:
then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded {in great abundance}.Literally "very numerous" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and said to him, "{Are you at all aware}Literally "know you know" that Baalis, the king of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, {saying},Literally "to say" "Please let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and {nobody}Literally "not a man" 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?"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You must not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, from the offspring of the kingship, and one of the chief officers of the king, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah, {along with}Literally "and" ten men. And they ate bread together there at Mizpah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah got up, {along with}Literally "and" 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 in an official position over the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Ishmael killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, {along with}Literally "and" the Chaldeans who were found there, {the soldiers}.Literally "the men of the war" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" on the second day of the killing of Gedaliah--and {no one}Literally "not a man" knew--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 5
c3content:
then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with shaven beardsHebrew "beard" and torn garments, who had cut themselves with blades, {having}Literally "and" grain offeringsHebrew "grain offering" and frankincense in their handsHebrew "hand" to bring to the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out to meet them from Mizpah, {weeping as he came}.Literally "coming he came and weeping" {And then}Literally "And it was" as he was meeting them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it was" the moment of their coming to the middle of the city, then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, {along with}Literally "and" the men who were with him, slaughteredThe Hebrew verb is singular them and threw them to the middle of the pit.Or "cistern"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But ten men were found among them, and they said to Ishmael, "You must not kill us, for {we have}Literally "there is to us" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now the pitOr "cistern" into which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men whom he had killed {along with}Literally "by the hand of" Gedaliah was the same one that King Asa had made because of Baasha the king of Israel, who was against him. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain ones. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, over whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael took them captive and set out to cross over to the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, heardThe Hebrew verb is singular all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 12
c3content:
then they took all the men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they met him at the great pool that is in Gibeon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it was" the moment that all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, they were glad.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped with eight men {from}Literally "from the face of" Johanan, and they went to the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were 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},Literally "the men of the war" and women, and little children, and eunuchs whom he brought back from Gibeon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And they set out and stayed at the lodging place of Chimham that is near Bethlehem, {intending}Literally "going" to go to Egypt


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 18
c3content:
because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid {of them},Literally "from the face of them" because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in an official position over the land. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then all the commanders of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, approached


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "May our plea please fall {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes are seeing us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. Look, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God according to your words, {and then}Literally "and it will happen" all the wordsHebrew "word" that Yahweh answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then they said to Jeremiah, "May Yahweh be against us as {a true and faithful witness}Literally "a witness of faithfulness and trustworthy" if we do not do according to all the wordsHebrew "word" that Yahweh sends you for us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to cause your plea to fall {before him}:Literally "to the face of him"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 10
c3content:
'If only you will stay in this land, then I will build you and I will not tear you down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck you up, for I relent of the disaster that I have brought to you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 11
c3content:
You must not be afraid {of}Literally "from the face of" the king of Babylon whom you are {afraid of}.Literally "in fear from the presence of him" You must not be afraid of him,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and will restore you to your soil. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But if you are saying, "We will not stay in this land," so as to not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 14
c3content:
saying, "No, for we will go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war, and we will not hear the sound of a horn, and we will not be hungry for bread, and there we will stay,"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 15
c3content:
then {therefore}Literally "to thus" hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "{If you are determined}Literally "If you indeed set your face" to go to Egypt, and you go to dwell as aliens there,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 16
c3content:
then it will be that the sword that you are in fear of will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you are anxious of will pursue after you there into Egypt, and there you will die.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So all the people who {are determined}Literally "have set their faces" to go to 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 am bringing upon them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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 to Egypt, and you will become a curse, and a horror, and a curse formula, and a disgrace, and you will no longer see this place." ' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, 'You must not go to Egypt.' You must certainly know that I have warned you {today}Literally "the day"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 20
c3content:
that {you have made a fatal mistake},Literally "you have caused them to err for your lives" for you sent me to Yahweh your God, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Pray for us to Yahweh our God, and all that Yahweh our God says, so tell us and we will do it.'Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So I have told you {today},Literally "the day" and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of {anything}Literally "all" that he sent me for you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it was" 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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke,The Hebrew verb is singular saying to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You must not go to Egypt to dwell as aliens there.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to kill us and to deport us to Babylon." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies, and all the people did not listenThe Hebrew verb is singular to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies tookThe Hebrew verb is singular all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been scattered to dwell as aliens in the land of Judah--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 6
c3content:
the men, and the women, and the little children, and the daughters of the king, and {everyone}Literally "all of the person" whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the {guard}Hebrew "guards" had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. And they came up to Tahpanhes. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Take in your handsHebrew "hand" large stones and bury them in the mortar in the clay floor that is at the entrance of the palaceOr "house" of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes before the eyes of the peopleOr "men" of the Judeans,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I am 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he will come and ravage the land of Egypt, and deliver those who are appointed for the plague, to the plague, and those who are appointed for the captivity, to the captivity, and those who are appointed for the sword, to the sword.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then he will kindle a fire in the {temples}Literally "houses" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he will break the stone pillars of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt. And he will burn the {temples}Literally "houses" of the gods of Egypt with fire." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"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 are a site of ruins this day, and there is not in them an inhabitant,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{because of}Literally "from the face of" their wickedness that they committed to provoke me to anger by going to make smoke offerings, serving other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, or your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again},Literally "doing early and sending" {saying},Literally "to say" "Please, you must not do this detestable thing that I hate."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But they did not listen and they did not incline their earsHebrew "ear" to turn back from their wickedness, to not make smoke offerings to other gods.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So my wrath and my anger were poured outThe Hebrew verb is singular and burnedThe Hebrew verb is singular in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became as a site of ruins, as a desolation, as they are this day.' 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Why are you doing great harm to {yourselves},Literally "your lives" to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 8
c3content:
provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have 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?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Have you forgotten the wicked things of your ancestors,Or "fathers" 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?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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}Literally "to the face of you" and {before}Literally "to the face of" your ancestors.'Or "fathers" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Look, {I am determined to bring disaster on you},Literally "I am setting my face against you for disaster" even to exterminate all Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I will take away the remnant of Judah {who are determined}Literally "who set their faces" to come to 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 the smallest to the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 to the land of Judah where they are {longing}Literally "lifting up their soul" to return to dwell there, for they will not turn back, {but only}Literally "but if" some survivors.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then all the men who knew that their wives were making smoke offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Concerning the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But certainly we will do {everything}Literally "all the word" that went out from our mouths,Hebrew "mouth" to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors,Or "fathers" our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for then {we had enough to eat},Literally "we satisfied ourselves with food" and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But {since}Literally "from" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And indeed, when we were making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and {pouring out}Literally "to pour out" to her libations, was it not {with the consent of}Literally "from apart from" our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes {marked with her image},Literally "to the copying of her" and we poured out to her libations?" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"The offering that you made, smoke offerings in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your ancestors,Or "fathers" your kings, and your officials, and the people of the land, did not Yahweh remember them, and did it not come to his {mind}?Literally "heart"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh was no longer able to bearOr "endure" it, {because of}Literally "from the face of" the evil of your deeds, {because of}Literally "from the face of" the detestable things that you committed. Thus your land became as a site of ruins, and as a horror, and as a curse, {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitants, as it is this day.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{Because of}Literally "From the face of" the fact 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}Literally "unto thus" this disaster has happened to you, as it is this day." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You and your wives have promised with your mouthsHebrew "mouth" and with your handsHebrew "hand" you have fulfilled, {saying},Literally "to say" "We certainly will carry out our vows that we vowed, to make smoke offerings to the queen of the heavens,Hebrew "heaven" and to pour out to her libations." You must certainly keep your vows and you must certainly carry out your vows.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" 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},"Literally "the life of Lord Yahweh" in all the land of Egypt.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Look, I am going to watch over them for harm and not for good, and all peopleOr "men" of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will perish by the sword and by the famine until their perishing.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah {few in number}.Literally "males of number" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And this will be to you the sign,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, 'that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that surely my words will endure against you for evil.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I am 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.'" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 3
c3content:
'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." '


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Thus you will say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, it is all the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek great things,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation for look, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "but to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go." '" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why do I see them terrified? They are turning back and their warriors are beaten down. And they have fled to a place of refuge and they do not turn back. Terror is from all around," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Egypt rises like the Nile, even like the rivers whose waters surge. And he says, "Let me rise, let me cover the earth, let me destroy cities, and the inhabitants in them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Go up, O horses, and drive madly, O chariots,Hebrew "chariot" and let the warriors go forth; Cush and Put, who wield the small shield, and Lud, who wield and bend the bow.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For that day is to the Lord Yahweh of hosts a day of retribution, to take revenge on his foes. And the sword will devour and be satisfied, and it will drink its fill of their blood, for a sacrifice is for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain}Literally "To the vanity" you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt: 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Memphis and in Tahpanhes, say, 'Take your stand and be prepared, for the sword will devour those all around you.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He multiplied the onesHebrew "one" 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}Literally "from" the {presence}Literally "face" of the sword of the oppressor.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They will call there, 'Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar, {he missed the opportunity}.'Literally "he has allowed to pass over the appointed time"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{As I live},"Literally "Life I" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" the king, Yahweh of hosts is his name, "one will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Pack your baggage for exile, O inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of the daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become as a horror, and it will be destroyed, {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitant.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Even her mercenaries in her midst are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Her sound is like a snake that glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 23
c3content:
They will cut down her forest," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "for {it is impenetrable}.Literally "it cannot be searched out" Yes, they are more numerous than locusts,Hebrew "locust" and {they are without number}.Literally "there is not to them a number"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, said, "Look, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will give them into the hand of the seekers of their lives,Hebrew "life" and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of his troops. But {afterward}Literally "after thus" it will be inhabited, as in days of old," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"But as for you, my servant Jacob, you must not be afraid, and Israel, you must not be dismayed, for look, I am 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 one who makes him afraid.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 28
c3content:
You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "for I am 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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines {before}Literally "at not yet" Pharaoh attacked Gaza.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 3
c3content:
from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots,Hebrew "chariot" the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to their children because of the slackness of their hands.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who could help, for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, {how long}Literally "until when" will you cut yourself with a blade?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Ah, sword of Yahweh, {how long}Literally "until when" will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The glory of Moab is no longer. In Heshbon they planned evil against her. Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. Also, Madmen, you will be silent. After you will go the sword.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For the ascent of Luhith, in weeping they go weeping, For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard the distresses of the cry of distress of the destruction.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, {without}Literally "from there is not" an inhabitant in them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The one who does the work of Yahweh with slackness is cursed, and the one who keeps away blood from his sword is cursed.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}Literally "Unto thus" his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will send to him {decanters},Literally "those who tilt" and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"The disaster of Moab is near to come, and his disaster {approaches very quickly}.Literally "hastens greatly"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, 'How the staff of might is broken, the staff of glory.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Stand by the road and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer. Ask the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping, say, 'What has happened?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell it by Arnon that Moab is devastated.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as}Literally "from enough" you spoke over him you shook your head.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Leave the towns and dwell on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove, it nests on the sides of the mouth of a ravine.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 29
c3content:
We have heard of the pride of Moab --he is very proud-- his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 30
c3content:
I know his insolence," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and his boastings are {false};Literally "not right" they act {falsely}.Literally "not right"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the peopleOr "men" of Kir-heres I moan.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 32
c3content:
More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over the sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the destroyer has fallen.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from the fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And the wine from the wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread with exuberant shouts.Hebrew "exuberant shout" Exuberant shoutsHebrew "Exuberant shout" will not be exuberant shouts.Hebrew "exuberant shout"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 34
c3content:
From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, up to Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And I will cause to disappear for Moab," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the one who presents a sacrifice at a high place, and the one who burns a smoke offering to his gods.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 36
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" my heart moans for Moab like the flute.Hebrew "flutes" It moans for the peopleOr "men" of Kir-heres like the flute.Hebrew "flutes" {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" the wealth they gained has perished.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 37
c3content:
For on every head is baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all the hands, slashes, and on the loins, sackcloth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 38
c3content:
On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, there is wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 39
c3content:
"How it is filled with terror! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding peoples."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Kerioth will be taken, and the strongholds will be conquered, and the heartsHebrew "heart" of the warriors of Moab will be on that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Dread, and pit, and a trapping net are against you, O inhabitant of Moab," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 44
c3content:
"He who flees {before}Literally "from the face of" the dread will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 45
c3content:
"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 skullsHebrew "skull" of the peopleOr "sons" of tumult.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 47
c3content:
Yet I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of Moab in the last of the days," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will sound against Rabbah, the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" the alarm of the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valleysHebrew "valley" are ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, who said, 'Who will come against me?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look, I am going to bring dread on you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Lord Yahweh of hosts, "from all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one {before it},Literally "to the face of it" and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.Hebrew "fugitive"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Yet {afterward}Literally "after thus" I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of the {Ammonites},"Literally "sons of Ammon" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Flee! Turn back! {Get down low}!Literally "make deep to dwell" O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only {enough for them}.Literally "their enough"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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}Literally "and" his brothers, and his neighbors, and {he is no more}.Literally "and not he"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Leave your orphans. I will let themHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation live. And your widows, let them trust in me."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those {who are not condemned}Literally "who there is not their justice" to drink the cup must certainly drink it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For I have sworn by myself," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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}."Literally "sites of ruins of eternity" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"And Edom will become as a horror, {everyone who passes by it}Literally "all who passes by it" will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 18
c3content:
As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," says Yahweh, "{no one}Literally "not a man" will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}.Literally "a pasture of everflowing" So {I will chase him away hurriedly}Literally "I will do in an instant I will chase him away" from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand {before me}?"Literally "to the face of me"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. {Surely}Literally "If not" they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. {Surely}Literally "If not" he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at {the Red Sea}.Hebrew "Sea of Reeds"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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 the heart of a woman who is in labor.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {the soldiers}Literally "the men of the battle" will perish in that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh of hosts.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 29
c3content:
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 is from all around.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Flee! Wander far away! {Get down low}!Literally "Make deep to dwell" O inhabitants of Hazor," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemedOr "planned" a schemeOr "plan" against you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living {securely},"Literally "with confidence" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "There are no gates and there are no barsHebrew "bar" for them, they dwell alone.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side, and from {every side}Literally "all his sides" I will bring their disaster," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 34
c3content:
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},Literally "to say"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 36
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 37
c3content:
So I will shatter Elam {before}Literally "to the face of" their enemies, and {before}Literally "to the face of" the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, {my burning anger},Literally "the blaze of my nose"' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 'And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 39
c3content:
'{And then}Literally "And it will happen" in the last of the days I will restore the fortunesHebrew "fortune" of Elam,' {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet: 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal it. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For a nation will come up against her from the north. It will make her land as a horror, and an inhabitant will not be in her. From humansHebrew "human" to animalsHebrew "animal" they all will wander off. They will go away.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 4
c3content:
In those days and in that time,'" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the peopleOr "sons/children" of Israel will come, they and the peopleOr "sons/children" of Judah together. {Weeping as they go},Literally "They shall go and weeping" they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They will ask the way to Zion, turning their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh by {an everlasting covenant}Literally "a covenant of eternity" that will not be forgotten.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 6
c3content:
My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away to the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All those who found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, 'We are not guilty, {because}Literally "under that" they have sinned against Yahweh, the {true pasture},Literally "settlement of righteousness" even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.'Or "fathers"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans. Go out and be like he-goats {before}Literally "to the face of" the flock.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For look, I am going to stir up, and I am going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from the land of the north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success, he does not return without success.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Chaldea will be as booty, all those who plunder her will be satisfied," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"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,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 12
c3content:
your mother will be very ashamed. She who gave birth to you will be humiliated.Or "ashamed" Look, she will be the least of the nations, a desert,Or "wilderness" dry land, and wilderness.Or "Arabah"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend the bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows,Hebrew "arrow" for she has sinned against Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Raise a war cry against her on all sides. {She has surrendered}.Literally "She has given her hand" Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who uses the sickle in the time of harvest. {Because of}Literally "From the face of" the sword of the oppressor each one will turn to their people, and each one will flee to their land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Israel is a sheep scattered, lions drove them away. The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria, and now at the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan, and on the hillsHebrew "hill" of Ephraim, and in Gilead its hunger will be satisfied.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In those days and at that time," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 21
c3content:
To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and do according to all that I have commanded you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 23
c3content:
How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon. But you yourself did not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 28
c3content:
There is the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the 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, so do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {her soldiers}Literally "her the men of war" will perish on that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 31
c3content:
"Look, I am against you, O arrogant one," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there is no one who raises him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 35
c3content:
A sword against the Chaldeans," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 36
c3content:
A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 37
c3content:
A sword against his horses, and against his chariots,Hebrew "chariot" and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 38
c3content:
A drought will come against her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of images, and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 39
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" desert creatures will live thereHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation with jackals, and daughters of ostrichesHebrew "ostrich" will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again {forever},Literally "to eternity" and she will not be dwelt in {for all generations}.Literally "until generation and generation"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 40
c3content:
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Look, a people is about to come from the north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from the remotest part of the earth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 42
c3content:
They keep hold of bow and short sword. They are cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound is 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 43
c3content:
The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the woman who gives birth.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 44
c3content:
Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicketsHebrew "thicket" of the Jordan against {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream},Literally "a pasture of ever-flowing" so {I will chase them away quickly}Literally "I will do in an instant I will cause them to run" from her, and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her. For who is like me, and who can summon me, and who is this shepherd who can stand {before me}?Literally "to the face of me"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 45
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. {Surely}Literally "If not" they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. {Surely}Literally "If not" he will cause their grazing place to be desolate over them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 46
c3content:
At the sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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 the day of disaster.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of vengeance for Yahweh, he will repay her what is deserved.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Babylon was a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank of her wine. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" the nations acted like madmen.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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 the skies.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; {post a strong watch},Literally "make strong the guard" post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 13
c3content:
O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, {the measure of your life}.Literally "the cubit of your severing"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts,Hebrew "locust" and they will sing over you a war cry."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He is the one who made the earth by his power, the one who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 16
c3content:
At the giving of his voice there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the patches of mist to go up from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 17
c3content:
All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by the divine image. For his cast image is a lie, and there is no breath in them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of {everything},Literally "the all" and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He says, "You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "the one 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 26
c3content:
They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be {an everlasting desolation},"Literally "a desolation of everlasting" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horsesHebrew "horse" like bristling creeping locusts.Hebrew "locust"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitant.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 30
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 31
c3content:
one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, {from end to end}.Literally "from end"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and {the soldiers}Literally "the men of the war" are horrified.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 35
c3content:
"May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, {without}Literally "from there is not" inhabitants.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 39
c3content:
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},Literally "a sleep of eternity" and they will not wake up," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 41
c3content:
How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness,Or "Arabah" a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth {what he has swallowed}.Literally "what has been swallowed by him" And the nations will not stream towards him any longer {what's worse},Literally "also" the wall of Babylon has fallen.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 45
c3content:
Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from {the burning anger of}Literally "the blazing of the nose of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Now {so that you are not fainthearted},Literally "so that your heart is not timid" and you are afraid at the rumorsHebrew "rumor" that are heard in the land-- and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler--


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 47
c3content:
{therefore}Literally "to thus" look, days are 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 50
c3content:
Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your {mind}.Literally "heart"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 51
c3content:
We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts,Hebrew "taunt" disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 52
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "To thus" look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 53
c3content:
Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 55
c3content:
For Yahweh is devastating Babylon, and he obliterates her loud noiseOr "voice" from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voicesHebrew "voice" resounds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 56
c3content:
For a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh is a God of recompense, certainly he will repay.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 57
c3content:
"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},Literally "a sleep of eternity" and they will not wake up," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 59
c3content:
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, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the {quartermaster}.Literally "official of the resting place"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 60
c3content:
And Jeremiah wrote all the disastersHebrew "disaster" that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 61
c3content:
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "At your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 62
c3content:
And you must say, 'Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals,Hebrew "animal" for it will be {an everlasting desolation}.'Literally "a desolation of eternity"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 63
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 64
c3content:
And you must say, 'Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, {because of}Literally "from" the face of the disastersHebrew "disaster" that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.'" {Thus far}Literally "Up to here" the words of Jeremiah. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Zedekiah was {twenty-one years old}Literally "a son of twenty-one year" at his beginning to reign, and he reigned eleven yearsHebrew "year" in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For because of the {anger}Literally "nose" of Yahweh this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until his casting them from his {presence}.Literally "face" And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it was" in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day 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 worksLiterally "siege work" against it all around.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the city was breached, and all {the soldiers}Literally "the men of the battle" fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls that are at the garden of the king, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went in the direction of the Jordan Valley.Or "Arabah"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and {he passed sentence on him}.Literally "he spoke to him judgments"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon. And he put him in {prison}Literally "the house of the watch" until the day of his death. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" who stood {before}Literally "to the face of" the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he burned the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh, and the palaceOr "house" of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" deported some 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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 were used in temple service.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" took 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}Literally "which gold gold" and {those made of solid silver}.Literally "which silver silver"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the {temple}Literally "house" of Yahweh--there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels!


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits,Hebrew "cubit" and a thread of twelve cubitsHebrew "cubit" surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And there were ninety-six pomegranates {on the sides};Literally "breath" all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" took Seraiah {the chief priest},Literally "the priest of the head" and Zephaniah {the second priest},Literally "the priest of the second" and three keepers of the threshold.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over {the soldiers},Literally "the men of the battle" and seven men of {the king's advisors}Literally "those who see the face of the king" 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 menHebrew "man" of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardHebrew "guards" took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 28
c3content:
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 29
c3content:
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two personsHebrew "person" from Jerusalem;


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 30
c3content:
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,Hebrew "guards" deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;Hebrew "person" there were four thousand six hundred personsHebrew "person" in all. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it was" in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from {prison}.Literally "the house of the imprisonment"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seatsHebrew "seat" of the kings who were with him in Babylon.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food {before him}Literally "to the face of him" continually all the days of his life.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon {on a daily basis}Literally "a matter of a day in its day" all the days of his life up to the day of his death. 


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
How desolate the city sits that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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 her distress.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The roads of Zion are mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young women are worried, and she herself suffers bitterly.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Her foes have become her {master},Literally "head" 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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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 the hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Her uncleanness was 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! My enemy has been made great!


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, how I am despised.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}?Literally "all who cross a road" Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow,Or "pain like my pain" which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.Literally "on the day of the blaze of his nose"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
My rebellion was bound as a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck and caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The Lord has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst. He called an assembly against me, to crush my young men; like in a wine press, the Lord has trodden on the virgin daughter of Judah.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For these things, I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears};Literally "my eye my eye is going down with water" because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, that those surrounding himNRSV translates "his neighbors" should be his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled against {his word}.Literally "his mouth" Please hear, all the nations, And see my pain; My young womenOr "virgins" and young men went into captivity.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.Or "their soul"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
See, O Yahweh, that {I am in distress};Literally "there is distress for me" {my stomach}Literally "inner parts" is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house it is like death.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They hear that I was groaning; there is no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring that day that you have proclaimed,Or "you have called" And let them be like me.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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 is faint.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
How, {in his anger},Literally "in his nose" the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens to earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.Literally "his nose"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.Or "her commanders"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He has cut down {in fierce anger}Literally "in a fierce nose" all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from the faces of the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, it has consumed all around.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He has bent his bow like an enemy; he has set his right hand like a foe, and he has slain all the treasures of the eye;NRSV translates "all in whom we took pride" in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his anger like fire.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;Or "her citadel fortresses" he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He has broken down {his dwelling}Literally "his booth"; or "his tabernacle" place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made them forget in Zion {festival}Literally "appointed time" and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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.Or "her citadel fortress" They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured with a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes are among the nations; there is no more law.Hebrew torah Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
My eyes have {spent all their tears};Literally "finished with the weeping" {my stomach}Literally "my inward parts" is in torment, {my heart}Literally "my liver" is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in the public squares of a city.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in the public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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 is as vast as the sea; who can heal you?


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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?"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed her! Surely this is the day we have hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it!"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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}Literally "horn" of your foes.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"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."


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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?


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They lie in the soil of the streets, young and old; my young womenOr "my virgins" and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of {your anger},Literally "your nose" you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger is a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 33
c3content:
He does not {afflict willingly},Literally "afflict from the heart" or grieve {anyone}.Literally "the sons of men"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 35
c3content:
{to deprive one of justice}Literally "to turn aside the judgment of a man" before the face of the Most High;


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 37
c3content:
{Who can speak}Literally "Who is this that speaks" and it will happen if the Lord has not commanded it?


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 43
c3content:
You have covered yourself {in anger}Literally "in the nose" and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 44
c3content:
You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}.Literally "from a passing prayer"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 53
c3content:
{They have silenced me in a pit},Literally "they have put to silence my life in a pit" they have thrown a stone at me.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 58
c3content:
O Lord, you have pleaded for {my cause},Literally "the legal disputes of my soul" you have redeemed my life.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
How the gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; but the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg for food, {no one lays it out before them}.Literally "nothing spreads to them"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie on piles of trash.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now 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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out {his fierce anger};Literally "the fierce anger of his nose" he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed herOr "its" foundations.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The kings of the earth did not believe, and all the inhabitants of the world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"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}."Literally "They will no longer be here as aliens"


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The presence of Yahweh has scattered them, he will no longer watch over them; {they did not honor the priests},Literally "they did not lift up the faces of the priests" they did not show mercy to elders.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Still our eyes failed, looking for our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished},Literally "our days are filled" our end has come.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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."


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The punishment of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; but he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{We pay for water with money},Literally "we drink our water by money" our wood comes to us at a price.


c0book: Lam
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{We risk our life for food}Literally "We take our food at our life" because of the sword of the desert.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst ofOr "among" the exilesHebrew "exile" by the {Kebar River}.Literally "river of Kebar" The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" clearlyOr "certainly" to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans at the {Kebar River},Literally "river of Kebar" and the hand of Yahweh was on him there. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I looked,Or "saw" and look! A storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around and {within it},Literally "for it" and from its midstOr "middle" it was like the outward appearance of amber stone from the midstOr "middle" of the fire.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And from its midstOr "middle" was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: {a human form},Literally "this their appearance the likeness of a human to them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and {each had four faces},Literally "and four faces to each" and {each of them had four wings}.Literally "and four wings to each for them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And their legs were straight legs, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And under their wings were {human hands}Literally "hand his a man" on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows:


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{their wings were touching one another};Literally "their wings were touching each her sister" {each of them went straight forward},Literally "they did not turn at their going" {without turning right or left}.Literally "each toward the side of his face they went"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right {of each of them},Literally "of the four of them" and the face of an ox on the left {of each of them},Literally "of the four of them" and the face of an eagle {for each of them}.Literally "of the four of them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So were their faces; their wings were spread out {upward};Literally "from to above" each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And each {went straight forward};Literally "toward the side of his face they went" {wherever the spirit went}Literally "towards which it was there the spirit" they went, and {they did not turn as they went}.Literally "they did not turn at their going"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
As forOr "And" the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. ItThat is, the fire was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and {the fire was very bright}Literally "brightness was for the fire" and lightning was going out from the fire.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the living creatures {were speeding to and fro}Literally "sped forth and returned" like the appearance of lightning. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earthOr "ground" beside {each of the living creatures that had four faces}.Literally "the living creatures for the four of his/its faces." The LXX has "for the four of them."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like the appearance of beryl,Or "chrysolite," or "topaz"; this stone is difficult to identify exactly and {they all looked alike},Literally "likeness was one for the four of them" and their appearance and their construction was {like a wheel within a wheel}.Literally "as that it was a wheel in the midst of a wheel"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not {veer at all as they went}.Literally "turn away when they went"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And their rims {were high and awesome},Literally "height was for them and awesomeness was for them" and {all four of}Literally "of the four of them" their rims were full of eyes all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them also went, and {when the creatures were lifted from the ground}Literally "and at the lifting up of the creatures from the earth" the wheels also rose.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Wherever}Literally "Toward which" the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creaturesHebrew "creature" was in the wheels.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
At theirThat is, the living creatures going, theyThat is, the wheels go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth,Or "ground" the wheels rose,Or "were lifted up" for the spirit of the living creaturesHebrew "creature" was in the wheels. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
NowOr "And" the likeness above the heads of the living creatures was an expanse like the outward appearance of {awesome}Literally "terrible" {ice}Literally "frozen water" spread out above their heads {upward}.Literally "from to upward"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight {one toward the other};Literally "each towards its sister" each had two wings covering them, and each had two wings covering their bodies.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the voice of Shaddai,Often translated "Almighty" and {when they moved}Literally "at their going" there was a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; {when they stood still}Literally "at their standing" they lowered their wings.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And there wasOr "it was" a sound from above the expanse that was above their heads, {and when they stood}Literally "at their standing" they lowered their wings.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And from above the expanse that was above their heads there was the likeness of a throne, {looking like a sapphire},Literally "the appearance of a stone of sapphire" and above the likeness of the throne was a likeness similar toOr "like" the appearance of a human on it, but {above it}.Literally "from to above"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And I saw something like the outward appearance of amber, something like the appearance of fire, with a covering around it, from the likeness of his loins and {upward}.Literally "to above" And from the likeness of his loins and {downward}Literally "to down" I saw something like the appearance of fire, and {it was radiant all around}.Literally "brightness was for it around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Like the appearanceOr "likeness" of a bow that is in the cloud on {a rainy day},Literally "the day of the rain" such was the radianceOr "brightness" around it; thus was 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. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the SpiritOr "a spirit" came into me as he was speaking to me, and it set me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" I am sending you to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" to nationsOr "a people" who are rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors,Hebrew "fathers" they transgressed against me {until this very day}.Literally "until the day the this"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the childrenOr "sons" are {impudent}Literally "hard of face" and {stubborn},Literally "strong of heart" and so I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they, whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, becauseOr "although" briers and thorns are with you, and you are sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their {looks},Literally "faces" for they are a rebellious house.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are rebellious.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" hear what I am speaking to you: you must not be rebellious like the house of rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving to you."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I looked,Or "saw" and look! There was a hand stretched out to me, and look! In it was {a scroll with writing}.Literally "a scroll of a book"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he rolled it outOr "he spread it out" {before me},Literally "to the face of me" and it was written on the front and back, and there were written on it laments and mourning and wailing.Or "woe" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" what you find, eat! Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" you must give your stomach this to eat, and you must fill your belly with this scroll that I am giving to you." And I ate, and it became {like sweet honey}Literally "like honey for sweetness" in my mouth.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" come! Go to the house of Israel, and you must speak to them with my words.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people {of obscure speech}Literally "obscure of lip" and {of a difficult language},Literally "heavy/thick of tongue"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and not to many nations {of obscure speech}Literally "obscure of tongue" and {a difficult language}Literally "heavy/thick of tongue" {whose words}Literally "their words" you do not understand, for if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they are hard of heart.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But look, I have madeOr "set" your face hard {against}Literally "to correspond to" their faces and your forehead hard {against}Literally "to correspond to" their forehead.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Like a diamond {harder than flint}Literally "hard more than flint" I have made your forehead; you must not fear them, and you must not be dismayed {on account of them},Literally "from the face of them" for they {are a rebellious house}.Literally "are a house of rebellion"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" all of my words that I shall speak to you, receive intoHebrew "in" your heart and hear with your ears.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And come, go to the exiles,Hebrew "exile" to the childrenOr "sons" of your people, and you must speak to them, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' whether they listen or whether they fail to listen."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake when the glory of Yahweh rose from its place.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching lightlyOr "brushing against" {one against the other},Literally "each against each its sister and the sound of the wheels beside them and the sound of a great earthquake.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the Spirit lifted me and took me, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I went to the exilesHebrew "exile" at Tel Abib, who were dwelling near the {Kebar River},Literally "river of Kebar" and I sat where they were dwelling. I sat there seven days in the midst of them, stunned.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And then it happenedOr "was" at the end of seven days, {the word of Yahweh came}Literally "and it was the word of Yahweh to me to say saying" to me, saying,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" I have appointed you as a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{When I say}Literally "at/in my saying" to the wicked, 'Surely you will die,' and you do not warn him and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way {so that he may live},Literally "so that you let him live" that wicked person will die because of his guilt, and from your hand I will seek his blood.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you, if you do warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, on account of his guilt he will die, and you yourself will have saved your life.Or "soul," or "self"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And {when the righteous turns from his righteousness}Literally "and at the to turn of the righteous from his righteousness" and does injustice, and I placeOr "give" a stumbling block {before him},Literally "to the face of him" he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousnessOr "righteous deeds" that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And if you warn him, the righteous, not to sin, and the righteous does not sin, surely he will live, for he heeded a warning. And you will have saved your life."Or "soul," or "self" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the hand of Yahweh was on me there, and he said to me, "Rise up, go out to the valley, and there I will speak with you."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I rose up, and I went to the valley, and, look, there the glory of Yahweh was standing, like the glory that I saw near the {Kebar River},Literally "river of Kebar" and I fell on my face.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the SpiritOr "a spirit" came into me, and it made me stand on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, "Come, shut yourself {inside your house},Literally "in the midst of your house"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
and you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" look, they will placeOr "give" cords on you, and they will tie you up with them. Then you will not go out into the midst of them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silenced, and you will not be a reproving man for them, for they {are a rebellious house}.Literally "a house of rebellion"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The one hearing him, let him hear, and the one failing to hear, let him fail," ' for they {are a rebellious house}.Literally "a house of rebellion" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Now,Or "And" son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" take for yourself a brick, and you must put it {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and you must portray on it a city, Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And you must build against it siege works, and you must build against it a bulwark, and you must heap against it a siege ramp, and you must set up against it camps and put against it a battering ram all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And take for yourself a plate of iron, and you must place it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and you must set your face against it, and it must be {under siege},Literally "in the siege" and you must lay the siege against it; it is a sign for the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And you, lie down on your left side, and you must putOr "you will put" the guilt of the house of Israel on it. You will carry their guilt the number of days that you will lie on it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I will give to you the years of their guilt according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days, and you must bear the guiltOr "punishment" of the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When you have completed these, then you must lie a second time on your right side; and you must bear the guiltOr "punishment" of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year, a day for each year I give it to you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And toward the siege of Jerusalem you must set your face and your bared arm; then you must prophesy against it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
NowOr "and" look! I will put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from one side to your other side until you complete the days of your siege. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"And you, take for yourselfHebrew "you" wheat and barley and beans and lentils and milletOr "sorghum" and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourselfHebrew "you" into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And your food that you will eatHebrew "will eat it" will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times}Literally "from time to time" you shall eat it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And {an amount of water}Literally "water by amount" you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times}Literally "from time to time" you shall drink it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement}Literally "with human dung of the excrement of the human" you shall bake it before their eyes."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "Thus shall the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" eat their unclean food among the nations {where I will scatter them}."Literally "which I will scatter them there"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and {unclean meat}Literally "flesh of unclean meat" has not come into my mouth!"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he said to me, "See I will give you {cattle manure}Literally "the manure of cattle" in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" look, I am going to break the {supply}Literally "staff" of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously},Literally "and with worry" and {rationed water},Literally "and water by amount" and they will drink with horror,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled {with one another},Literally "a man and his brother" and they will waste away because of their guilt.Or "punishment" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" take for yourselfHebrew "you" a sword, sharp as {a barber's razor}.Literally "the razor of the barbers" Take it for yourself, and you must cause it to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them.That is, the hairs


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
A third you must burn with fire in the midstOr "middle" of the city at {the completion}Literally "the completing" of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike it with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And from them again you shall take some, and you must throw them in the middle of the fire, and you must burn them with fire; from it a fire will go out to all of the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations where I have put her, and countries are around her.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they rejected my regulations, and as for my statutes, they did not walk in them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of your commotion more than the nations that are around you--you did not walk in my statutes, and you did not do my regulations, and according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you did not do.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look! I, {even I},Literally "surely I" am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you before the eyes of the nations,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and I will do with you that which I have not done, and which I will not do again, because of all of your detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ThereforeLiterally "to thus" parentsOr "fathers" will eat childrenOr "sons" in the midst of you, and childrenOr "sons" will eat their parents,Or "fathers" and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore {as surely as I live},Literally "alive I am" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, {Surely}Literally "If not" because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I}Literally "and also I" will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw the sword behind them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion {when I fully vent my rage against them}.Literally "at my finishing my anger against them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of {every one who passes by}.Literally "every one of passing by"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And it will beOr "and you will be" an object of tauntingHebrew "taunt" and an object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send in order to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break {the supply of food}Literally "staff of bread" for you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I will send against you famine and fierce animals,Hebrew "animal" and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face to the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you must say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys: "Look, I am bringing upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones {before}Literally "to the face of" your idols,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and I will placeOr "give" the corpses of the children of Israel {before}Literally "to the face of" their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ButOr "And" I will spare some, {so there will be}Literally "at their being" for you fugitives from the sword among the nations {when you are scattered}Literally "at you to be scattered" in the countries.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And your fugitives will remember me among the nations to which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart}Literally "heart their which was prostituting itself" which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes}Literally "eyes their which were prostituting" which went after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves},Literally "for their face" for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they will know that I am Yahweh; not {in vain}Literally "to nothing" I spoke to bring to them this evil." '


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Clap your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas, for all of the detestable things of the evil of the house of Israel, {because of which}Literally "which" they will fall with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The one who is far away will die by the plague, and the one who is near will fall by the sword, and the one who is being left behind and being spared will die by the famine, and I will complete my rage onOr "toward" them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you will know that I am Yahweh {when their slain ones are in the midst of their idols}Literally "in the being of their slain ones in the midst of their idols" around their altars at every high hill, on the tops of all the mountains and under every green tree and under every leafy oak--the place at which they gave a pleasing scent for all of their idols.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland from the desert to Riblah in all of their dwellings, and they will know that I am Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel: 'The end comes, the end on the four corners of the land.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Doom is coming against you, the dwellerOr "inhabitant" of the land; the time comes, the day is near, panic and not joy is on the mountains.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Soon}Literally "now from near" I will pour out my rage on you, and I will fully vent my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all of your detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will {deal with you},Literally "on you I will bring" and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh who strikes.Or "smites"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Violence has grown to become a staff of wickedness; {none}Literally "not any" from them will remain, and {none}Literally "not any" from their abundance nor from their wealth;Or "noise," or "multitude"; the same word appears in each of the next three verses and prominence will not be among them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For the seller will not return to the merchandise {while they are still alive},Literally "while still is in the life, their life" for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare {everything},Literally "the all" but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The sword {is outside},Literally "is in the outside place" and the plague and the famine {are inside};Literally "are from the house the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
All of the hands will hang limp, and all of {the knees will be wet with urine}.Literally "the knees will flow with water"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their {hunger}Literally "selves," or "desire" and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be theirHebrew "the" stumbling block. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
" 'And the beauty of itsOr "their" ornament {he made into a prideful thing}Literally "to a prideful thing he made it" and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Make a chain for the land; it is full of {bloody crimes}Literally "the judgment of blood" and the city is full of violence.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses, and I will put to an end the pride of the mighty ones, and their sanctuaries will be defiled.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The king will mourn, and the prince will be dressed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will do toOr "deal with" them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it happened" in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting {before me}.Literally "to the face of me" And the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell on me there,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and I saw,Or "looked" and look! A figure like the appearance of a man;Hebrew "fire"; but reading the BHS note 2b, "a man." from the appearance of his waist and below was fire, and from his waist and {upward}Literally "to above" was like the appearance of brightness,Or "shining metal" like the {outward appearance of}Literally "eye" amber.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he sent out the form of a hand, and he took me by a lock of hair of my head, and the Spirit lifted me between earth and heaven, and it brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God to the doorway of the inner gate {that faced north},Literally "the one facing north" at which there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which was making jealous.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" lift up nowParticle of entreaty, "please/ please now" your eyes {toward the north}."Literally "to the way of the north" And I lifted up my eyes {toward the north},Literally "to the way of the north" and, look, there was to the north of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy at the entrance.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" "{Do you see}Literally "Are you seeing?" what they are doing--great detestable things that the house of Israel is committingOr "doing" here so as to drive me fromHebrew "from upon" my sanctuary, and yet {you will see again}Literally "you will return you will see" greaterOr "worse" detestable things."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" dig nowOr "please" through the wall." And I dug through the wall, and look! There was a doorway.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to me, "Come and see the detestable things, the evil that they are doingOr "making" here.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I came, and I saw, and look, all kinds of creaturesHebrew "creature" and detestable beasts;Hebrew "beast" and all of the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall {all around}.Literally "around around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing {before them}.Literally "to the face of them" Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for they are saying, 'Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he said to me, "Still {you will see again}Literally "you will return, you will see" greater detestable things that they are doing."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he brought me to the doorway of the gate of the house of Yahweh that is toward the north, and look! There were the women sitting weeping for Tammuz.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man?Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" Still {you will see again}Literally "you will return, you will see" greater detestable things than these."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, at the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down toward the east before the sun.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man?Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" {Was it too small a thing}Literally "was it too little" for the house of Judah {to do}Literally "from doing" the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land with violence, and {they provoked me to anger again},Literally "they returned to provoke me to anger" and look! They are putting the branch to their nose.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear with a loud voice, and I will not hear them." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he called in my ears with a loud voice, {saying},Literally "to say" "They have come near,Or "Come near" (imperative) the punishers of the city, and each with his weapon of destruction in his hand.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And look! Six men coming from the way of {the upper gate}Literally "the gate of the upper" that faced {northward},Literally "faced north + directive" and each with his weapon forOr "of" shattering in his hand; and one man was in the midst of them, dressed in linen, and theOr "his" writing case of the scribe was at his side. And they came and stood beside the bronze altar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the glory of the God of Israel lifted itself up from upon the cherub that he was onHebrew "which he was on it" and went to the threshold of the house,That is, the temple and he called to the man who was clothed in linen {with a scribal writing case at his side}.Literally "whom a writing case of a scribe was at his side"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men {who are groaning and lamenting}Literally "the men the groaning and the lamenting" about all of the detestable things {that are being done}Literally "the being done" in the midst of her."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And to the others he said in my hearing, "Go through the city behind him and kill! Your eyes shall not take pity, and you shall not have compassion.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You must kill {totally}Literally "to destruction" old man, young man and young woman, and little children and women, but {concerning}Literally "upon" every man {with the mark on him}Literally "which is on him the mark" you must not approach; and from my sanctuary you must begin." And they began with the old men who {were before}Literally "were to the face of" the house.That is, the temple


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said to them, "Defile the houseOr "temple" and fill the courtyards with the dead; go out! And they went out, and they killed in the city.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it was" {as they were striking},Literally "in their striking" and I was left behind, I fell on my face, and I cried out, and I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! "Will you be destroying all of the remnant of Israel {while you pour out your rage}Literally "when pouring out your rage" on Jerusalem?"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is {exceedingly}Literally "with very very" great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.Literally "not Yahweh is seeing


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I, my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion; their way I will bring on their head."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And look! The man clothed in linen and {with a writing case at his side}Literally "which/whom the writing-case was at his side" was bringing back a word, {saying},Literally "to say" "I have done all that you commanded me." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And I looked, and look! On the expanse that was above the head of the cherubim something like a stone of sapphire,Or "lapis lazuli" and like the appearance of the shape of a throne it appeared above them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he spokeOr "said" to the man clothed in linen and said, "Go {in among the wheel area under the cherubim}Literally "to between to the wheel to under the cherub" and fill the hollow of your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and toss them on the city." And he went right before my eyes.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
NowOr "And" the cherubim were standing on the south of the temple {when the man went},Literally "at his coming the man" and the cloud filled the inner courtyard.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the glory of Yahweh rose up from on the cherub towardOr "onto" the threshold of the house,Or "temple" and the houseOr "temple" was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard {as far as}Literally "up to" the outer courtyard; it was like the voice of God ShaddaiOften translated "Almighty" {when he speaks}.Literally "in his speaking" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And then at his commandOr "when he commanded" to the man clothed in linen, {saying},Literally "to say" "Take fire from among the wheel area from among the cherubim," he went and stood beside the wheel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the cherub stretched out his hand from amongOr "between" the cherubim toward the fire that was amongOr "between" the cherubim, and he lifted up and gaveOr "placed" it into the hollow of the hand of the man clothed with linen, and he took it, and he went out. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And there appeared forLiterally "to" the cherubim the form of {a human hand}Literally "a hand of a man" under their wings.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I saw, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, {one wheel beside each cherub},Literally "wheel one beside the cherub one, and wheel one beside the cherub one" and the appearance of the wheels was like the outward appearance of {turquoise stone}.Literally "stone of turquoise"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Their appearanceThat is, of the wheels {was the same for each of the four of them},Literally "likeness one was for the four of them" as if the wheel was in the midst of a wheel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{When they went}Literally "In their going" to the four of their directions that they went, they did not change direction {when they went},Literally "At their going" for the place to which the headOr "first" or "lead wheel" turned, they went behind him; they did not change direction at their going.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And {their whole body},Literally "the whole of their body" and their rims, and their spokes, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around--{the wheels for the four of them}.Literally "for the four of them their wheels"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And {each one had four faces};Literally "four faces were to each" the face of the one was the face of a cherub, and the face of the second was the face of a human, and the face of the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creaturesHebrew "creature" that I saw at the {Kebar River}.Literally "river of Kebar"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And {when the cherubim went},Literally "at the going of the cherubim" the wheels beside them went; and {when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth},Literally "and at the lifting of the cherubim wings their to rise from on the earth" the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{When they stood},Literally "at their standing" they stood, and at their rising, they rose with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the glory of Yahweh went out fromHebrew "from on" the threshold of the temple, and it stood above the cherubim.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they rose from the earth before my eyes. At their going out, the wheels wereHebrew "to" beside them. And he stood at the doorway of the eastern gate of the templeOr "house" of Yahweh, and the glory of the God of Israel {was over them}.Literally "on them from to above" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
This wasOr "these were" the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel at the {Kebar River},Literally "river of Kebar" and I knew that they were cherubim.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Each one had four faces},Literally "four faces were for one/each" and there were four wings for each, and the likeness of {human hands}Literally "hands of a man" was under their wings.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I saw at the {Kebar River};Litearlly "river of Kebar" thus was their appearance, and they each went {straight ahead}.Literally "to the opposite of face his" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to the eastern gate, the one facing east, of the templeOr "house" of Yahweh. And look, there were twenty-five men in the doorway of the gate, and I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur in the midst of them, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the commanders of the people.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" these are the men {who devise mischief},Literally "the ones devising mischief" and who are offering bad counsel in this city,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them,Hebrew "it" the thoughts of your spirit.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones." 'Hebrew "slain one"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Your slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and IHebrew "he" will bring you out from its midst.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would beOr "will be" in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And you will know that I am Yahweh, whoseHebrew "which" rules you did not follow, and whoseHebrew "my" regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted." 'Or "did" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened that {as I was prophesying},Literally "at my prophesying" Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, {who said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem},Literally "which they said concerning them the inhabitants of Jerusalem" 'They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries {to which they have gone}.'"Literally "which they came there"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will giveOr "put" in their inner parts. And I will remove theirHebrew "the" heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But toOr "and to" the heart of their abominations and the detestable things their heart is going. I will bring their way on their head," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ThenOr "And" the cherubim lifted up their wings, and theirOr "the" wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel {was over them}.Literally "from to above"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and it stood still on the mountain that is to the east of the city.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to Chaldea, to the exiles,Hebrew "exile" in the vision by the spirit of God; and the vision that I had seen {left me}.Literally "went up from being upon me"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" you are dwelling in the midst of the house of rebellion {who has eyes to see and they do not see};Literally "which eyes are for them to see and not they see" {they have ears to hear},Literally "ears are for them to hear" and they do not hear, for they are a house of rebellion.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prepare for yourselfHebrew "you" the baggage of an exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you must go intoHebrew "in" exile from your place to another place before their eyes; perhaps they will see that they are a house of rebellion.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And you must bring out your baggage like the baggage of an exile by day before their eyes, and you must go out in the evening before their eyes like {those who go into exile}.Literally "like the goers out of an exile"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Before their eyes dig through for yourself,Hebrew "you" through the wall, and you must bring the baggage out through it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Before their eyes, on yourLiterally "the" shoulder, you must lift up the baggage in the dusk, and your face you must cover, so that you may not see the land, for I make you as a sign to the house of Israel."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I did {just as}Literally "so as that" I was commanded; my baggage, like the baggage of an exile, I brought out by day, and in the evening I dug through for myselfHebrew "me" intoHebrew "in" the wall with my hand in the dusk; I brought the baggage on my shoulder; I carried it before their eyes.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" did not they, the house of Israel, the house of rebellion, say to you, 'What are you doing?'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "This oracle is about the prince in Jerusalem and {the entire}Literally "all of" house of Israel {who are among them}." 'Literally "which they are in the midst of them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Say, 'I am your sign, and {just as}Literally "as that" I did, so will it be done to them in the exile; intoHebrew "in" captivity they will go.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the prince who is in the midst of them, on his shoulder he will carry the baggage in the dusk, andOr "in the dusk he will go out" he will go out; {the wall will be dug through}Literally "through the wall they will dig" to bring him through it; and he will cover his face so that he willOr "may" not see the land with hisHebrew "the" eye.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I will spread out my net on him, and he will be captured in my hunting snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And all who are around him, his helpOr "support" and all of his troops I will scatter {in every direction},Literally "to every direction of the wind" and I will drawOr "unsheathe" the sword behind them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they will know that I am Yahweh {when I scatter them}Literally "at my scattering them" among the nations and I scatter them in the countries.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
ButOr "And" I will spare from them {a few men}Literally "men of number" from the sword, from the famine and from the plague, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they will go, and they will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you must say to the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the inhabitants of Jerusalem about the land of Israel: "They will eat their food with anxiety and their water they will drink with horror, because their land will be desolate fromOr "of" its fullness because of all the violence of {those who are dwelling in it}.Literally "the ones dwelling in it"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And {the inhabited cites will be desolate},Literally "the being inhabited cities they will be desolate" and the land will be a desolation, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" what is this proverb {you people have}Literally "to you" about the land of Israel, {saying},Literally "to you" '{The days are prolonged},Literally "they are long the days" and every vision has come to nothing.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "I will put an end to this proverb, and they will not quote it as a proverb again in Israel." ' ButHebrew "But if" say to them, 'The days are near, and also the word of every vision.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 24
c3content:
For there will not be any longer {any false vision}Literally "every vision of falseness" or flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
For I, Yahweh, I will speak what I will speak as a word, and it will be done. It will not prolong itself any longer, for in your days, house of rebellion, I will speak a word and I will fulfill it!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" look! The house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he is seeing is for many days from now, and for distant times he is prophesying.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "None of my words will be prolonged any longer that I speak as a word, and it will be fulfilled!" '" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy toOr "against" the prophets of Israel {who are prophesying},Literally "the ones prophesying" and you must say to those who are prophets out of their own {imagination},Literally "heart" 'Hear the word of Yahweh!'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Alas, for the foolish prophets who are going after their own spirit, {and they did not see anything}!Literally "and not they saw"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You did not go up intoHebrew "in" the breaches and repair a wall for the house of Israel to stand firm in the battle on the day of Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They saw falseness and {a lying divination},Literally "a divination of a lie" the ones saying, 'Declaration of Yahweh!' and Yahweh did not send them, and they wait {for the confirmation of their word}.Literally "to confirm a word"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Have you not seen {a false vision}Literally "vision of falseness" and spoken a {lying divination},Literally "divination of a lie" and you said, 'Declaration of Yahweh!' but {I myself did not speak}.Literally "I not I spoke"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because of your speaking falseness and because you envisioned a lie, therefore, look! I am against you!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"And it will be my hand against the prophets who are seeing falseness and who are practicing lying divination. They will not be in the council of my people, and they will not be written down in the record book of the house of Israel, and intoHebrew "in" the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Because, yes, because they led my people astray, {saying}Literally "to say" 'Peace!' And there is not peace. And when anyoneHebrew "he" builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it with whitewash.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Say to those covering it with whitewash that it will fall; there will be {a torrent of rain},Literally "rain flooding" and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! Or "and I will give great hailstones. They will fall" And a {windstorm}Literally "wind of a storm"; or "with respect/concerning you stones of hail, they will fall" will burst forth!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And look! When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'And so I will let burst forth a {windstorm}Literally "a wind of storm" in my rage, and {there will be a torrent of rain}Literally "rain flooding there will be" in my anger, and hailstones in my rage {for complete destruction}.Literally "to complete destruction"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will break down the wall that you covered with whitewash, and I will knock it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and you will come to an end in the midst of it, and you will know that I am Yahweh!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I will fully vent my rage against the wall and against those covering it with whitewash, and I will say to you, "{The wall is no more},Literally "not is the wall" and {the people covering it are no more},Literally "not are the people whitewashing him"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
that is, the prophets of Israel, the ones prophesying concerning Jerusalem and the ones seeing visions of peace, and there is not peace!'" " {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" place your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their {imagination},Literally "heart" and prophesy against them!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to {those who sew}Literally "the sewers of" magic charm bands on all the wristsOr "joints" of the hands of my people and {those who make the veils}Literally "the makers of the veils" that are on the head of people of every height, to ensnare people's lives!Or "souls" Will you ensnare the livesOr "souls" of my people {and keep yourselves alive}?Literally "and lives/souls for you, you keep alive"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you defiled me among my people for a handful of barley and for morsels of bread to kill persons who should not die and to keep alive persons who should not live by means of your lies to my people who are listening to your lies." 'Hebrew "lie"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am against your magic charm bands {with which you are ensnaring persons}Literally "which you are ensnaring with them the souls/individuals" as birds; I will tear them from your arms, and I will release the persons that you are ensnaring, treating persons as birds.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I will tear off your veils, and I will deliver my people from your hand, and they will not any longer be in your hand as prey, and you will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Because you disheartened the heart of the righteous by deception, and I have notOr "did not" caused him pain, and strengthened the hands of the wicked so that he did not turnOr "not to turn" from his wicked way to save his life.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Therefore falsenessOr "vanity" or "vain/false visions" you will not see,Or "observe" and divination you will not practiceOr "you will indeed not practice divination" any longer, and I will rescue my people from your hand, and you will know that I am Yahweh!'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And men from the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat {before me}.Literally "to the face of me"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" these men took up their idols into their heart and {they placed before themselves}Literally "they gave before their faces" a stumbling block of their guilt.Or "iniquity" {Should I really let myself be consulted by them}?Literally "Surely I will let me be consulted by them?"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Therefore speak with them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every person from the house of Israel who brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself}Literally "they gave before their faces" a stumbling block of his guiltOr "iniquity" and yet he comes to the prophet, I Yahweh, I will respond to him through this actHebrew "it" with respect to the multitudeAccording to the Kethib; the Qere reads "I will respond to him, he who comes with the multitude of his idols" of his idols,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their heart, those who are estranged from me, all of them, through their idols.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Return,Or "Repent" and turn away from your idols and from all of your detestable things! Turn away your faces!" '


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For {each person}Literally "a man, a man" or "each one, each one" from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself {from following me}Literally "from behind me" and brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself}Literally "he puts beside his face" a stumbling block of his guiltOr "iniquity", and yet he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answerOr "am answering" him myself.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will set my face against that person, and I will make him toOr "as" be a sign and make him intoHebrew "to" the subject of proverbs; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the prophet, if he is deceived and he speaks a word, I Yahweh, I have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they will bear their guilt, likeOr "as" the guilt of the inquirer soOr "like" the guilt of the prophet will be,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
so that the house of Israel will not go astray again {from me},Literally "from behind me" and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" when a land sins against me by {acting very unfaithfully},Literally "acting unfaithfully doing infidelity" then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it the {supply of food},Literally "staff of bread" and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, both human and animal.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And if even the three of these men were in the midst of it--Noah, Daniel, and Job--they, through their righteousness, would save only {themselves}!"Literally "their souls" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"If a fierce animal I should let cross through the land, and it should make it childless and it will be a desolation, so that there will not be one crossing over the land {due to}Literally "from the face of" the presence of the animal,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
even if these three men were in the midst of it, {as surely as I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "surely they will not save sons and daughters; {they themselves alone},Literally "they to alone them" they will be saved, but the land will be a desolation.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Or, if I bring a sword over that land, and I say, 'Sword, let it cross over intoHebrew "in" the land!' And I will cut off from it both human and animal.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And if these three men were in the midst of it, {as surely as I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "they will not save sons and daughters, but {they alone}Literally "they to alone them" will be saved.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And if I were to send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, both human and animal,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of her, {as surely as I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "surely not a son, surely not a daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save {themselves}."Literally "their souls"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments--the evil sword, and famine, and a fierce animal, and a plague--to Jerusalem to cut it off, both human and animal!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ButOr "And" look! A remnant will be left over in it, sons and daughters {who will be brought out}.Literally "the ones being brought out" Look! They are coming out to you, and you will see their way, and with their deeds you will be consoled with respect toHebrew "for" the evil that I brought over Jerusalem, all of it that I brought overOr "upon" it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And they will console you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that not for nothing I did all that I did in it," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man, how will the wood of the vine be {better than}Literally "more than" {any of the wood of}Literally "all of the wood of" the branch which is among the trees of the forest?Or "wood"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can they take a tent peg from it to hang on it any object?Or "vessel"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Look! It is given to the fire as fuel. The fire will consume two of its ends, and its middle will be charred. Is it useful for anything?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look! {When it is in perfect condition},Literally "In being it perfect" it will not be used for anything, {how much less}Literally "indeed" {when the fire has consumed it}Literally "for if fire has consumed it" and it is charred; and then can it be used again for anything?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: {Just like}Literally "As that" the wood of the vine among the trees of the forestOr "wood" which I gave to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will set my face against them. From the fire they may{escape},Literally "go out" but the fire will yet consume them, and they will know that I am Yahweh {when I set my face against them}.Literally "in to set me my face against them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will make the land a desolation because {they acted very unfaithfully}!"Literally "they displayed infidelity" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were from the land of the Canaanites,Hebrew "Canaanite" your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And as for your birth, {on the day you were born}Literally "on the day of being born you" your umbilical cord was not cut, and {you were not thoroughly washed clean with water},Literally "with water not you were cleansed for cleansing" and {you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt},Literally "being rubbed with salt you were not rubbed with salt" and {you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth}.Literally "being wrapped in strips of cloth not you were wrapped in strips of cloth"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{No eye took pity on you}Literally "not took pity on you an eye" to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown {into the open field}Literally "to the face of the field" in their despising of you {on the day you were born}.Literally "on the day of being born you" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
" 'And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Grow up;Or "A myriad I have made you" I will make you like a plant of the field." And you grew up, and you became tall and {reached full womanhood}.Literally "ornament of ornaments" Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
" 'And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, {your time of lovemaking had come},Literally "your time was the time of lovemaking" and so I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered intoHebrew "in" a covenant with you,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, 'and {you became mine}.Literally "and you were to me"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I clothed you with beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals on you of fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you with costly fabric.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I adorned you with ornaments,Hebrew "ornament" and I put a bracelet on your arms and a necklace on your neck.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I put an ornamental ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a {beautiful crown}Literally "a crown of splendor" on your head.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and costly fabric and beautiful finished cloth; you ate finely milled flour and honey and olive oil, and you became exceedingly beautiful; {you were fit to be a queen}.Literally "you could succeed to queenship"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And a name went out for you among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my majesty that I bestowed on you,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
'And you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted on account of your name, and you poured out your fornication on every one passing by, saying, "Let it be his."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorfulOr "gaudy" shrines, and you prostituted on them; {this had not happened before},Literally "Not were happening" and it {will not continue to happen}.Literally "and not it will be"; Hebrew text unclear


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And you took {your beautiful jewelry}Literally "the jewelry of splendor" made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself {male images},Literally "images of a male" and you prostituted with them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you took the clothes of your beautiful finished cloth, and you covered them and my oil and my incense you set {before them}.Literally "to the face of them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, then you set it {before them}Literally "to the face of them" as a {pleasing odor},Literally "a scent of an incense" and so it was,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 20
c3content:
'And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten,Or "consumed" {as if your whorings were not enough}.Literally "it was too little from your whorings"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them {to be sacrificed to them}.Literally "to cause them to cross over to them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And in all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood {when you were naked and bare},Literally "at your being naked and bare" when you were kicking about in your blood. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 23
c3content:
" 'And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 24
c3content:
'And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 25
c3content:
At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And you prostituted with the {Egyptians},Literally "sons/children of Egypt" your neighbors {who were sexually aroused},Literally "those being great of flesh" and you increased your fornication to provoke me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you intoHebrew "in" the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd {conduct}.Literally "your way of life"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And you prostituted with the {Assyrians}Literally "sons/children of Assyria" on account of {your insatiable lust},Literally "of no your satisfaction" and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And you increased your fornication to the land of traders,Hebrew "trader" to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 30
c3content:
How hot with fever was your heart!' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. '{When you did}Literally "at/in you to do" all of these actions {of a headstrong female prostitute},Literally "deeds of a woman prostituting domineering"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{when you built}Literally "at/in building your" your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yetHebrew "and" you wereAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot's wages.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 33
c3content:
To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; {no one solicited you as a prostitute}.Literally "and after you not he solicited a prostitute" {You gave}Literally "And at your giving" a harlot's wages, and a harlot's wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of the pouring out of your shame and because your nakedness was revealed in your whoring with your lovers, and on account of all of the idols of your detestable things, and according to the blood of your children whom you gave to them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 37
c3content:
therefore, look! I am gathering all of your lovers {whom you were pleased about},Literally "whom you were pleased about them" and all of whom you loved in addition to all of whom you hated, and I will gather them against you from {everywhere},Literally "all around" and I will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all of your nakedness.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And I will judge you with the judgment of women committing adultery and shedding blood, and I will give you the blood of rage and jealousy.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And I will give you into their hand, and they will demolish your mound, and they will break down your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take {your beautiful jewelry},Literally "the objects of your splendor" and they will leave you naked and bare.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And they will bring up against you a crowd, and they will stone you with stones,Hebrew "stone" and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will execute against you judgments {before}Literally "to the eyes of" many women, and I will stop you from prostitution, and also a harlot's wages you will not giveOr "pay" again.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And I will satisfy my rage on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be calm, and I will not be angry any longer.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 43
c3content:
{Because}Literally "because that" you did not rememberAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) with BHS the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, 'and didAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS you not do wickednessLiterally "the wickedness" in addition to all of your detestable things?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 44
c3content:
Look! Everyone quoting a proverbLiterally "proverbing a proverb" against you, he will quote, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Like her mother is her daughter!'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 45
c3content:
You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And you have not only gone in their ways, butOr "and" you also did according to their detestable things. {In such a short time}Literally "as few little and" you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 48
c3content:
{As surely as I live},'Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, 'surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do asHebrew "as that" you and your daughters did.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and {prosperous ease}Literally "and ease of granting relief" was to her and to her daughters, and {she did not sustain the needy and the poor}.Literally "And the hand of the needy and the poor not she did take hold of"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 50
c3content:
And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing {before me},Literally "to the face of me" and I removed them {because}Literally "as that" I saw it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 51
c3content:
And Samaria did not sin {according to even half of your sins},Literally "about/as/like the half of sins your not did she sin" and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did.According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 52
c3content:
Also,Or "indeed" you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sistersHebrew "sister" through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also,Or "indeed" you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 53
c3content:
And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 54
c3content:
in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 55
c3content:
And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 57
c3content:
{before}Literally "at not yet" your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 58
c3content:
Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 59
c3content:
'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do itAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) to you {according to what you have done},Literally "as that you have done" who despised the oath to break covenant.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 60
c3content:
And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you {an everlasting covenant}.Literally "a covenant of eternity"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 61
c3content:
And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed when you take your sisters, {both the older and the younger},Literally "the older from you to the younger from you" and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 63
c3content:
in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and {you will not open your mouth again}Literally "and not it will be again an opening of mouth" {because of}Literally "from the face of" your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!'" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{The great eagle with great wings and long feathers}Literally "the eagle the great great of the wings long of the feather" and {full of variegated plumage}Literally "full of the plumage which is for him the variegated" came to Lebanon and he took the treetop of the cedar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He plucked the top of its new plant shoot, and he brought it to the land of Canaan and put it in a city of merchants,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and he took from the seed of the land and placed it in {fertile soil}Literally "a field of seed" onOr "by" many waters; like a willow he planted it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And it sprouted, and {it became a vine spreading out},Literally "he was to vine spreading out" low of height, turning its branches to him, and its roots were under it, and {it became a vine},Literally "and it was to a vine" and it madeOr "sprouted" branches, and it sent out foliage. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
" '"And there was another great eagle, great of wings and with abundant plumage, and look! This vine stretched out its roots toward him and extended its branches to him to water it from the garden bed {where it was planted}.Literally "from the garden bed of its planting"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
It was planted inOr "to" a good field byOr "to" many watersHebrew "water" to produce branchesHebrew "branch" and to bear fruit to becomeHebrew "be" {a beautiful vine}." 'Literally "to a vine of splendor"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots, and will he not make its fruit scaly, and it will wither, and all of the freshness of its vegetation will dry up? And to lift it from its roots {will not require great strength or many people}.Literally "not with strong arm and with many people"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And look! Though it is planted, will it prosper? {When the east wind strikes it},Literally "at striking her/it the wind of the east" will it not dry up completely? On the garden bed of its vegetation it will dry up!" '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Say now to the rebellious house of Israel, 'Do you not know what these are?'Or "mean" Say, 'Look! The king of Babylon will come to Jerusalem, and he will take its king and its officials, and he will bringOr "take" them to himself,Hebrew "him" to Babylon.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he took from the seed of the kingship, and he made with him a covenant, and {he brought him under oath},Literally "and he brought him into oath" and he took the rulers of the land,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant {in order for it to stand}.Literally "to standing her"; or "to let her stand"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to give to him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he escape doing these things, and can he break the covenant and escape?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{As I live},'Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, '{surely}Literally "if not" in the place of the king {who made}Literally "who he was making" him king, who despised his oath and who broke his covenant with him--in the midst of Babylon he will die.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And not with a great army and with a great crowd will Pharaoh workOr "help/aid" with him in the war, at the pouring out of a siege ramp and the building of siege works to destroy many lives.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: '{As I live},Literally "live I" {surely}Literally "if not" my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke I will return upon his head.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there about his infidelity that he displayed against me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And all of his choice troops, among all of his troops, they will fall by the sword, and those who are remaining,Or "left over" they will be scattered to all the directions of the wind, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'And I will take, even I, from the treetop of the high cedar, and I will plant it, from the head of its new plant shoot I will pluck a tender one, and I will plant it, even I, on a high and lofty mountain.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
On the height of the mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it will carryOr "bear" branches,Hebrew "branch" and it will bear fruit, and {it will become a noble cedar},Literally "he will be to a cedar noble" and all of the birds of all wingsOr "kinds" will dwell under it in the shade of its branches.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And all of the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, I will bring low a high tree, and I will exalt a low, fresh tree, and I will make a dry tree flourish. I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will do it.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{What do you mean by}Literally "What is to you" quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'Or "dull," set on edge"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{As I live},Literally "life I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, it will surely not any longer be {appropriate for you}Literally "to you" to quote this proverb in Israel!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Look! {All lives are mine}.Literally "all of the lives are for me they" {The lives of father and son alike are mine}.Literally "Like the life of the father and like the life of the son is to me look" The personOr "life," or "soul" sinning will die.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and on the mountains he does not eat and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile and he does not approach a woman ofOr "in" menstruation,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and he oppresses {no one}Literally "a person not" and he returns a pledge for his loan {and he commits no robbery}Literally "robbed things not he seized" and he givesOr "shares" his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and {he does not charge interest}Literally "with the interest not he gives" and he takes no usury, and he holds backOr "brings back" his hand from injustice and he executes a judgment of fairness between {persons},Literally "man and man"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and in my statutes he goes about and my regulations he keeps,Or "watches" {performing faithfully}Literally "to do with with faithfulness" --then he is righteous, and certainly he will live," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"And now he has a son, a violent one, {who sheds blood}Literally "shedding of blood" {and does any of these things}Literally "and he does like from one from these"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
(thoughHebrew "And" heThat is, the father did not do all of these things), for the son alsoOr "even" eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He oppresses the needy and the poor, and {he commits robbery},Literally "robbed things he seized" and he does not return a pledge for a loan, and he lifts his eyes to the idols so he does a detestable thing.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{He charges interest}Literally "with the interest he gives" and takes usury. Then, shall he live? He shall not live, for he did all of these detestable things. Surely he will die! His blood will be on him. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"And look! He has a son, and he sees all of the sin of his father that he did, and he sees it, but he does not do it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
On the mountains he does not eat, and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he oppresses no one; he requires no pledge for a loan, and {he does not commit robbery};Literally "robbed things not does he seize" he gives his bread to the hungry, and he covers the naked person with a garment.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He brings backOr "holds back" his hand from iniquity;Cf. verse 8 he does not take interest and usury; he does my regulations; he goesOr "walks" in my statutes. He will not die because of the guilt of his father; he will surely live!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Because his father {oppressed severely};Literally "he oppressed oppression" {he stole from his brother};Literally "he seized robbed things of a brother" that which is not good he did in the midst of his people, and look! He will die throughOr "in" his guilt. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"YetOr "And" you say, 'Why does the son not bear the guilt of the father?' And since the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The person,Or "soul," or "life" the one sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wickedAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) shall be on him.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But if the wicked returns from all of his sinsAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
All of his transgressions that he committed will not be remembered againstOr "for" him. ThroughOr "By means of" his righteousness that he has done he shall live.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Have I delight by any meansOr "in any way" in the death of the wicked, {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, and not at his turning from his way, {so that}Literally "and" he lives?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And {when the righteous turns}Literally "at turning of the righteous" from his righteousness, so thatLiterally "and" he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, thenOr "and" will he live because of all of his righteousnessAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) that he did? Those things will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his {sin that he committed}.Literally "sin that he sinned" ThroughOr "in/by" them he shall die. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"YetOr "And" you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, thenOr "and" he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, {he will preserve his life}.Literally "his soul/life he will keep alive"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And if he sees and he returns from all of his transgressions that he did, surely he will live; he will not die!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And yet they, the house of Israel, say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Are not my ways fair, house of Israel? {Are not your ways unfair?}Literally "not ways your not are right" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each oneHebrew "man" according to his ways," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. "RepentOr "Turn/Return" and turn around from all of your transgression, and it will not be as a stumbling block of iniquity to you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Throw {away from yourselves}Literally "from on you" all of your transgressions that you committed,Hebrew "committed with them" and make {for yourselves}Literally "to you" a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. "And so repentOr "turn/return" and live!" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And she raised up one from her cubs; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ateOr "devoured" humans.Hebrew "human"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And nations heard about him; in their pit he was caught, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And she sawOr "realized" that she was waiting in vain; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, and she made him a fierce lion.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he walked about in the midst of lions; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ateOr "devoured" humans.Hebrew "human"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he knew their widows,Or "ravished/raped"; or "he ravaged their strongholds" and he devastated their cities, and the land was appalled, and {everyone in it}Literally "its fullness" at the sound of his roar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And nations set out against him {from the surrounding provinces},Literally "all around from the provinces" and they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they put him in a collar with hooks, and they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him intoHebrew "in" a prison, so that his voice would not be heard {any longer}Literally "longer" on the mountains of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard;Or "in the vineyard" planted {fruitfully}Literally "fruitful" beside water, and it was full of branches from many waters.Or "from waters abundant/many"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And {she produced branches of strength}Literally "they became to her branches/rods of strength" toOr "for" scepters of rulers; its height became tall betweenOr "among" thick foliage, and it was seenOr "visible" because of its tallness among the abundance of its branches.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But it was uprooted in rage; it was thrown to the earth, and the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off, and its strong branch dried up; fire consumed it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And now it is planted in the desert, in a {dry and thirsty land}.Literally "a land of dryness and thirst"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches; its fruit it has consumed, and there was not in it {a strong branch},Literally "a branch of strength" a scepter for ruling.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And then in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, men from the elders of Israel came to consult Yahweh, and they sat {before me}.Literally "to the face of"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" speak with the elders of Israel, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Are you coming to consult me? {As I live},Literally "live I" I will surely not allow myselfOr "me" to be consulted by you!" ' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man?Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" Make known to them the detestable things of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "On the day of my choosing Israel {I swore}Literally "and I raised my hand" to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, and {I swore}Literally "and I raised my hand" to them, {saying},Literally "to say" 'I am Yahweh your God.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
On that day {I swore}Literally "I raised my hand" to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey--it is the most beautiful of all of the lands.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then I said to them, 'Let each one throw away the detestable things of his eyes, and you must not make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt! I am Yahweh your God.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one {did not throw away}Literally "not they threw away" the detestable things of their eyes; and {they did not abandon}Literally "not they abandoned" the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"ButOr "And" I acted for the sake of my name {to keep it from being profaned}Literally "not to be profaned before the eyes of" before the eyes of the nations {among whom they lived},Literally "which they were in their midst" where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And also my Sabbaths I gave to them to be a sign between me and between them {so they would know}Literally "know" that I, Yahweh, am the one sanctifying them. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"ButOr "And" in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes},Literally "in my statutes not they went" and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations {before whom I brought them out}.Literally "which I brought out them before their eyes"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And also {I myself swore}Literally "I, I raised my hand" to them in the desert not to bring them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey--it is the most beautiful of all of the lands--


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
because they despised my judgments, and {they did not walk in my statutes},Literally "and my statutes not they went in them" and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols.


