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13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it
 upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my
 loins.
13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and
 arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise,
 go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to
 hide there.
13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
 place where I had hid it:  and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was
 profitable for nothing.
13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah,
 and the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the
 imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and
 to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to
 cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,
 saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name,
 and for a praise, and for a glory:  but they would not hear.
13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD
 God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:  and they shall say
 unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with
 wine?
13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
 fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's
 throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
 sons together, saith the LORD:  I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy,
 but destroy them.
13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud:  for the LORD hath spoken.
13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before
 your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he
 turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for
 your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
 because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down:  for
 your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: 
 Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried
 away captive.
13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:  where
 is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?  for thou hast taught
 them to be captains, and as chief over thee:  shall not sorrows take
 thee, as a woman in travail?
13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? 
 For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy
 heels made bare.
13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  then
 may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the
 wind of the wilderness.
13:25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the
 LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
 appear.
13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy
 whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.  Woe unto
 thee, O Jerusalem!  wilt thou not be made clean?  when shall it once
 be?

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14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the
 ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:  they came
 to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
 they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
 plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there
 was no grass.
14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the
 wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy
 name's sake:  for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why
 shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that
 turneth aside to tarry for a night?
14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot
 save?  yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy
 name; leave us not.
14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander,
 they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept
 them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt
 offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:  but I will consume them
 by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD!  behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye
 shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you
 assured peace in this place.
14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name:  I
 sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: 
 they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of
 nought, and the deceit of their heart.
14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in
 my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be
 in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets
 of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none
 to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters:  for
 I will pour their wickedness upon them.
14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down
 with tears night and day, and let them not cease:  for the virgin daughter
 of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! 
 and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! 
 yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know
 not.
14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?  hath thy soul loathed Zion?  why
 hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us?  we looked for
 peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
 trouble!
14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our
 fathers:  for we have sinned against thee.
14:21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of
 thy glory:  remember, break not thy covenant with us.
14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause
 rain?  or can the heavens give showers?  art not thou he, O LORD our God?
  therefore we will wait upon thee:  for thou hast made all these things.

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15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,
 yet my mind could not be toward this people:  cast them out of my
 sight, and let them go forth.
15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go
 forth?  then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for
 death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as
 are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity,
 to the captivity.
15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:  the sword to
 slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of
 the earth, to devour and destroy.
15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth,
 because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he
 did in Jerusalem.
15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?  or who shall bemoan
 thee?  or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: 
 therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am
 weary with repenting.
15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave
 them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from
 their ways.
15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas:  I have
 brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday:
  I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth:  she hath given up the ghost;
 her sun is gone down while it was yet day:  she hath been ashamed and
 confounded:  and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before
 their enemies, saith the LORD.
15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a
 man of contention to the whole earth!  I have neither lent on usury, nor
 men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will
 cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time
 of affliction.
15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without
 price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
15:14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which
 thou knowest not:  for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn
 upon you.
15:15 O LORD, thou knowest:  remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my
 persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:  know that for thy sake
 I have suffered rebuke.
15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the
 joy and rejoicing of mine heart:  for I am called by thy name, O LORD God
 of hosts.
15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
 because of thy hand:  for thou hast filled me with indignation.
15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to
 be healed?  wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters
 that fail?
15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee
 again, and thou shalt stand before me:  and if thou take forth the
 precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth:  let them return unto
 thee; but return not thou unto them.
15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall:  and they
 shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee:  for I
 am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will
 redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

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16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or
 daughters in this place.
16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
 daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that
 bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither
 shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the
 earth:  and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their
 carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the
 earth.
16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither
 go to lament nor bemoan them:  for I have taken away my peace from this
 people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land:  they shall not be
 buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make
 themselves bald for them:
16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort
 them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to
 drink for their father or for their mother.
16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to
 eat and to drink.
16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
 cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice
 of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
 voice of the bride.
16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these
 words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all
 this great evil against us?  or what is our iniquity?  or what is our
 sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me,
 saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and
 have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every
 one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto
 me:
16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know
 not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day
 and night; where I will not show you favour.
16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no
 more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out
 of the land of Egypt;
16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the
 land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them:  and
 I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall
 fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them
 from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the
 rocks.
16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways:  they are not hid from my
 face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
 because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with
 the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of
 affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth,
 and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things
 wherein there is no profit.
16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause
 them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is
 The LORD.

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17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point
 of a diamond:  it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the
 horns of your altars;
17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the
 green trees upon the high hills.
17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy
 treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy
 borders.
17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I
 gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which
 thou knowest not:  for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall
 burn for ever.
17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and
 maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when
 good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a
 salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD
 is.
17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth
 out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her
 leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
 neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: 
 who can know it?
17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man
 according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he
 that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his
 days, and at his end shall be a fool.
17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
 sanctuary.
17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,
 and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they
 have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved:
  for thou art my praise.
17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD?  let it
 come now.
17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: 
 neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest:  that which came out
 of my lips was right before thee.
17:17 Be not a terror unto me:  thou art my hope in the day of evil.
17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
 confounded:  let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:  bring upon
 them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children
 of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go
 out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah,
 and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these
 gates:
17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on
 the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day,
 neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your
 fathers.
17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck
 stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the
 LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath
 day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
17:25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes
 sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they,
 and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:  and
 this city shall remain for ever.
17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places
 about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and
 from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and
 sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of
 praise, unto the house of the LORD.
17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not
 to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath
 day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour
 the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

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18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
 to hear my words.
18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work
 on the wheels.
18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the
 potter:  so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter
 to make it.
18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?  saith the
 LORD.  Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine
 hand, O house of Israel.
18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
 kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I
 will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning
 a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will
 repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants
 of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against
 you, and devise a device against you:  return ye now every one from his
 evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
18:12 And they said, There is no hope:  but we will walk after our own
 devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath
 heard such things:  the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
18:14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of
 the field?  or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place
 be forsaken?
18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to
 vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the
 ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that
 passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show
 them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for
 the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor
 the word from the prophet.  Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and
 let us not give heed to any of his words.
18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend
 with me.
18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good?  for they have digged a pit for my
 soul.  Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to
 turn away thy wrath from them.
18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their
 blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their
 children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their
 young men be slain by the sword in battle.
18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop
 suddenly upon them:  for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares
 for my feet.
18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: 
 forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but
 let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of
 thine anger.

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19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take
 of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the
 entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell
 thee,
19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
 inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his
 ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have
 burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers
 have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the
 blood of innocents;
19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with
 fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake
 it, neither came it into my mind:
19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall
 no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
 valley of slaughter.
19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;
 and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the
 hands of them that seek their lives:  and their carcases will I give to be
 meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that
 passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
 thereof.
19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of
 their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in
 the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their
 lives, shall straiten them.
19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with
 thee.
19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I
 break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that
 cannot be made whole again:  and they shall bury them in Tophet, till
 there be no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants
 thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah,
 shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon
 whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have
 poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to
 prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all
 the people,
19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring
 upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced
 against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not
 hear my words.

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20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor
 in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that
 were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah
 out of the stocks.  Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called
 thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself,
 and to all thy friends:  and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies,
 and thine eyes shall behold it:  and I will give all Judah into the hand
 of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and
 shall slay them with the sword.
20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the
 labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures
 of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which
 shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into
 captivity:  and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and
 shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast
 prophesied lies.
20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived:  thou art stronger
 than I, and hast prevailed:  I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the
 word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his
 name.  But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my
 bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.  Report, say
 they, and we will report it.  All my familiars watched for my halting,
 saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against
 him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one:  therefore my
 persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail:  they shall be
 greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper:  their everlasting confusion
 shall never be forgotten.
20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins
 and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:  for unto thee have I
 opened my cause.
20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD:  for he hath delivered the
 soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born:  let not the day wherein my
 mother bare me be blessed.
20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man
 child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and
 repented not:  and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at
 noontide;
20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have
 been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that
 my days should be consumed with shame?

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21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah
 sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
 the priest, saying,
21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us
 according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons
 of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of
 Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls,
 and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with
 a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: 
 they shall die of a great pestilence.
21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah,
 and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from
 the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and
 into the hand of those that seek their life:  and he shall smite them with
 the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have
 mercy.
21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set
 before you the way of life, and the way of death.
21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine,
 and by the pestilence:  but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans
 that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good,
 saith the LORD:  it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon,
 and he shall burn it with fire.
21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word
 of the LORD;
21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the
 morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the
 oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench
 it, because of the evil of your doings.
21:13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of
 the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us?  or
 who shall enter into our habitations?
21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the
 LORD:  and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour
 all things round about it.

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22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and
 speak there this word,
22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon
 the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in
 by these gates:
22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver
 the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor:  and do no wrong, do no
 violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed
 innocent blood in this place.
22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates
 of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots
 and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD,
 that this house shall become a desolation.
22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art
 Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon:  yet surely I will make thee a
 wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons:
  and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man
 to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
 LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:  but weep sore for him
 that goeth away:  for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of
 Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of
 this place; He shall not return thither any more:
22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and
 shall see this land no more.
22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his
 chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and
 giveth him not for his work;
22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and
 cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with
 vermilion.
22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar?  did not
 thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was
 well with him?
22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with
 him:  was not this to know me?  saith the LORD.
22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and
 for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do
 it.
22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
 king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother!  or,
 Ah sister!  they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord!  or, Ah his
 glory!
22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth
 beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry
 from the passages:  for all thy lovers are destroyed.
22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not
 hear.  This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not
 my voice.
22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into
 captivity:  surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy
 wickedness.
22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how
 gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in
 travail!
22:24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king
 of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and
 into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another
 country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they
 not return.
22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol?  is he a vessel wherein
 is no pleasure?  wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are
 cast into a land which they know not?
22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall
 not prosper in his days:  for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting
 upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

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23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my
 pasture!  saith the LORD.
23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that
 feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have
 not visited them:  behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings,
 saith the LORD.
23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither
 I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they
 shall be fruitful and increase.
23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them:  and they
 shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith
 the LORD.
23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a
 righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
 judgment and justice in the earth.
23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:  and
 this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no
 more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of
 the land of Egypt;
23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the
 house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I
 had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones
 shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome,
 because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land
 mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their
 course is evil, and their force is not right.
23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found
 their wickedness, saith the LORD.
23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the
 darkness:  they shall be driven on, and fall therein:  for I will bring
 evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in
 Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:  they
 commit adultery, and walk in lies:  they strengthen also the hands of
 evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness:  they are all of them
 unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets;
 Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of
 gall:  for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into
 all the land.
23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the
 prophets that prophesy unto you:  they make you vain:  they speak a vision
 of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall
 have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination
 of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and
 heard his word?  who hath marked his word, and heard it?
23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous
 whirlwind:  it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and
 till he have performed the thoughts of his heart:  in the latter days ye
 shall consider it perfectly.
23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran:  I have not spoken to
 them, yet they prophesied.
23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear
 my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
 the evil of their doings.
23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?  saith
 the LORD.  Do not I fill heaven and earth?  saith the LORD.
23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,
 saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy
 lies?  yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which
 they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my
 name for Baal.
23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath
 my word, let him speak my word faithfully.  What is the chaff to the
 wheat?  saith the LORD.
23:29 Is not my word like as a fire?  saith the LORD; and like a hammer
 that breaketh the rock in pieces?
23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that
 steal my words every one from his neighbour.
23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their
 tongues, and say, He saith.
23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
 LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by
 their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them:  therefore they
 shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,
 saying, What is the burden of the LORD?  thou shalt then say unto them,
 What burden?  I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall
 say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his
 brother, What hath the LORD answered?  and, What hath the LORD spoken?
23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more:  for every man's
 word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living
 God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? 
 and, What hath the LORD spoken?
23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the
 LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent
 unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will
 forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you
 out of my presence:
23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual
 shame, which shall not be forgotten.