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25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in
 the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was
 the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and
 to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even
 unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD
 hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking;
 but ye have not hearkened.
25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising
 early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear
 to hear.
25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the
 evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto
 you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and
 provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no
 hurt.
25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might
 provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my
 words,
25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the
 LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring
 them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against
 all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them
 an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of
 gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the
 sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and
 these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that
 I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for
 their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual
 desolations.
25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced
 against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath
 prophesied against all the nations.
25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: 
 and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the
 works of their own hands.
25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of
 this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to
 drink it.
25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword
 that I will send among them.
25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to
 drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof,
 and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an
 hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his
 people;
25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and
 all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and
 Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings
 of the isles which are beyond the sea,
25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people
 that dwell in the desert,
25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the
 kings of the Medes,
25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and
 all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth:  and
 the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
 God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no
 more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to
 drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye
 shall certainly drink.
25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name,
 and should ye be utterly unpunished?  Ye shall not be unpunished:  for I
 will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD
 of hosts.
25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto
 them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy
 habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a
 shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the
 earth.
25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath
 a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give
 them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation
 to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the
 earth.
25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the
 earth even unto the other end of the earth:  they shall not be lamented,
 neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye
 principal of the flock:  for the days of your slaughter and of your
 dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the
 flock to escape.
25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal
 of the flock, shall be heard:  for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger
 of the LORD.
25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion:  for their land is desolate
 because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce
 anger.

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26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
 Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak
 unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house,
 all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that
 I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the
 evil of their doings.
26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not
 hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto
 you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a
 curse to all the nations of the earth.
26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah
 speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that
 the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests
 and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely
 die.
26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house
 shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an
 inhabitant?  And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house
 of the LORD.
26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from
 the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of
 the new gate of the LORD'S house.
26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all
 the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied
 against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people,
 saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this
 city all the words that ye have heard.
26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of
 the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath
 pronounced against you.
26:14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand:  do with me as seemeth good
 and meet unto you.
26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely
 bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the
 inhabitants thereof:  for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to
 speak all these words in your ears.
26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the
 prophets; This man is not worthy to die:  for he hath spoken to us in the
 name of the LORD our God.
26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the
 assembly of the people, saying,
26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah,
 and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
 Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and
 the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death?  did
 he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of
 the evil which he had pronounced against them?  Thus might we procure great
 evil against our souls.
26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD,
 Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this
 city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the
 princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death:  but when
 Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son
 of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto
 Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body
 into the graves of the common people.
26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah,
 that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to
 death.

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27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
 Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon
 thy neck,
27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the
 king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon,
 by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of
 Judah;
27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of
 hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the
 ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it
 unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
 the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given
 him also to serve him.
27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until
 the very time of his land come:  and then many nations and great kings
 shall serve themselves of him.
27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not
 serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put
 their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I
 punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the
 pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to
 your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak
 unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land;
 and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of
 Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land,
 saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words,
 saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve
 him and his people, and live.
27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and
 by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not
 serve the king of Babylon?
27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto
 you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:  for they prophesy a
 lie unto you.
27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in
 my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the
 prophets that prophesy unto you.
27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith
 the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you,
 saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be
 brought again from Babylon:  for they prophesy a lie unto you.
27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:  wherefore
 should this city be laid waste?
27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them,
 let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which
 are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah,
 and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and
 concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of
 the vessels that remain in this city,
27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away
 captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to
 Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
27:21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the
 vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
 king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the
 day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and
 restore them to this place.

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28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of
 Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month,
 that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake
 unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all
 the people, saying,
28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have
 broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the
 vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away
 from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
28:4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king
 of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the
 LORD:  for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the
 presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood
 in the house of the LORD,
28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen:  the LORD do so:  the LORD
 perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of
 the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into
 this place.
28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in
 the ears of all the people;
28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied
 both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of
 evil, and of pestilence.
28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet
 shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath
 truly sent him.
28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
 Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus
 saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of
 Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. 
 And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that
 Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet
 Jeremiah, saying,
28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken
 the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke
 of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:  and I have given
 him the beasts of the field also.
28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now,
 Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust
 in a lie.
28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the
 face of the earth:  this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught
 rebellion against the LORD.
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

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29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent
 from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away
 captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people
 whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the
 princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were
 departed from Jerusalem;)
29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of
 Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar
 king of Babylon) saying,
29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are
 carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem
 unto Babylon;
29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the
 fruit of them;
29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your
 sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and
 daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried
 away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it:  for in the peace thereof
 shall ye have peace.
29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your
 prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you,
 neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name:  I have not sent them,
 saith the LORD.
29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at
 Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing
 you to return to this place.
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
 thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I
 will hearken unto you.
29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with
 all your heart.
29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD:  and I will turn away your
 captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the
 places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you
 again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
29:16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the
 throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of
 your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword,
 the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that
 cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with
 the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of
 the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a
 reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I
 sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
 them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom
 I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of
 Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you
 in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
 king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah
 which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like
 Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed
 adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my
 name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness,
 saith the LORD.
29:24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because
 thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at
 Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the
 priests, saying,
29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest,
 that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that
 is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in
 prison, and in the stocks.
29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which
 maketh himself a prophet to you?
29:28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity
 is long:  build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
 the fruit of them.
29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the
 prophet.
29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
 concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied
 unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the
 Nehelamite, and his seed:  he shall not have a man to dwell among this
 people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people,
 saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

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30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words
 that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the
 captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD:  and I will cause
 them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
 possess it.
30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and
 concerning Judah.
30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear,
 and not of peace.
30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?  wherefore
 do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and
 all faces are turned into paleness?
30:7 Alas!  for that day is great, so that none is like it:  it is
 even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that
 I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and
 strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I
 will raise up unto them.
30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither
 be dismayed, O Israel:  for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed
 from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in
 rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee:  though I make a
 full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make
 a full end of thee:  but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave
 thee altogether unpunished.
30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound
 is grievous.
30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: 
 thou hast no healing medicines.
30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have
 wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
 one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were
 increased.
30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction?  thy sorrow is incurable for
 the multitude of thine iniquity:  because thy sins were increased, I have
 done these things unto thee.
30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine
 adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
 spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a
 prey.
30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
 wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This
 is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of
 Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be
 builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner
 thereof.
30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that
 make merry:  and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will
 also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation
 shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall
 proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he
 shall approach unto me:  for who is this that engaged his heart to
 approach unto me?  saith the LORD.
30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing
 whirlwind:  it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done
 it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart:  in the latter
 days ye shall consider it.

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31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families
 of Israel, and they shall be my people.
31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found
 grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee
 with an everlasting love:  therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: 
 thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the
 dances of them that make merry.
31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:  the planters
 shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim
 shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among
 the chief of the nations:  publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy
 people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from
 the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman
 with child and her that travaileth with child together:  a great company
 shall return thither.
31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: 
 I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,
 wherein they shall not stumble:  for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim
 is my firstborn.
31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
 afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him,
 as a shepherd doth his flock.
31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of
 him that was stronger than he.
31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall
 flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for
 oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd:  and their soul shall
 be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old
 together:  for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
 and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people
 shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
 bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for
 her children, because they were not.
31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes
 from tears:  for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall
 come again from the land of the enemy.
31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children
 shall come again to their own border.
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
 chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
  turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was
 instructed, I smote upon my thigh:  I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
 because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son?  is he a pleasant child?  for since I
 spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:  therefore my bowels
 are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps:  set thine heart toward
 the highway, even the way which thou wentest:  turn again, O virgin of
 Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?  for the
 LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use
 this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall
 bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice,
 and mountain of holiness.
31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof
 together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every
 sorrowful soul.
31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of
 Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of
 beast.
31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to
 pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
 afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
 grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity:  every man that eateth
 the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant
 with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
 day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
 which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith
 the LORD:
31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
 Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
 parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall
 be my people.
31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man
 his brother, saying, Know the LORD:  for they shall all know me, from the
 least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:  for I will
 forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and
 the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which
 divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his
 name:
31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the
 seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the
 foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the
 seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to
 the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the
 hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the
 fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward
 the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor
 thrown down any more for ever.

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32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
 Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem:  and Jeremiah
 the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king
 of Judah's house.
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
 prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into
 the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the
 Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of
 Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold
 his eyes;
32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I
 visit him, saith the LORD:  though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall
 not prosper.
32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee,
 saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth:  for the right of
 redemption is thine to buy it.
32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison
 according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray
 thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin:  for
 the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy
 it for thyself.  Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in
 Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses,
 and weighed him the money in the balances.
32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed
 according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
 the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in
 the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase,
 before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences,
 this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence
 which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue
 many days.
32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields
 and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the
 son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
32:17 Ah Lord GOD!  behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy
 great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for
 thee:
32:18 Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the
 iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them:  the
 Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work:  for thine eyes are open upon
 all the ways of the sons of men:  to give every one according to his ways,
 and according to the fruit of his doings:
32:20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto
 this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name,
 as at this day;
32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with
 signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out
 arm, and with great terror;
32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers
 to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice,
 neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou
 commandedst them to do:  therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come
 upon them:
32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the
 city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it,
 because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence:  and what
 thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money,
 and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh:  is there any thing too
 hard for me?
32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the
 hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
 and he shall take it:
32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set
 fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have
 offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods,
 to provoke me to anger.
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done
 evil before me from their youth:  for the children of Israel have only
 provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
32:31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of
 my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should
 remove it from before my face,
32:32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children
 of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings,
 their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and
 the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:  though I
 taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
 hearkened to receive instruction.
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my
 name, to defile it.
32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
 the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through
 the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my
 mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning
 this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king
 of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven
 them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring
 them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for
 ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not
 turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their
 hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them
 in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
32:42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil
 upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have
 promised them.
32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
 desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal
 them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
 Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains,
 and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south:  for I
 will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

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33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while
 he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to
 establish it; the LORD is his name;
33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty
 things, which thou knowest not.
33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of
 this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
 thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with
 the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and
 for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will
 reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to
 return, and will build them, as at the first.
33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have
 sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they
 have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all
 the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto
 them:  and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the
 prosperity that I procure unto it.
33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which
 ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the
 cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate,
 without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
 bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say,
 Praise the LORD of hosts:  for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth
 for ever:  and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the
 house of the LORD.  For I will cause to return the captivity of the land,
 as at the first, saith the LORD.
33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate
 without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an
 habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the
 cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
 Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under
 the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good
 thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of
 Judah.
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
 righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
 righteousness in the land.
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: 
 and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
 righteousness.
33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the
 throne of the house of Israel;
33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer
 burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
 continually.
33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my
 covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their
 season;
33:21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he
 should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the
 priests, my ministers.
33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
 measured:  so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites
 that minister unto me.
33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two
 families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off?  thus they
 have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and
 if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so
 that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:  for I will cause their captivity to return, and
 have mercy on them.