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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. 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 com-

st the LORD our God? 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; 12 And ye have done worse than your fathers;

For, behold, ye walk every one after the ' imagination of his evil teart,

That they may not hearken unto me:
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.
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; 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 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. 17 For mine eyes are upor all their ways :

They are not hid froin my face,

Neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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.

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. 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself,

And they are no gods?
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 2 The LORD.

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17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,

And with the 3 point of a diamond :
It is graven upon the table of their heart,

And upon the horns of your altars;
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves

By the green tree upon the high hills. 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.

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.
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. 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.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD,

And whose hope the LORD is.
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.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked-who can know it? 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.

As the partridge S 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.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning

Is the place of our sanctuary. 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.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed;
Save me, and I shall be saved :

For thou art my praise. 15 Behold, they say unto me,

Where is the word of the LORD?-let it come now. 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor 4 to follow thee :

Neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest :

That which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17 Be not a terror unto me :

Thou art my hope in the day of evi).
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 3 destroy them with double destruction.

19THUS 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; · 20 and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all 21 Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates : thus

saith the LORD: Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath

29 day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem : neither carry forth a burden

out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye 23 the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they obeyed not, neither

inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive

instruction.
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; 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.
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. 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.
19 THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to 2, 3 hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he 4 wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel 2 that he made of clay was

marred in the hand of the potter : so he s made it again another vessel, as 5 seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to

me, saying,
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. 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; 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. 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a

kingdom, To build and to plant it; 10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, Then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said

erewith I said I would benefit them. 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. 12 And they said, There is no hope :

3 Heb. returned and made. 2 Or, that he made was marred, as clay in the hand of the potter.

But we will walk after our own devices,

And we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 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. 14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the

field? Or shall the cold Aowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 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; 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing;

Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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.

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 2 with the tongue

And let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O LORD,

And hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 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.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,

And S 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. 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.
23 Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me 4 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. 10 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; and go forth unto the 2 valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of 5 the east gate, and pro3 claim there the words that I shall tell thee, 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 4 upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 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 5 kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; 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 carne it into

my mind: 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 7 slaughter. 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 8 meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. And I will

make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be 9 astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 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. 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 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 who

shall bury them in Topbet, till there be no place to bury. 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, 13 and even make this city as Tophet: 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. 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 15 people, 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.

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. 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, 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 4 name Pashur, but ? Magor-missabib. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends : and 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 5 Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 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 6 Babylon. 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. 7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was 3 deceived :

Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed :

I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 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.
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. 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.

Report, say they, and we will report it.
4 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.

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one:
Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail :