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+<book name='Jeremiah' permalink='jeremiah' id='24'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests  that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the  son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king  of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of  Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in  the fifth month.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before  thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained  thee a prophet unto the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am  a child.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou  shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee  thou shalt speak.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver  thee, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And  the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the  kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw  down, to build, and to plant.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,  Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will  hasten my word to perform it.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,  saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face  thereof is toward the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall  break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the  north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every  one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against  all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And I will utter my judgments against them touching all  their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto  other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto  them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I  confound thee before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and  an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the  kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests  thereof, and against the people of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not  prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver  thee.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the  LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine  espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that  was not sown.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of  his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon  them, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the  families of the house of Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found  in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity,  and are become vain?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out  of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a  land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the  shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where  no man dwelt?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit  thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my  land, and made mine heritage an abomination.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that  handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me,  and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do  not profit.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and  with your children's children will I plead.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto  Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but  my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly  afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken  me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken  cisterns, that can hold no water.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he  spoiled?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made  his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the  crown of thy head.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast  forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink  the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to  drink the waters of the river?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy  backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an  evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and  that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands;  and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and  under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:  how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine  unto me?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much  soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after  Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a  swift dromedary traversing her ways;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind  at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that  seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from  thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved  strangers, and after them will I go.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of  Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,  and their prophets.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou  hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not  their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and  save us.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them  arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according  to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed  against me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>In vain have I smitten your children; they received no  correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a  destroying lion.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a  wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We  are lords; we will come no more unto thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet  my people have forgotten me days without number.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou  also taught the wicked ones thy ways.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the  poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all  these.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger  shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou  sayest, I have not sinned.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also  shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon  thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt  not prosper in them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,  and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not  that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with  many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou  hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the  Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy  whoredoms and with thy wickedness.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath  been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst  to be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou  art the guide of my youth?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the  end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,  Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up  upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath  played the harlot.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou  unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding  Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of  divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and  played the harlot also.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,  that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with  stocks.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not  turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath  justified herself more than treacherous Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,  Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause  mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I  will not keep anger for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed  against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers  under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am  married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a  family, and I will bring you to Zion:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which  shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and  increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no  more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to  mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it;  neither shall that be done any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the  LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the  LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the  imagination of their evil heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house  of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to  the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and  give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?  and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,  so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and  supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their  way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your  backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and  from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the  salvation of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our  youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for  we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our  youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our  God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto  me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then  shalt thou not remove.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in  judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves  in him, and in him shall they glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,  Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the  foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:  lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it,  because of the evil of your doings.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow  ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble  yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I  will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of  the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy  land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an  inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the  fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that  the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and  the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived  this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the  sword reacheth unto the soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>At that time shall it be said to this people and to  Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the  daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now  also will I give sentence against them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall  be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for  we are spoiled.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou  mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction  from mount Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against  Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their  voice against the cities of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;  because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee;  this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto  thine heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart  maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,  O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is  spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the  trumpet?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are  sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do  evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;  and the heavens, and they had no light.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the  hills moved lightly.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of  the heavens were fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and  all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD,  and by his fierce anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be  desolate; yet will I not make a full end.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be  black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not  repent, neither will I turn back from it.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and  bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every  city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou  clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments  of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou  make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy  life.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the  anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the  daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,  saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see  now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a  man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;  and I will pardon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear  falsely.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast  stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but  they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces  harder than a rock; they have refused to return.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:  for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;  for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:  but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a  wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their  cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:  because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are  increased.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken  me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the  full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops  in the harlots' houses.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed  after his neighbour's wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and  shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full  end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt  very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither  shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in  them: thus shall it be done unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak  this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this  people wood, and it shall devour them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of  Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation,  a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what  they say.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty  men.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which  thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and  thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall  impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make  a full end with you.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore  doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer  them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your  land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;  which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my  presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a  perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof  toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can  they not pass over it?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;  they are revolted and gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD  our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his  season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins  have withholden good things from you.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as  he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of  deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds  of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,  yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall  not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by  their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in  the end thereof?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of  the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a  sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and  great destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate  woman.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they  shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every  one in his place.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.  Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are  stretched out.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her  palaces.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and  cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is  wholly oppression in the midst of her.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her  wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually  is grief and wounds.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from  thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the  remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer  into the baskets.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?  behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold,  the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in  it.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with  holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the  assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife  shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their  fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the  inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them  every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the  priest every one dealeth falsely.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people  slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,  they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they  shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they  shall be cast down, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask  for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye  shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk  therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound  of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what  is among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,  even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto  my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and  the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not  acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay  stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons  together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall  perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north  country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the  earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and  have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon  horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:  anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the  sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and  wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most  bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,  that thou mayest know and try their way.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they  are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire;  the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath  rejected them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there  this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that  enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your  ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,  The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye  throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the  widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after  other gods to your hurt:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land  that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear  falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye  know not;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And come and stand before me in this house, which is called  by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of  robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set  my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my  people Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the  LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard  not; and I called you, but ye answered not;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my  name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to  your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all  your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry  nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not  hear thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in  the streets of Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,  and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven,  and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke  me to anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not  provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my  fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and  upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it  shall burn, and shall not be quenched.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your  burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the  day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt  offerings or sacrifices:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and  I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the  ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked  in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went  backward, and not forward.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land  of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the  prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but  hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but  they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they  will not answer thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth  not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is  perished, and is cut off from their mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take  up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and  forsaken the generation of his wrath.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith  the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called  by my name, to pollute it.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in  the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters  in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it  shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom,  but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there  be no place.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls  of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray  them away.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and  from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of  gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for  the land shall be desolate.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones  of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of  the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the  inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and  all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have  served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and  whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried;  they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the  residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all  the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;  Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a  perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man  repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one  turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;  and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their  coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with  us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in  vain.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,  they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their  fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least  even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even  unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people  slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,  they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall  they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they  shall be cast down, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be  no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall  fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter  into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our  God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink,  because we have sinned against the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of  health, and behold trouble!</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole  land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they  are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city,  and those that dwell therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,  which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is  faint in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people  because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion?  is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their  graven images, and with strange vanities?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not  saved.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am  black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why  then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of  tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of  my people!</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring  men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all  adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but  they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed  from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in  any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every  neighbour will walk with slanders.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not  speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary  themselves to commit iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit  they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt  them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:  one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he  layeth his wait.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD:  shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and  for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are  burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the  voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are  fled; they are gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I  will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he  to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for  what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none  passeth through?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which  I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked  therein;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,  and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give  them water of gall to drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither  they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them,  till I have consumed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the  mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that  they may come:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that  our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we  spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,  because our dwellings have cast us out.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear  receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and  every one her neighbour lamentation.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into  our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men  from the streets.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall  fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the  harvestman, and none shall gather them.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his  wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich  man glory in his riches:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he  understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise  lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these  things I delight, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish  all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and  Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the  wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house  of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house  of Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and  be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a  tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the  axe.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with  nails and with hammers, that it move not.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must  needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they  cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art  great, and thy name is great in might.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth  it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and  in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a  doctrine of vanities.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold  from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder:  blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning  men.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an  everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations  shall not be able to abide his indignation.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the  heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from  under these heavens.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the  world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his  discretion.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters  in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of  the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind  out of his treasures.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is  confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and  there is no breath in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of  their visitation they shall perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former  of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of  hosts is his name.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the  fortress.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the  inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they  may find it so.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said,  Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my  children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to  stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the  LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be  scattered.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great  commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah  desolate, and a den of dragons.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is  not in man that walketh to direct his steps.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,  lest thou bring me to nothing.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and  upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up  Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation  desolate.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men  of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;  Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought  them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying,  Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so  shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your  fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this  day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the  cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the  words of this covenant, and do them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that  I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising  early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked  every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will  bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them  to do: but they did them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the  men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,  which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve  them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my  covenant which I made with their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil  upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they  shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem  go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall  not save them at all in the time of their trouble.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O  Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye  set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto  Baal.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a  cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they  cry unto me for their trouble.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath  wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?  when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of  goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire  upon it, and the branches of it are broken.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced  evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house  of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to  anger in offering incense unto Baal.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:  then thou shewedst me their doings.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the  slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,  saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut  him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more  remembered.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest  the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto  thee have I revealed my cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that  seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou  die not by our hand:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will  punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their  daughters shall die by famine:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil  upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let  me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the  wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very  treacherously?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they  grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and  far from their reins.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried  mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and  prepare them for the day of slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field  wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are  consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last  end.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied  thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of  peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do  in the swelling of Jordan?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even  they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a  multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words  unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I  have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth  out against me: therefore have I hated it.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round  about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,  come to devour.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden  my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate  wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth  unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to  heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The spoilers are come upon all high places through the  wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of  the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put  themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of  your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that  touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit;  Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of  Judah from among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them  out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them  again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the  ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught  my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and  destroy that nation, saith the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put  it on my loins.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride  of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath  spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:  where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth  away by the wind of the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith  the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy  shame may appear.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the  dearth.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are  black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the  earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,  because there was no grass.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for  their good.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed 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!</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of  our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have  sons or daughters in this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit  with them to eat and to drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew 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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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 shew you favour.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from  my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves  by the green trees upon the high hills.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope  the LORD is.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately  wicked: who can know it?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of  our sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall  be saved: for thou art my praise.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let  it come now.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of  evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made  their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will  cause thee to hear my words.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he  wrought a work on the wheels.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and  concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every  one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I  will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their  calamity.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them  that contend with me.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men  that go with thee,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the  inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath  delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day  wherein my mother bare me be blessed.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,  A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and  sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Enquire, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and  beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye  the word of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of  Judah, and speak there this word,</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,  saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the  covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But he shall die in the place whither they have led him  captive, and shall see this land no more.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,  and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted  with vermilion.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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!</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast  forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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!</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither  shall they not return.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep  of my pasture! saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house  have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they  prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not  spoken to them, yet they prophesied.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in  my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a  hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the  LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use  their tongues, and say, He saith.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD  answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a  perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were  set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of  Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of  Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from  Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are  first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not  be eaten, they were so bad.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I  said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that  cannot be eaten, they are so evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good  figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of  Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the  Chaldeans for their good.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will  bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them  down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the  LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they  shall return unto me with their whole heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so  evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of  Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in  this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms  of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt  and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,  among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto  them and to their fathers.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='25'>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of  Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not  heard my words,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an  astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy  years.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of  the sword that I will send among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,  and all his people;</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and  the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost  corners,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the  mingled people that dwell in the desert,</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and  all the kings of the Medes,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the  principal of the flock to escape.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the  fierce anger of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='26'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah  king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this  city a curse to all the nations of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard  Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth  good and meet unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to  all the assembly of the people, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan  the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='27'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and  put them upon thy neck,</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:  wherefore should this city be laid waste?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='28'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,  I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine  ears, and in the ears of all the people;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet  Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh  month.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='29'>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;)</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and  eat the fruit of them;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not  sent them, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto  me, and I will hearken unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for  me with all your heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in  Babylon;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the  captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of  Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of  Jeremiah the prophet.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='30'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all  the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning  Israel and concerning Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling,  of fear, and not of peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their  king, whom I will raise up unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 I  will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure,  and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy  wound is grievous.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound  up: thou hast no healing medicines.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their  congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that  oppress them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath  done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the  latter days ye shall consider it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='31'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:  the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the  hand of him that was stronger than he.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and  my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy  children shall come again to their own border.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities  thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished  every sorrowful soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that  eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it  upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='32'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took  witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I charged Baruch before them, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses  and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto  Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thou shewest 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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to  their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any  thing too hard for me?</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>But they set their abominations in the house, which is  called by my name, to defile it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='33'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed  it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great  and mighty things, which thou knowest not.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of  Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit  upon the throne of the house of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='34'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms  of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against  Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to  Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I  will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall  burn it with fire:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely  be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the  eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to  mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah;  Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy  fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn  odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have  pronounced the word, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto  Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem,  and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish,  and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of  Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,  after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people  which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>That every man should let his manservant, and every man his  maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should  serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had  entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his  manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should  serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the  handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into  subjection for servants and for handmaids.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the  LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant  with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land  of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an  Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee  six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers  hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in  proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a  covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his  servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at  their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto  you for servants and for handmaids.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto  me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to  his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to  the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to  be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,  which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made  before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the  parts thereof,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the  eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed  between the parts of the calf;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and  into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall  be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the  earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into  the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their  life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone  up from you.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to  return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and  burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation  without an inhabitant.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='35'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days  of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them,  and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers,  and give them wine to drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of  Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of  the Rechabites;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the  chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which  was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of  Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites  pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of  Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither  ye, nor your sons for ever:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant  vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that  ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab  our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our  days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we  vineyard, nor field, nor seed:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done  according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon  came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem  for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the  Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell  the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive  instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded  his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink  none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have  spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,  rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from  his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to  serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you  and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened  unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed  the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this  people hath not hearkened unto me:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of  Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of  Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I  have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto  them, but they have not answered.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus  saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the  commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done  according unto all that he hath commanded you:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for  ever.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='36'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son  of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the  LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words  that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and  against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days  of Josiah, even unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil  which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from  his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch  wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he  had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I  cannot go into the house of the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast  written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people  in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them  in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>It may be they will present their supplication before the  LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the  anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that  Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of  the LORD in the LORD's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son  of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a  fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the  people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the  house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the  scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's  house, in the ears of all the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had  heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's  chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe,  and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and  Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all  the princes.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had  heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,  the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in  thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people,  and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and  came unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our  ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they  were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely  tell the king of all these words.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou  write all these words at his mouth?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words  unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and  Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid  up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the  words in the ears of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it  out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of  the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the  king.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and  there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four  leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was  on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on  the hearth.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither  the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made  intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would  not hear them.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and  Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take  Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the  king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth  of Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former  words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah  hath burned.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith  the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written  therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy  this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He  shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body  shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the  frost.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for  their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of  Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have  pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the  scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah  all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in  the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='37'>
+    <verse no='1'>And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of  Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made  king in the land of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the  land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the  prophet Jeremiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and  Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah,  saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they  had not put him into prison.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when  the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they  departed from Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to  the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold,  Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt  into their own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this  city, and take it, and burn it with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The  Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans  that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them,  yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with  fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was  broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the  land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the  ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of  Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away  to the Chaldeans.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the  Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and  brought him to the princes.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote  him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for  they had made that the prison.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the  cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king  asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the  LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be  delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I  offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people,  that ye have put me in prison?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you,  saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against  this land?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my  supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me  not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit  Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him  daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread  in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the  prison.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='38'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of  Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah,  heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall  die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that  goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for  a prey, and shall live.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into  the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee,  let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the  men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people,  in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare  of this people, but the hurt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for  the king is not he that can do any thing against you.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of  Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and  they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no  water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which  was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the  dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to  the king saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they  have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the  dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for  there is no more bread in the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,  Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet  out of the dungeon, before he die.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house  of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old  rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now  these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the  cords. And Jeremiah did so.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of  the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet  unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the  king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee,  wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt  thou not hearken unto me?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying,  As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to  death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek  thy life.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the  God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto  the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city  shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's  princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,  and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of  their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the  Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their  hand, and they mock me.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I  beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it  shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the  LORD hath shewed me:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of  Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes,  and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have  prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are  turned away back.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to  the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt  be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this  city to be burned with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these  words, and thou shalt not die.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and  they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou  hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee  to death; also what the king said unto thee:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication  before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's  house, to die there.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and  he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.  So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day  that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='39'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth  month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against  Jerusalem, and they besieged it.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,  the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat  in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim,  Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes  of the king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah  saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of  the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt  the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook  Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they  brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land  of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah  before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with  chains, to carry him to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of  the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away  captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the  city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the  people that remained.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of  the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them  vineyards and fields at the same time.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning  Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do  unto him even as he shall say unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and  Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of  Babylon's princes;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the  prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of  Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was  shut up in the court of the prison, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith  the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words  upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be  accomplished in that day before thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and  thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art  afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by  the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou  hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='40'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that  Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he  had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away  captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto  Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto  him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath  said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his  voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which  were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into  Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto  thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is  before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,  thither go.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon  hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among  the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So  the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him  go.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to  Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the  fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had  made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed  unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of  them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son  of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah  the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and  Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto  them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell  in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the  Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer  fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities  that ye have taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the  Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that  the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set  over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they  were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah,  and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of  the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the  king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay  thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah  secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the  son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay  thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be  scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of  Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of  Ishmael.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='41'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the  son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the  princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son  of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men  that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of  Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made  governor over the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with  Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the  men of war.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it came to pass the second day after he had slain  Gedaliah, and no man knew it,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from  Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their  clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in  their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to  meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met  them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city,  that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the  midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael,  Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of  barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not  among their brethren.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of  the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the  king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of  Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the  people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the  people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the  guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son  of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the  Ammonites.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of  the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the  son of Nethaniah had done,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael  the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in  Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were  with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the  forces that were with him, then they were glad.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from  Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of  Kareah.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with  eight men, and went to the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of  the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he  had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after  that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war,  and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought  again from Gibeon:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,  which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,  because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of  Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='42'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of  Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the  least even unto the greatest, came near,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee,  our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD  thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many,  as thine eyes do behold us:)</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may  walk, and the thing that we may do.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you;  behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and  it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you,  I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful  witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the  which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the  voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well  with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the  LORD came unto Jeremiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the  captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the  least even to the greatest,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,  unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you,  and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for  I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid;  be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you,  and to deliver you from his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy  upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey  the voice of the LORD your God,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we  shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of  bread; and there will we dwell:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of  Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly  set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared,  shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof  ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there  ye shall die.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go  into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the  famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape  from the evil that I will bring upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine  anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of  Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall  enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,  and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go  ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the  LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according  unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we  will do it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not  obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he  hath sent me unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword,  by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to  go and to sojourn.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='43'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of  speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for  which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son  of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest  falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt  to sojourn there:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for  to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to  death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the  forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell  in the land of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the  forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all  nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,  and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left  with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the  prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the  voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay  in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in  Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of  Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I  have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and  deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity  to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;  and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall  array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his  garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in  the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he  burn with fire.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='44'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which  dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,  and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have  seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the  cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no  man dwelleth therein,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Because of their wickedness which they have committed to  provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve  other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising  early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I  hate.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from  their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was  kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and  they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God  of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to  cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to  leave you none to remain;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your  hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye  be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might  be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the  wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives,  and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they  have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they  feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you  and before your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all  Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their  faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all  be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed  by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even  unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an  execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I  have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the  pestilence:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into  the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they  should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire  to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall  escape.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned  incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great  multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in  Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of  the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of  our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour  out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our  kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of  Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw  no evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of  heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all  things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and  poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship  her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to  the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in  the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your  princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them,  and came it not into his mind?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil  of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have  committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment,  and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned  against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked  in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this  evil is happened unto you, as at this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the  women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of  Egypt:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye  and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with  your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed,  to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings  unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your  vows.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell  in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the  LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of  Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good:  and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be  consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of  the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah,  that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose  words shall stand, mine, or their's.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I  will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall  surely stand against you for evil:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king  of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that  seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='45'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son  of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of  Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of  Judah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief  to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,  that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have  planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not:  for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy  life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='46'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet  against the Gentiles;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of  Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim  the son of Josiah king of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth  with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back?  and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not  back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they  shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are  moved as the rivers?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like  the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I  will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the  mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the  shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of  vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword  shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:  for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the  river Euphrates.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of  Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be  cured.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled  the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they  are fallen both together.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in  Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the  sword shall devour round about thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because  the LORD did drive them.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they  said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of  our nativity, from the oppressing sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he  hath passed the time appointed.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,  Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so  shall he come.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go  into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an  inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it  cometh out of the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted  bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together:  they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon  them, and the time of their visitation.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall  march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it  cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and  are innumerable.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be  delivered into the hand of the people of the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will  punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods,  and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek  their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and  into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as  in the days of old, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed,  O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed  from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in  rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am  with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have  driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee  in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='47'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet  against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the  north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land,  and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then  the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong  horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his  wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for  feebleness of hands;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,  and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for  the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of  Caphtor.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the  remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be  quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge  against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed  it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='48'>
+    <verse no='1'>Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and  taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have  devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a  nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great  destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be  heard.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up;  for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of  destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the  wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy  treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into  captivity with his priests and his princes together.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city  shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be  destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the  cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully,  and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled  on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither  hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and  his scent is not changed.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall  empty his vessels, and break their bottles.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel  was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his  chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose  name is the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction  hasteth fast.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know  his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy  glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee,  and he shall destroy thy strong holds.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him  that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry;  tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and  upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities  of the land of Moab, far or near.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the  LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in  derision.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among  thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the  rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the  hole's mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his  loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his  heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so;  his lies shall not so effect it.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all  Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of  Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of  Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy  vintage.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and  from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the  winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no  shouting.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto  Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as  an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be  desolate.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him  that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his  gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and  mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the  riches that he hath gotten are perished.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon  all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops  of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a  vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath  Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a  dismaying to all them about him.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,  and shall spread his wings over Moab.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and  the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a  woman in her pangs.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he  hath magnified himself against the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O  inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he  that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will  bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of  the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from  the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown  of the head of the tumultuous ones.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth:  for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter  days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='49'>
+    <verse no='1'>Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel  no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his  people dwell in his cities?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and  it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with  fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of  Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the  hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his  princes together.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley,  O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who  shall come unto me?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of  hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out  every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the  children of Ammon, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no  more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom  vanished?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for  I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some  gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have  enough.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret  places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled,  and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;  and let thy widows trust in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not  to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall  altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt  surely drink of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah  shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all  the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is  sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against  her, and rise up to the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and  despised among men.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine  heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the  height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the  eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it  shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour  cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall  a son of man dwell in it.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of  Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make  him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over  her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is  that shepherd that will stand before me?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken  against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the  inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them  out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry  the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread  his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty  men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for  they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on  the sea; it cannot be quiet.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and  fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman  in travail.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all  the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it  shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,  which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD;  Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they  shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and  their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of  Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken  counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth  without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which  dwell alone.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of  their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are  in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides  thereof, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation  for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in  it.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet  against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow  of Elam, the chief of their might.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four  quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and  there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,  and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them,  even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after  them, till I have consumed them:</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from  thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will  bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='50'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the  land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a  standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is  confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her  images are broken in pieces.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,  which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they  shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the  children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together,  going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,  saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual  covenant that shall not be forgotten.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused  them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they  have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their  restingplace.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>All that found them have devoured them: and their  adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the  LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their  fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the  land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon  an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set  themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their  arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be  satisfied, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers  of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and  bellow as bulls;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you  shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a  wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited,  but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall  be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye  that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned  against the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her  foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the  vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do  unto her.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the  sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they  shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to  his own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:  first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have  punished the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he  shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon  mount Ephraim and Gilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the  iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and  the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them  whom I reserve.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and  against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them,  saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!  how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O  Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught,  because thou hast striven against the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the  weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of  hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Come against her from the utmost border, open her  storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing  of her be left.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:  woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of  Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the  vengeance of his temple.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend  the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:  recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath  done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against  the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all  her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord  GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall  raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall  devour all round about him.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the  children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them  captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he  shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land,  and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the  inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is  upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and  upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they  shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be  robbed.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:  for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts  of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and  it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in  from generation to generation.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities  thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any  son of man dwell therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great  nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and  will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they  shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the  battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his  hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman  in travail.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of  Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly  run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over  her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is  that shepherd that will stand before me?</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath  taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against  the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw  them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,  and the cry is heard among the nations.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='51'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against  Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up  against me, a destroying wind;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and  shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against  her round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and  against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not  her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and  they that are thrust through in her streets.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of  the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the  Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his  soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the  LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made  all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore  the nations are mad.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take  balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake  her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment  reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let  us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath  raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is  against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the  LORD, the vengeance of his temple.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the  watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD  hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants  of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in  treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I  will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a  shout against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the  world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his  understanding.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters  in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of  the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind  out of his treasures.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is  confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and  there is no breath in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their  visitation they shall perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former  of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of  hosts is his name.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee  will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy  kingdoms;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his  rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and  with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I  break in pieces the young man and the maid;</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his  flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke  of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of  Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the  LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand  upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a  burnt mountain.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a  stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the  nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the  kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against  her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes,  the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of  his dominion.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of  the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of  Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have  remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:  they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to  meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one  end,</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have  burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The  daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:  yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath  crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up  like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast  me out.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,  shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of  Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy  cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make  her springs dry.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons,  an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as  lions' whelps.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them  drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not  wake, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like  rams with he goats.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole  earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the  nations!</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the  multitude of the waves thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a  land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out  of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not  flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye  every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that  shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and  after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the  land, ruler against ruler.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment  upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be  confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein,  shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the  north, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at  Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:  remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame  hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of  the LORD's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the  wounded shall groan.</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she  should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers  come unto her, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction  from the land of the Chaldeans:</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of  her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise  of their voice is uttered:</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and  her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the  LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.</verse>
+    <verse no='57'>And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her  captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a  perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD  of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon  shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;  and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they  shall be weary.</verse>
+    <verse no='59'>The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the  son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king  of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah  was a quiet prince.</verse>
+    <verse no='60'>So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come  upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='61'>And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,  and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;</verse>
+    <verse no='62'>Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this  place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor  beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='63'>And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this  book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of  Euphrates:</verse>
+    <verse no='64'>And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not  rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary.  Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='52'>
+    <verse no='1'>Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to  reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name  was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD,  according to all that Jehoiakim had done.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in  Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that  Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the  tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of  Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched  against it, and built forts against it round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king  Zedekiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the  famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people  of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled,  and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between  the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were  by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and  overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was  scattered from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of  Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his  eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of  Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in  prison till the day of his death.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which  was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came  Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon,  into Jerusalem,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and  all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men,  burned he with fire:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the  captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round  about.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away  captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the  people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell  to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the  poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the  LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the  LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to  Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and  the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they  ministered, took they away.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the  caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that  which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took  the captain of the guard away.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were  under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD:  the brass of all these vessels was without weight.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was  eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the  thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one  chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the  chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the  pomegranates were like unto these.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and  all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,  and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge  of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's  person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the  host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the  people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and  brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in  Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out  of his own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:  in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away  captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar  Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews  seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four  thousand and six hundred.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the  captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the  five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon  in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of  Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the  throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat  bread before him all the days of his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of  the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death,  all the days of his life.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>