I had been thinking about doing another Read and The Book of Jeremiah has been Coming to mind just Like we did the Book of ACTS a Read & Not A Study

[PloughBoy]

June 27, 2023
Jeremiah 14: NIV84

◄ Jeremiah 14 ►

New International Version Par ▾ Drought, Famine, Sword 1This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 2“Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. 3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads. 4The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads. 5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass. 6Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights and pant like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of food.” 7Although our sins testify against us, do something, Lord, for the sake of your name. For we have often rebelled; we have sinned against you. 8You who are the hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night? 9Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, Lord, and we bear your name; do not forsake us! 10This is what the Lord says about this people: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the Lord does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.” 11Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. 12Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.” 13But I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’ ” 14Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries a and the delusions of their own minds. 15Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. 16And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve. 17“Speak this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for the Virgin Daughter, my people, has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow. 18If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’ ” 19Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror. 20We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord, and the guilt of our ancestors; we have indeed sinned against you. 21For the sake of your name do not despise us; do not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us and do not break it. 22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

 

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Hello @PloughBoy,

* We appear to have missed, Jeremiah chapter 8, so I will place it here.
Perhaps the omission will emphasise a truth in chapter 8,
that the Lord particularly wants us to take note of, yes? :-
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Jeremiah chapter 8 (28/06/23)

(1) At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets,
and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

(2) They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens,
which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.
They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground.

(3) Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.'

(4) "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: "'When men fall down, do they not get up? When a man turns away, does he not return?

(5) Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

(6) I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?"
Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle.

(7) Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

(8) "'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?

(9) The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD,
what kind of wisdom do they have?

(10) Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners.
From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

(11) They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace.

(12) Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct?
No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD.

(13) "'I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD.
There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither.
What I have given them will be taken from them.'"

(14) "Why are we sitting here?
Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there!
For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against him.

(15) We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror.

(16) The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles.
They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there."

(17) "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD.

(18) O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

(19) Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?"
"Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

(20) "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved."

(21) Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.

(22) Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

 

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... ... Continuing on now from Jeremiah 14 (above):-

* Jeremiah 15 (28/06/23)

(1) Then the LORD said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.
Send them away from my presence! Let them go!

(2) And if they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: "'Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword;
those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.'

(3) "I will send four kinds of destroyers against them," declares the LORD, "the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away
and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

(4) I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

(5) "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask how you are?

(6) You have rejected me," declares the LORD. "You keep on backsliding. So I will lay hands on you and destroy you; I can no longer show compassion.

(7) I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.

(8) I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

(9) The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies," declares the LORD.

10) Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

(11) The LORD said, "Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will make your enemies plead with you in times of disaster and times of distress.

(12) "Can a man break iron— iron from the north—or bronze?

(13) Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.

(14) I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you."

(15) You understand, O LORD; remember me and care for me. Avenge me on my persecutors. You are long-suffering—do not take me away; think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.

(16) When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God Almighty.

(17) I never sat in the company of revelers, never made merry with them; I sat alone because your hand was on me and you had filled me with indignation.

(18) Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? Will you be to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails?

(19) Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

(20) I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you," declares the LORD.

(21) "I will save you from the hands of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the cruel."

 

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Jeremiah 16 NIV84 - (19/06/23)

(1) The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

(2) Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

(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;

(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.

(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.

(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:

(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.

(8) Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

(9) For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days,
the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

(10) And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt 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?

(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;

(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:

(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.

(14) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said,
The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

(15) But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north,
and from all the lands whither He had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

(16) Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them;
and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain,
and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

(17) For Mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.

(18) And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
because they have defiled My land, they have filled Mine inheritance
with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

(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.

(20) Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

(21) Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know Mine hand and My might;
and they shall know that My name is The LORD.'

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[PloughBoy]

June 30, 2023
Jeremiah 17 NIV84

◄ Jeremiah 17 ►

New International Version Par ▾ 1“Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. 2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles a beside the spreading trees and on the high hills. 3My mountain in the land and your b wealth and all your treasures I will give away as plunder, together with your high places, because of sin throughout your country. 4Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.” 5This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. 7“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” 9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” 11Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools. 12A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 13Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water. 14Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. 15They keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!” 16I have not run away from being your shepherd; you know I have not desired the day of despair. What passes my lips is open before you. 17Do not be a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster. 18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but keep me from shame; let them be terrified, but keep me from terror. Bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction. Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 19This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People, c through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem. 20Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates. 21This is what the Lord says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. 22Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. 23Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. 24But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, 25then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. 26People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord. 27But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’ ”

 

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01/07/23

Jeremiah 18 (NIV84)

(1) This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
(2) "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you My message."
(3) So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
(4) But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands;
so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

(5) Then the word of the LORD came to me:
(6) "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD.
"Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

(7) If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
(8) and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
(9) And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
(10) and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

(11) "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem,
'This is what the LORD says:
Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you.
So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.'

(12) But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans;
each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"

(13) Therefore this is what the LORD says:
"Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this?
A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
(14) Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources ever cease to flow?
(15) Yet My people have forgotten Me;
they burn incense to worthless idols,
which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths.
They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up.

(16) Their land will be laid waste, an object of lasting scorn;
all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
(17) Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."

(18) They said, "Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah;
for the teaching of the law by the priest will not be lost,
nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets.
So come, let's attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says."

(19) Listen to me, O LORD; hear what my accusers are saying!
(20) Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
(21) So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death,
their young men slain by the sword in battle.

(22) Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
(23) But you know, O LORD, all their plots to kill me.
Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.

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01/07/23
Jeremiah 19 - (NIV84)

(1) Thus saith the LORD,
Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
(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,
(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.
(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;
(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:
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(10) Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
(11) And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Even so will I break this people and this city,
as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again:
and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
(12) Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof,
and even make this city as Tophet:
(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.
(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,
(15) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it,
because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear My words.'

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02/07/23

Jeremiah 20 ( NIV84)

(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(8) For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
(9) Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name.
But His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
(10) For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.
Report, say they, and we will report it.
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.
(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.
(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.
(13) Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD:
for He hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
(14) Cursed be the day wherein I was born:
let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
(15) Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
(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;
(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.
(18) Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow,
that my days should be consumed with shame?


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02/07/23

Jeremiah 21 NIV 84

(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,
(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.
(3) Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
(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.
(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.
(6) And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(11) And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
(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.
(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?
(14) But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD:
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.'


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04/07/23

Jeremiah 22 (NIV 84)

(1) Thus saith the LORD;
Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
(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:
(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.
(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.
(5) But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(9) Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God,
and worshipped other gods, and served them.
(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.
(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:
(12) But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
(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;
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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!
(19) He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
(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.
(21) I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear.
This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
(22) 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.
(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!
(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;
(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.
(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.
(27) But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
(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?
(29) O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
(30) Thus saith the LORD,
Write ye this man childless,
a man that shall not prosper in his days:
for no man of his seed shall prosper,
sitting upon the throne of David,
and ruling any more in Judah.'


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[PloughBoy]

July 4 2023
Jeremiah 23 NIV

◄ Jeremiah 23 ►

New International Version Par ▾ The Righteous Branch 1“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the Lord. 3“I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord. 5“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior. 7“So then, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ 8but they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.” Lying Prophets 9Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and his holy words. 10The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse b the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly. 11“Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,” declares the Lord. 12“Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,” declares the Lord. 13“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray. 14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.” 15Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets: “I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.” 16This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord says: You will have peace.’ And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’ 18But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word? 19See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. 20The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly. 21I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. 22But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. 23“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? 24Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. 25“I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ 26How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? 27They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship. 28Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the Lord. 29“Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? 30“Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me. 31Yes,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The Lord declares.’ 32Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the Lord. False Prophecy 33“When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, ‘What is the message from the Lord?’ say to them, ‘What message? I will forsake you, declares the Lord.’ 34If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message from the Lord,’ I will punish them and their household. 35This is what each of you keeps saying to your friends and other Israelites: ‘What is the Lord’s answer?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 36But you must not mention ‘a message from the Lord’ again, because each one’s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the Lord Almighty, our God. 37This is what you keep saying to a prophet: ‘What is the Lord’s answer to you?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 38Although you claim, ‘This is a message from the Lord,’ this is what the Lord says: You used the words, ‘This is a message from the Lord,’ even though I told you that you must not claim, ‘This is a message from the Lord.’ 39Therefore, I will surely forget you and cast you out of my presence along with the city I gave to you and your ancestors. 40I will bring on you everlasting disgrace—everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.” Footnotes: a 5 Or up from David’s line b 10 Or because of these things New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. ​

 

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Jeremiah 23:1-8 (NIV 84) 'The Righteous Branch'

(1) Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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;
(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;
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04/07/23

Jeremiah 23:9-40 (NIV 84)

(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.
(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.
(11) For both prophet and priest are profane;
yea, in my house have I found their wickedness,
saith the LORD.
(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.
(13) And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria;
they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(21) I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran:
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
(22) But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words,
then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
(23) Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
(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.
(25) I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
(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;
(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.
(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.
(29) Is not My word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
(30) Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal My words every one from his neighbour.
(31) Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, "He saith".
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(37) Thus shalt thou say to the prophet,
What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
(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;
(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:
(40) And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,
and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.'

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[PloughBoy]

July 5, 2023
Jeremiah 24 NIV84

◄ Jeremiah 24 ►

New International Version Par ▾ Two Baskets of Figs 1After Jehoiachin a son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the Lord. 2One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten. 3Then the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.” 4Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians. b 6My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. 7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. 8“ ‘But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the Lord, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt. 9I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse c and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them. 10I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’ ” Footnotes: a 1 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin b 5 Or Chaldeans c 9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed. New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.​

 

[PloughBoy]

June 5. 2023
Jeremiah 25: 1-29 NIV84

◄ Jeremiah 25 ►

New International Version Par ▾ Seventy Years of Captivity 1The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 2So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and to all those living in Jerusalem: 3For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. 4And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention. 5They said, “Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors for ever and ever. 6Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.” 7“But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.” 8Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, 9I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy a them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. 10I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. 11This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12“But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, b for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever. 13I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. 14They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.” The Cup of God’s Wrath 15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.” 17So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it: 18Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse c —as they are today; 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); 21Edom, Moab and Ammon; 22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; 23Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who are in distant places d ; 24all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness; 25all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media; 26and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak ewill drink it too. 27“Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.’ 28But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! 29See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty.’

 

[PloughBoy]

Part 2
June 5, 2023
Jeremiah 25: 30-38 NIV84

◄ Jeremiah 25 ►

New International Version Par ▾ 30“Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: “ ‘The Lord will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth. 31The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,’ ” declares the Lord. 32This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Look! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.” 33At that time those slain by the Lord will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. 34Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams. f 35The shepherds will have nowhere to flee, the leaders of the flock no place to escape. 36Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the Lord is destroying their pasture. 37The peaceful meadows will be laid waste because of the fierce anger of the Lord. 38Like a lion he will leave his lair, and their land will become desolate because of the sword g of the oppressor and because of the Lord’s fierce anger.

 

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Jeremiah 26 (NIV 84)

(1) Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:
(2) "This is what the LORD says:
Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's house
and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah
who come to worship in the house of the LORD.
Tell them everything I command you;
do not omit a word.
(3) Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from his evil way.
Then I will relent and not bring on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.
(4) Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says:
If you do not listen to Me and follow My law, which I have set before you,
(5) and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets,
whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened),
(6) then I will make this house like Shiloh
and this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.'"
(7) The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD.
(8) But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say,
the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him
and said, "You must die!
(9) Why do you prophesy in the LORD's name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?"
And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
(10) When the officials of Judah heard about these things,
they went up from the royal palace to the house of the LORD
and took their places at the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD's house.
(11) Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people,
"This man should be sentenced to death
because he has prophesied against this city.
You have heard it with your own ears!"
(12) Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people:
"The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the things you have heard.
(13) Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the LORD your God.
Then the LORD will relent and not bring the disaster He has pronounced against you.
(14) As for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever you think is good and right.
(15) Be assured, however, that if you put me to death,
you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it,
for in truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing."
(16) Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets,
"This man should not be sentenced to death!
He has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
(17) Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people,
(18) "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah.
He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says:
"'Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'
(19) "Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death?
Did not Hezekiah fear the LORD and seek His favor? A
nd did not the LORD relent,
so that he did not bring the disaster He pronounced against them?
We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves!"
(20) (Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD;
he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did.
(21) When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and officials heard his words,
the king sought to put him to death.
But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear to Egypt.
(22) King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Acbor to Egypt,
along with some other men.
(23) They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim,
who had him struck down with a sword
and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)
(24) Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah,
and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.'


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13/07/23

Jeremiah 27 (NIV 84)

(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,
(2) Thus saith the LORD to me;
Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
(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;
(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;
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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:
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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.
(17) Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
wherefore should this city be laid waste?
(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.
(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,
(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;
(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;
(22) They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD;
then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.'


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16/07/23

Jeremiah 28 (NIV 84)

(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,
(2) Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
(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:
(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.
(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,
(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.
(7) Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
(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.
(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.
(10) Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
(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.
(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,
(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.
(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.
(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.
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.
(17) So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

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