O 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. # 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: # 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 NHCAC|C8DrDD-DGDbDE E@E(E2EAELEUE@eE@xEE E`E E #E`7E@EJE`WE^E gE sE@FpFF` FFPFpF F#F&F@.F3Fp9F=FPAF@FFKF@NF0SFCOMMANDMENT OF JONADAB YOUR FATHER, AND KEPT ALL HIS PRECEPTS, AND DONE ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT HE HATH COMMANDED YOU: # 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. = CHAPTER 36 # 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH, THAT THIS WORD CAME UNTO CWFYF0]FpaFfF@iF mF`qF0vF@|FFXF@FHF FFFhF0FPF0FXFHF`F F F"FP$Fh'F@+Fp.FP/F2F4F`7F9FFX@FHCF8AND AGAINST ALL THE NATIONS, FROM THE DAY I SPAKE UNTO THEE, FROM THE DAYS OF JOSIAH, EVEN UNTO THIS DAY. # 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. # 4 THEN JEREMIAH CALLED BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH: AND BARUCH WROTE FROM THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD, WHICHXBFF GFHFXJF@MFHOF(QFTFWFpYF@[F^FH_FcF`hF`jF`mFhoFpqFxsFpvF@wF`zFH}F F8G@G|ANNOT GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD: # 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 LORDS HOUSE UPON THE FASTING DAY: AND ALSO THOU SHALT READ THEM IN THE EARS OF ALL JUDAH THAT COME OUT OF THEIR CITIES. # 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 ACGDG4Gx GdGl G,G<G\G`G\G,GG(G(GTG\GLGDGHG4 GL"G #G $G<%G(&GL(G)Gx*G,G,GD.G0G1G2Gx3GH OF THE LORD IN THE LORDS HOUSE. # 9 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN THE NINTH MONTH, THAT THEY PROCLAIMED A FAST BEFORE THE LORD TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME FROM THE CITIES OF JUDAH UNTO JERUSALEM. # 10 THEN READ BARUCH IN THE BOOK THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, IN THE CHAMBER OF GEMARIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, IN THE HIGHEC4Gt6G47G8G<:G@;G|G>GL@G@GhBG4CG$DGEGFGpGGdHGTIG,JGJGTKG@LGhMGdNGPOGPG|QGhTGDUGhVGHWG(YGxZGON OF SHAPHAN, HAD HEARD OUT OF THE BOOK ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD, # 12 THEN HE WENT DOWN INTO THE KINGS HOUSE, INTO THE SCRIBES 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. # 13 THEN MICHAIAH DECLARED UNTO THEM ALL THE WORDS THAT HE HAD HEARD, WHEN BARUCH READ THE BOOK@B[G [GP\GT]G^G_GH`G|aGGpG2G`GGDS AT HIS MOUTH? # 18 THEN BARUCH ANSWERED THEM, HE PRONOUNCED ALL THESE WORDS UNTO ME WITH HIS MOUTH, AND I WROTE THEM WITH INK IN THE BOOK. # 19 THEN SAID THE PRINCES UNTO BARUCH, GO, HIDE THEE, THOU AND JEREMIAH; AND LET NO MAN KNOW WHERE YE BE. # 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. # 21 SO THE KING SENT JEHUDI TO FETCH THE ROLL: AND HE TOOK IT OUT OF ELISHAMA THE SCRAGGG|GXHUDI READ IT IN THE EARS OF THE KING, AND IN THE EARS OF ALL THE PRINCES WHICH STOOD BESIDE THE KING. # 22 NOW THE KING SAT IN THE WINTERHOUSE IN THE NINTH MONTH: AND THERE WAS A FIRE ON THE HEARTH BURNING BEFORE HIM. # 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. # 24 YET THEY WERE NOT AFRAID, NOR RENT THEIR GARMENTS, NEITHER THE KING, NOR ANY OF HIS SERVANTS THAT HEARD ALL THESE WORDS. # xB GB GL G GjGlG4 G6 G Gr G GGtGvGrGGBG>G`GxGpGLG$G&G4G(G"G0GrG~GDGhOULD NOT HEAR THEM. # 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. # 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, # 28 TAKE THEE AGAIN ANOTHER ROLL, AND WRITE IN IT ALL THE FORMER WORDS THAT WERE IN@BG,G*GFG GXGNGFG\G6GzGhGt G Gf!G"Gd"Gh#G $GF%G8%GH&GP'G 'G,IM KING OF JUDAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD; THOU HAST BURNED THIS ROLL, SAYING, WHY HAST THOU WRITTEN THEREIN, SAYING, THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL CERTAINLY COME AND DESTROY THIS LAND, AND SHALL CAUSE TO CEASE FROM THENCE MAN AND BEAST? # 30 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH; HE SHALL HAVE NONE TO SIT UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID: AND HIS DEAD BODY SHALL BE CAST OUT IN THE DAY TO THE HEAT, AND IN THE NIGHT TO THE FROST. # 31 AND I WILL PUNISH HIM AND HIS SEED AND HIS SERVAN0B(G@)GH*GL*Gb+Gp+GP,G-G/G/G0G&1G1G>2Gv3G 3GH4Gz4Gn5G`6GZ7GP7GjAND UPON THE MEN OF JUDAH, ALL THE EVIL THAT I HAVE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM; BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT. # 32 THEN TOOK JEREMIAH ANOTHER ROLL, AND GAVE IT TO BARUCH THE SCRIBE, THE SON OF NERIAH; WHO WROTE THEREIN FROM THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH ALL THE WORDS OF THE BOOK WHICH JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH HAD BURNED IN THE FIRE: AND THERE WERE ADDED BESIDES UNTO THEM MANY LIKE WORDS. = CHAPTER 37 # 1 AND KING ZEDEKIAH THE SON OF JOSIAH REIGNED INSTEAD OF CONIAH THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM, WHOM NEBUCHADREZZAR HB8Gx9Gb9Gl:G;Gd;G~G?Gl?Gh@GZ@G^AGvBG0BG"CGDGPEGEG FGFGGGGGt OF THE LAND, DID HEARKEN UNTO THE WORDS OF THE LORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE PROPHET JEREMIAH. # 3 AND ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT JEHUCAL THE SON OF SHELEMIAH AND ZEPHANIAH THE SON OF MAASEIAH THE PRIEST TO THE PROPHET JEREMIAH, SAYING, PRAY NOW UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD FOR US. # 4 NOW JEREMIAH CAME IN AND WENT OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE: FOR THEY HAD NOT PUT HIM INTO PRISON. # 5 THEN PHARAOHS ARMY WAS COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT: AND WHEN THE CHALDEANS THAT BESIEGED JERUSALEM HEARD TIDINGS OF THEhBHGIG6IGzJGFJGnKGjLGpMGMG NGFNGOG@OG~PGDPG QGQG@RGHRGSG SGpG.pGTqGPqG>rG$sGsG tGtuGuGvGXLORD? AND JEREMIAH SAID, THERE IS: FOR, SAID HE, THOU SHALT BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON. # 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? # 19 WHERE ARE NOW YOUR PROPHETS WHICH PROPHESIED UNTO YOU, SAYING, THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU, NOR AGAINST THIS LAND? # 20 THEREFORE HEAR NOW, I PRAY THEE, O MY LORD THE KING: LET MY SUPPLICATION, I PRAY THEE, BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THEE; BwGwGxGxGnxGHyGyGpyG*zGzGHUSE OF JONATHAN THE SCRIBE, LEST I DIE THERE. # 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. = CHAPTER 38 # 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, # 2 (CzG\{GN{G{Gn|G>|G"}G}GP}G~G~Gh~G.GGLG HH3HPHwH(H^HHMHlH H*HBHjHHFH}HFHnH&HiHH?HiH4HkHHMFOR HE SHALL HAVE HIS LIFE FOR A PREY, AND SHALL LIVE. # 3 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THIS CITY SHALL SURELY BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLONS ARMY, WHICH SHALL TAKE IT. # 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 THIDHwHHH+H;HVHhHHHBHgHuHHHH)H@H_H;HVHdHH6HBHVHzHH-HAHUHjHH3HWHH:HR H HB H\ H H H3 H? Ho H H& H7 HM Ht H HA HR Ha HlHH/HFH]H~HH"H9HLHaH~ H H* Hq H7 H@ Hk H HA Ho H H H8H@H[HH H+HIH_HxHH#HBHH@H_H{HH,H?HXHmHHHH'HWH|H<HHVH)H@HuHHH-H<HIHcHHH2H:HCHNHZHcHoHzHHHH%H1H7HSHZH_HH'H8HKHxHH&H4HNHlHH(HIH_HoxBH|H3HYHHBHfH$HPHH.HlH)HaHHSHHPHH1HjH"H[HHIHH@HtH)HcHHUING, THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, WHOM THEY HAVE CAST INTO THE DUNGEON; AND HE IS LIKE TO DIE FOR HUNGER IN THE PLACE WHERE HE IS: FOR THERE IS NO MORE BREAD IN THE CITY. # 10 THEN THE KING COMMANDED EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN, SAYING, TAKE FROM HENCE THIRTY MEN WITH THEE, AND TAKE UP JEREMIAH THE PROPHET OUT OF THE DUNGEON, BEFORE HE DIE. # 11 SO EBEDMELECH TOOK THE MEN WITH HIM, AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE K@BHH0HpHHCHsHHOH}H,HUHoLOUTS AND OLD ROTTEN RAGS, AND LET THEM DOWN BY CORDS INTO THE DUNGEON TO JEREMIAH. # 12 AND EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN SAID UNTO JEREMIAH, PUT NOW THESE OLD CAST CLOUTS AND ROTTEN RAGS UNDER THINE ARMHOLES UNDER THE CORDS. AND JEREMIAH DID SO. # 13 SO THEY DREW UP JEREMIAH WITH CORDS, AND TOOK HIM UP OUT OF THE DUNGEON: AND JEREMIAH REMAINED IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON. # 14 THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT, AND TOOK JEREMIAH THE PROPHET UNTO HIM INTO THE THIRD ENTRY THAT IS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD: AND THE KING SAID UNTO JEREMIAH, I BHH3HQHjHH2HKHfFROM ME. # 15 THEN JEREMIAH SAID UNTO ZEDEKIAH, IF I DECLARE IT UNTO THEE, WILT THOU NOT SURELY PUT ME TO DEATH? AND IF I GIVE THEE COUNSEL, WILT THOU NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME? # 16 SO ZEDEKIAH THE KING SWARE SECRETLY UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THAT MADE US THIS SOUL, I WILL NOT PUT THEE TO DEATH, NEITHER WILL I GIVE THEE INTO THE HAND OF THESE MEN THAT SEEK THY LIFE. # 17 THEN SAID JEREMIAH UNTO ZEDEKIAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; IF THOU WILT ASSUREDLY GO FORTH UNTO THE KING OF BABYLONS PRINCES, THENC H HO H H; HM!H!H>!H{!H-!Hc"H7"Hd"Hp"H%"Hq#H#H1#HV#Hm#H/#H?#He$H $HK$H$H'$H\$H%HI%H%Hb%H}&H)&Hc&H&H,&Hi'HP'H'H'Hb(H.(Hj(H)(Hw)H8)HW)H)H9*H*H%*Hh*H*H,*HY*H|+H+HQ+H}+H5+Hs,H,H9,Hk,H ,HITH FIRE, AND THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE OUT OF THEIR HAND. # 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. # 20 BUT JEREMIAH SAID, THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEE. OBEY, I BESEECH THEE, THE VOICE OF THE LORD, WHICH I SPEAKPC-H -H;-H-HZ.H+.Hw.HB/H/HU/H/HV0H0HH0H 0HD1H1H<1H1H?1Hp2H#2HM2H3H3H 3H3HK4H4H@4H4HZ5HG5HA6H 6HS6H 6Hj7H!7Hu7H&7H^8H8HX8H~8Hb8Ho9H99HL9H5:H:H;HC KING OF JUDAHS HOUSE SHALL BE BROUGHT FORTH TO THE KING OF BABYLONS 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. # 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 HAN A;H#;HgH>HT>H >H)>Hc?H"?Hf?H'?Hh?H{@H"@HcAH5AHTAHZBH-BHyBHtCH5CHcCH!CHuDH;DHvDH6DHoEHJEH%EHwFHFHFHIGHGH[GHcHH(HH]HH-IHIHRIHIH]RCEIVED. # 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. = CHAPTER 39 # 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. # 2 AND IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH, IN THE FOURTH MONTH, THE NINTH DAY@BJHLHLHeLH5LH~MHQMH NHLL 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. # 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 KINGS GARDEN, BY THE GATE BETWIXT THE TWO WALLS: AND HE WENT OUT THE WAY OF THE PLAIN. # 5 BUT THE CHALDEANS ARMY PURSUED AFTER THEM, AND OVERTOOK ZEDEKIA`BNH4NHRNHNHNHHNHjOHOH)OHIOHtOHOH3OHQOHvHEY BROUGHT HIM UP TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON TO RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH, WHERE HE GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM. # 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. # 7 MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAHS EYES, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS, TO CARRY HIM TO BABYLON. # 8 AND THE CHALDEANS BURNED THE KINGS HOUSE, AND THE HOUSES OF THE PEOPLE, WITH FIRE, AND BRAKE DOWN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM. # 9 THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIE@APHPH:PHNTO 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. # 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. # 11 NOW NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON GAVE CHARGE CONCERNING JEREMIAH TO NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD, SAYING, # 12 TAKE HIM, AND LOOK WELL TO HIM, AND DO HIM NO HARM; BUT DO UNTO HIM EVEN AS HE SHALL SAY UNTO THEE. # 13 SO NEBUZARADABPHDPHoQHQH=QHdQH$QHHQHpRHUSHASBAN, RABSARIS, AND NERGALSHAREZER, RABMAG, AND ALL THE KING OF BABYLONS PRINCES; # 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. # 15 NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH, WHILE HE WAS SHUT UP IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON, SAYING, # 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 @RHCAND NOT FOR GOOD; AND THEY SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THAT DAY BEFORE THEE. # 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. # 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. = CHAPTER 40 # 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 ARHRH+RH?RHVAY CAPTIVE OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH, WHICH WERE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE UNTO BABYLON. # 2 AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK JEREMIAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD THY GOD HATH PRONOUNCED THIS EVIL UPON THIS PLACE. # 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. # 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 TH`ARHsSHSH?SH]SHSH+SHT 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. # 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. # 6 THEN WENT JEREMIAH UNTO GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM TO MI@ATH TH-THO WITH HIM AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT WERE LEFT IN THE LAND. # 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; # 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 NETOPHATH@ATHTH+TH]H THE SON OF A MAACHATHITE, THEY AND THEIR MEN. # 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. # 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. # 11 LIKEWISE WHEN ALL THE JEWS THAT WERE IN MOAB, AND AMONG THE AMMONITES, AND IN EDOM,@AUH UH;UHdN 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; # 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. # 13 MOREOVER JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES THAT WERE IN THE FIELDS, CAME TO GEDALIAH TO MIZPAH, # 14 AND SAID UNTO HIM, DOST THOU CERTAINLY KNOW THAT BAALIS THE KING OF THE AMMONITES HATH SENT ISHMAEAUHUH@ NETHANIAH TO SLAY THEE? BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM BELIEVED THEM NOT. # 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? # 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. = CHAPTER 41 # 1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEV`BUH{VH2VHPVHjVH VH*VHPVHqWH,WHZWH|WH'WHOWHjLISHAMA, 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. # 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. # 3 ISHMAEL ALSO SLEW ALL THE JEWS THAT WERE WITH HIM, EVEN WITH GEDALIAH, AT MIZPAH, AND THE CHALDEANS THAT WERE FOUND THERE, AAXH+XHSXHXH3# 4 AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SECOND DAY AFTER HE HAD SLAIN GEDALIAH, AND NO MAN KNEW IT, # 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. # 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. # 7 AND IT WAS SO, WHEN THE`BXHEXHyYH2YHYYHYHvZH>ZHyZH@[H[Hh[H'\H\H\HX]H#]Hb]H]Hk^H-^Hu^H^_H4_H_Hl`HJ`H_aHdE PIT, HE, AND THE MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM. # 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. # 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 NETHANIAHBaH aHebH)bHjbHBcHcHcH`dH0dHeH eHUeH6fHfHfHrAWAY CAPTIVE ALL THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN MIZPAH, EVEN THE KINGS 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. # 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, # 12 THEN THEY TOOK ALL THE MEN, AN@BgH gH;hH"hHthHWiH.iHjHjHkH kHhkHblHilH7mHmHEmH mH[nH.nH nHhoH7oH@pH.IBEON. # 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. # 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. # 15 BUT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH ESCAPED FROM JOHANAN WITH EIGHT MEN, AND WENT TO THE AMMONITES. # 16 THEN TOOK JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPT(BpHpHsqH%qHnqHUrH2rH>sHsHsHbtH-tHuHuHRuHuHGvHvHGvHvH}wHCERED 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: # 17 AND THEY DEPARTED, AND DWELT IN THE HABITATION OF CHIMHAM, WHICH IS BY BETHLEHEM, TO GO TO ENTER INTO EGYPT, # 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 GO`BwHwH=xHxHWxH+yH yH0yH5zH zHmzHT{H{HO{HF|H|H]|H8}H}HF}H"}Hr~HT~H~HsH1HqH>HEZANIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, AND ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST, CAME NEAR, # 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:) # 3 THAT THE LORD THY GOD MAY SHEW US THE WAY WHEREIN WE MAY WALK, AND THE THING THAT WE MAY DO. # 4 THEN JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SAID UNTO THBH6HYHxHH0HHH_HzH$HFH]HHH)HAHeCCORDING 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. # 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. # 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 BH~HH.HEH\HkHH,H:HXHxHH7HEHqH)THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH. # 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, # 9 AND SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO WHOM YE SENT ME TO PRESENT YOUR SUPPLICATION BEFORE HIM; # 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. # 11 BE NOT AFRAPBH?H[HmHHH*H=HRHmH~HH4HM AFRAID OF HIM, SAITH THE LORD: FOR I AM WITH YOU TO SAVE YOU, AND TO DELIVER YOU FROM HIS HAND. # 12 AND I WILL SHEW MERCIES UNTO YOU, THAT HE MAY HAVE MERCY UPON YOU, AND CAUSE YOU TO RETURN TO YOUR OWN LAND. # 13 BUT IF YE SAY, WE WILL NOT DWELL IN THIS LAND, NEITHER OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, # 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: # 15 AND NOW THEREFORE HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, Y@AH\HrH H)HGH_AITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; IF YE WHOLLY SET YOUR FACES TO ENTER INTO EGYPT, AND GO TO SOJOURN THERE; # 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. # 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 WI@AHqH H!H5HUHs 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. # 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. # 20 FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS, WHEN YE SENT ME UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD, SAYING, PRAY AH H)HFH] OUR GOD; AND ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT THE LORD OUR GOD SHALL SAY, SO DECLARE UNTO US, AND WE WILL DO IT. # 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. # 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. = CHAPTER 43 # 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, FOAHuHH*HBIR GOD HAD SENT HIM TO THEM, EVEN ALL THESE WORDS, # 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: # 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. # 4 SO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, OBEYED NOT THE VO AHUH`HvHHL IN THE LAND OF JUDAH. # 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; # 6 EVEN MEN, AND WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, AND THE KINGS 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. # 7 SO THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT: FOR THEY OBEYED NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD: THUS CAME THEY@AH1H>HPES. # 8 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH IN TAHPANHES, SAYING, # 9 TAKE GREAT STONES IN THINE HAND, AND HIDE THEM IN THE CLAY IN THE BRICKKILN, WHICH IS AT THE ENTRY OF PHARAOHS HOUSE IN TAHPANHES, IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN OF JUDAH; # 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. # 11 AND WHEN HE COMETH, HE SHALL SMITE THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND DELI@AHbHwHHH&H?TO DEATH; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR CAPTIVITY TO CAPTIVITY; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE SWORD TO THE SWORD. # 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. # 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. = CHAPTER 44 # 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH CONCERNIAHVHlHHH DWELL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, WHICH DWELL AT MIGDOL, AND AT TAHPANHES, AND AT NOPH, AND IN THE COUNTRY OF PATHROS, SAYING, # 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, # 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. # 4 HOWBEIT I SENT UNT@AH+H=HKVANTS THE PROPHETS, RISING EARLY AND SENDING THEM, SAYING, OH, DO NOT THIS ABOMINABLE THING THAT I HATE. # 5 BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR TO TURN FROM THEIR WICKEDNESS, TO BURN NO INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS. # 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. # 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, CHI@H[UCKLING, OUT OF JUDAH, TO LEAVE YOU NONE TO REMAIN; # 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? # 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 JERUPBHqHHH(H:HIH_H~ H H2 HZ H H(EITHER HAVE THEY FEARED, NOR WALKED IN MY LAW, NOR IN MY STATUTES, THAT I SET BEFORE YOU AND BEFORE YOUR FATHERS. # 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. # 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 A HC H] Hx H HSWORD AND BY THE FAMINE: AND THEY SHALL BE AN EXECRATION, AND ASTONISHMENT, AND A CURSE, AND A REPROACH. # 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: # 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. # 15 THEN ALL THE MEN WHICH KNEW THAT A H3 HP Hl H HNCENSE 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, # 16 AS FOR THE WORD THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN UNTO US IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, WE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEE. # 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:@A H, HD HaWE PLENTY OF VICTUALS, AND WERE WELL, AND SAW NO EVIL. # 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. # 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? # 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, SAYIN A HyHH%H@HUAT 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? # 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. # 23 BECAUSE YE HAVE BURNED INCENSE, AND BECAUSE YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT OBEYED TH@HlOF 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. # 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: # 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 SUREL@HzLISH YOUR VOWS, AND SURELY PERFORM YOUR VOWS. # 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. # 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. # 28 YET A SMALL NUMBER THAT ESCAPE THE SWORD SHALL RETURN OUT OF T@H 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 THEIRS. # 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: # 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 ENE0BH'HAHf H H H% H< HS He H~ H H( H= HT Hq H} H H- HO Hj H H!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, # 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO THEE, O BARUCH: # 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. # 4 THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO HIM, THE LORD SAITH THUS; BEHOLD, THAT WHICH I