1 How is the gold become dim!howis the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the jackals […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O what isLord, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our pursuers are upon our […]
Jeremiah 1
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 to whom the word of theLordcame in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of […]
Jeremiah 2
1 And the word of theLordcame to me, saying, 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith theLord, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israelwasholiness unto theLord, […]
Jeremiah 3
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith theLord. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the […]
Jeremiah 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith theLord, unto me shalt thou return: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed; 2 and thou shalt swear, As theLordliveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and […]
Jeremiah 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her. 2 And though they say, As theLordliveth; surely they swear falsely. […]
Jeremiah 6
1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem: for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction. 2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. 3 Shepherds with […]
Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from theLord, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of theLord’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of theLord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship theLord. 3 Thus saith theLordof hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways […]
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, saith theLord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 and they shall spread them before the […]