Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for […]

1 Hear ye the word which theLordspeaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 thus saith theLord, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cutteth a tree out […]

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from theLord, saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 and say thou unto them, Thus saith theLord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this […]

1 Righteous art thou, OLord, when I plead with thee: yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art […]

1 Thus said theLordunto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I bought a girdle according to the word of theLord, and put it upon my loins. 3 And the word of theLordcame unto me the second time, saying, 4 […]

1 The word of theLordthat came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the pits, and find no water; they […]

1 Then said theLordunto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus […]

1 The word of theLordcame 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 theLordconcerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers […]

1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2 whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain […]

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from theLord, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought his work on the wheels. 4 And when the vessel that he made […]