Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

1 Thus said theLord, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, andtakeof the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

2 and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee:

3 and say, Hear ye the word of theLord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus saith theLordof 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 they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the 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 theLord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, 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 hand of them that seek their life: 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 an astonishment, 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 in the straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, 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 theLordof 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 in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith theLord, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even 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 Topheth, whither theLordhad sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of theLord’S house, and said to all the people:

15 Thus saith theLordof 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 made their neck stiff, that they might not hear my words.

1 Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of theLord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of theLord.

3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, TheLordhath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

4 For thus saith theLord, 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 to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the precious things thereof, yea, 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, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.

7 OLord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughingstock all the day, every one mocketh me.

8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and spoil: because the word of theLordis made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in mine heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannotcontain.

10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him,sayall my familiar friends, they that watch for my halting; peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

11 But theLordis with me as a mighty oneanda terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which shall never be forgotten.

12 But, OLordof hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

13 Sing unto theLord, praise ye theLord: for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

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 theLordoverthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontide;

17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from theLord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

2 Inquire, I pray thee, of theLordfor us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure theLordwill 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 theLord, the 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 gather 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 theLord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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 theLord: 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 away 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 upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith theLord: 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, hear ye the word of theLord:

12 O house of David, thus saith theLord, Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth 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,andof the rock of the plain, saith theLord; ye which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith theLord: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

1 Thus said theLord: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

2 And say, Hear the word of theLord, 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 theLord: 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 theLord, that this house shall become a desolation.

6 For thus saith theLordconcerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me,andthe head of Lebanon:yetsurely I will make thee a wilderness,andcities 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 theLorddone thus unto this great city?

9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of theLordtheir 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 theLordtouching 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 in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

14 that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

15 Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? then it was well with him.

16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith theLord.

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 theLordconcerning 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 Abarim; 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 feed all thy shepherds, 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 greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

24 As I live, saith theLord, 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 of whom thou art afraid, 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 their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of theLord.

30 Thus saith theLord, 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.

1 Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith theLord.

2 Therefore thus saith theLord, the God of Israel, against the shepherds 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 theLord.

3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith theLord.

5 Behold, the days come, saith theLord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute judgment and justice in the land.

6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, TheLordis our righteousness.

7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith theLord, that they shall no more say, As theLordliveth, which brought up the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

8 but, As theLordliveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

9 Concerning the prophets. Mine heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of theLord, and because of his holy words.

10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures 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 theLord.

12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places 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 theLord.

13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen an horrible thing; they commit adultery, and walk in lies, and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

15 Therefore thus saith theLordof 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 theLordof hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you; they teach you vanity: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of theLord.

17 They say continually unto them that despise me, TheLordhath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

18 For who hath stood in the council of theLord, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word, and heard it?

19 Behold, the tempest of theLord,even hisfury, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

20 The anger of theLordshall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23 Am I a God at hand, saith theLord, and not a God afar off?

24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith theLord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith theLord.

25 I have heard what the prophets have 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; even the 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 forgat 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 straw to the wheat? saith theLord.

29 Is not my word like as fire? saith theLord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith theLord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith theLord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith theLord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither shall they profit this people at all, saith theLord.

33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of theLord? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith theLord.

34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of theLord, 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 theLordanswered? and, What hath theLordspoken?

36 And the burden of theLordshall ye mention no more: for every man’s own word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of theLordof hosts our God.

37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath theLordanswered thee? and, What hath theLordspoken?

38 But if ye say, The burden of theLord; therefore thus saith theLord: Because ye say this word, The burden of theLord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of theLord;

39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

40 and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten.

1 TheLordshewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of theLord; after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

3 Then said theLordunto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

4 And the word of theLordcame unto me, saying,

5 Thus saith theLord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am theLord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus saith theLord, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah; the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

2 the which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:

3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of theLordhath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

4 And theLordhath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear;

5 saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that theLordhath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore:

6 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith theLord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

8 Therefore thus saith theLordof hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith theLord, andI will sendunto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith theLord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them, even of them: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

15 For thus saith theLord, the God of Israel, unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

17 Then took I the cup at theLord’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom theLordhad sent me:

18 to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

20 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the cornersof their hairpolled;

24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;

25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith theLordof hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith theLordof hosts: Ye shall surely drink.

29 For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith theLordof hosts.

30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, TheLordshall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar against his fold; he shall give a shout, as they that treadthe grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for theLordhath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith theLord.

32 Thus saith theLordof hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

33 And the slain of theLordshall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.

34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselvesin ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the howling of the principal of the flock! for theLordlayeth waste their pasture.

37 And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of theLord.

38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressingsword, and because of his fierce anger.

1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from theLord, saying,

2 Thus saith theLord: Stand in the court of theLord’S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in theLord’S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; keep not back a word.

3 It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith theLord: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

5 to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

7 And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of theLord.

8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that theLordhad commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of theLord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of theLord.

10 And when the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house unto the house of theLord; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of theLord’Shouse.

11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, TheLordsent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of theLordyour God; and theLordwill repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.

15 Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth theLordhath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of theLordour God.

17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

18 Micaiah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith theLordof hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear theLord, and entreat the favour of theLord, and theLordrepented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls,

20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of theLord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt,namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt:

23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from theLord, saying,

2 Thus saith theLordto me: Make thee bands and bars, 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 children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

4 and give them a charge unto their masters; saying, Thus saith theLordof 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 face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right 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 also have I given him to serve him.

7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own 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 the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith theLord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

9 But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, 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 nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, thatnationwill I let remain in their own land, saith theLord; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

12 And I spake 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 theLordhath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

14 And 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 theLord, but they prophesy falsely 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 theLord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of theLord’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 become a desolation?

18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of theLordbe with them, let them now make intercession to theLordof hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of theLord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

19 For thus saith theLordof hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels, that are left 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 theLordof hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of theLord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, saith theLord; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of theLord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

2 Thus speaketh theLordof 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 theLord’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 to Babylon, saith theLord: 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 theLord,

6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: theLorddo so: theLordperform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of theLord’S house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto 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 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 theLordhath truly sent him.

10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.

11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith theLord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

12 Then the word of theLordcame unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith theLord: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou shalt make in their stead bars of iron.

14 For thus saith theLordof 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; theLordhath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

16 Therefore thus saith theLord, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against theLord.

17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.