24:011:007 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that Ibrought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day,rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
24:011:008 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
24:011:009 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
24:011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
24:011:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil uponthem, which they shall not be able to escape; and though theyshall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
24:011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalemgo, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: butthey shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
24:011:013 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
24:011:014 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cryor prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time thatthey cry unto me for their trouble.
24:011:015 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hathwrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed fromthee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
24:011:016 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and ofgoodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindledfire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
24:011:017 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
24:011:018 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
24:011:019 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
24:011:020 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triestthe reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: forunto thee have I revealed my cause.
24:011:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, thatseek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD,that thou die not by our hand:
24:011:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punishthem: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons andtheir daughters shall die by famine:
24:011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
24:012:001 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
24:012:002 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, andfar from their reins.
24:012:003 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and triedmine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for theslaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
24:012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every fieldwither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? thebeasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, Heshall not see our last end.
24:012:005 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee,then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land ofpeace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then howwilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
24:012:006 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even theyhave dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called amultitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fairwords unto thee.
24:012:007 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
24:012:008 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
24:012:009 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds roundabout are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of thefield, come to devour.
24:012:010 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden myportion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion adesolate wilderness.
24:012:011 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mournethunto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no manlayeth it to heart.
24:012:012 The spoilers are come upon all high places through thewilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from theone end of the land even to the other end of the land: noflesh shall have peace.
24:012:013 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have putthemselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall beashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of theLORD.
24:012:014 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, thattouch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel toinherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, andpluck out the house of Judah from among them.
24:012:015 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them outI will return, and have compassion on them, and will bringthem again, every man to his heritage, and every man to hisland.
24:012:016 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn theways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; asthey taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they bebuilt in the midst of my people.
24:012:017 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroythat nation, saith the LORD.
24:013:001 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle,and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
24:013:002 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and putit on my loins.
24:013:003 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
24:013:004 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
24:013:005 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
24:013:006 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said untome, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence,which I commanded thee to hide there.
24:013:007 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle fromthe place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle wasmarred, it was profitable for nothing.
24:013:008 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:013:009 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
24:013:010 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
24:013:011 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
24:013:012 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
24:013:013 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
24:013:014 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
24:013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
24:013:016 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, andbefore your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, whileye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, andmake it gross darkness.
24:013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secretplaces for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and rundown with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried awaycaptive.
24:013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sitdown: for your principalities shall come down, even the crownof your glory.
24:013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall openthem: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shallbe wholly carried away captive.
24:013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
24:013:021 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hasttaught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall notsorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
24:013:022 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these thingsupon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirtsdiscovered, and thy heels made bare.
24:013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24:013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth awayby the wind of the wilderness.
24:013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
24:013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
24:013:027 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
24:014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning thedearth.
24:014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are blackunto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
24:014:003 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
24:014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in theearth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
24:014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,because there was no grass.
24:014:006 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffedup the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because therewas no grass.
24:014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou itfor thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we havesinned against thee.
24:014:008 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble,why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as awayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
24:014:009 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man thatcannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and weare called by thy name; leave us not.
24:014:010 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
24:014:011 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
24:014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
24:014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
24:014:014 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
24:014:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
24:014:016 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
24:014:017 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyesrun down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: forthe virgin daughter of my people is broken with a greatbreach, with a very grievous blow.
24:014:018 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with thesword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that aresick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest goabout into a land that they know not.
24:014:019 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion?why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? welooked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time ofhealing, and behold trouble!
24:014:020 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity ofour fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
24:014:021 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace thethrone of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
24:014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
24:015:001 Then said the LORD unto 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.
24:015:002 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
24:015:003 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: thesword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of theheaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
24:015:004 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of theearth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah,for that which he did in Jerusalem.
24:015:005 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
24:015:006 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroythee; I am weary with repenting.
24:015:007 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; Iwill bereave them of children, I will destroy my people sincethey return not from their ways.
24:015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: Ihave brought upon them against the mother of the young men aspoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon itsuddenly, and terrors upon the city.
24:015:009 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up theghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hathbeen ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will Ideliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
24:015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strifeand a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neitherlent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every oneof them doth curse me.
24:015:011 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
24:015:012 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
24:015:013 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoilwithout price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thyborders.
24:015:014 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a landwhich thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,which shall burn upon you.
24:015:015 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revengeme of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
24:015:016 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word wasunto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am calledby thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
24:015:017 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I satalone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me withindignation.
24:015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, whichrefuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as aliar, and as waters that fail?
24:015:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
24:015:020 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
24:015:021 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
24:016:001 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
24:016:002 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
24:016:003 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;
24:016:004 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.
24:016:005 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.
24:016:006 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: theyshall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, norcut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
24:016:007 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, tocomfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cupof consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
24:016:008 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
24:016:009 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.
24:016:010 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?
24:016:011 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;
24:016:012 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:
24:016:013 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.
24:016:014 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;
24:016:015 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israelfrom the land of the north, and from all the lands whither hehad driven them: and I will bring them again into their landthat I gave unto their fathers.
24:016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and theyshall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, andthey shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill,and out of the holes of the rocks.
24:016:017 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
24:016:018 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sindouble; because they have defiled my land, they have filledmine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable andabominable things.
24:016:019 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the dayof affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the endsof the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inheritedlies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
24:016:020 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
24:016:021 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I willcause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall knowthat my name is The LORD.
24:017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with thepoint of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of theirheart, and upon the horns of your altars;
24:017:002 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
24:017:003 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
24:017:004 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
24:017:005 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from theLORD.
24:017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall notsee when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places inthe wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
24:017:007 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
24:017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
24:017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
24:017:010 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to giveevery man according to his ways, and according to the fruit ofhis doings.
24:017:011 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so hethat getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in themidst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
24:017:012 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
24:017:013 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
24:017:014 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shallbe saved: for thou art my praise.
24:017:015 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? letit come now.
24:017:016 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
24:017:017 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
24:017:018 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me beconfounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with doubledestruction.
24:017:019 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of thechildren of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,and by the which they go out, and in all the gates ofJerusalem;
24:017:020 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings ofJudah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,that enter in by these gates:
24:017:021 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear noburden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates ofJerusalem;
24:017:022 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbathday, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, asI commanded your fathers.
24:017:023 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but madetheir neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receiveinstruction.
24:017:024 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
24:017:025 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
24:017:026 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
24:017:027 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
24:018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
24:018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I willcause thee to hear my words.
24:018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, hewrought a work on the wheels.
24:018:004 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
24:018:005 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:018:006 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saiththe LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so areye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
24:018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, andconcerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and todestroy it;
24:018:008 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn fromtheir evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to dounto them.
24:018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
24:018:010 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
24:018:011 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
24:018:012 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after ourown devices, and we will every one do the imagination of hisevil heart.
24:018:013 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen,who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done avery horrible thing.
24:018:014 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from therock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that comefrom another place be forsaken?
24:018:015 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
24:018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag hishead.
24:018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; Iwill shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of theircalamity.
24:018:018 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
24:018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
24:018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
24:018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
24:018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
24:018:023 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
24:019:001 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, andtake of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of thepriests;
24:019:002 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is bythe entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words thatI shall tell thee,
24:019:003 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, andinhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, theGod of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, thewhich whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
24:019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place,and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neitherthey nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, andhave filled this place with the blood of innocents;
24:019:005 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn theirsons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which Icommanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
24:019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that thisplace shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of theson of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
24:019:007 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.
24:019:008 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.
24:019:009 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.
24:019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
24:019:011 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.
24:019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
24:019:013 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.
24:019:014 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,
24:019:015 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.
24:020:001 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chiefgovernor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiahprophesied these things.
24:020:002 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in thestocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was bythe house of the LORD.
24:020:003 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forthJeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, TheLORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
24:020:004 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.
24:020:005 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.
24:020:006 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.
24:020:007 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou artstronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,every one mocketh me.
24:020:008 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, anda derision, daily.
24:020:009 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.
24:020:010 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.
24:020:011 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.
24:020:012 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.
24:020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath deliveredthe soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
24:020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day whereinmy mother bare me be blessed.
24:020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, Aman child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
24:020:016 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;
24:020:017 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother mighthave been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
24:020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour andsorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
24:021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when kingZedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, andZephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
24:021:002 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.
24:021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
24:021:004 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.
24:021:005 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.
24:021:006 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
24:021:007 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.
24:021:008 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.
24:021:009 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.
24:021:010 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.
24:021:011 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
24:021:012 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.
24:021:013 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, androck of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall comedown against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
24:021:014 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forestthereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
24:022:001 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king ofJudah, and speak there this word,
24:022:002 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:
24:022:003 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: anddo no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless,nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
24:022:004 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in bythe gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne ofDavid, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,and his people.
24:022:005 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
24:022:006 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thouart Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I willmake thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
24:022:007 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with hisweapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and castthem into the fire.
24:022:008 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall sayevery man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thusunto this great city?
24:022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken thecovenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, andserved them.
24:022:010 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sorefor him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor seehis native country.
24:022:011 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:
24:022:012 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
24:022:013 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, andhis chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's servicewithout wages, and giveth him not for his work;
24:022:014 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, andpainted with vermilion.
24:022:015 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? didnot thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, andthen it was well with him?
24:022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
24:022:017 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.
24:022:018 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!
24:022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and castforth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
24:022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan,and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
24:022:021 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I willnot hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thouobeyedst not my voice.
24:022:022 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall gointo captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed andconfounded for all thy wickedness.
24:022:023 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the painas of a woman in travail!
24:022:024 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakimking of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would Ipluck thee thence;
24:022:025 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.
24:022:026 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.
24:022:027 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
24:022:028 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?
24:022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
24:022:030 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.
24:023:001 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
24:023:002 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.
24:023:003 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countrieswhither I have driven them, and will bring them again to theirfolds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
24:023:004 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them:and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shallthey be lacking, saith the LORD.
24:023:005 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise untoDavid a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
24:023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwellsafely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THELORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
24:023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that theyshall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up thechildren of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
24:023:008 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seedof the house of Israel out of the north country, and from allcountries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell intheir own land.
24:023:009 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all mybones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom winehath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the wordsof his holiness.
24:023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearingthe land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness aredried up, and their course is evil, and their force is notright.
24:023:011 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house haveI found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
24:023:012 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.
24:023:013 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
24:023:014 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.
24:023:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning theprophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and makethem drink the water of gall: for from the prophets ofJerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
24:023:016 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words ofthe prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: theyspeak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth ofthe LORD.
24:023:017 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said,Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walkethafter the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall comeupon you.
24:023:018 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hathperceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, andheard it?
24:023:019 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even agrievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head ofthe wicked.
24:023:020 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he haveexecuted, and till he have performed the thoughts of hisheart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
24:023:021 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
24:023:022 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.
24:023:023 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24:023:024 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.
24:023:025 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
24:023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets thatprophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of theirown heart;