54:1Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.54:2Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.54:3For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.54:4Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.54:6For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.54:7For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.54:9For this isasthe waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.54:10For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.54:11You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.54:13All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.54:14In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.54:15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.54:16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.54:17No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.55:3Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.55:5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.55:6Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:55:7let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh.55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.55:10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;55:11so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.55:13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
56:1Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.56:2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.56:3Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.56:4For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:56:5To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.56:6Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;56:7even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.56:8The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gatherothersto him, besides his own who are gathered.56:9All you animals of the field, come to devour,yes, all you animals in the forest.56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.56:11Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.56:12Come you,say they, I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day,a daygreat beyond measure.
57:1The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evilto come.57:2He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.57:3But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.57:4Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,57:5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?57:6Among the smoothstonesof the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?57:7On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.57:8Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncoveredyourselfto another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.57:9You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.57:10You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.57:11Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.57:13When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.57:14He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hidmy faceand was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.57:20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.57:21There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
58:1Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.58:3Why have we fasted,say they, and you don't see?whyhave we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you findyour ownpleasure, and exact all your labors.58:4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.58:5Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?58:6Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?58:7Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?58:8Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.58:9Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;58:10and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.58:12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.58:13If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight,andthe holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speakingyour ownwords:58:14then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
59:1Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:59:2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.59:4None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.59:5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.59:6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.59:8The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.59:9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.59:10We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.59:11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.59:14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.59:15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.59:16He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.59:19So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.59:20A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh.59:21As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
60:1Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.60:2For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.60:3Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.60:4Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.60:5Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.60:6The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.60:7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.60:8Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?60:9Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.60:10Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.60:11Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.60:12For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.60:14The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.60:15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.60:16You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.60:17For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.60:19The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.60:20Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.60:21Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.60:22The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
61:1The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the openingof the prisonto those who are bound;61:2to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;61:3to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.61:4They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.61:5Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.61:6But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you will boast yourselves.61:7Instead of your shameyou shall havedouble; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.61:8For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.61:9Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.61:11For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62:1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.62:2The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.62:3You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.62:4You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,62:7and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.62:8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:62:9but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.62:10Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.62:11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.62:12They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.63:2Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.63:5I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.63:6I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.63:7I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh,andthe praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.63:8For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy,andhimself fought against them.63:11Then he remembered the days of old, Mosesandhis people,saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?63:12who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?63:13who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble?63:14As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.63:16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.63:18Your holy people possesseditbut a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.63:19We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.
64:1Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,64:2as when fire kindles the brushwood,andthe fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!64:3When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.64:4For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.64:5You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in themhave we beenof long time; and shall we be saved?64:6For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.64:7There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.64:9Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.64:10Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.64:12Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
65:1I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.65:2I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;65:3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;65:4who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;65:5who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.65:6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,65:7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.65:8Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.65:9I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.65:10Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.65:11But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;65:12I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.65:13Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;65:14behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.65:15You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:65:16so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.65:17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.65:18But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.65:19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.65:20There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.65:21They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.65:23They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.65:24It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.65:25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.
66:1Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?66:2For all these things has my hand made, andsoall these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering,as he who offerspig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:66:4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.66:5Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.66:7Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a boy.66:8Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.66:9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shutthe womb? says your God.66:10Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;66:11that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.66:12For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suckof it; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.66:13As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.66:14You shall seeit, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.66:15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.66:16For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.66:17Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselvesto goto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says Yahweh.66:18For Iknowtheir works and their thoughts:the timecomes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.66:19I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.66:20They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.66:21Of them also will I take for priestsandfor Levites, says Yahweh.66:22For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so your seed and your name shall remain.66:23It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahweh.66:24They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
Notes:
[1]back to 5:10literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
[2]back to 5:101 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons
[3]back to 5:101 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
[4]back to 5:101 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.
[5]back to 5:14Sheol is the place of the dead.
[6]back to 7:14"Immanuel" means "God with us."
[7]back to 8:1"Maher Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."
[8]back to 29:2or, Ariel
[9]back to 34:14literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster
[10]back to 45:5or, equip
[11]back to 53:11So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits "the light".
1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:1:2to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.1:3It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.1:4Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,1:5Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.1:6Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child.1:7But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.1:8Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh.1:9Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:1:10behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.1:11Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.1:12Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.1:13The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and its face is from the north.1:14Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.1:15For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.1:16I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.1:17You therefore gird up your waist, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.1:18For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.1:19They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.
2:1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,2:2Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.2:3Israelwasholiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh.2:4Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:2:5thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?2:6Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?2:7I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.2:8The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.2:9Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend.2:10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.2:11Has a nation changeditsgods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.2:12Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.2:13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a native-bornslave? why is he become a prey?2:15The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.2:16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.2:17Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?2:18Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?2:19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.2:20For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.2:23How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done:you area swift dromedary traversing her ways;2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.2:25Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;2:27who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.2:28But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.2:29Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.2:30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.2:31Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?2:32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.2:33How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.2:34Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.2:35Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.2:36Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.2:37From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.3:2Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.3:4Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?3:5Will he retainhis angerforever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.3:6Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.3:7I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.3:8I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.3:9It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh.3:11Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.3:12Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keepangerforever.3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.3:14Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:3:15and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.3:16It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.3:17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.3:18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.3:19But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.3:20Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.3:21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weepingandthe petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.3:22Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.3:23Truly in vain isthe help that is looked forfrom the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.3:24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
4:1If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;4:2and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.4:3For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.4:4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.4:5Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.4:6Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.4:7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.4:9It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.4:10Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.4:11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;4:12a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.4:13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariotsshall beas the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?4:15For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:4:16make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem,thatwatchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.4:17As keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.4:18Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.4:20Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed,andmy curtains in a moment.4:21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?4:22For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.4:23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.4:24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.4:25I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.4:26I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh,andbefore his fierce anger.4:27For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.4:28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.4:29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.4:30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful;yourlovers despise you, they seek your life.4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands,saying, Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
5:1Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.5:2Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.5:3O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:5:5I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many,andtheir backsliding is increased.5:7How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.5:8They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.5:9Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?5:10Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh.5:12They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:5:13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.5:14Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.5:15Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.5:16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.5:17They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread,whichyour sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.5:18But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.5:19It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then you shall say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.5:20Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,5:21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:5:22Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.5:23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.5:28They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.5:29Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?5:30A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:5:31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
6:1Flee for safety, you 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 looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.6:2The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.6:3Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place.6:4Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.6:5Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.6:6For thus has Yahweh of Armies said, Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.6:7As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.6:8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.6:9Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.6:11Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.6:12Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.6:13For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.6:14They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.6:16Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walktherein.6:17I set watchmen over you,saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.6:18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.6:19Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.6:20To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.6:21Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.6:22Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.6:23They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.6:24We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us,andpangs as of a woman in travail.6:25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy,andterror, are on every side.6:26Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.6:27I have made you a tester of metalsanda fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.6:28They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.6:29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.6:30Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.
7:1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,7:2Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.7:3Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.7:4Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;7:6if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:7:7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.7:8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.7:9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,7:10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?7:11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.7:12But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.7:13Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:7:14therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.7:15I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.7:16Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.7:17Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.7:19Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh;do theynotprovokethemselves, to the confusion of their own faces?7:20Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.7:21Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.7:22For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:7:23but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.7:24But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked intheir owncounselsandin the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.7:25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:7:26yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.7:27You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.7:28You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.7:29Cut off your hair,Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.7:30For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.7:31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.7:32Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no placeto bury.7:33The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.