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JER-1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
JER-1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah
the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
reign.
JER-1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the
son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem
captive in the fifth month.
JER-1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
JER-1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and
before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,
[and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
JER-1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for
I [am] a child.
JER-1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for
thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
JER-1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to
deliver thee, saith the LORD.
JER-1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth.
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy
mouth.
JER-1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and
over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy,
and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
JER-1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond
tree.
JER-1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I
will hasten my word to perform it.
JER-1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and
the face thereof [is] toward the north.
JER-1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil
shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
JER-1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms
of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they
shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
JER-1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching
all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own
hands.
JER-1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak
unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their
faces, lest I confound thee before them.
JER-1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city,
and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land,
against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against
the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
JER-1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver thee.
*JER-2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
JER-2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love
of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness,
in a land [that was] not sown.
JER-2:3 Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the
firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
JER-2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Israel:
JER-2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers
found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity, and are become vain?
JER-2:6 Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 no man passed
through, and where no man dwelt?
JER-2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the
fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye
defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
JER-2:8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they
that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed
against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
after [things that] do not profit.
JER-2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD,
and with your children's children will I plead.
JER-2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send
unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a
thing.
JER-2:11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no
gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which]
doth not profit.
JER-2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
JER-2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
JER-2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why
is he spoiled?
JER-2:15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and
they made his land waste: his cities are burned without
inhabitant.
JER-2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken
the crown of thy head.
JER-2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou
hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
JER-2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to
drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of
Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
JER-2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it
is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD
thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD
of hosts.
JER-2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst
thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon
every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest,
playing the harlot.
JER-2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me?
JER-2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee
much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord GOD.
JER-2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone
after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
JER-2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up
the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?
all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month
they shall find her.
JER-2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat
from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have
loved strangers, and after them will I go.
JER-2:26 As 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,
JER-2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a
stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their]
back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
JER-2:28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let
them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:
for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O
Judah.
JER-2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
JER-2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
JER-2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been
a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my
people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
JER-2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
JER-2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast
thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
JER-2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but
upon all these.
JER-2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his
anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
JER-2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou
also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
JER-2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands
upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and
thou shalt not prosper in them.
*JER-3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from
him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?
shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played
the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the
LORD.
JER-3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where
thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them,
as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the
land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
JER-3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there
hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead,
thou refusedst to be ashamed.
JER-3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father,
thou [art] the guide of my youth?
JER-3:5 Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it]
to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as
thou couldest.
JER-3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the
king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done?
she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there hath played the harlot.
JER-3:7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn
thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister
Judah saw [it].
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