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JER 01:01 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
JER 01:02 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 01:03 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 01:04 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
JER 01:05 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 01:06 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak:
for I [am] a child.
JER 01:07 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 01:08 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to
deliver thee, saith the LORD.
JER 01:09 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 01:10 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 01:11 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 01:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for
I will hasten my word to perform it.
JER 01:13 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 01:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil
shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
JER 01:15 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 01:16 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 01:17 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 01:18 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 01:19 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 02:01 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
JER 02:02 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 02:03 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 02:04 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and
all the families of the house of Israel:
JER 02:05 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 02:06 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 02:07 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 02:08 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 02:09 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD,
and with your children's children will I plead.
JER 02:10 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 02:11 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 02:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
JER 02:13 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 02:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]?
why is he spoiled?
JER 02:15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and
they made his land waste: his cities are burned without
inhabitant.
JER 02:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken
the crown of thy head.
JER 02:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that
thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
JER 02:18 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 02:19 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 02:20 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 02:21 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 02:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee
much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord GOD.
JER 02:23 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 02:24 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 02:25 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 02:26 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 02:27 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 02:28 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 02:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
JER 02:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received
no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like
a destroying lion.
JER 02:31 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 02:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
JER 02:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
JER 02:34 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 02:35 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 02:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria.
JER 02:37 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 03:01 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 03:02 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 03:03 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 03:04 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father,
thou [art] the guide of my youth?
JER 03:05 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 03:06 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 03:07 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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