naniah's false prophecy. JEREMIAH. The house of the king of Judah, and 26 Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. far 19 For thus saith the LORD of allaosts concerning the pillars, and cona cerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city, 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem: Jeremiah's tester. took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the pre sence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylor from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet bad broken the yoke from off the neck of the pro 21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the ves-phet Jeremial, saying, sels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem, 92 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will i bring them up, and restore them to this place. CHAP. XXVIII. 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast bro ken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him and I have given him the beasts of the field also. 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah uno Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD bath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to AND it came to pass the same year, 2 Thus speaketa the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Dave broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. CHAP. XXIX. 3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchad-NOW these are the words of the nezzar king of Babylon took away. from this place, and carried them to Babylon : 4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; 2 (After that Jeconiah the king, 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said and the queen, and the eunuchs, the unto the prophet Hananiah in the pre-princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and sence of the priests, and in the pre-the carpenters, and the smiths, were sence of all the poople that stood in the departed from Jerusalem ;) house of the LORD, 6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. 7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people; 8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence 9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him. 10 Then Hananiah the prophet 3 By the band of Elasab the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebucadnezzar king of Babylon,; saying, 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and cat the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to bus bands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye inay be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the ##painst" Shab and Zedekiah. CHAP. XXX. The Jews' return LORD for it: for in the peace thereof, which are in Babylon, saying, The shall ye have peace. LORD make thee fike Zedekiah and 8 Fer thus saith the LORD of like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your roasted in the fire; prophets and your diviners, that be in 23 Because they have committed the midst of you, deceive you, ne-villany in israel, and have committed ther hearken to your dreams which ye adultery with their neighbour' wives, cause to be dreamed. and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: 1 have not sent them, saith the LORD. 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon 1 wilt visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and 1 will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 Because ye have said, The LORD bath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 16 Know that thus saith the LORD, of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your bre thren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 24¶ Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nebelamite, saying, 23 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israe!, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseial the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, or every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. 97 Now therefore, why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you? 28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiab, saying, 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concern ing Shemaiab the Nebelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied anto you, and I sent him not, and be caused you to trust in a lie: 18 And I will persecute them with 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; the sword, with the famine, and with Behold, I will punish shemaiah the the pestilence, and will deliver them Nebelamite, and his seed: he shall to be removed to all the kingdoms of not have a man to dwell among this the earth, to be a curse, and an asto-people; neither shall he behold the nishment, and an hissing, and a re- good that I will do for my people, proach, among all the nations whither saith the LORD: because he haili taught 1 have driven them: rebellion against the LORD. CHAP. XXX. 19 Because they have not nearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiab, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall Glay them before your eyes; 2 And of them shall be taken up a tyrse by all the captivity of Judah THE word that came to Jeremiata from the LORD, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that 1 gave to their fathers, and they shall pos sess it. 4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah., 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have beard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Jacob comforted. JEREMIAH. The restoration of Israch 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a I will also glorify them, and they sh man doth travail with child? where-not be small. fore do 1 see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him; 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for lo, 1 will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. 12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest he bound up; thou hast no healing medicines. 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I bave wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. 20 Their children also shail' be aforetime, and their congregation sha be established before me, and I w punish all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shail be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for wher this that engaged his heart to approaci unto me? saith the LORD. 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury a conti nuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, unti! he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: there fore with loving-kindness have 1 drawn thee. 4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy ta brets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as 15 Why criest thou for thine afflic-common things. tion? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. 16 Therefore all they that devour 7 For thus saith the LORD: Sing thee shall be devoured; and all thine with gladness for Jacob, and shout adversaries, every one of them, shall among the chief of the nations: pubgo into captivity; and they that spoi!lish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey save thy people, the remnant of Isupon thee will give for a prey. rael. 17 For 1 will restore health unto 8 Behold, I will bring them from thee, and I will heal thee of thy the north country, and gather them wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have niercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. 9 Ther shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause thein to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-børn. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O that make merry; and I will multi-ye nations, and declare it in the isles ply them, and they shall not be few afar off, and say, He that scattered Christ promised. CHAP. XXXI. Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than ke. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the JORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for 1 will turn their mourn ing into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the sou, of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. 15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not: 16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the Innd of the enemy. 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim be moaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my tough: 1 was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because 1 did bear the reproach of my youth. The Church's stability. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof togetber, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and 1 have replenished every sor rowful sou!. 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto ine. 27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over thein, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, saith the LORD. 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the band to which iny covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, [saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that 1 will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the great est of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled 35 Thus saith the LORD, which for him; I will surely have mercy up-giveth the sun for a light by day, and on him, saith the LORD. the ordinances of the moon and of 21 Set thee up way-marks, make the stars for a light by night, which thee high heaps: set thine heart to-divideth the sea when the ward the highway, even the way which thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is thou wentest: turn again, O virgin his name: of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. 36 I those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the 22 How long wilt thou go about, seed of Israel also shall cease from thou backsliding daughter? for the being a nation before me for ever. LORD hath created a new thing in 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven the earth, A woman shall compass a man. 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cries thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; the LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and ountain of boliness. above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. 38 Behold, the days come, satth the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. Jeremiah's imprisonment. JEREMIAH. 39 And the measuring-lite shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the asbes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse-gate toward the east, shall be boly unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any move for ever. CHAP. XXXII. THE word that came to Jeremiah Jeremiah's prayer scribed the book of the purchase, be fore all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.. 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the chase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may co tinue many days. 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed agar from the LORD in the tenth year in this land. of Zedekiah king of Judah, which 16Now when I had delivered the was the eighteenth year of Nebuchad-evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, rezzar. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem; and Jeremiab the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house. 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah bad shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and be shall take it ; 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah sball not escape out of the hand of the) Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes: 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall be be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye tight with the Chaldeans,ve shall not prosper. 6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Ah LORD God! behoid, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee; 18 Thou shewest loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, # his name; 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his do ings: 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name as at this day; 21 And hast brought forth thy peo 7 Behold, Hanameel the son of ple Israel out of the land of Egyp Shallum thine uncle shall come unto with signs, and with wonders, and thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is with a strong hand, and with a in Anathoth: for the right of redemp-stretched-out arm, and with great tion is thine to buy it. 8 So Hanameel inine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, pray thee, that is in Anatboth, which ir in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine: buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 9 And bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the baJances. 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open. 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Masseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that sub terror; 2x And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and boney; 23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they save done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thon bast caused all this evil to come upon them: 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and be hold, thou seest it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O LORD God, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses, for the city is given into the band of the Chaldeans 20 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying. 7 Behold, I am the LORD, in |