 Chapter 43-48 of the Book of Jeremiah from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapter 43-48 of Jeremiah from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 43 And it cometh to pass when Jeremiah doth finish to speak unto all the people, all the words of Jehovah their God, with which Jehovah their God hath sent him unto them, all these words, that Azariah, son of Hoshaiya, and Johannon, son of Correa, and all the proud men speak unto Jeremiah, saying, Falsehood thou art speaking, Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Do not enter Egypt, who sojourn there, for Baruch, son of Narayah, is moving thee against us, in order to give us up into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death, and to remove us to Babylon, and Johannon, son of Correa, and all the heads of the forces, and all the people, have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah to dwell in the land of Judah, and Johannon, son of Correa, and all the heads of the forces, take all the remnant of Judah, who hath turned from all the nations, whither they were driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah, the men, and the women, and the infant, and the daughters of the king, and every person that Nebusaradan, chief of the executioners, had left with Gettleiah, son of Ahaycan, son of Shefan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch, son of Narayah, and they enter the land of Egypt, for they have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and they enter unto Tapanes, and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in Tapanes, saying, Take in thy hand great stones, and thou hast hidden them in the clay, in the brick kiln that is at the opening of the house of Pharaoh in Tapanes, before the eyes of the men of Judah, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, Lo, I am sending, and I have taken Nebuchadrezzar, King of Babylon, my servant, and I have set his throne above these stones that I have hid, and he hath stretched out his pavilion over them, and he hath come and smitten the land of Egypt, those who are for death to death, and those who are for captivity to captivity, and those who are for the sword to the sword, and I have kindled a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and it hath burned them, and he hath taken them captive, and covered himself with the land of Egypt, as cover himself docked the shepherd with his garment, and he hath gone forth thence in peace, and he hath broken the standing pillars of the house of the Son, that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt, he hath burned with fire. Chapter 44. The word that hath been unto Jeremiah, concerning all the Jews who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, who are dwelling in Migdal, and in Tapanes, and in Noth, and in the land of Paphros saying, Thus said Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, Ye, ye have seen all the evil that I have brought in on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah and Lo, they are a waste this day, and there is none dwelling in them, because of their wickedness that they have done by provoking me to anger, by going to make perfume, by serving other gods that they knew not, they, ye, and your fathers. And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated, and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear to turn back from their wickedness not to make perfume to other gods, and poured out is my fury and mine anger, and it burneth in cities of Judah and in streets of Jerusalem, and they are for a waste for a desolation as at this day. And now, Thus said Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant, by provoking me to anger by the works of your hands, by making perfume to other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are going into sojourn, so as to cut yourselves off, and so as to your being for a reviling and for a reproach among all nations of the earth. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives that they have done in the land of Judah and in streets of Jerusalem? They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in my law and in my statutes that I have set before you and before your fathers. Therefore, Thus said Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, lo, I am setting my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah, and I have taken the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt. They fall by sword, by famine they are consumed, from the least, even unto the greatest by sword, and by famine they die, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach. And I have seen after those dwelling in the land of Egypt as I saw after Jerusalem, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and there is not an escaped and remaining one of the remnant of Judah who are entering into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, even to turn back to the land of Judah whether they are lifting up their soul to return to dwell, for they do not turn back except those escaping. And they answer Jeremiah, all the men who are knowing that their wives are making perfume to other gods, and all the women who are remaining, a great assembly, even all the people who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros saying, the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we are not hearkening unto thee, for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth to make perfume to the Queen of the heavens and to pour out to her libations as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our heads in cities of Judah and in streets of Jerusalem, and we are satisfied with bread, and we are well and evil we have not seen, and from the time we have ceased to make perfume to the Queen of the heavens and to pour out to her libations, we have lacked all, and by sword and by famine we have been consumed, and when we are making perfume to the Queen of the heavens and pouring out to her libations without our husbands have we made for her cakes to idolize her and to pour out to her libations, and Jeremiah saith unto all the people concerning the men and concerning the women and concerning all the people who are answering him saying, the perfume that ye made in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your heads and the people of the land hath not Jehovah remembered it? Yea, it cometh up on his heart, and Jehovah is not able anymore to accept you because of the evil of your doings because of the abominations that ye have done and your land is for a waste and for an astonishment and for a reviling without inhabitant as at this day because that ye have made perfume and because ye have sinned against Jehovah and have not harkened to the voice of Jehovah and in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies ye have not walked. Therefore hath this evil met you as at this day and Jeremiah saith unto all the people and unto all the women hear ye a word of Jehovah all Judah who are in the land of Egypt thus spake Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel saying ye and your wives both speak with your mouth and with your hands have fulfilled saying we certainly execute our vows that we have vowed to make perfume to the Queen of the heavens and to pour out to her libations ye do certainly establish your vows and certainly execute your vows. Therefore hear ye a word of Jehovah all Judah who are dwelling in the land of Egypt lo, I, I have sworn by my great name said Jehovah my name is no more proclaimed by the mouth of any man of Judah saying lived off the Lord Jehovah in all the land of Egypt. Lo, I am watching over them for evil and not for good and consumed have been all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt by sworn and by famine till their consumption and the escaped of the sword turned back out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number and known have all the remnant of Judah who are coming into the land of Egypt to sojourn there whose word is established mine or theirs and this is to you the sign an affirmation of Jehovah that I am seeing after you in this place so that ye know that my words are certainly established against you for evil. Thus said Jehovah. Lo, I am giving Pharaoh Hafra King of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those seeking his life as I have given Zedekiah King of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon his enemy and who is seeking his life Chapter 45 the word that Jeremiah the prophet hath spoken unto Baruch son of Narayah in his writing these words on a book from the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah King of Judah saying Thus said Jehovah God of Israel concerning thee O Baruch thou hast said woe to me now for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain I have been wearied with my sighing and rest I have not found Thus dost thou say unto him Thus said Jehovah Lo, that which I have built I am throwing down and that which I have planted I am plucking up even the whole land itself and thou thou seekest for thee great things do not seek for Lo I am bringing in evil on all flesh an affirmation of Jehovah and I have given to thee thy life for a spoil in all places wither thou goest Chapter 46 that which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations for Egypt concerning the force of Pharaoh Neco King of Egypt that hath been by the river Freight in Karchemish that Nebuchadrezer King of Babylon hath smitten in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah King of Judah Set ye in array shield and buckler and draw nigh to battle gird the horses and go up ye horsemen and station yourselves with helmets polish the javelins put on the coats of mail wherefore have I seen them dismayed they are turned backward and their mighty ones are beaten down and to a refuge they have fled and not turned the face fear is round about an affirmation of Jehovah the swift do not flee nor do the mighty escape northward by the side of the river Freight they have stumbled and fallen who is this as a flood he cometh up as rivers do his waters shake themselves Egypt as a flood cometh up and as rivers the waters shake themselves and he saith I go up I cover the land I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it go up ye horses and boast yourselves ye chariots and go forth ye mighty cush and foot handling the shield and ludd handling treading the bow and that day is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts a day of vengeance to be avenged of his adversaries and the sword hath devoured and been satisfied and it hath been watered from their blood for a sacrifice is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts in the land of the north by the river Freight go up to Gilead and take balm O virgin daughter of Egypt in vain thou hast multiplied medicines healing there is none for the nations have heard of thy shame and thy cry hath filled the land for the mighty on the mighty did stumble together they have fallen both of them the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt declare ye in Egypt and sound in Migdal ye sound enough and entopony say station thyself ye prepare for thee for a sword hath devoured around thee wherefore hath thy bulb been swept away he hath not stood because Jehovah thrust him away he hath multiplied the stumbling ye one hath fallen upon his neighbor and they say rise and we turn back to our people and unto the land of our birth because of the oppressing sword they have cried there Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation passed by hath the appointed time I live an affirmation of the king Jehovah of hosts is his name surely as Tabor is among mountains and as Carmel by the sea he cometh in goods for removal make for thee O inhabitant daughter of Egypt for Noth becomeeth a desolation and hath been burnt up without inhabitant a heifer very fair as Egypt rending from the north doth come into her even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall for even they have turned they have fled together they have not stood for the day of their calamity hath come on them the time of their inspection its voice as a serpent goeth on for with a force they go and with axes they have come into her as hewers of trees they have cut down her forest an affirmation of Jehovah for it is not searched for they have been more than the grasshopper and they have no numbering ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt she hath been given into the hand of the people of the north said hath Jehovah of hosts God of Israel lo, I am seeing after amen of no and after Pharaoh and after Egypt and after her gods and after her kings and after Pharaoh and after those trusting in him and I have given them into the hand of those seeking their life and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hands of his servants and afterwards it is inhabited as in days of old an affirmation of Jehovah and thou thou dost not fear my servant Jacob nor art thou dismayed O Israel for lo, I am saving thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob hath turned back and hath been at rest and been at ease and there is none disturbing thou, thou dost not fear my servant Jacob an affirmation of Jehovah for with thee I am for I make an end of all the nations wither I have driven thee and of thee I do not make an end and I have reproved thee in judgment and do not entirely equip thee Chapter 47 That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh Smyteth Gaza Thus said Jehovah, lo, waters are coming up from the north and have been for an overflowing stream and they overflow the land in its fullness the city and the inhabitants in it and men have cried out and how old hath every inhabitant of the land from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones from the rushing of his chariot the noise of his wheels fathers have not turned unto sons from feebleness of hands because of the day that hath come to spoil all the Philistines to cut off to tire and to zide in every hoping remnant for Jehovah is spoiling the Philistines the remnant of the Isle of Kaptur come hath baldness unto Gaza cut off hath been Ashkelon O remnant of their valley till when dost thou cut thyself O sword of Jehovah till when art thou not quiet be removed unto thy sheath rest and cease how shall it be quiet and Jehovah hath given a charge to it against Ashkelon and against the seashore there hath he appointed it Chapter 48 Concerning Moab Thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel woe unto Nebo for it is spoiled put to shame captured hath been careth Ieem put to shame hath been the high tower yea it hath been broken down there is no more praise of Moab in Heshban they devised against it evil come and we cut it off from being a nation also O mad men thou art cut off after thee goeth a sword a voice of a cry is from Horonayem spoiling and great destruction destroyed hath been Moab caused a cry to be heard hath her little ones for the ascent of Luhith with weeping go up Doth weeping for in the descent of Horonayem adversaries a cry of desolation have heard flee ye deliver yourselves ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness for because of thy trusting in thy works and in thy treasures even thou art captured and gone out hath Chimosh in a removal his priests and his heads together and come in Doth a spoiler unto every city and no city doth escape and perished hath the valley and destroyed been the plain as Jehovah said give wings to Moab for she utterly goeth out and her cities are for a desolation without an inhabitant in them cursed is he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully and cursed is he who is withholding his sword from blood secure is Moab from his youth and at rest is he for his preserved things and he hath not been emptied up from vessel unto vessel and into captivity he hath not gone therefore hath his taste remained in him and his fragrance hath not been changed therefore low days are coming and affirmation of Jehovah and I have sent to him wanderers and they have caused him to wander and his vessels they empty out and his bottles they dash in pieces and ashamed hath been Moab because of Chimosh as the house of Israel hath been ashamed because of Bethel their confidence how do ye say we are mighty and men of strength for battle spoil this Moab and her cities hath one gone up and the choice of its young men have gone down to slaughter and affirmation of the king Jehovah of hosts is his name near is the calamity of Moab to come and his affliction hath hasted exceedingly bemoan for him all ye round about him and all knowing his name say ye how hath it been broken the staff of strength the rod of beauty come down from honor sit in thirst oh inhabitant daughter of Daibon for a spoiler of Moab hath gone up to thee he hath destroyed thy fenced places on the way stand and watch oh inhabitant of Arware ask the fugitive and escaped say what hath happened put to shame hath been Moab for it hath been broken down howl and cry declare ye an Arnan for spoiled is Moab and judgment hath come in unto the land of the plain unto Holon and unto Jahaza and on Mephaaf and on Daibon and on Nebo and on Beth Deblathayim and on Kirathayim and on Beth Gamoul and on Beth Mion and on Kiriath and on Basra and on all cities of the land of Moab the far off and the near cut down hath been the horn of Moab and his arm hath been broken an affirmation of Jehovah declare ye him drunk for against Jehovah he hath made himself great and Moab hath stricken in his vomit and he hath been for a derision even he and was not Israel the derision to thee among thieves was he found for since thy words concerning him thou dost bemoaned thyself forsake cities and dwell in Iraqi inhabitants of Moab and be as a dove making a nest in the passages of a pit's mouth we have heard of the arrogance of Moab exceeding proud his haughtiness and his arrogance and his pride and the height of his heart I I have known an affirmation of Jehovah his wrath and it is not right his devices not right have they done therefore for Moab I howl even for Moab all of it I cry for men of Kir Hares it doth mourn with the weeping of Jazer I weep for the ovine of Sibma thy branches hath passed over a sea unto the sea of Jazer they have come on thy summer fruits and on thy harvest a spoiler hath fallen and removed hath been joy and gladness from the fruitful field even from the land of Moab and wine from wine presses I have caused to cease shouting doth not proceed the shouting is no shouting because of the cry of Heshban unto Eliella unto Jahaz they have given their voice from Zohar unto Horonayim a heifer of the third year for even waters of Nimrim become desolations and I have caused to cease to Moab an affirmation of Jehovah him who is offering in a high place and him who is making perfume to his God therefore my heart for Moab hath pipestoth sound and my heart for men of Kir Hares hath pipestoth sound therefore the abundance he made did perish for every head is bald and every beard diminished on all hands cuttings and on the loins sackcloth on all roofs of Moab and in her broad places all of it is lamentation for I have broken Moab as a vessel in which there is no pleasure an affirmation of Jehovah how hath it been broken down they have howled how hath Moab turned the neck ashamed and Moab hath been for a derision and for a terror to all round about her for thus said Jehovah low as an eagle he doth flee and hath spread his wings unto Moab captured hath been the cities and the strongholds are caught and the heart of the mighty of Moab hath been in that day as the heart of a distressed woman and Moab hath been destroyed from being a people for against Jehovah he exerted himself fear and a snare and a gin are for thee o inhabitant of Moab an affirmation of Jehovah who so is fleeing because of the fear falleth into the snare and who so is coming up from the snare is captured by the gin for I bring in unto her unto Moab the year of their inspection an affirmation of Jehovah in the shadow of Heshban stood powerless hath fugitives for fire hath gone forth from Heshban and a flame from within Sihon and it consumeth the corner of Moab and the crown of the sons of Cheon woe to thee, O Moab perished hath the people of Chimash for thy sons were taken with the captives and thy daughters with the captivity and I have turned back to the captivity of Moab in the latter end of the days an affirmation of Jehovah hitherto is the judgment of Moab the end of chapters 43 through 48 of the book of Jeremiah from the Young's literal translation of the Bible recording by Mark Penfold chapters 49 through 52 of the book of Jeremiah from the Young's literal translation of the Bible this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or how to volunteer visit LibriVox.org recording by Mark Penfold chapters 49 through 52 of Jeremiah from the Young's literal translation chapter 49 concerning the sons of Ammon thus said Jehovah sons hath Israel none heir hath he none wherefore hath Malcham possessed Gad and his people in its cities have dwelt therefore low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have sounded unto Raba of the sons of Ammon a shout of battle and it hath been for a heap a desolation and her daughters with fire are burnt and Israel hath succeeded its heirs said hath Jehovah howl Heshban for spoiled is I cry daughters of Raba gird on sackcloth lament and go to and fro by the hedges for Malcham into captivity doth go his priests and his princes together what dost thou boast thyself in valleys flowed hath by valley O backsliding daughter who is trusting in her treasures who doth come in unto me lo I am bringing in upon the a fear an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of hosts from all round about thee and he hath been driven out each before it and there is no gatherer of the wandering and after this I turn back the captivity of the sons of Ammon an affirmation of Jehovah concerning Edom thus said Jehovah of hosts is wisdom no more in teamon perished hath counsel from the intelligent vanished hath their wisdom flee turn go deep to dwell ye inhabitants of D'dan for the calamity of Esau I brought in upon him the time I inspected him if gatherers have come into thee they do not leave gleaning if thieves in the night they have destroyed their sufficiency for I I have made Esau bare I have uncovered his secret places and to be hidden he is not able spoiled is his seed and his brethren and his neighbors and he is not leave thine orphans I do keep alive and thy widows on me trust ye for thus said Jehovah they whose judgment is not to drink of the cup do certainly drink and thou art he that is entirely acquitted thou art not acquitted for thou certainly drinkest for by myself I have sworn an affirmation of Jehovah that for a desolation for a reproach for a waste and for a reviling is Bozrah and all her cities are for wastes age during a report I have heard from Jehovah and an ambassador among nations is sent gather yourselves and come in against her and rise ye for battle for low little I have made the among nations despised among men thy terribleness have lifted the up the pride of thy heart O dweller in clefs of the rock holding the high place of the height for thou makest high as an eagle dynest from thence I bring thee down an affirmation of Jehovah and Edom have been for a desolation every passer by her is astonished and doth hiss because of all her plagues as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbors said Jehovah no one doth dwell there nor sojourn in her doth a son of man low as a lion he cometh up because of the rising of the Jordan unto the enduring habitation but I cause to rest I cause him to run from off her and who is chosen concerning her I lay at charge for who is like me and who conveneth me and who is this shepherd who standeth before me therefore here ye the council of Jehovah that he have counseled concerning Edom and his devices that he have devised concerning the inhabitants of Teaman drag them out do not little ones of the flock make desolate over them doth he not their habitation from the noise of their fall hath the earth shaken the cry at the sea of Suf is its voice heard low as an eagle he cometh up and flyeth and he spreadeth his wings over Bausra and the heart of the mighty of Edom hath been in that day as the heart of a distressed woman concerning Damascus ashamed hath been Hamath and Arpad for an evil report they have heard they have been melted in the sea is sorrow to be quiet it is not able feeble hath been Damascus she turned to flee and fear strengthened her distress and pangs have seized her as a travailing woman how is it not left the city of praise the city of my joy therefore fall do her young men in her broad places and all the men of war are cut off in that day an affirmation of Jehovah of hosts and I have kindled a fire against the wall of Damascus and it consumed palaces of Ben Haddad concerning Qidar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath smitten thus said Jehovah arise ye go ye up unto Qidar and spoil the sons of the east their tents and their flock they do take their curtains and all their vessels and their camels they bear away for themselves and they called concerning them fear is round about flee bemoan mightily go deep to dwell ye inhabitants of Hazor and affirmation of Jehovah for given counsel against you hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon yea he devises against them a device rise ye go up unto a nation at rest dwelling confidently and affirmation of Jehovah it hath no two-leaved doors nor bar alone they do dwell and their camels have been for a prey and the multitude of their cattle for a spoil and I have scattered them to every wind who cut off the corner of the beard and from all its passages I bring in their calamity and affirmation of Jehovah and Hazor hath been for a habitation of dragons a desolation unto the age no one doth dwell there nor sojourn in it doth a son of man that which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the servant concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah saying thus said Jehovah of hosts lo I am breaking the bow of Elam the beginning of their might and I have brought into Elam four winds from the four ends of the heavens and have scattered them to all these winds and there is no nation where their outcasts of Elam come not in and I have affrighted Elam before their enemies and before those seeking their life and I have brought in against them evil the heat of mine anger and affirmation of Jehovah and I have sent after them the sword till I have consumed them and I have set my throne in Elam and I have destroyed thence king and princes and affirmation of Jehovah and it have come to pass in the latter end of the days I turn back to the captivity of Elam and affirmation of Jehovah Chapter 50 the word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Babylon concerning the land of the Chaldeans by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet declare ye among nations and sound and lift up an ensign sound do not hide say ye captured hath been Babylon put to shame hath been Bell broken hath been Merodak put to shame hath been her grievous things broken hath been her idols for come up against her hath a nation from the north it maketh her land become a desolation and there is not an inhabitant in it from man even unto beast they have moved they have gone in those days and at that time and affirmation of Jehovah come in do sons of Israel they and sons of Judah together going on and weeping they go and Jehovah their God they seek to Zion they ask the way thither word are their faces come in and we are joined unto Jehovah a covenant age during not forgotten a perishing flock hath my people been their shepherds have caused them to air to the mountains causing them to go back from mountain unto hill they have gone they have forgotten their crouching place all finding them have devoured them and their adversaries have said we are not guilty because that they sinned against Jehovah the habitation of righteousness and the hope of their fathers Jehovah move he from the midst of Babylon and from the land of the Chaldeans go out and be as he goats before a flock for though I am stirring up and am causing to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from a land of the north and they have set in array against her from thence she has captured its arrow as a skillful hero returneth not empty and Caldea have been for a spoil all her spoilers are satisfied an affirmation of Jehovah because thou rejoicest because thou exultest oh spoilers of mine inheritance because thou increases as a heifer at the tender grass and dost cry aloud as bowls ashamed have been your mother greatly confounded have she been that bear you low the hindermost of nations is a wilderness a dry land and a desert because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited and it have been a desolation all of it every passerby at Babylon is astonished and doth hiss because of all her plagues set yourselves in array against Babylon roundabout all ye treading a bow shoot at her have no pity on the arrow for against Jehovah she hath sinned shout against her roundabout she hath given forth her hand fallen have her foundations thrown down have been her walls for it is the vengeance of Jehovah be avenged of her as she did do ye to her cut off the sower from Babylon and him handling the sickle in the time of harvest because of the oppressing sword each unto his people they turn and each to his land they flee a scattered sheep is Israel lions have driven away at first devour him did the king of Ashur and now at last broken his bone have Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon therefore thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel lo I am seeing after the king of Babylon and after his land as I have seen after the king of Ashur and I have brought back Israel unto his habitation and he hath fed on Carmel and on Bashan and in Mount Ephraim and on Gilead is his soul satisfied in those days and at that time an affirmation of Jehovah sought is the iniquity of Israel and it is not and the sin of Judah and it is not found for I am propitious to those whom I leave against the land of Marathaeim go up against it and unto the inhabitants of Pekad waste and devote their posterity and affirmation of Jehovah and do according to all that I have commanded the noise of battle is in the land and of great destruction how hath it been cut and broken the hammer of the whole earth how hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations I have laid a snare for thee and also thou art captured O Babylon and thou thou hast known thou hast been found and also art caught for against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up Jehovah hath opened his treasury and he bringeth out the weapons of his indignation for a work is to the Lord Jehovah of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans come ye into her from the extremity open ye her storehouses raise her up as heaps and devote her let her have no remnant slay all her kind they go down to slaughter woe is on them for come hath their day the time of their inspection a voice of fugitives and escaped ones is from the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God the vengeance of his temple summon unto Babylon archers all treading the bow in camp against her round about let her have no escape recompense to her according to her work according to all that she did due to her for unto Jehovah she hath been proud unto the Holy One of Israel therefore fall to her young men and her broad places and all her men of war are caught off in that day an affirmation of Jehovah lo I am against the oh pride an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of hosts for thy day hath come the time of thy inspection and stumbled hath pride and he hath fallen and hath no razor up and I have kindled a fire in his cities and it hath devoured all round about him thus said Jehovah of hosts oppressed are the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah together and all their captors hath kept hold on them they hath refused to send them away their redeemer is strong Jehovah of hosts is his name he doth thoroughly plead their case so as to cause the land to rest and he hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon a sword is for the Chaldeans an affirmation of Jehovah and it is on the inhabitants of Babylon and on her heads and on her wise men a sword is on the princes and they hath become foolish a sword is on her mighty ones and they hath been broken down a sword is on his horses and on his chariot and on all rabble who are in her midst and they hath become women a sword is on her treasuries and they hath been spoiled a sword is on her waters and they hath been dried up for it is a land of graven images and in idols they do boast themselves therefore dwelt duzeem with aeem yea dwelt in her have daughters of the ostrich and it is not inhabited any more forever nor dwelt in unto all generations as overthrown by God with Sodom and with Gomorrah and with its neighbors an affirmation of Jehovah none doth dwell there nor sojourn in her doth a son of man lo a people hath come from the north even a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth bow and halberd they seize cruel are they and they have no mercy their voice as a sea soundeth and on horses they ride set an array as a man for battle against the oh daughter of Babylon heard hath the king of Babylon their report and feeble hath been his hands distress hath seized him pain as a travailing woman lo as a lion he cometh up because of the rising of the Jordan unto the enduring habitation but I cause to rest I cause them to run from off her and who is chosen on her I lay a charge for who is like me and who doth convene me and who is this shepherd who standeth before me therefore hear ye the council of Jehovah that he counseled concerning Babylon and his devices that he hath devised concerning the land of the Chaldeans drag them out do not little ones of the flock doth he not make desolate over them the habitation from the voice captured was Babylon hath the earth been shaken and a cry among nations hath been heard Chapter 51 thus said Jehovah lo I am stirring up against Babylon and the inhabitants of Leb my withstanders a destroying wind and I have sent to Babylon fanners and they have fanned it and they empty its land for they have been against it round about in the day of evil let not the treader tread his bow nor lift himself up in his coat of mail nor have ye pity on her young men devote ye to destruction all her host and fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans and the pierced through in her streets for not forsaken Israel and Judah by its God by Jehovah of hosts for their land have been full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel flee ye from the midst of Babylon and deliver ye each his soul be not cut off in its iniquity for a time of vengeance it is to Jehovah recompense he is rendering to her a golden cup is Babylon in the hand of Jehovah making drunk all the earth of its wine drunk have nations therefore boast themselves do nations suddenly have Babylon fallen yay it is broken how will ye for it take balm for her pain if so be it may be healed we healed Babylon and she was not healed forsake her and we go each to his land for come unto the heavens hath its judgment and it hath been lifted up unto the clouds Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness come and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God cleanse ye the arrows fill the shields stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Medea for against Babylon his device is to destroy it for the vengeance of Jehovah it is the vengeance of his temple unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign strengthen the watch establish the watchers prepare the ambush for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon O dweller on many waters abundant in treasures come in hath thine end the measure of thy dishonest gain sworn hath Jehovah of hosts by himself that surely I have filled thee with men as the canker worm and they have cried against the shouting the maker of earth by his power the establisher of the world by his wisdom who by his understanding stretched out the heavens at the voice he giveth forth a multitude of waters are in the heavens and he causeth favours to come up from the end of the earth lightnings for reign he hath made and he bringeth out wind from his treasures brutish hath been every man by knowledge put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image for false is his molten image and there is no breath in them vanity are they work of errors in the time of their inspection they perish not like these is the portion of Jacob for he is former of all things and Israel is the rod of his inheritance Jehovah of hosts is his name and acts art thou to me weapons of war and I have broken in pieces by the nations and I have destroyed by the kingdoms and I have broken in pieces by the horse and its rider and I have broken in pieces by the chariot and its charioteer and I have broken in pieces by the man and woman and I have broken in pieces by the old and young and I have broken in pieces by the young man and virgin and I have broken in pieces by the shepherd and his drove and I have broken in pieces by the husbandman and his team, and I have broken in pieces by the governors and prefects, and I have recompensed to Babylon and to all inhabitants of Chaldea, all the evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, an affirmation of Jehovah, that is destroying all the earth, and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and I have rolled thee from the rocks and given thee for a burnt mountain, and they take not out of thee a stone for a corner and a stone for foundations, for desolations age during art thou, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lift ye up an ensign in the land, blow a trumpet among nations, sanctify against it nations, summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Mine, and Ashkenaz, appoint against it an infant head, cause the horse to ascend as the rough canker worm, sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Medea, its governors and all its prefects, and all the land of its dominion, and shake doth the land, and it is pained, for stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant, ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, they have remained in strongholds, failed have their might, they have become woman, they have burnt her tabernacles, broken have been her bars, runner to meet runner doth run, an announcer to meet announcer to announce to the king of Babylon, for captured have been his city at the extremity, and the passages have been captured, and the reeds they have burnt with fire, and the men of war have been troubled, for thus said Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel. The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing floor, the time of her threshing, yet a little, and come half the time of her harvest, devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, he hath set us as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed us as a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my dainties, he hath driven us away. My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, say doth the inhabitant of Zion, and my blood is on the inhabitants of Caldea, say doth Jerusalem. Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am pleading thy cause, and I have avenged thy vengeance, and dried up at sea, and made its fountains dry. And Babylon hath been for heaps, a habitation of dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing without inhabitant. Together as young lions they roar, they have shaken themselves as lions welps, in their heat I make their banquets, and I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, and have slept asleep age-during, and awake not, an affirmation of Jehovah. I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, as rams with he-goats. How hath she-shack been captured? Yay, cut is the praise of the whole earth. How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations? Come up against Babylon hath the sea, with a multitude of its bellows it hath been covered. Its cities hath been for a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land, none doth dwell in them, nor pass over into them doth a son of man. And I have seen after bell in Babylon, and I have brought forth that which he swallowed from his mouth, and flow no more unto him do nations, also the wall of Babylon hath fallen. Go forth from its midst, O my people, and deliver ye each his soul, because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah. And lest your heart be tender, and ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, and come in a year hath the report, and after it in a year the report, and violence is in the land, ruler against ruler. Therefore lo, days are coming, and I have seen after the graven images of Babylon, and all its land is ashamed, and all its pierced ones do fall in its midst, and cried aloud against Babylon hath heavens and earth, and all that is in them, for from the north come to it do the spoilers, an affirmation of Jehovah. Even Babylon is to fall ye pierced of Israel, even they of Babylon have fallen ye pierced of all the earth. Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, remember ye from afar Jehovah, and let Jerusalem come up on your heart. We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, covered hath shame our faces, for come in hath strangers against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah. Therefore lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, and I have seen after its graven images, and in all its land groan doth the wounded, because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, and because it fenses the high place of its strength, from me come into it do spoilers, an affirmation of Jehovah. A voice of a cry is from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean, for Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, and hath destroyed out of it a great voice, and sounded hath its billows as many waters, given forth a noise hath their voice, for come in against it, against Babylon, hath a spoiler, and captured hath been its mighty ones, broken hath been their bows, for the God of recompenses Jehovah doth certainly repay, and I have caused its princes to drink, and its wise men, its governors, and its prefects, and its mighty ones, and they have slept asleep age during, and they awake not, an affirmation of the king. Jehovah of hosts is his name, thus said Jehovah of hosts. The wall of Babylon, the broad one, is utterly made bare, and her high gates with fire are burnt, and people's labor in vain, and nations in fire, and have been weary. The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath commanded Saraiah, son of Naraiah, son of Maasiah, in his going with Zedekiah, king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign, and Saraiah is a quiet prince, and Jeremiah right hath all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book, all these words that are written concerning Babylon, and Jeremiah saith unto Saraiah, when thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words, and hast said, Jehovah, thou, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age during, and it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind it to a stone, and hast cast it into the midst of fright, and said, thus sink, doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary. Hitherto are words of Jeremiah. Chapter 52 A son of twenty and one years is Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Hamutol, daughter of Jeremiah of Lebanon, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim hath done, for, because of the anger of Jehovah, it hath been in Jerusalem and Judah, till he hath cast them from before his face, and Zedekiah doth rebel against the king of Babylon, and it cometh to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, he and all his force against Jerusalem, and they encamp against it, and build against it a fortification round about, and the city cometh into siege till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land, then is the city broken up, and all the men of war flee, and go forth from the city by night, the way of the gate between the two walls that is by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans are by the city round about, and they go the way of the plain, and the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his forces have been scattered from him, and they capture the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he speaketh with him judgments, and the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the princes of Judah hath he slaughtered in Riblah, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him in brazen fetters, and the king of Babylon bringeth him to Babylon, and puteth him in the house of inspection unto the day of his death. And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, it is the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, King of Babylon, Come hath Nebuchadrezzar, chief of the executioners, he hath stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem, and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he hath burned with fire, and all the walls of Jerusalem round about, broken down have all the forces of the Chaldeans that are with the chief of the executioners, and of the poor of the people, and the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those who are falling away who have fallen unto the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the multitude, hath Nebuchadrezzar, chief of the executioners, removed, and of the poor of the land, hath Nebuchadrezzar, chief of the executioners, left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen, and the pillars of brass that are to the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that is in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken, and they bear away all the brass of them to Babylon, and the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister, they have taken away, and the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups, the gold of that which is gold, and the silver of that which is silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken, the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen that are beneath the bases, that King Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels, as to the pillars, eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass it, and its thickness is four fingers hollow, and the chapiter upon it is of brass, and the height of the one chapiter is five cubits, and network and pomegranates are on the chapiter round about, the whole is of brass, and like these have the second pillar, and pomegranates, and the pomegranates are ninety and six on a side, all the pomegranates are a hundred on the network round about, and the chief of the executioners take of Soraya the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold, and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch, who hath been inspector over the men of war, and seven men of those seeing the king's face, who hath been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, who are found in the midst of the city, and Nebusaradan, chief of the executioners, taketh them, and bringeth them unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and the king of Babylon smighteth them, and puteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeeth Judah from off its own ground. This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar hath removed, in the seventh year of Jews, three thousand and twenty and three, in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, from Jerusalem, souls eight hundred thirty and two, in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar hath Nebusaradan, chief of the guard removed of Jewish souls, seven hundred forty and five, all the souls are four thousand and six hundred. And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Johoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and fifth of the month, hath evil Meridak, king of Babylon, lifted up in the year of his reign, the head of Johoiachin, king of Judah, and bringeth him out from the house of restraint, and speaketh with him good things, and seteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon, and he hath changed his prison garments, and he hath eaten bread before him continually, all the days of his life, and his allowance, a continual allowance, hath been given to him by the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, till the day of his death, all days of his life, the end of chapters forty nine through fifty two, and the end of the book of Jeremiah from the young's literal translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold