 chapters 21 through 31 from 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 to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 21 through 31 of Jeremiah from the young's literal translation. Chapter 21. The word that have been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the King Zedekiah's sending unto him Pashur son of Malkiah and Zephaniah son of Measseiah the priest saying inquire we pray thee for us at Jehovah for Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon hath fought against us perhaps Jehovah doth deal with us according to all his wonders and doth cause him to go up from office and Jeremiah saith unto them thus do ye say unto Zedekiah thus said Jehovah God of Israel low I am turning round the weapons of battle that are in your hand with which ye do fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are laying siege against you at the outside of the wall and I have gathered them into the midst of this city and I I have fought against you with a stretched out hand and with a strong arm and in anger and in fury and in great wrath and I have smitten the inhabitants of this city both man and beast by a great pestilence do they die and after this an affirmation of Jehovah I give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people and those left in this city from the pestilence from the sword and from the famine into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking their life and he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword he hath no pity on them nor doth he spare nor hath he mercy and unto this people thou dost say thus said Jehovah low I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death whoso is abiding in this city dyeth by sword and by famine and by pestilence and whoso is going forth and hath fallen unto the kaldians who are laying siege against you liveth and his life have been to him for a spoil for I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good an affirmation of Jehovah into the hand of the king of Babylon it is given and he hath burned it with fire and as to the house of the king of Judah hear ye a word of Jehovah oh house of David thus said Jehovah decide ye judgment at morning and deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor lest my theory go forth as fire and hath burned and none is quenching because of the evil of your doings low I am against thee an affirmation of Jehovah oh inhabitant of the valley rock of the plain who are saying who cometh down against us and who cometh into our habitations and I have laid a charge against you according to the fruit of your doings an affirmation of Jehovah and I have kindled a fire in its forest and it hath consumed all its suburbs chapter 22 thus said Jehovah go down to the house of the king of Judah and thou hast spoken there this word and hast said hear a word of Jehovah oh king of Judah who art sitting on the throne of David thou and thy servants and thy people who are coming in at these gates thus said Jehovah do ye judgment and righteousness and deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor and sojourner orphan and widow ye do not oppress nor wrong and innocent blood ye do not shed in this place for if ye certainly do this thing then come in by the gates of this house have kings sitting for David on his throne riding on chariot and on horses he and his servants and his people and if ye do not hear these words by myself I have sworn an affirmation of Jehovah that this house is for a desolation for thus said Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah Gilead art thou to me head of Lebanon if not I make thee a wilderness cities not inhabited and I have separated for thee destroyers each with his weapons and they have cut down the choice of thy cedars and have cast them on the fire and many nations have passed by this city and they have said each to his neighbor for what have Jehovah done thus to this great city and they have said because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their god and bow themselves to other gods and serve them ye do not weep for the dead nor bemoan for him weep ye soar for the traveler for he doth not return again nor have he seen the land of his birth for thus said Jehovah concerning Shalom son of Josiah king of Judah who is reigning instead of Josiah his father who have gone forth from this place he doth not turn back hither again for in the place whether they have removed him he dyeth and this land he doth not see again woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness and his inner chambers by injustice on his neighbor he layeth service for not and his wage he doth not give to him who is saying I build for myself a large house and airy upper chambers and he hath cut out for himself its windows sealed with cedar and painted with vermilion dost thou reign because thou art fretting thyself in cedar thy father did he not eat and drink yay he did judgment and righteousness then it is well with him he decided the cause of the poor and needy then it is well is it not to know me an affirmation of Jehovah but thine eyes and thy heart are not except on thy dishonest gain and on shedding of innocent blood and on oppression and on doing of violence therefore thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah they do not lament for him ah my brother and ah sister they do not lament for him ah lord and ah his honor the burial of an ass he is buried dragged and cast out vents to the gates of Jerusalem go up to Lebanon and cry and in Bashan give forth thy voice and cry from Aberim for destroyed have been all loving thee I have spoken unto thee in thine ease thou hast said I do not harken this is thy way from thy youth for thou hast not harkened to my voice all thy friends consume doth wind and thy lovers into captivity do go surely then thou art ashamed and hast blushed for all thy wickedness oh dweller in Lebanon making a nest among cedars how gracious has thou been when pangs come to thee pain as of a travelling woman I live an affirmation of Jehovah though Konaia son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a seal on my right hand surely thence I draw thee away and I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life and into hands of which thou art afraid into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hands of the Chaldeans and I have cast thee and thy mother who bore thee unto another country where ye were not born and there do ye die and to the land whether they are lifting up their soul to return thither they do not return a grief a despised broken thing is this man Konaia a vessel in which there is no pleasure wherefore have they been cast up and down he and his seed yea they were cast onto a land that they knew not earth earth earth hear a word of Jehovah thus said Jehovah right heed this man childless a man he doth not prosper in his days for none of his seed doth prosper sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah chapter 23 woe to shepherds destroying and scattering the flock of my pasture an affirmation of Jehovah therefore thus said Jehovah God of Israel against the shepherds who feed my people ye have scattered my flock and drive them away and have not inspected them low I am charging on you the evil of your doings an affirmation of Jehovah and I do gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands whether I drove them and have brought them back unto their fold and they have been fruitful and multiplied and I have raised for them shepherds and they have fed them and they fear no more nor are affrighted nor are they lacking an affirmation of Jehovah low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have raised to David a righteous chute and a king hath reigned and acted wisely and done judgment and righteousness in the earth in his days is Judah saved and Israel dwelleth confidently and this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him our righteousness therefore low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and they do not say anymore Jehovah liveth who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt but Jehovah liveth who brought up and who brought in the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands wither I drove them and they have dwelt on their own ground in reference to the prophets broken hath been my heart in my midst fluttered have all my bones I have been as a man a drunkard and as a man wine hath passed over him because of Jehovah and of his holy words for of adulterers hath the land been full for because of these half the land mourned dried up have been the pleasant places of the wilderness and their course is evil and their might not right for both prophet and priest have been profane yay in my house I found their wickedness an affirmation of Jehovah therefore is their way to them as slippery places into thick darkness they are driven and they have fallen in it for I bring in against them evil the year of their inspection an affirmation of Jehovah and in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly they have prophesied by Baal and cause my people Israel to err and in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing committing adultery and walking falsely yay they strengthened the hands of evildoers so that they have not turned back each from his wickedness they have been to me all of them as Sodom and its inhabitants as Gomorrah therefore thus said Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets low I am causing them to eat wormwood and have caused them to drink water of gall for from prophets of Jerusalem hath profanity gone forth to all the land thus said Jehovah of hosts ye do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you they are making you vain things a vision of their own heart they speak not from the mouth of Jehovah saying diligently to those despising the word of Jehovah peace is for you and to everyone walking in the stubbornness of his heart they have said evil doth not come in unto you for who hath stood in the council of Jehovah and see if inherit his word who hath regarded my word and harkeneth low a whirlwind of Jehovah fury hath gone out even a piercing whirlwind on the head of the wicked its staff the anger of Jehovah doth not turn back till his doing until his establishing the thoughts of his heart in the latter end of the days ye attend to it with understanding I have not sent the prophets and they have run I have not spoken unto them and they have prophesied but if they stood in my council then they cause my people to hear my words and they turn them back from their evil way and from the evil of their doings a god near am I an affirmation of Jehovah and not a god afar off is anyone hidden in secret places and I see him not an affirmation of Jehovah do not I feel the heavens and the earth an affirmation of Jehovah I have heard that which the prophet said who prophesied in my name falsehood saying I have dreamed I have dreamed till when is it in the heart of the prophets the prophets of falsehood yea prophets of the deceit of their heart who are devising to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams that they recount each to his neighbor as their fathers forgot my name for Baal the prophet with whom is a dream let him recount the dream and he with whom is my word let him truly speak my word what to the straw with the corn an affirmation of Jehovah is it not thus my word is as a fire an affirmation of Jehovah and as a hammer it breaketh in pieces a rock therefore low I am against the prophets an affirmation of Jehovah stealing my words each from his neighbor low I am against the prophets an affirmation of Jehovah who are making smooth their tongue and they affirm an affirmation low I am against the prophets of false dreams an affirmation of Jehovah and they recount them and cause my people to air by their falsehoods and by their instability and I I have not sent them nor have I commanded them and they are not at all profitable to this people an affirmation of Jehovah and when this people or the prophet or a priest doth ask thee saying what is the burden of Jehovah than thou hast said unto them ye are the burden and I have left you an affirmation of Jehovah and the prophet and the priest and the people that sayeth the burden of Jehovah I have seen after that man and after his house thus do ye say each unto his neighbor and each unto his brother what hath Jehovah answered and what hath Jehovah spoken and the burden of Jehovah ye do not mention anymore for the burden to each is his word and ye have overturned the words of the living God Jehovah of hosts our God thus dost thou say unto the prophet what hath Jehovah answered thee and what hath Jehovah spoken and if the burden of Jehovah ye say therefore thus said Jehovah because of your saying this word the burden of Jehovah and I do send unto you saying ye do not say the burden of Jehovah therefore lo I I have taken you utterly away and I have sent you out and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers from before my face and I have put on you reproach age-during and shame age-during that is not forgotten chapter 24 Jehovah hath shooed me and lo two baskets of things appointed before the temple of Jehovah after the removing by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon of Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the heads of Judah and the artisan and the smith from Jerusalem when he bringeth them into Babylon in the one basket our figs very good like the first ripe figs and in the other basket our figs very bad that are not eaten for badness and Jehovah sayeth unto me what art thou seeing Jeremiah and I say figs the good things are very good and the bad are very bad that are not eaten for badness and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying thus said Jehovah God of Israel like these good figs so do I acknowledge the removed of Judah that I sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans for good and I have set mine eyes on them for good and have brought them back to this land and built them up and I throw not down and have planted them and pluck not up and I have given to them a heart to know me for I am Jehovah and they have been to me for a people and I am to them for God for they turned back unto me with all their heart and like the bad figs that are not eaten for badness surely thus said Jehovah so do I make Zedekiah king of Judah and his heads and the remnant of Jerusalem who are left in this land and who are dwelling in the land of Egypt and I have given them for a trembling for evil to all kingdoms of the earth for a reproach and for a simile for a byword and for a reviling in all the places wither I drive them and I have sent against them the sword the famine and the pestilence till their consumption from off the ground that I gave to them and to their fathers chapter 25 the word that have been unto Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Johoiachim son of Josiah king of Judah it is the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon which Jeremiah the prophet have spoken concerning all the people of Judah even unto all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah and unto this day this three and twentieth year have the word of Jehovah been unto me and I speak unto you rising early and speaking and ye have not hearkened and Jehovah have sent unto you all his servants the prophets rising early and sending and ye have not hearkened nor inclined your ear to hear saying turn back I pray you each from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and dwell on the ground that Jehovah have given to you and to your fathers from age unto age and ye do not go after other gods to serve them and to bow yourselves to them nor do ye provoke me to anger with the work of your hands and I do no evil to you and ye have not hearkened unto me an affirmation of Jehovah so as to provoke me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you therefore thus said Jehovah of hosts because that ye have not obeyed my words lo I am sending and have taken all the families of the north an affirmation of Jehovah even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon my servant and have brought them in against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and have devoted them and appointed them for an astonishment and for a hissing and for waste's age during and I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of joy voice of bridegroom and voice of bride noise of millstones and the light of lamps and all this land have been for a waste for an astonishment and these nations have served the king of Babylon 70 years and it have come to pass at the fullness of 70 years I charge against the king of Babylon and against that nation an affirmation of Jehovah their iniquity and against the land of the Chaldeans and have appointed it for desolations age during and I have brought in on that land all my words that I have spoken against it all that is written in this book that Jeremiah hath prophesied concerning all the nations for laid service on them also them have many nations and great kings and I have given recompense to them according to their doing and according to the work of their hands for thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me take the wine cup of this fury out of my hand and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee and they have drunk and shaken themselves and shun themselves foolish because of the sword that I am sending among them and I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings its heads to give them to waste to astonishment to hissing and to reviling as at this day Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his heads and all his people and all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of us and all the kings of the land of the Philistines and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the remnant of Ashtad, Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon and all the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Zidane and the kings of the Isle that is beyond the sea Dedan and Tima and Buzz and all cutting the corners of the beard and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed people who are dwelling in the wilderness and all the kings of Zemri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media and all the kings of the North the near and the far off one unto another and all the kingdoms of the earth that are on the face of the ground and King Sheshak drinketh after them and thou hast said unto them thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel drink ye ye drink abundantly and vomit and fall and rise not because of the sword that I am sending among you and it have come to pass when they refuse to receive the cup out of thy hand to drink that thou hast said unto them thus said Jehovah of hosts ye do certainly drink for lo in the city over which my name is called I am beginning to do evil and ye ye are entirely acquitted ye are not acquitted for a sword I am proclaiming for all inhabitants of the land an affirmation of Jehovah of hosts and thou thou dost prophesy unto them all these words and hast said unto them Jehovah from the high place doth roar and from his holy habitation giveth forth his voice he surely roared for his habitation a shout as of treaders down God answereth all the inhabitants of the land wasting have come unto the end of the earth for a controversy have Jehovah with nations he have executed judgment for all flesh the wicked he have given them to the sword an affirmation of Jehovah thus said Jehovah of hosts lo evil is going out from nation to nation and a great whirlwind is stirred up from the sides of the earth and the pierced of Jehovah have been in that day from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth they are not lamented nor gathered nor buried for dung on the face of the ground they are how will ye shepherds and cry and roll yourselves ye honorable of the flock for full have been your days for slaughtering and for your scatterings and ye have fallen as a desirable vessel and perished have refuge from the shepherds and escape from the honorable of the flock a voice is of the cry of the shepherds and a howling of the honorable of the flock for Jehovah is spoiling their pasture and the peaceable habitations have been cut down because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah he have forsaken as a young lion he is covert surely their land have become a desolation because of the oppressing fierceness and because of the fierceness of his anger chapter 26 in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah hath this word been from Jehovah saying thus said Jehovah stand thou in the court of the house of Jehovah and thou hast spoken unto all those of the cities of Judah who are coming in to bow themselves in the house of Jehovah all the words that I have commanded thee to speak unto them thou dost not diminish a word if so be they harken and turn back each from his evil way then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them because of the evil of their doings and thou hast said unto them thus said Jehovah if ye do not harken unto me to walk in my law that I set before you to harken to the words of my servants the prophets who I am sending unto you yay rising early and sending and ye have not harkened then I have given up this house as Shiloh and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth and the priests and the prophets and all the people hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah and it cometh to pass at the completion of Jeremiah speaking all that Jehovah hath commanded him to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people catch him saying thou dost surely die wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah saying as Shiloh this house shall be and this city is wasted without inhabitant and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah and the heads of Judah hear these things and they go up from the house of the king to the house of Jehovah and sit in the opening of the new gate of Jehovah and the priests and the prophets speak unto the heads and unto all the people saying judgment of death is for this man for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears and Jeremiah speaketh unto all the heads and unto all the people saying Jehovah sent me to prophesy concerning this house and concerning this city all the words that ye have heard and now amend your ways and your doings and harken to the voice of Jehovah your God and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that he hath spoken against you and I lo I am in your hand due to me as is good and as is right in your eyes only no ye certainly that if ye are putting me to death surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves and on this city and on its inhabitants for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words and the heads and all the people say unto the priests and unto the prophets there is not for this man a judgment of death for in the name of Jehovah our God he hath spoken unto us and certain of the elders of the land rise up and speak unto all the assembly of the people saying Micah the Moroshite have been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and he sayeth unto all the people of Judah saying thus said Jehovah of hosts Zion is a plowed field and Jerusalem is heaps and the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest put him at all to death did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah did he not fear Jehovah yay he appeaseth the face of Jehovah and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil that he spake against them and we are doing great evil against our souls and also there hath been a man prophesying in the name of Jehovah Euregia son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jereem and he prophesied against the city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah and the king Jehoiakim and all his mighty ones and all the heads hear his words and the king seeketh to put him to death and Euregia hereeth and feareth and fleeeth and goeth into Egypt and the king Jehoiakim sendeth men to Egypt Elnathan son of Akbor and men with him unto Egypt and they bring out Euregia from Egypt and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim and he smited him with a sword and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people only the hand of a haikim son of Shaffan hath been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death chapter 27 in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah hath this word been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah saying thus said Jehovah unto me make to thee bands and yolks and thou hast put them on thy neck and hast sent them unto the king of Edom and unto the king of Moab and unto the king of the sons of Ammon and unto the king of Tyre and unto the king of Zayden by the hand of messengers who are coming into Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah and thou hast commanded them for their lords saying thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel thus do you say unto your lords I I have made the earth with man and the cattle that are on the face of the earth by my great power and by my stretched out arm and I have given it to whom it have been right in my eyes and now I I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon my servant and also the beast of the field I have given to him to serve him and served him have all the nations and his son and his son's son till the coming in of the time of his land also it and done service for him have many nations and great kings and it have come to pass the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and that which puteth not its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon with sword and with famine and with pestilence I lay a charge on that nation an affirmation of Jehovah till I consume them by his hand and ye ye do not hearken unto your prophets and unto your diviners and unto your dreamers and unto your observers of clouds and unto your sorcerers who are speaking unto you saying ye do not serve the king of Babylon for falsehood they are prophesying to you so as to remove you far from off your ground and I have driven you out and ye have perished and the nation that causeth its neck to enter into the yoke of the king of Babylon and hath served him I have left it on its ground an affirmation of Jehovah and it hath tilled it and dwelt in it and unto Zedekiah king of Judah I have spoken according to all these words cause your neck to enter into the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live why do ye die thou and thy people by sword by famine and by pestilence as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that doth not serve the king of Babylon and ye do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are speaking unto you saying ye do not serve the king of Babylon for falsehood they are prophesying to you for I have not sent them an affirmation of Jehovah and they are prophesying in my name falsely so as to drive you out and ye have perished ye and the prophets who are prophesying to you and unto the priests and unto all this people I have spoken saying thus said Jehovah ye do not hearken unto the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you saying lo the vessels of the house of Jehovah are brought back from Babylon now in haste for falsehood they are prophesying to you ye do not hearken unto them serve the king of Babylon and live why is this city a waste and if they be prophets and if a word of Jehovah be with them let them intercede I pray you with Jehovah of hosts so that the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem have not gone into Babylon for thus said Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars and concerning the sea and concerning the bases and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon have not taken in his removing Jeconiah son of Jehoiachim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the free men of Judah and Jerusalem surely thus said Jehovah of hosts god of Israel concerning the vessels that are left of the house of Jehovah and of the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem to Babylon they are brought and there they are till the day of my inspecting them an affirmation of Jehovah then I have brought them up and have brought them back unto this place chapter 28 and it cometh to pass in that year in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year in the fifth month spoken unto me have Hananiah son of Azur the prophet who is of Gibeon in the house of Jehovah before the eyes of the priests and all the people saying thus spake Jehovah of hosts god of Israel saying I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon within two years of days I am bringing back unto this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon have taken from this place and off carry to Babylon and Jechoniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the removed of Judah who are entering Babylon I am bringing back unto this place an affirmation of Jehovah for I do break the yoke of the king of Babylon and Jeremiah the prophet sayeth unto Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who are standing in the house of Jehovah yay Jeremiah the prophet sayeth amen so may Jehovah do Jehovah establish thy words that thou hast prophesied to bring back the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the removal from Babylon unto this place only here I pray thee this word that I am speaking in thine ears and in the ears of all the people the prophets who have been before me and before thee from of old even they prophesy concerning many lands and concerning great kingdoms of battle and of evil and of pestilence the prophet who doth prophesy of peace by the coming in of the word of the prophet known is the prophet that Jehovah hath truly sent him and Hananiah the prophet taketh the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and breaketh it and Hananiah speaketh before the eyes of all the people saying thus said Jehovah thus I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two years of days from off the neck of all the nations and Jeremiah the prophet goeth on his way and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah after the breaking by Hananiah the prophet of the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet saying go and thou hast spoken unto Hananiah saying thus said Jehovah yokes of wood thou hast broken and I have made instead of them yokes of iron for thus said Jehovah of hosts king of Israel a yoke of iron I have put on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and they have served him and also the beast of the field I have given to him and Jeremiah the prophet sayeth unto Hananiah the prophet here I pray thee oh Hananiah Jehovah hath not sent thee and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood therefore thus said Jehovah lo I am casting thee from off the face of the ground this year thou dyest for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah and Hananiah the prophet dyeth in that year in the seventh month chapter 29 and these are words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal and unto the priests and unto the prophets and unto all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon after the going forth of Jeconiah the king and the mistress and the officers heads of Judah and Jerusalem and the artificer and the Smith from Jerusalem by the hand of Elias son of Shaffan and Gamariah son of Hilkaija whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Babylon saying thus said Jehovah of hosts god of Israel to all the removal that I removed from Jerusalem to Babylon build ye houses and abide and plant ye gardens and eat their fruit take ye wives and beget sons and daughters and take for your sons wives and your daughters give to husbands and they bear sons and daughters and multiply there and ye are not few and seek the peace of the city wither I have removed you and pray for it unto Jehovah for in its peace ye have peace for thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel let not your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners lift you up nor hearken ye unto their dreams that ye are causing them to dream for with falsehood they are prophesying to you in my name I have not sent them an affirmation of Jehovah for thus said Jehovah surely at the fullness of Babylon 70 years I inspect you and have established towards you my good word to bring you back unto this place for I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you and affirmation of Jehovah thoughts of peace and not of evil to give to you posterity and hope and ye have called me and have gone and have prayed unto me and I have hearkened unto you and ye have sought me and have found for ye seek me with all your heart and I have been found of you and affirmation of Jehovah and I have turned back to your captivity and have gathered you out of all the nations and out of all the places wither I have driven you and affirmation of Jehovah and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you because ye have said Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon surely thus said Jehovah concerning the king who is sitting on the throne of David and concerning all the people that is dwelling in this city your brethren who went not forth with you in the removal thus said Jehovah of hosts low I am sending among them the sword the famine and the pestilence and I have given them up as figs that are vile that are not eaten for badness and I have pursued after them with sword with famine with pestilence and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth for a curse and for an astonishment and for a hissing and for a reproach among all the nations wither I have driven them because that they have not hearkened unto my words and affirmation of Jehovah that I sent unto them by my servants the prophets rising early and sending and ye hearkened not an affirmation of Jehovah and ye hear ye a word of Jehovah all ye of the captivity that I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon thus said Jehovah of hosts god of Israel concerning Ahab son of Kola'iah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maasaiiah who are prophesying to you in my name falsehood low I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he have smitten them before your eyes and taken from them have been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that are in Babylon saying Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah and as Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire because that they have done folly in Israel and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speak a word in my name falsely that I have not commanded them and I am he who knoweth and a witness and affirmation of Jehovah and unto Shema'iah the Nehalomite thou dost speak saying thus said Jehovah of hosts god of Israel saying because that thou hast sent in thy name letters unto all the people who are in Jerusalem and unto Zephaniah son of Maasaiiah the priest and unto all the priests saying Jehovah hath made the priest instead of Jehoi'eda the priest for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah for everyone mad and making himself a prophet and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks and now why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth who is making himself a prophet to you because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon saying it is long build ye houses and abide and plant ye gardens and eat their fruit and Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah saying send unto all the removal saying thus said Jehovah concerning Shema'iah the Nehalomite because that Shema'iah prophesied to you and I I have not sent him and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood therefore thus said Jehovah lo I am seeing after Shema'iah the Nehalomite and after his seed he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to my people an affirmation of Jehovah for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah Chapter 30 the word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah saying thus spake Jehovah God of Israel saying write for thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee on a book for lo days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have turned back to the captivity of my people Israel and Judah said Jehovah and I have caused them to turn back unto the land that I gave to their fathers and they do possess it and these are the words that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Israel and concerning Judah surely thus said Jehovah a voice of trembling we have heard fear and there is no peace ask I pray you and see is a male bringing forth wherefore have I seen every man his hands on his loins as a travelling woman and all faces have been turned to paleness whoa for greatest that day without any like it yay a time of adversity it is to Jacob yet out of it he is saved and it hath come to pass in that day an affirmation of Jehovah of hosts I break his yoke from off thy neck and thy bands I draw away and lay no more service on him do strangers and they have served Jehovah their god and David their king whom I raise up to them and thou be not afraid my servant Jacob an affirmation of Jehovah nor be affrighted oh Israel for low I am saving thee from afar and I cede from the land of their captivity and Jacob hath turned back and rested and is quiet and there is none troubling for with thee am I an affirmation of Jehovah to save thee for I make an end of all the nations wither I have scattered thee only of thee I do not make an end and I have chastised thee in judgment and do not entirely acquit thee for thus said Jehovah incurable as thy breach grievous thy stroke there is none judging thy cause to bind up healing medicines there are none for thee all loving thee have forgotten thee thee they do not seek for with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee the chastisement of a fierce one because of the abundance of thy iniquity mighty have been thy sins what thou Christ concerning thy breach incurable as thy pain because of the abundance of thy iniquity mighty have been thy sins I have done these to thee therefore all consuming the are consumed and all vine adversaries all of them into captivity do go and thy spoilers have been for a spoil and all thy plunderers I give up to plunder for I increase health to thee and from thy strokes I do heal thee an affirmation of Jehovah for outcast they have called to thee Zion it is there is none seeking for her thus said Jehovah low I turn back to the captivity of the tents of Jacob and his dwelling places I pity and the city have been built on its heap and the palace according to its ordinance remaineth and gone forth from them have thanksgiving and the voice of playful ones and I have multiplied them and they are not few and made them honorable and they are not small and his sons have been as a foretime and his company before me is established and I have seen after all his oppressors and his honorable one have been of himself and his ruler from his midst goeth forth and I have caused him to draw near and he hath drawn nigh unto me for who is he who hath pledged his heart to draw nigh unto me an affirmation of Jehovah and he have been to me for a people and I am to you for God low a whirlwind of Jehovah fury hath gone forth a cutting whirlwind on the head of the wicked its staff the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah do not turn back till his doing yay till his establishing the devices of his heart in the latter end of the days we consider it chapter 31 at that time an affirmation of Jehovah I am for God to all families of Israel and they they are to me for a people thus said Jehovah found grace in the wilderness hath a people remaining from the sword going to cause it to rest Israel from afar Jehovah hath appeared to me with love age during I have loved thee therefore I have drawn thee with kindness again do I build thee and thou hast been built a virgin of Israel again thou puttest on thy tabrets and hast gone out in the chorus of the playful again thou dost plant vineyards in mountains of Samaria planters have planted and made common for there is a day cried have watchmen on Mount Ephraim rise and we go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God for thus said Jehovah sing oh ye to Jacob with joy and cry aloud at the head of the nations sound ye praise ye and say save oh Jehovah thy people the remnant of Israel well I am bringing them in from the north country and have gathered them from the sides of the earth among them are blind and lame conceiving and travelling one together a great assembly they turn back hither with weeping they come in and with supplications I bring them I cause them to go into streams of waters in a right way they stumble not in it for I have been to Israel for a father and Ephraim my firstborn is he hear a word of Jehovah oh nations and declare ye among Isles afar off and say he who is scattering Israel doth gather him and have kept him as a shepherd doth his flock for Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from a hand stronger than he and they have come in and have sung in the high place of Zion and flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah for wheat and for new wine and for oil and for the young of the flock and herd and their soul hath been as a watered garden and they add not to grieve any more then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus both young men and old men together and I have turned their morning to joy and have comforted them and gladdened them above their sorrow and satisfied the soul of the priests with fatness and my people with my goodness are satisfied an affirmation of Jehovah thus said Jehovah a voice in Rama is heard wailing weeping most bitter Rachel is weeping for her sons she hath refused to be comforted for her sons because they are not thus said Jehovah withhold thy voice from weeping and thine ears from tears for there is a reward for thy work an affirmation of Jehovah and they have turned back from the land of the enemy and there is hope for thy latter end an affirmation of Jehovah and the sons have turned back to their border I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thou hast chastised me and I am chastised as a heifer not taught turn me back and I turn back for thou art Jehovah my God for after my turning back I repented and after my being instructed I struck on the thigh I have been ashamed I have also blushed for I have borne the reproach of my youth a precious son is Ephraim to me a child of delights for since my speaking against him I do thoroughly remember him still therefore have my bowels been moved for him I do greatly love him an affirmation of Jehovah set up for these signs make for the heaps set thy heart to the highway the way thou wentest turn back o virgin of Israel turn back unto these thy cities till when dost thou withdraw thyself o back sliding daughter for Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land woman doth compass man thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel still they say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities in my turning back to their captivity Jehovah doth bless the habitation of righteousness mountain of holiness and dwelt in Jehovah have husband men and in all its cities together and they have journeyed in order for I have satiated the weary soul and every grieved soul I have filled on this I have awaked and I behold and my sleep hath been sweet to me low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have sown the house of Israel and the house of Judah with seed of man and seed of beast and it hath been as I watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so do I watch over them to build and to plant an affirmation of Jehovah in those days they do not say anymore fathers have eaten unright fruit and the son's teeth are blunted but each for his own iniquity doth die every man who is eating the unright fruit blunted are his teeth low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have made with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant not like the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day of my laying hold on their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt in that they made void my covenant and I ruled over them an affirmation of Jehovah for this is the covenant that I make with the house of Israel after those days an affirmation of Jehovah I have given my law in their inward part and on their heart I do write it and I have been to them for God and they are to me for eight people and they do not teach any more each his neighbor and each his brother saying no Jehovah for they all know me from their least unto their greatest an affirmation of Jehovah for I pardon their iniquity and of their sin I make mention no more thus said Jehovah who is giving the sun for a light by day the statutes of moon and stars for a light by night quieting the sea when its billows roar Jehovah of hosts is his name if these statutes depart from before me an affirmation of Jehovah even the seed of Israel doth cease from being a nation before me all the days thus said Jehovah if the heavens above be measured and the foundations of earth below searched even I kick against all the seed of Israel for all that they have done an affirmation of Jehovah low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and the city have been built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananiel to the gate of the corner and gone out again have the measuring line over against it unto the height of Gareb and it have compassed to Goa and all the valley of the carcasses and of the ashes and all the fields unto the brook chydron unto the corner of the horse gate eastward are holy to Jehovah it is not plucked up nor is it thrown down any more to the age the end of chapters 21 to 31 of the book of Jeremiah from the young's literal translation of the bible recording by Mark Penfold chapters 32 through 42 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 to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Mark Penfold chapters 32 through 42 of Jeremiah from the young's literal translation chapter 32 the word that has been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah it is the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar and then the forces of the king of Babylon are laying siege against Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet have been shut up in the court of the prison that is in the house of the king of Judah where Zedekiah king of Judah half shut him up saying wherefore art thou prophesying saying thus said Jehovah lo I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he hath captured it and Zedekiah king of Judah doth not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon and his mouth hath spoken with his mouth and his eyes see his eyes and to Babylon he leadeth Zedekiah and there he is till my inspecting him an affirmation of Jehovah because ye fight with the Chaldeans ye do not prosper and Jeremiah saith a word of Jehovah have been unto me saying lo Hanamiel son of Shalom thine uncle is coming unto thee saying buy for thee my field that is in Anaphoff for thine is the right of redemption to buy and Hanamiel my uncle son cometh in unto me according to the word of Jehovah unto the court of the prison and saith unto me buy I pray thee my field that is in Anaphoff that is in the land of Benjamin for thine is the right of possession and thine of redemption buy for thee and I know that it is the word of Jehovah and I buy the field that is in Anaphoff from Hanamiel my uncle son and I weigh to him the money seventeen shekels of silver and I write in a book and seal and cause witnesses to testify and weigh the silver in balances and I take the purchase book the sealed one according to law and custom and the open one and I give the purchase book unto Baruch son of Nariah son of Maaseiah before the eyes of Hanamiel my uncle's son and before the eyes of the witnesses those writing in the purchase book before the eyes of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the prison and I charge Baruch before their eyes saying thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel take these books this purchase book both the sealed one and the open one and thou hast put them in an earthen vessel that they may remain many days for thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel again our houses and fields and vineyards bought in this land and I pray unto Jehovah after my giving the purchase book unto Baruch son of Nariah saying ah Lord Jehovah low thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy stretched out arm there is nothing too wonderful for thee doing kindness to thousands and recompensing iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them God the great the mighty Jehovah of hosts is his name great in counsel and mighty in act in that thine eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam to give to each according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings in that thou hast done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day and in Israel and among men and thou dost make for the uname as at this day and thou bringest forth thy people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and by a strong hand and by a stretched out arm and by great fear and thou give us to them this land that thou didst swear to their fathers to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey and they come in and possess it and they have not hearkened to thy voice and in thy law have not walked all that which thou didst lay a charge on them to do they have not done and thou dost proclaimed to them all this evil lo the mounts they have come into the city to capture it and the city have been given into the hand of the kaldians who are fighting against it because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence and that which thou hast spoken have come to pass and lo thou art seeing yet thou hast said unto me oh Lord Jehovah buy for thee the field with money and cause witnesses to testify and the city have been given into the hand of the kaldians and the word of Jehovah is unto Jeremiah saying lo I am Jehovah God of all flesh for me is anything too wonderful therefore thus said Jehovah lo I am giving the city into the hand of the kaldians and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he hath captured it and come in have the kaldians who are fighting against this city and they have set this city on fire and have burned it and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal and poured out libations to other gods so as to provoke me to anger for the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in my eyes from their youth for the sons of Israel are only provoking me with the work of their hands and affirmation of Jehovah for a cause of mine anger and a cause of my fury have this city been to me even from the day that they built it and unto this day to turn it aside from before my face because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah that they have done so as to provoke me they their kings their heads their priests and their prophets and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and they turn unto me the neck and not the face and teaching them rising early and teaching and they are not harkening to accept instruction and they set their abominations in the house over which my name is called so as to defile it and they build the high places of Baal that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Moac which I did not command them nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination so as to cause Judah to sin and now therefore thus said Jehovah God of Israel concerning this city of which he are saying it have been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and by famine and by pestilence lo I am gathering them out of all the lands whether I have driven them in mine anger and in my fury and in great wrath and I have brought them back into this place and have caused them to dwell confidently and they have been to me for a people and I am to them for God and I have given to them one heart and one way to fear me all the days for good to them and to their sons after them and I have made for them a covenant age during in that I turn not back from after them for my doing them good and my fear I put in their heart so as not to turn aside from me and I have rejoiced over them to do them good and I have planted them in this land in truth with all my heart and with all my soul for thus said Jehovah as I brought in unto this people all this great evil so I am bringing in on them all the good that I am speaking concerning them and bot have been the field in this land of which he are saying a desolation it is without man and beast it have been given into the hand of the Chaldeans fields with money they buy so as to write in a book and to seal and to cause witnesses to testify in the land of benjamin and in suburbs of jerusalem and in cities of juda and in cities of the hill country and in cities of the low country and in cities of the south for I turn back their captivity and affirmation of Jehovah chapter 33 and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah a second time and he is yet detained in the court of the prison saying thus said Jehovah it's maker Jehovah it's former at establishing it Jehovah is his name call unto me and I do answer the yay I declare to the great and fenced things thou hast not known them for thus said Jehovah God of Israel concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of juda that are broken down for the mounts and for the tool they are coming in to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the carcasses of men whom I have smitten in mine anger and in my fury and for whom I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil low I am increasing to it health and cure and have healed them and revealed to them the abundance of peace and truth and I have turned back the captivity of juda and the captivity of Israel and I have built them as at the first and cleanse them from all their iniquity that they have sinned against me and I have pardoned all their iniquities that they have sinned against me and that they transgressed against me and it have been to me for a name of joy for praise and for beauty to all nations of the earth who hear of all the good that I am doing them and they have feared and they have trembled for all the good and for all the peace that I am doing to it thus said Jehovah again heard in this place of which you are saying waste it is without man and without beast in cities of juda and in streets of Jerusalem that are desolated without man and without inhabitant and without beast is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness voice of bridegroom and voice of bride the voice of those saying thank Jehovah of hosts for Jehovah is good for his kindness is to the age who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah for I turn back the captivity of the land as at the first said Jehovah thus said Jehovah of hosts again there is in this place that is waste without man and beast and in all its cities a habitation of shepherds causing the flock to lie down in the cities of the hill country in the cities of the low country and in the cities of the south and in the land of Benjamin and in the suburbs of Jerusalem and in the cities of juda again dot the flock passed by under the hands of the numberer said Jehovah low days are coming an affirmation of Jehovah and I have established the good word that I spake unto the house of Israel and concerning the house of juda in those days and at that time I caused to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness and he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth in those days is Judas saved and Jerusalem doth dwell confidently and this is he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her our righteousness for thus said Jehovah not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel and to the priests the Levites not cut off from before me is one causing a burnt offering to ascend and perfuming a present and making sacrifice all the days and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah saying thus said Jehovah if ye do break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night so that they are not daily and nightly in their season also my covenant is broken with David my servant so that he hath not a son reigning on his throne and with the Levites the priests my ministers as the host of the heavens is not numbered nor the sand of the sea measured so I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites my ministers and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah saying hath thou not considered what this people have spoken saying the two families on which Jehovah fixed he doth reject them and my people they despise so that they are no more a people before them thus said Jehovah if my covenant is not daily and nightly the statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed also the seed of Jacob and David my servant I reject against taking from his seed rulers for the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob for I turn back to their captivity and hath pitied them chapter 34 the word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force and all kingdoms of the land of the dominion of his hand and all the peoples are fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities saying thus said Jehovah God of Israel go and thou hast spoken unto Zedekiah king of Judah and hast said unto him thus said Jehovah low I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he hath burned it with fire and thou thou dost not escape out of his hand for thou art certainly caught and into his hand thou art given and then I see the eyes of the king of Babylon and his mouth with thy mouth speaketh and Babylon thou interest only hear a word of Jehovah O Zedekiah king of Judah thus said Jehovah unto thee thou dost not die by sword in peace thou diest and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings who have been before thee so they make a burning for thee and ah Lord they lament for thee for the word I have spoken an affirmation of Jehovah and Jeremiah the prophet speaketh unto Zedekiah king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem and the forces of the king of Babylon are fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that are left against Lakish and against Azeka for these have been left among the cities of Judah cities of fortresses the word that have been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah after the making by the kings Zedekiah of a covenant with all the people who are in Jerusalem to proclaim to them liberty to send out each his manservant and each his maidservant the Hebrew and the Hebrew s free so as not to lay service on them any on a Jew his brother and Harkin do all the heads and all the people who have come into the covenant to send forth each his manservant and each his maidservant free so as not to lay service on them anymore yay they Harkin and send them away and they turn afterwards and cause the men servants and the maidservants to return whom they had sent forth free and they subdue them for manservants and for maidservants and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah from Jehovah saying thus said Jehovah God of Israel I I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of my bringing them forth from the land of Egypt from a house of servants saying at the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother the Hebrew who is sold to thee and have served these six years yay thou hast sent him forth free from thee and your fathers Harkin not unto me nor inclined their ear and ye turn back ye today and ye do that which is right in mine eyes to proclaim liberty each to his neighbor and ye make a covenant before me in the house over which my name is called and ye turn back and pollute my name and he cause each his manservant and each his maidservant whom he had sent forth free at their pleasure to return and he subdue them to be to you for manservants and for maidservants therefore thus said Jehovah ye have not Harkin unto me to proclaim freedom each to his brother and each to his neighbor lo I am proclaiming to you liberty and affirmation of Jehovah unto the sword unto the pestilence and unto the famine and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth and I have given the men who are transgressing my covenant who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before me by the calf that they have cut in two and passed through between its pieces heads of Judah and heads of Jerusalem the officers and the priests and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf yay I have given them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking their soul and their carcass have been for food to the fowl of the heavens and to the beast of the earth and Zedekiah king of Judah and his heads I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking their soul and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon that are going up from you lo I am commanding an affirmation of Jehovah and have brought them back unto the city and they have fought against it and captured it and burned it with fire and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation without inhabitant chapter 35 the word that has been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jochaiachem son of Josiah king of Judah saying go unto the house of the rickabites and thou hast spoken with them and brought them into the house of Jehovah unto one of the chambers and caused them to drink wine and I take Jeazaniah son of Jeremiah son of Habazzaniah and his brethren and all his sons and all the house of the rickabites and bring them into the house of Jehovah unto the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdalaia a man of God that is near to the chamber of the princes that is above the chamber of Measseiah son of Shalom keeper of the threshold and I put before the sons of the house of the rickabites goblets full of wine and cups and I say unto them drink ye wine and they say we do not drink wine for Johnadab son of Recap our father charged us saying ye do not drink wine ye and your sons unto the age and a house ye do not build and seed ye do not sow and a vineyard ye do not plant nor have ye any for intense do ye dwell all your days that ye may live many days on the face of the ground wither ye are so journing and we hearken to the voice of Johnadab son of Recap our father to all that he commanded us not to drink wine all our days we our wives our sons and our daughters nor to build houses for our dwelling and vineyard and field and seed we have none and we dwell intense and we hearken and we do according to all that Johnadab our father commanded us and it cometh to pass in the coming up of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto the land that we say come and we enter Jerusalem because of the force of the Chaldeans and because of the force of Aram and we dwell in Jerusalem and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah saying thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel go and thou hast said to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem do ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words and affirmation of Jehovah performed have been the words of Johnadab son of Recap when he commanded his sons not to drink wine and they have not drunk unto this day for they have obeyed the command of their father and I I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking and ye have not hearkened unto me and I send unto you all my servants the prophets rising early and sending saying turn back I pray you each from his evil way and amend your doings yay ye do not walk after other gods to serve them and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers and ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me because the sons of Johnadab son of Recap have performed the command of their father that he commanded them and this people have not hearkened unto me therefore thus said Jehovah God of hosts God of Israel low I am bringing in unto Judah and unto all inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken against them because I have spoken unto them and they have not hearkened yay I call to them and they have not answered and to the house of the Recapites said Jeremiah thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel because that ye have hearkened unto the command of Johnadab your father and he observe all his commands and do according to all that he commanded you therefore thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel of Johnadab son of Recap one standing before me is not cut off all the days chapter 36 and it cometh to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah this word have been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah saying take to thee a role of a book and thou hast written on it all the words that I have spoken unto thee concerning Israel and concerning Judah and concerning all the nations from the day I speak unto thee from the days of Josiah even unto this day if so be the house of Israel do hear all the evil that I am thinking of doing to them so that they turn back each from his evil and I have been propitious to their iniquity and to their sin and Jeremiah calleth Baruch son of Nariah and Baruch righteth from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah that he have spoken unto him on a role of a book and Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am restrained I am not able to enter the house of Jehovah but thou hast entered and thou hast read in the role that thou hast written from my mouth the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah in the day of the fast and also in the ears of all Judah who are coming in from their cities thou dost read them if so be their supplication doth fall before Jehovah and they turn back each from his evil way for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah have spoken concerning this people and Baruch son of Nariah doth according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him to read in the book the words of Jehovah in the house of Jehovah and it cometh to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah in the ninth month proclaimed a fast before Jehovah have all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who are coming in from cities of Judah to Jerusalem and Baruch readeth in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shefan the scribe in the higher court at the opening of the new gate of the house of Jehovah in the ears of all the people and Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shefan heareth all the words of Jehovah from off the book and he goeth down to the house of the king unto the chamber of the scribe and low there are all the heads sitting Elisha the scribe and Delaïa son of Shemaïa and El Nathan son of Acbor and Gemariah son of Shefan and Zedekiah son of Hananiah and all the heads and declare to them Doth Micaiah all the words that he have heard when Baruch readeth in the book in the ears of the people and all the heads send unto Baruch Jehudi son of Nathaniah son of Shemaïa son of Kashi saying the role in which thou hast read in the ears of the people take in thy hand and come and Baruch son of Narayah takeeth the role in his hand and cometh in unto them and they say unto him sit down we pray thee and read it in our ears and Baruch readeth in their ears and it cometh to pass when they hear all the words they have been afraid one at another and say unto Baruch we do surely declare to the king all these words and they asked Baruch saying declare we pray thee to us how didst thou write all these words from his mouth and Baruch sayeth to them from his mouth he pronounceeth unto me all these words and i am writing on the book with ink and the heads say unto Baruch go be hidden thou and Jeremiah and let no one know where ye are and they go in unto the king to the court and the role they have laid up in the chamber of Elisha the scribe and they declare in the ears of the king all the words and the king sendeth Jehuda to take the role and he takeeth it out of the chamber of Elisha the scribe and Jehuda readeth it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the heads who are standing by the king and the king is sitting in the winter house in the ninth month and the stove before him is burning and it cometh to pass when Jehuda readeth three or four leaves he cuteth it out with the scribe's knife and hath cast unto the fire that is on the stove till the consumption of all the role by the fire that is on the stove and the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid nor rent their garments and also El-Nathan and Dala'ayah and Gamorayah have interceded with the king not to burn the role and he hath not hearkened unto them and the king commandeth Jeremiah son of Hamalek and Sarah Aya son of Asriel and Shalamaya son of Abdel to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet and Jehovah doth hide them and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah after the king's burning the role even the words that Baruch hath written from the mouth of Jeremiah saying turn take to the another role and write on it all the former words that were on the first role that Jehoiakim king of Judah burnt and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say thus said Jehovah thou hast burnt this role saying wherefore hast thou written on it saying the king of Babylon surely cometh in and hath destroyed this land and caused to cease from it man and beast therefore thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah he hath none sitting on the throne of David and his carcass is cast out to heat by day and to cold by night and I have charged on him and on his seed and on his servants their iniquity and I have brought in on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and unto the men of Judah all the evil that I have spoken unto them and they harken not and Jeremiah hath taken another role and giveth it unto Baruch son of Nariah the scribe and he writeeth on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burnt in the fire and again there were added unto them many words like these Chapter 37 And rain doth king Zedekiah son of Josiah instead of Coniah son of Jehoiakim whom Nebuchadrezzer king of Babylon had caused to rain in the land of Judah and he hath not harkened he and his servants and the people of the land unto the words of Jehovah that he spake by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet and Zedekiah the king sendeth Jehukal son of Shalamiah and Zephaniah son of Maasiiah the priest unto Jeremiah the prophet saying Pray we beseech thee for us unto Jehovah our God and Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people and they have not put him in the prison house and the force of Pharaoh hath come out of Egypt and the Chaldeans who are laying siege against Jerusalem hear their report and go up from off Jerusalem and there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet saying thus said Jehovah God of Israel thus do ye say unto the king of Judah who is sending you unto me to seek me lo the force of Pharaoh that is coming out to you for help hath turned back to its land to Egypt and the Chaldeans have turned back and fought against the city and captured it and burnt it with fire thus said Jehovah lift not up your souls saying the Chaldeans surely go from office for they do not go for though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you and there were left of them wounded men each in his tent they rise and have burnt this city with fire and it hath come to pass in the going up of the force of the Chaldeans from off Jerusalem because of the force of Pharaoh that Jeremiah go without from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive a portion thence in the midst of the people and it cometh to pass he is at the gate of Benjamin and there is a master of the ward and his name is Erija son of Chalamaya son of Hananiah and he catcheth Jeremiah the prophet saying unto the Chaldeans thou art falling and Jeremiah saith falsehood I am not falling unto the Chaldeans and he hath not hearkened unto him and Erija layeth hold on Jeremiah and bringeth him in unto the heads and the heads are rough against Jeremiah and hath smitten him and put him in the prison house the house of Jonathan the scribe for it they had made for a prison house when Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon and unto the cells then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days and the king Zedekiah sendeth and taketh him and the king asketh him in his house in secret and saith is there a word from Jehovah and Jeremiah saith there is and he saith into the hand of the king of Babylon thou art given and Jeremiah saith unto the king Zedekiah what have I sinned against thee and against thy servants and against this people that ye have given me unto a prison house and where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying the king of Babylon doth not come in against you and against this land and now Harken I pray thee my lord oh king let my supplication fall I pray thee before thee and cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe that I die not there and the king Zedekiah commandeth and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison also to give to him a cake of bread daily from the baker's street till the consumption of all the bread of the city and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison Chapter 38 and Shephetiah son of Matan and Gadoliah son of Pashur and Jukal son of Shalamiah and Pashur son of Malkiah hear the words that Jeremiah is speaking unto all the people saying thus said Jehovah he who is remaining in this city dyeth by sword by famine and by pestilence and he who is going forth unto the Chaldeans liveth and his soul hath been to him for a prey and he liveth thus said Jehovah this city is certainly given into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon and he hath captured it and the heads say unto the king let we pray thee this man be put to death because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war who are left in this city and the hands of all the people by speaking unto them according to these words for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people but for its evil and the king Zedekiah sayeth Lo, he is in your hand for the king is not able for you in anything and they take Jeremiah and cast him into the pit of Malkiah son of the king that is in the court of the prison and they send down Jeremiah with cords and in the pit there is no water but mire and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire and Ebed Melech the Cushite a eunuch who is in the king's house heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin and Ebed Melech goeth forth from the king's house and speaketh unto the king saying my lord oh king these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the pit and he dyeth in his place because of the famine so there is no more bread in the city and the king commanded Ebed Melech the Cushite saying take with thee from this 30 men and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit before he dyeth and Ebed Melech takeeth the men with him and entereth the house of the king unto the place of the treasury and takeeth thence worn out clout and worn out rags and sendeth them unto Jeremiah unto the pit by cords and Ebed Melech the Cushite sayeth unto Jeremiah put I pray thee the worn out clout and rags under thine armholes at the place of the cords and Jeremiah doth sow and they draw out Jeremiah with cords and bring him up out of the pit and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison and the king Zedekiah sendeth and takeeth Jeremiah the prophet unto him unto the third entrance that is in the house of Jehovah and the king sayeth unto Jeremiah I am asking thee a thing do not hide from me anything and Jeremiah sayeth unto Zedekiah when I declare to thee doth thou not surely put me to death and when I counsel thee thou dost not harken unto me and the king Zedekiah sweareth unto Jeremiah in secret saying Jehovah liveth he who made for us this soul I do not put thee to death nor give thee unto the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul and Jeremiah sayeth unto Zedekiah thus said Jehovah God of hosts God of Israel if thou dost certainly go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon then hath thy soul lived and the city is not burned with fire yea thou hast lived thou and thy house and if thou dost not go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon then hath this city been given into the hand of the Chaldeans and they have burnt it with fire and thou dost not escape from their hand and the king Zedekiah sayeth unto Jeremiah I am fearing the Jews who have fallen unto the Chaldeans lest they give me into their hand and they have insulted me and Jeremiah sayeth they do not give thee up Hark and I pray thee to the voice of Jehovah to that which I am speaking unto thee and it is well for thee and thy soul doth live and if thou art refusing to go forth this is the thing that Jehovah hath shunned me that lo all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon and lo they are saying persuaded thee and prevailed against thee have thine allies sunk into mire have thy feet they have been turned backward and all thy wives and thy sons are brought forth unto the Chaldeans and thou dost not escape from their hand for by the hand of the king of Babylon thou art caught and this city is burnt with fire and Zedekiah sayeth unto Jeremiah let no man knoweth these words and thou dost not die and when the heads here that I have spoken with thee and they have come in unto thee and have said unto thee declare to us we pray thee what thou didst speak unto the king do not hide it from us and we do not put thee to death and when the king spake unto thee then thou hast said unto them I am causing my supplication to fall before the king not to cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there and all the heads come in unto Jeremiah and ask him and he declareeth to them according to all these words that the king commanded and they keep silent from him for the matter was not heard and Jeremiah dwelleth in the court of the prison till the day that Jerusalem have been captured and he was there when Jerusalem was captured Chapter 39 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah in the tenth month come half Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his force unto Jerusalem and they lay siege against it in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month in the ninth of the month half the city been broken up and come in do all the heads of the king of Babylon and they sit at the middle gate near Gal-Sharisar Sengar Nebo Sarsakim chief of the eunuchs near Gal-Sharisar chief of the mages and all the rest of the heads of the king of Babylon and it cometh to pass when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war had seen them that they flee and go forth by night from the city the way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls and he goeth forth the way of the plane and the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after them and overtake Zedekiah in the planes of Jericho and they take him and bring him up unto Nebuchadnezzar 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 in Riblah before his eyes yea all the freemen of Judah have the king of Babylon slaughtered and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded and he bindeth him with brazen fetters to bring him into Babylon and the house of the king and the house of the people have the Chaldeans burnt with fire and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down and the remnant of the people who are left in the city and those falling who have fallen to him and the remnant of the people who are left hath Nebusaradon chief of the executioners removed to Babylon and of the poor people who have nothing hath Nebusaradon chief of the executioners left in the land of Judah and he giveth to them vineyards and fields on the same day and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon giveth a charge concerning Jeremiah by the hand of Nebusaradon chief of the executioners saying take him and place thine eyes upon him and do no evil thing to him but as he speaketh unto thee so do with him and Nebusaradon chief of the executioners sendeth and Nebuchazdan chief of the eunuchs and Nurgolshereezer chief of the mages and all the chiefs of the king of Babylon yea they send and take Jeremiah out of the court of the prison and give him unto Getoliah son of Ahikam son of Shafan to carry him home and he dwelleth in the midst of the people and unto Jeremiah hath a word of Jehovah been in his being detained in the court of the prison saying go and thou hast spoken to Ebed Melech the Cushite saying thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel lo I am bringing in my words unto this city for evil and not for good and they have been before thee in that day and I have delivered thee in that day an affirmation of Jehovah and thou art not given into the hand of the men of those whose face thou art afraid for I certainly do deliver thee and by sword thou fallest not and thy life hath been to thee for a spoil for thou hast trusted in me an affirmation of Jehovah Chapter 40 the word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah after Nebusaradon chief of the executioners hath sent him from Rama in his taking him and he a prisoner of chains in the midst of all the removal of Jerusalem and of Judah who are removed to Babylon and the chief of the executioners takeeth Jeremiah and sayeth unto him Jehovah thy God hath spoken this evil concerning this place and Jehovah bringeth it in and doth as he spake because he hath sinned against Jehovah and hath not hearkened to his voice even this thing hath been to you and now lo I have loosed thee today from the chains that are on thy hand if good in thine eyes to come with me to Babylon come and I keep mine eyes upon thee and if evil in thine eyes to come with me to Babylon forbear see all the land is before thee whether it be good and whether it be right in thine eyes to go go and while he doth not reply or turn back unto Geviliah son of a high cam son of Shefan whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah and dwell with him in the midst of the people or wither soever it is right in thine eyes to go go and the chief of the executioners giveeth to him for the way and a gift and sendeth him away and Jeremiah cometh in unto Geviliah son of a high cam to Mizpa and dwelleth with him in the midst of the people who are left in the land and all the heads of the forces that are in the field here they and their men that the king of Babylon hath appointed Geviliah son of a high cam over the land and that he hath charged him with men and women and infants and the poor of the land of those who have not been removed to Babylon and they come in unto Geviliah to Mizpa even Ishmael son of Nethaniah and Johannon and Jonathan sons of Correa and Sarahiah son of Tanhumeth and the sons of Ephi the Netophithite and Jezaniah son of the Mayakithite they and their men and swear to them doth Geviliah son of a high cam son of Shefan and to their men saying be not afraid of serving the Chaldeans abide in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it is well for you and I low I am dwelling in Mizpa to stand before the Chaldeans who are come in unto us and ye gather ye wine and summer fruit and oil and put in your vessels and dwell in your cities that ye have taken and also all the Jews who are in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom and who are in all the lands have heard that the king of Babylon have given a remnant to Judah and that he hath appointed over them Geviliah son of a high cam son of Shefan and all the Jews from all the places whether they have been driven turn back and enter the land of Judah unto Geviliah to Mizpa and they gather wine and summer fruit very much and Johannon son of Correa and all the heads of the forces that are in the field have come in unto Geviliah to Mizpa and they say unto him Dost thou really know that Baialis king of the sons of Ammon hath sent Ishmael son of Nethiniah to smite thy soul and Geviliah son of a high cam have not given to them credence and Johannon son of Correa have spoken unto Geviliah in secret in Mizpa saying let me go I pray thee and I smite Ishmael son of Nethiniah and no one doth know why doth he smite thy soul and scattered hath been all Judah who are gathered unto thee and perished hath the remnant of Judah and Geviliah son of a high cam sayeth unto Johannon son of Correa thou dost not do this thing for falsehood thou art speaking concerning Ishmael Chapter 41 and it cometh to pass in the seventh month come hath Ishmael son of Nethiniah son of Elishama of the seed royal and of the chiefs of the king and ten men with him unto Geviliah son of a high cam to Mizpa and they eat their bread together in Mizpa and Ishmael son of Nethiniah Rhysith and the ten men who have been with him and they smite Geviliah son of a high cam son of Shefan with the sword and he puteth him to death whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the land and all the Jews who have been with him with Geviliah in Mizpa and the Chaldeans who have been found there the men of war hath Ishmael smitten and it cometh to pass on the second day of the pudding of Geviliah to death and no one hath known that men come in from Shechem from Shiloh and from Samaria 80 men with shaven beards and rent garments and cutting themselves and an offering in frankincense in their hand to bring in to the house of Jehovah and Ishmael son of Nethiniah goeth forth to meet them from Mizpa going in and weeping and it cometh to pass at meeting them that he saith unto them come in unto Geviliah son of a high cam and it cometh to pass at their coming in unto the midst of the city that Ishmael son of Nethiniah doth slaughter them at the midst of the pit he and the men who are with him and ten men have been found among them and they say unto Ishmael do not put us to death for we have things hidden in the field wheat and barley and oil and honey and he forbeareth and hath not put them to death in the midst of their brethren and the pit whether Ishmael hath cast all the carcasses of the men whom he hath smitten along with Geviliah is that which the king Asa made because of Baesha king of Israel it hath Ishmael son of Nethiniah filled with the pierced and Ishmael takeeth captive all the remnant of the people who are in Mizpa the daughters of the king and all the people who are left in Mizpa whom Nebus Aradan chief of the executioners hath committed to Geviliah son of a high cam and Ishmael son of Nethiniah take them captive and goeth to pass over unto the sons of Ammon and hear doth Johannon son of Correa and all the heads of the forces that are with him of all the evil that Ishmael son of Nethiniah hath done and they take all the men and go to fight with Ishmael son of Nethiniah and they find him at the great waters that are in Gibeon and it cometh to pass when all the people who are with Ishmael see Johannon son of Correa and all the heads of the forces who are with him that they rejoice and all the people whom Ishmael hath taken captive from Mizpa turn around yea they turn back and go unto Johannon son of Correa and Ishmael son of Nethiniah hath escaped with eight men from the presence of Johannon and he goeth unto the sons of Ammon and Johannon son of Correa and all the heads of the forces who are with him take all the remnant of the people whom he hath brought back from Ishmael son of Nethiniah from Mizpa after he had smitten Geviliah son of a high cam mighty ones men of war and women and infants and eunuchs whom he had brought back from Gibeon and they go and abide in the habitations of Chimham that are near Bethlehem to go to enter Egypt from the presence of the Chaldeans for they have been afraid of them for Ishmael son of Nethiniah had smitten Geviliah son of a high cam whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land Chapter 42 and they come nigh all the heads of the forces and Johannon son of Correa and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah and all the people from the least even unto the greatest and they say unto Jeremiah the prophet let we pray the our supplication fall before thee and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God for all this remnant for we have been left a few out of many as thine eyes do see us and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk and the thing that we do and Jeremiah the prophet sayeth unto them I have heard lo I am praying unto Jehovah your God according to your words and it hath come to pass the whole word that Jehovah answereth you I declare to you I do not withhold from you a word and they have said to Jeremiah Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful if according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us we do not so whether good or evil to the voice of Jehovah our God to whom we are sending thee we do harken because it is good for us when we harken to the voice of Jehovah our God and it cometh to pass at the end of 10 days that there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah and he calleth unto John and son of Korea and unto all the heads of the forces that are with him and to all the people from the least even unto the greatest and he sayeth unto them thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto whom ye sent me to cause your supplication to fall before him if ye do certainly dwell in this land then I have buildeth you up and I throw not down and I have planted you and I pluck not up for I have repented concerning the evil that I have done to you be not afraid of the king of Babylon whom ye are afraid of be not afraid of him an affirmation of Jehovah for with you am I to save you and to deliver you from his hand and I give to you mercies and he hath pitied you and caused you to turn back unto your own ground and if ye are saying we do not dwell in this land not to harken to the voice of Jehovah your God saying no but the land of Egypt we enter that we see no war and the sound of a trumpet do not hear and for bread be not hungry and there do we dwell and now therefore hear ye a word of Jehovah a remnant of Judah thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel if ye really set your faces to enter Egypt and have gone into sojourn there then it hath come to pass the sword that ye are afraid of doth there overtake you in the land of Egypt and the hunger because of which ye are sorrowful doth there cleave after you in Egypt and there ye die thus are all the men who hath set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there they die by sword by hunger and by pestilence and there is not to them a remnant and an escaped one because of the evil that I am bringing in upon them for thus said Jehovah of hosts God of Israel as poured out hath been mine anger and my fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem so poured out is my fury upon you in your entering Egypt and ye have been for an execration and for an astonishment and for a reviling and for a reproach and ye do not see any more this place Jehovah hath spoken against you a remnant of Judah do not enter Egypt know certainly that I have testified against you today for ye have shooed yourselves perverse in your souls for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God saying pray for us unto Jehovah our God and according to all that Jehovah our God saith so declare to us and we have done it and I declare to you today and ye have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah your God and to anything with which he hath sent me unto you and now know ye certainly that by sword by famine and by pestilence ye die in the place that ye have desired to go into sojourn there the end of chapters 32 through 42 of the book of Jeremiah from the young's literal translation of the Bible Recording by Mark Penfold