Jeremiah 43 Cross References - CLV

¹ And it comes to pass, when Jeremiah does finish to speak unto all the people all the words of Yahweh their Elohim, with which Yahweh their Elohim has sent him unto them--all these words--" ² that Azariah son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, speak unto Jeremiah, saying, `Falsehood you are speaking; Yahweh our Elohim has not sent you to say, Do not enter Egypt to sojourn there;" <sup>3</sup> for Baruch son of Neriah is moving you against us, in order to give us up into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death, and to remove us to Babylon.'" <sup>4</sup> And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces, and all the people, have not hearkened to the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah;" <sup>5</sup> and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces, take all the remnant of Judah who have turned from all the nations whither they were driven to sojourn in the land of Judah, <sup>6</sup> the men, and the women, and the infant, and the daughters of the king, and every person that Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch son of Neriah, <sup>7</sup> and they enter the land of Egypt, for they have not hearkened to the voice of Yahweh, and they enter unto Tahpanhes." <sup>8</sup> And there is a word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, <sup>9</sup> `Take in your hand great stones, and you have hidden them, in the clay, in the brick-kiln, that [is] at the opening of the house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah, ¹⁰ and you have said unto them:Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:`Lo, I am sending, and I have taken Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have set his throne above these stones that I have hid, and he has stretched out his pavilion over them, ¹¹ and he has come, and smitten the land of Egypt--those who [are] for death to death, and those who [are] for captivity to captivity, and those who [are] for the sword to the sword." ¹² And I have kindled a fire in the houses of the elohims of Egypt, and it has burned them, and he has taken them captive, and covered himself with the land of Egypt, as cover himself does the shepherd with his garment, and he has gone forth thence in peace;" ¹³ and he has broken the standing pillars of the house of the sun, that [is] in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the elohims of Egypt he does burn with fire.'"

¹⁴ and they embittered their lives with hard service in clay and in bricks, and with all service in the field, in addition to all their service which they served among them with rigor.

² Yet Pharaoh said: Who is Yahweh to Whose voice I should hearken to dismiss Israel? I do not know Yahweh! And, moreover, Israel I shall not dismiss.

¹⁷ Still you are heaping yourself up against My people so as not to dismiss them.

¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt in this night and smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human even unto beast, and on all the elohim of Egypt I shall execute judgments; I am Yahweh.

³ So Moses came and related to the people all the words of Yahweh and all the judgments. Then all the people responded with one voice and said: All the words which Yahweh has spoken we shall do.

¹⁰ And Samuel speaks all the words of Yahweh unto the people who are asking from him a king,

¹⁹ And, now, let, I pray you, my lord the king hear the words of his servant:if Yahweh has moved you against me, let Him accept a present; and if the sons of men--cursed [are] they before Yahweh, for they have cast me out to-day from being admitted into the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, Go, serve other elohims.

²¹ And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.

³¹ and the people who [are] in it he has brought out, and sets to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and has caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he does to all the cities of the Bene-Ammon; and David turns back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

²⁹ And it comes to pass, at that time, that Jeroboam has gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, finds him in the way, and he is covering himself with a new garment; and both of them [are] by themselves in a field, ³⁰ and Ahijah lays hold on the new garment that [is] on him, and rends it--twelve pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, `Take to you ten pieces, for thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, lo, I am rending the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and have given to you the ten tribes,

¹² And it comes to pass at the hearing of this word--and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths--that he said unto his servants, `Set yourselves;' and they set themselves against the city.

¹⁶ and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking--drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him.

¹⁶ And it comes to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he said to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed you? cease for you; why do they smite you?' And the prophet ceases, and said, `I have known that Elohim has counselled to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel..

¹³ and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he has rebelled, who had caused him to swear by Elohim, and he hardens his neck, and strengthens his heart, against turning back unto Yahweh, Elohim of Israel.

⁹ Then may the garment and horse be put at the hand of one of the king's highborn chief officials, and let him clothe the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight, and parade him on the horse in the city square, while proclaiming before him:Thus is it done to the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight.

²⁹ This is the portion from Elohim for the wicked person, And the allotment assigned him by El.

¹⁰ Ornament yourself then with pride and loftiness, And with splendor and honor you shall clothe yourself.

⁴ In his haughty anger the wicked one is not inquiring at all. There is no Elohim in all his schemes; ⁵ His ways are profane in every season. Your judgments are withdrawn from in front of him; All his foes--he puffs at them.

³ May Yahweh cut off all lips of slick words, The tongue speaking great things.

¹¹ He set darkness as His concealment round about Him; His booth was the darkness of waters, the thick clouds of the skies."

⁵ For He shall seclude me in His booth in the day of evil; He shall conceal me in the secrecy of His tent; He shall safely set me high on a rock.

²⁰ You shall conceal them in the concealment of Your presence From the coalitions of man; You shall seclude them in a booth From the dispute of tongues.

³ Trust in Yahweh, and do good; Tabernacle in the land, and graze in faithfulness."

² You are muffled with light as a garment. Stretching out the heavens like a sheet,

⁴ In return for my love they are my adversaries, Even while I was in prayer."

¹⁸ He clothed himself with malediction as his coat; May it enter within him like water, And like oil into his bones." ¹⁹ May it be upon him like a cloak with which he is muffled, And like a cordon that he girds about him continually."

²¹ You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, Who are erring from Your instructions."

⁴ For itself is our soul greatly surfeited With the derision of the self-satisfied, With the contempt of the proud."

¹⁶ Its priests shall I clothe with salvation, And its benign ones, they shall be jubilant, yea jubilant;"

¹⁸ His enemies shall I clothe with shame, Yet his insignia shall blossom upon him."

⁷ Whither could I go from Your spirit, And whither could I run away from Your presence?

¹⁷ Exalted eyes, a false tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood;"

¹³ The fear of Yahweh means to hate evil; Pride and pomp and the way of evil And a mouth of duplicity I hate.

⁵ An abhorrence to Yahweh is everyone haughty of heart; A hand upon hand, he shall not be held innocent."

¹⁸ Pride goes before a breaking, And a haughty spirit before a stumbling." ¹⁹ It is better to be lowly of spirit with the humble Than to apportion loot with the proud.

⁹ Lest I should be surfeited So that I disavow You and say, Who is Yahweh? Or lest I be destitute and steal, So that I denigrate the name of my El."

¹ For I laid all this on my heart, and my heart saw all this:That the righteous and the wise and their services are in the hand of the One, Elohim; Whether it will be love or hate, a man is not able to know; Everything before them is vanity." ² Just as to all, one event happens, to the righteous one and to the wicked one, to the good one and to the bad one, To the clean one and to the unclean one, To the one who sacrifices and to him who makes no sacrifice, So it is for the good person as for the sinner, For the one who swears just as for one fearful of an oath."

¹⁶ So I said, Better is wisdom than mastery, Yet the wisdom of a provident man is despised, And his words are no longer hearkened to."

⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you are not believing, then you are not being faithful."

⁹ And the people know, all of them, Ephraim and the dweller of Samaria, who, in pride and a greatly swollen heart, are saying, ¹⁰ The bricks fell, yet with trimmed stone will we build. The sycamore fig trees were hacked down, yet we to cedars will vary."

¹ LOAD OF EGYPT "Behold Yahweh riding on a thick cloud! It is fleet, and He comes to Egypt. And the forbidden idols of Egypt are swayed by His presence, and the heart of Egypt is melting within it."

¹ LOAD OF EGYPT "Behold Yahweh riding on a thick cloud! It is fleet, and He comes to Egypt. And the forbidden idols of Egypt are swayed by His presence, and the heart of Egypt is melting within it." ² And I tangle Egypt with Egypt, and they will fight, each man against his brother, and each man against his associate. And city shall rouse against city, kingdom against kingdom." ³ And void is the spirit of Egypt within it, and I will swallow up its counsel. And they inquire of the forbidden idols, and of the ventriloquists, and of the mediums and of the wizards." ⁴ And I hold the Egyptians in check by the hand of obstinate lords, and a strong king shall rule among them,averring is the Lord, Yahweh of hosts." ⁵ And absorbed are the waters from the upper sea, and the stream shall be drained and be dry." ⁶ And the streams evaporate, and are impoverished, and the waterways of lower Egypt drain. The reeds and the weeds are withered." ⁷ Naked places are on the waterway, at the mouth of the waterway, and all that sown by the waterway is drying, and it is whisked away, and is not." ⁸ And the fishers complain, and mourn do all flingers of fishhooks into the waterway, and the spreaders of a dragnet on the surface of the waters are enfeebled." ⁹ And ashamed are the cultivators of yellow flax, and the weavers of pale cotton." ¹⁰ And its settlers become crushed. All workers for hire are marshy of soul. ¹¹ Yea! Foolish are the chiefs of Zoan, the wise counselors of Pharaoh give brutish counsel. How will you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of former kings"? ¹² Whereat, indeed, are your wise? And, pray, will they tell to you, and will they know what Yahweh of hosts counsels over Egypt? ¹³ Foolish are the chiefs of Zoan! Lured away are the chiefs of Noph! They lead Egypt astray, the corner stone of its tribes." ¹⁴ Yahweh blends within it a depraved spirit. They lead Egypt astray in its every deed, as a drunkard strays in his vomit." ¹⁵ And not coming to Egypt is work, which head or tail, frond or rush shall do." ¹⁶ In that day Egypt shall become as wives, and tremble, and be afraid in view of the wave of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which He will wave over it." ¹⁷ And it comes that the ground of Judah is to Egypt for giddiness. Everyone to whom they shall mention it will be afraid, in view of the counsel of Yahweh of hosts, which He shall counsel against them." ¹⁸ In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall come to speak the lip of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts. "A devoted city,will be said of one."

¹⁸ In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall come to speak the lip of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts. "A devoted city,will be said of one." ¹⁹ In that day there shall be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument beside its boundary to Yahweh." ²⁰ And it comes to be for a sign for the eon, and for a testimony to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt. In case they will cry to Yahweh in view of their oppressors, then He will send them a saviour, and He will descend, and rescue them." ²¹ Then Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and Egypt shall know Yahweh in that day, and they serve with sacrifice and approach present, and vow a vow to Yahweh and pay it." ²² And Yahweh struck Egypt with a great stroke, yet, heal, yea He will heal them. And they return unto Yahweh. And He is entreated for them and heals them." ²³ In that day a highway will come from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria comes into Egypt, and Egypt goes into Assyria. And Egypt serves with Assyria." ²⁴ In that day Israel shall become third to Egypt and to Assyria. They shall be a blessing within the earth, ²⁵ who are blessed by Yahweh of hosts, who says, "Blessed be My people, Egypt, and the making of My hands, Assyria, and My allotment, Israel."

¹ In the year the Tartan came to Ashdod, when he was sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, then he is fighting against Ashdod and seizing it." ² In that era Yahweh speaks by the hand of Isaiah, son of Amoz, saying, "Go and unloose the sackcloth off your waist, and your sandals shall you pull off your feet.And he is doing so, to go naked and barefoot." ³ And saying is Yahweh, "As My servant Isaiah goes naked and barefoot, a three year sign and miracle representing Egypt and Ethiopia, ⁴ so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives of Egypt, and the deportation of Ethiopia, youths and elders, naked and barefoot, with bared buttock, the nakedness of Egypt."

⁹ And behold this! Coming is a chariot with men, a pair of horsemen! And he is responding and saying, `Fallen! Fallen is Babylon! And all the carvings and her forbidden idols are broken to the earth.'"

⁴ For his chiefs come to be in Zoan, and his messengers are attaining Hanes."

²⁸ Saying as to Cyrus, `My shepherd,' and `All My desire he will perform.' Saying as to Jerusalem, `It shall be built.' And the temple, `It shall be founded.'"

¹ Bows Bel! Stoops Nebo! Their grief fetishes have come to be for the animal, and for the beast are your carriers laden. Their announcings are a load for the faint."

¹⁸ Lift your eyes around and see them all. They are convened and come to you. "Living am I,averring is Yahweh, "For with them all, as an ornament, shall you be clothed, and you shall tie them on as a bride her wreath."

¹ Rouse! Rouse! Clothe yourself with your ornaments, O Zion! Clothe yourself in your beautiful cloaks, Jerusalem, the holy city! For no more shall come into you any longer the uncircumcised and unclean."

¹⁷ And He will put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and the helmet of salvation on His head. And he will put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and muffle as with a robe of jealousy."

⁵ And aliens will stand and graze your flocks, and sons of foreigners will be your farmers and your vineyardists."

¹⁰ With elation will I be elated in Yahweh. My soul shall exult in my Elohim. For he clothes me with the garments of salvation, and in the robe of righteousness will He muffle me, as a bridegroom with a priestly beautiful turban, and as a bride is ornamenting herself with her outfit."

⁷ And Yahweh said unto me, `Do not say, I [am] a youth, for to all to whom I send you you go, and all that I command you you speak."

¹⁵ For, lo, I am calling for all families of the kingdoms of the north, --an affirmation of Yahweh--and they have come, and put each his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and by its walls round about, and by all cities of Judah."

¹⁷ `And you, you do gird up your loins, and have arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command you:be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright you before them."

¹⁶ Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume you--the crown of the head!

¹² They have lied against Yahweh, And they say, `[It is] not He, Nor come in against us does evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see." ¹³ And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' --thus it is done by them."

¹ Thus said Yahweh unto me, `Go, and you have got for you a girdle of linen, and have placed it on your loins, and into water you do not cause it to enter:'" <sup>2</sup> and I get the girdle, according to the word of Yahweh, and I place [it] on my loins." <sup>3</sup> And there is a word of Yahweh unto me a second time, saying, <sup>4</sup> `Take the girdle that you have got, that [is] on your loins, and rise, go to Phrat, and hide it there in a hole of the rock;" ⁵ and I go and hide it by Phrat, as Yahweh commanded me." ⁶ And it comes to pass, at the end of many days, that Yahweh said unto me, `Rise, go to Phrat, and take thence the girdle, that I commanded you to hide there;'" <sup>7</sup> and I go to Phrat, and dig, and take the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and lo, the girdle has been marred, it is not profitable for anything." <sup>8</sup> And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, `Thus said Yahweh:" ⁹ Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem." ¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other elohims to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is--as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything." ¹¹ For, as the girdle cleaves unto the loins of a man, So I caused to cleave unto Me The whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah, an affirmation of Yahweh, To be to Me for a people, and for a name, And for praise, and for beauty, And they have not hearkened."

¹⁵ Hear, and give ear--be not haughty, For Yahweh has spoken."

² And it has come to pass, when they say to you, Whither do we go out? that you have said unto them, Thus said Yahweh:Those who [are] for death--to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity."

² Rise, and you have gone down [to] the potter's house, and there I cause you to hear My words;" ³ and I go down [to] the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones, ⁴ and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he has turned and he makes it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make." ⁵ And there is a word of Yahweh to me, saying:" ⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Yahweh. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So [are] you in My hand, O house of Israel." ⁷ The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy, ⁸ And that nation has turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it." ⁹ And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant, ¹⁰ And it has done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it." ¹¹ And now, speak, I pray you, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying:Thus said Yahweh:Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings." ¹² And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do."

¹ Thus said Yahweh, `Go, and you have got a potter's earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests, <sup>2</sup> and you have gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that [is] at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and have proclaimed there the words that I speak unto you, <sup>3</sup> and have said, Hear a word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:`Lo, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of every one who is hearing it do tingle, ⁴ because that they have forsaken Me, and make known this place, and make perfume in it to other elohims, that they knew not, they and their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place [with] innocent blood, ⁵ and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spoke of, nor did it come up on My heart." ⁶ `Therefore, lo, days are coming--an affirmation of Yahweh--and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but, Valley of slaughter." <sup>7</sup> And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, <sup>8</sup> and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and does hiss for all its plagues." <sup>9</sup> And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life." <sup>10</sup> `And you have broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with you, ¹¹ and have said unto them:Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Thus do I break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter's vessel, that is not able to be repaired again, and in Tophet they bury--without place to bury;" ¹² so I do to this place--an affirmation of Yahweh--and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;" ¹³ and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been--as the place of Tophet--defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made perfume to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other elohims.'" ¹⁴ And Jeremiah comes in from Tophet, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stands in the court of the house of Yahweh, and he said unto all the people:" ¹⁵ `Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck--not to hear My words!'"

⁶ And you do not go after other elohims to serve them, and to bow yourselves to them, nor do you provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I do no evil to you;" ⁷ And you have not hearkened unto Me--an affirmation of Yahweh--so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you. ⁸ `Therefore thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Because that you have not obeyed My words, <sup>9</sup> Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north--an affirmation of Yahweh--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 wastes eonian." <sup>10</sup> 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." <sup>11</sup> And all this land has been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years." <sup>12</sup> `And it has come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation--an affirmation of Yahweh--their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations eonian." ¹³ 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 has prophesied concerning all the nations." ¹⁴ For laid service on them--also them--have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands." ¹⁵ `For thus said Yahweh Elohim of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and you have caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending you;" <sup>16</sup> And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shown themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them." <sup>17</sup> `And I take the cup out of the hand of Yahweh, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Yahweh sent me:" ¹⁸ 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." ¹⁹ Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,

¹⁹ Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people, ²⁰ And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod, ²¹ Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon, ²² And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that [is] beyond the sea, ²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners [of the beard], ²⁴ And all the kings of Arabia, And all the kings of the mixed people, Who are dwelling in the wilderness, ²⁵ And all the kings of Zimri, And all the kings of Elam, And all the kings of Media, ²⁶ 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 Sheshach drinks after them."

² `Thus said Yahweh, Stand you in the court of the house of Yahweh, and you have spoken unto all [those of] the cities of Judah who are coming in to bow themselves in the house of Yahweh, all the words that I have commanded you to speak unto them, you do not diminish a word."

⁸ And it comes to pass, at the completion of Jeremiah's speaking all that Yahweh has commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people catch him, saying, You do surely die,

⁶ `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;" ⁷ 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." ⁸ And it has come to pass, the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him--Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon--and that which puts 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 Yahweh--till I consume them by his hand."

⁴ And Jeremiah calls Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch writes from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, that He has spoken unto him, on a roll of a book."

¹⁰ and Baruch reads in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the opening of the new gate of the house of Yahweh, in the ears of all the people."

²⁶ And the king commands Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Yahweh does hide them."

⁴ And the heads say unto the king, `Let, we pray you, 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.'"

¹⁰ And of the poor people, who have nothing, has Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, left in the land of Judah, and he gives to them vineyards and fields on the same day."

⁷ And all the heads of the forces that [are] in the field hear, they and their men, that the king of Babylon has appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land, and that he has charged him [with] men, and women, and infants, and of the poor of the land, of those who have not been removed to Babylon;" ⁸ and they come in unto Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan sons of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maachathite, they and their men."

¹¹ 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 has given a remnant to Judah, and that he has appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, ¹² and all the Jews from all the places whither they have been driven, turn back and enter the land of Judah, unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and they gather wine and summer fruit--very much." ¹³ And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces that [are] in the field, have come in unto Gedaliah to Mizpah, ¹⁴ and they say unto him, `Do you really know that Baalis king of the sons of Ammon has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to smite your soul?' And Gedaliah son of Ahikam has not given to them credence." <sup>15</sup> And Johanan son of Kareah has spoken unto Gedaliah in secret, in Mizpah, saying, `Let me go, I pray you, and I smite Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one does know; why does he smite your soul? and scattered have been all Judah who are gathered unto you, and perished has the remnant of Judah.'" ¹⁶ And Gedaliah son of Ahikam said unto Johanan son of Kareah, `You do not do this thing, for falsehood you are speaking concerning Ishmael.'"

¹⁰ And Ishmael takes captive all the remnant of the people who [are] in Mizpah, the daughters of the king, and all the people who are left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, has committed [to] Gedaliah son of Ahikam, and Ishmael son of Nethaniah takes them captive, and goes to pass over unto the sons of Ammon."

¹⁵ And Ishmael son of Nethaniah has escaped, with eight men, from the presence of Johanan, and he goes unto the sons of Ammon." ¹⁶ And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces who [are] with him, take all the remnant of the people whom he has brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah--after he had smitten Gedaliah son of Ahikam--mighty ones, men of war, and women, and infants, and eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon,

¹⁶ And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces who [are] with him, take all the remnant of the people whom he has brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah--after he had smitten Gedaliah son of Ahikam--mighty ones, men of war, and women, and infants, and eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon,

¹ And they come nigh--all the heads of the forces, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest--"

³ and Yahweh your Elohim does declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.'" ⁴ And Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, `I have heard:lo, I am praying unto Yahweh your Elohim according to your words, and it has come to pass, the whole word that Yahweh answers you, I declare to you--I do not withhold from you a word.'" <sup>5</sup> And they have said to Jeremiah, `Yahweh is against us for a witness true and faithful, if--according to all the word with which Yahweh your Elohim does send you unto us--we do not so."

⁵ And they have said to Jeremiah, `Yahweh is against us for a witness true and faithful, if--according to all the word with which Yahweh your Elohim does send you unto us--we do not so." ⁶ Whether good or evil, to the voice of Yahweh our Elohim, to whom we are sending you, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Yahweh our Elohim.'"

¹⁰ `If you do certainly dwell in this land, then I have builded 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." <sup>11</sup> Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are afraid of; be not afraid of him--an affirmation of Yahweh--for with you [am] I, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand." <sup>12</sup> And I give to you mercies, and he has pitied you, and caused you to turn back unto your own ground." <sup>13</sup> `And if you are saying, We do not dwell in this land--not to hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim,

²² And now, know you certainly that by sword, by famine, and by pestilence you die, in the place that you have desired to go in to sojourn there.'"

¹ And it comes to pass, when Jeremiah does finish to speak unto all the people all the words of Yahweh their Elohim, with which Yahweh their Elohim has sent him unto them--all these words--"

⁶ the men, and the women, and the infant, and the daughters of the king, and every person that Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch son of Neriah,

¹ The word that has been unto Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who are dwelling in the land of Egypt--who are dwelling in Migdol, and in Tahpanhes, and in Noph, and in the land of Pathros--saying,

⁵ and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other elohims,

¹³ `And I have seen after those dwelling in the land of Egypt, as I saw after Jerusalem, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,

¹ The word that Jeremiah the prophet has spoken unto Baruch son of Neriah, in his writing these words on a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:" ² `Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, concerning you, O Baruch:" <sup>3</sup> `You have said, Woe to me, now, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain, I have been wearied with my sighing, and rest I have not found."

¹ That which has been the word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations, ² For Egypt, concerning the force of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, that has been by the river Phrat, in Carchemish, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has smitten, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:" ³ `Set you in array shield and buckler, And draw nigh to battle." <sup>4</sup> Gird the horses, and go up, you horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail." <sup>5</sup> Wherefore have I seen them dismayed--They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And [to] a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear [is] round about--an affirmation of Yahweh." <sup>6</sup> The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen." <sup>7</sup> Who is this? as a flood he comes up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!" <sup>8</sup> Egypt, as a flood comes up, And as rivers the waters shake themselves. And he said, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it." <sup>9</sup> Go up, you horses; and boast yourselves, you chariots, And go forth, you mighty, Cush and Phut handling the shield, And Lud handling--treading the bow." <sup>10</sup> And that day [is] to the Lord Yahweh of Hosts A day of vengeance, To be avenged of His adversaries, And the sword has devoured, and been satisfied, And it has been watered from their blood, For a sacrifice [is] to the Lord Yahweh of Hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Phrat." <sup>11</sup> Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain you have multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for you." <sup>12</sup> Nations have heard of your shame, And your cry has filled the land, For the mighty on the mighty did stumble, Together they have fallen--both of them!'" <sup>13</sup> The word that Yahweh has spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt:" <sup>14</sup> `Declare you in Egypt, and sound in Migdol, Yea, sound in Noph, and in Tahpanhes say:Station yourself, yea, prepare for you, For a sword has devoured around you,

¹⁴ `Declare you in Egypt, and sound in Migdol, Yea, sound in Noph, and in Tahpanhes say:Station yourself, yea, prepare for you, For a sword has devoured around you, ¹⁵ Wherefore has your bull been swept away? He has not stood, because Yahweh thrust him away." ¹⁶ He has multiplied the stumbling, Yea one has fallen upon his neighbor, And they say:Rise, and we turn back to our people, And unto the land of our birth, Because of the oppressing sword." ¹⁷ They have cried there:Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, Passed by has the appointed time." ¹⁸ I live--an affirmation of the King, Yahweh of Hosts [is] His name, Surely as Tabor [is] among mountains, And as Carmel by the sea--he comes in, ¹⁹ Goods for removal make for you, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becomes a desolation, And has been burnt up, without inhabitant." ²⁰ A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north does come into her." ²¹ Even her hired ones in her midst [are] as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity has come on them, The time of their inspection." ²² Its voice as a serpent goes on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees." ²³ They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Yahweh--for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering." ²⁴ Ashamed has been the daughter of Egypt, She has been given into the hand of the people of the north." ²⁵ Said has Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her elohims, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him,

²⁵ Said has Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her elohims, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him, ²⁶ And I have given them into the hand of those seeking their life, And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants, And afterwards it is inhabited, As [in] days of old--an affirmation of Yahweh." ²⁷ And you, you do not fear, my servant Jacob, Nor [are] you dismayed, O Israel, For lo, I am saving you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity, And Jacob has turned back, And has been at rest, and been at ease, And there is none disturbing." ²⁸ You, you do not fear, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Yahweh--for with you I [am], For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have driven you, And of you I do not make an end, And I have reproved you in judgment, And do not entirely acquit you!'"

⁷ For, because of your trusting in your works, And in your treasures, even you are captured, And gone out has Chemosh in a removal, His priests and his heads together."

² `Declare you among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say you:Captured has been Babylon, Put to shame has been Bel, Broken has been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols."

⁴⁴ And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed--from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon has fallen."

⁶³ And it has come to pass, when you do finish reading this book, you do bind to it a stone, and have cast it into the midst of Phrat,

⁶³ And it has come to pass, when you do finish reading this book, you do bind to it a stone, and have cast it into the midst of Phrat, ⁶⁴ and said, Thus sink does Babylon, and it does not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.' Hitherto [are] words of Jeremiah."

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slaughters the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the princes of Judah has he slaughtered in Riblah;"

¹ I am the master who has seen humiliation under the club of His rage;

¹ `And you, son of man, take to you a brick, and you have put it before you, and have graven on it a city--Jerusalem, <sup>2</sup> and have placed against it a siege, and builded against it a fortification, and poured out against it a mount, and placed against it camps, yea, set you against it battering-rams round about." <sup>3</sup> And you, take to you an iron pan, and you have made it a wall of iron between you and the city; and you have prepared your face against it, and it has been in a siege, yea, you have laid siege against it. A sign it [is] to the house of Israel." <sup>4</sup> `And you, lie on your left side, and you have placed the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; the number of the days that you lie on it, you bear their iniquity." ⁵ And I--I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, the number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and you have borne the iniquity of the house of Israel." ⁶ And you have completed these, and have lain on your right side, a second time, and have borne the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days--a day for a year--a day for a year I have appointed to you." ⁷ `And unto the siege of Jerusalem you do prepare your face, and your arm [is] uncovered, and you have prophesied concerning it." <sup>8</sup> And lo, I have put on you thick bands, and you do not turn from side to side till your completing the days of your siege." <sup>9</sup> `And you, take to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and you have put them in one vessel, and made them to you for bread; the number of the days that you are lying on your side--three hundred and ninety days--you do eat it." ¹⁰ And your food that you do eat [is] by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time you do eat it." ¹¹ `And water by measure you do drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time you do drink [it]." <sup>12</sup> A barley-cake you do eat it, and it with dung--the filth of man--you do bake before their eyes." <sup>13</sup> And Yahweh said, `Thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them.'" ¹⁴ And I say, `Ah, Lord Yahweh, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth has abominable flesh.'" <sup>15</sup> And He said unto me, `See, I have given to you bullock's dung instead of man's dung, and you have made your bread by it.'" ¹⁶ And He said unto me, `Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink;" ¹⁷ so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity."

¹ `And you, son of man, take to you a sharp weapon, the barber's razor you do take to you, and you have caused [it] to pass over your head, and over your beard, and you have taken to you weighing scales, and apportioned them." ² A third part with fire you do burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and you have taken the third part, you do smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part you do scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them." ³ And you have taken thence a few in number--and have bound them in your skirts; ⁴ and of them you do take again, and have cast them unto the midst of the fire, and have burned them in the fire--out of it comes forth a fire unto all the house of Israel." ⁵ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:this [is] Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her [are] the lands." ⁶ And she changes My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that [are] round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes--they have not walked in them." ⁷ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because of your multiplying above the nations that [are] around you, In My statutes you have not walked, And My judgments you have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That [are] round about you you have not done." ⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I [am] against you, even I, And I have done in your midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations." ⁹ And I have done in you that which I have not done, And that which I do not its like again, Because of all your abominations." ¹⁰ Therefore fathers do eat sons in your midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in you judgments, And have scattered all your remnant to every wind." ¹¹ Therefore, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh:Because My sanctuary you have defiled, With all your detestable things, And with all your abominations, Mine eye pities not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish? ¹² Your third part--by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in your midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about you, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them."

¹² Your third part--by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in your midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about you, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them." ¹³ And completed has been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, Yahweh, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them." ¹⁴ And I give you for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that [are] round about you, Before the eyes of every passer by." ¹⁵ And it has been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that [are] round about you, In My doing in you judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Yahweh, have spoken." ¹⁶ In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread." ¹⁷ And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved you, And pestilence and blood pass over on you, And a sword I do bring in against you, I, Yahweh, have spoken!'"

³ And you, son of man, make to you vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and you have removed from your place unto another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for a rebellious house they [are]." ⁴ And you have brought forth your vessels as vessels of removal by day before their eyes, and you, you do go forth at even before their eyes, as the goings forth of a removal." ⁵ Before their eyes dig for you through the wall, and you have brought forth by it." ⁶ Before their eyes on the shoulder you do bear, in the darkness you do bring forth, your face you do cover, and you do not see the earth, for a type I have given you to the house of Israel.'" ⁷ And I do so, as I have been commanded; my vessels I have brought forth as vessels of removal by day, and at even I have dug for me through the wall with the hand; in the darkness I have brought forth, on the shoulder I have borne away, before their eyes." ⁸ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, in the morning, saying, ⁹ `Son of man, have they not said unto you--the house of Israel--the rebellious house--What are you doing? <sup>10</sup> say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:`The prince [is] this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are in their midst." ¹¹ Say:I [am] your type; as I have done so it is done to them, into a removal, into a captivity, they do go." ¹² As to the prince who [is] in their midst, on the shoulder he bears in the darkness, and he goes forth, through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covers, that he may not look on the very surface of the land." ¹³ And I have spread My net for him, and he has been caught in My snare, and I have brought him in to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and it he does not see--and there does he die." ¹⁴ `And all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them." ¹⁵ And they have known that I [am] Yahweh, in My scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands;" ¹⁶ and I have left of them, a few in number, from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, and they have known that I [am] Yahweh.'"

¹⁸ `Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, Has caused his force to serve a great service against Tyre, Every head [is] bald--every shoulder peeled, And reward he had none, nor his force, out of Tyre, For the service that he served against it." ¹⁹ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh, Lo, I am giving to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt, And he has taken away its store, And has taken its spoil, and taken its prey, And it has been a reward to his force." ²⁰ His wage for which he labored I have given to him, The land of Egypt--in that they wrought for Me, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh."

¹ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying:" ² `Son of man, prophesy, and you have said:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Howl you, ha! for the day!" ³ For near [is] a day, near [is] a day to Yahweh! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is." ⁴ And come in has a sword to Egypt, And there has been great pain in Cush, In the falling of the wounded in Egypt, And they have taken its store, And broken down have been its foundations." ⁵ Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall, ⁶ Thus said Yahweh:And--fallen have supporters of Egypt, And come down has the arrogance of her strength, From Migdol to Syene, by sword they fall in her, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." ⁷ And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities." ⁸ And they have known that I [am] Yahweh, In My giving fire against Egypt, And broken have been all her helpers." ⁹ In that day go forth do messengers from before Me in ships, To trouble confident Cush, And there has been great pain among them, As the day of Egypt, for lo, it has come." ¹⁰ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:I have caused the multitude of Egypt to cease, By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, ¹¹ He and his people with him--the terrible of nations, Are brought in to destroy the land, And they have drawn their swords against Egypt, And have filled the land [with] the wounded." ¹² And I have made floods a dry place, And I have sold the land into the hand of evil doers, And I have made desolate the land, And its fulness, by the hand of strangers, I, Yahweh, have spoken." ¹³ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:And--I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt."

¹³ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:And--I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt." ¹⁴ And I have made Pathros desolate, And I have given fire against Zoan, And I have done judgments in No, ¹⁵ And I have poured out My fury on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, And I have cut off the multitude of No." ¹⁶ And I have given fire against Egypt, Greatly pained is Sin, and No is to be rent, And Noph has daily distresses." ¹⁷ The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go." ¹⁸ And in Tehaphnehes has the day been dark, In My breaking there the yokes of Egypt, And ceased in her has the excellency of her strength, She--a cloud does cover her, And her daughters into captivity do go."

¹⁸ And in Tehaphnehes has the day been dark, In My breaking there the yokes of Egypt, And ceased in her has the excellency of her strength, She--a cloud does cover her, And her daughters into captivity do go." ¹⁹ And I have done judgments in Egypt, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh.'" ²⁰ And it comes to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh of the month, has a word of Yahweh been unto me, saying:`Son of man, ²¹ The arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, I have broken, And lo, it has not been bound up to give healing, To put a bandage to bind it, To strengthen it--to lay hold on the sword." ²² Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I [am] against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand, ²³ And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, ²⁴ And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he has groaned the groans of a pierced one--before him." ²⁵ And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh, In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he has stretched it out toward the land of Egypt." ²⁶ And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!'"

²¹ He is altering the eras and the stated times, causing kings to pass away and causing kings to rise, granting wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding."

¹⁸ You, O king! The Supreme Eloah granted the kingdom and majesty and esteem and honor to Nebuchadnezzar your grandfather." ¹⁹ And from the majesty that He granted to him, all peoples, leagues, and language-groups were stirred and terrified before him. Whom he will he is despatching, and whom he will he is preserving alive; whom he will he exalts, and whom he will he abases."

¹⁰ And I will speak by the prophets, and I will increase the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use likenesses."

¹⁴ Bail for yourself water for the siege! Repair your fortresses! Come into the mud, and tramp in the crushed straw! Repair the brickwork!"

⁴ Behold! it is made presumptuous:his soul is not upright in him. Yet the just one by his faith shall live. ⁵ And, indeed, seeing that the wine is treacherous; the master is ostentatious, and he is not resting, who widens his soul as the unseen, and he is as death and is not satisfied. And he is gathering to him all the nations, and he is convening to him all the peoples."

¹¹ Yahweh will be fearful against them, for He will make all the elohim of the earth lean; and all the coastlands of the nations, each man from his place, shall worship Him."

⁹ Then I am saying, I will not graze you. The dying will die; and the suppressed will be suppressed; and the remainder will eat, each woman, of the flesh of her mate."

¹¹ "Happy are you whenever they should be reproaching and persecuting you and, falsifying, saying every wicked thing against you, on my account. ¹² Rejoice and exult, for your wages are vast in the heavens. For thus they persecute the prophets before you.

⁷ Now the king is angered, and, sending his troops, destroys those murderers and sets their city in flames."

²⁰ teaching them to be keeping all, whatever I direct you. And lo! I am with you all the days till the conclusion of the eon! Amen!"

²² Happy are you whenever men should be hating you, and whenever they should be severing from you and reproaching you and casting out your name as wicked, on account of the Son of Mankind." ²³ You may be rejoicing in that day, and frisk, for lo! your wages are vast in heaven, for according to the same manner did their fathers to the prophets."

²⁶ Woe to you whenever all men may be saying fine things of you, for according to the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets!"

¹⁸ Verily, verily, I am saying to you, When you were younger you girded yourself and walked where you would; yet whenever you may be growing decrepit, you will stretch out your hands, and another shall be girding you and carrying you where you would not."

²⁰ Go, and, standing in the sanctuary, speak to the people all the declarations of this life."

²⁷ for under no circumstances do I shrink from informing you of the entire counsel of God.

¹¹ And coming to us and picking up Paul's girdle, binding his own feet and hands, he said, "Now this the holy spirit is saying, 'The man whose girdle this is, shall the Jews in Jerusalem be binding thus, and they shall be giving him over into the hands of the nations.'"

¹² The night progresses, yet the day is near. We, then, should be putting off the acts of darkness, yet should be putting on the implements of light."

²⁴ and to put on the new humanity which, in accord with God, is being created in righteousness and benignity of the truth."

¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, to enable you to stand up to the stratagems of the Adversary,

¹² Put on, then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, pitiful compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,

¹⁴ Now over all these put on love, which is the tie of maturity."

⁹ in which I am suffering evil unto bonds as a malefactor - but the word of God is not bound.

⁶ Yet greater is the grace He is giving. Wherefore He is saying, God "the proud is resisting, yet to the humble He is giving grace."

⁵ Likewise, younger men may be subject to the elder, yet all wear the servile apron of humility with one another, for God "is resisting the proud, yet is giving grace to the humble."

²¹ And one strong messenger lifts a stone, as large as a millstone, and casts it into the sea, saying that "Thus Babylon, the great city, will be hurled down, and nevermore be found in it."