Jeremiah 22 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Thus said the LORD also, "Go down in to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there these words, ² and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, thou king of Judah that sittest in the kingly seat of David: thou, and thy servants, and thy people, that go in and out at this gate. ³ Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place. ⁴ And if ye keep these things faithfully, then shall there come in at the door of this house, kings, to sit upon David's seat: they shall be carried in Chariots and ride upon horses, both they and their servants, and their people. ⁵ But if ye will not be obedient unto these commandments, I swear by mine own self, sayeth the LORD, this house shall be waste. ⁶ For thus hath the LORD spoken upon the king's house of Judah: Thou art the head, as Gilead is in Lebanon: What wilt thou lay of it, if I make thee and thy cities also not so waste that no man shall dwell therein? ⁷ I will prepare a destroyer with his weapons for thee, to hew down thy special Cedar trees, and to cast them in the fire. ⁸ And all the people that go by this city, shall speak one to another: Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this noble city? ⁹ Then shall it be answered: Because they have broken the covenant of the LORD their God, and have worshipped and served strange gods.'" ¹⁰ Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more. ¹¹ For thus sayeth the LORD, as touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned after his father, and is carried out of this place, "He shall never come hither again, ¹² for he shall die in the place whereunto he is led captive, and shall see this land no more. ¹³ Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire. ¹⁴ He thinketh in himself, 'I will build me a wide house, and gorgeous parlors.' He causeth windows to be hewn therein, and the ceilings and joists maketh he of Cedar, and painteth them with Sinoper. ¹⁵ Thinkest thou to reign, now that thou provokest me to wrath with thy Cedar trees? Did not thy father eat and drink, and prosper well, as long as he dealt with equity and righteousness? ¹⁶ Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'" ¹⁸ And therefore, thus sayeth the LORD against Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, "They shall not mourn for him as they used to do, 'Alas brother, alas sister.' Neither shall they say unto him, 'Alas sir, alas for that noble prince.' ¹⁹ But as an Ass shall he be buried corrupt, and be cast without the gates of Jerusalem. ²⁰ Climb up the hill of Lebanon, O thou daughter Zion! Lift up thy voice upon Bashan, cry from all parts: for all thy lovers are destroyed. ²¹ I gave thee warning, while thou wast yet in prosperity. But thou saidst, 'I will not hear.' And this manner hast thou used from thy youth, that thou wouldest never hear my voice. ²² All thy herdsmen shall be driven with the wind, and thy darlings shall be carried away into captivity. Then shalt thou be brought to shame and confusion, because of all thy wickedness: ²³ thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child? ²⁴ As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD, Though Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet of my right hand, yet will I pluck him off: ²⁵ And I will give thee into the power of them that seek to slay thee, and into the power of them that thou fearest: into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the power of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Moreover, I will send thee, and thy mother that bare thee, into a strange land where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. ²⁷ But as for the land that ye will desire to return unto, ye shall never come at it again. ²⁸ This man Jechoniah shall be like an image robbed and torn in pieces, which pleaseth no man, for all his apparel. Wherefore both he and his seed shall be sent away, and cast out into a land, that they know not. ²⁹ O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD! ³⁰ Write this man among the outlaws, for no prosperity shall this man have all his life long. Neither shall any of his seed be so happy as to sit upon the seat of David, and to bear rule in Judah."

¹⁶ But Samuel said to Saul, "Cease, and let me tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night." And he said unto him, "Say on." ¹⁷ And Samuel said, "When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel. ¹⁸ And then the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said unto thee, 'See that thou utterly destroy those sinners, the Amalekites and fight against them until ye have utterly destroyed them.' ¹⁹ And wherefore hast thou now not obeyed the voice of the LORD: But didst turn to the prey and hast wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD?" ²⁰ And Saul said unto Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and went the way which the LORD sent me; and have brought Agag the king of the Amalekites, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹ And the people took of the spoil, sheep, oxen, and the chiefest of the things which should have been destroyed, to offer unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal." ²² Then said Samuel, "Hath the LORD as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerings, as he hath that thou shouldest obey his voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to give heed is better than the fat of rams. ²³ For rebelliousness is as the sin of witchcraft; and stubbornness is wickedness and idolatry. Because therefore thou hast cast away the word of the LORD, therefore hath the LORD cast away thee also, from being king."

¹ And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him and said unto him, "There were two men in one city, a rich and a poor.

¹¹ And when David was up in a morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, ¹² "Go and say unto David, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: I offer thee three things, choose which of them I shall do to thee.'"

¹⁸ "Up, and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth: for he is gone down thither, to take possession of it. ¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'" ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, "Hast thou found me thine enemy at any time?" And he said, "Yea, because thou art utterly given to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.

² And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out against him and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Oughtest thou to help the wicked, and to love them that hate the LORD? In this verily is the wrath of the LORD upon thee. ³ Neverthelater, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."

¹⁵ Wherefore the LORD was wroth with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, and said to him, "Why seekest thou the gods of the people which were not able to deliver their own people out of thine hands?" ¹⁶ And as the prophet spake to him, he said to the prophet, "Have men made thee of the king's counsel? Cease, lest thou be beaten." And the prophet ceased, and said, "I am sure that God hath taken counsel to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and obeyest not my counsel."

¹⁰ And when the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people, they attended not to him.

¹¹ And unto the house of the king of Judah, say thus, 'Hear ye the word of the LORD,

² "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Go, and speak to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and tell him, 'The LORD sendeth thee this word: Behold, I will deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall burn it,

¹ O ye priests, hear this; take heed, O thou household of Israel; give ear, O thou kingly house. For this punishment will come upon you, that are become a snare unto Mizphah, and a spread net unto the mount of Tabor.

¹³ and prophesy no more at Bethel, for it is the king's chapel, and the king's court.

¹⁸ John said unto Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife."

¹⁹ Then Herod the Tetrarch; when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done; ²⁰ added this above all, and laid John in prison.

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, "Hear therefore the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sit on his seat and all his company of heaven standing about him, on his righthand and on his left.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah.

⁷ He shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same: to establish it with equity and righteousness, from thenceforth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.

¹⁴ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye mockers that rule the LORD's people, which is at Jerusalem.

² "Stand under the gates of the LORD's house, and cry out these words there, with a loud voice, and say, Hear the word of the LORD all ye of Judah, that go in at this door, to honour the LORD.

¹⁸ Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

²⁰ and say unto them, 'Hear the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all thou people of Judah, and all ye citizens of Jerusalem, that go through this gate! ²¹ Thus the LORD commandeth: Take heed for your lives, that ye carry no burden upon you in the Sabbath, to bring it through the gates of Jerusalem: ²² ye shall bear no burden also out of your houses in the Sabbath: Ye shall do no labour therein, but hallow the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers. ²³ Howbeit, they obeyed me not, neither hearkened they unto me: but were obstinate and stubborn, and neither obeyed me, nor received my correction. ²⁴ Nevertheless, if ye will hear me, sayeth the LORD, and bear no burden into the city through this gate upon the Sabbath; If ye will hallow the Sabbath, so that ye do no work therein; ²⁵ then shall there go through the gates of this city, kings and princes, that shall sit upon the stool of David: They shall be carried upon chariots, and ride upon horses, both they and their princes. Yea, whole Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem shall go herethrough, and this city shall ever be the more and more inhabited. ²⁶ There shall come men also from the cities of Judah; from about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin; from the plain fields; from the mountains and from the wilderness; which shall bring burnt offerings, sacrifices, oblations, and incense, and offer up thanksgiving in the house of the LORD. ²⁷ But if ye will not be obedient unto me, to hallow the Sabbath: so that ye will bear your burdens through the gates of Jerusalem upon the Sabbath: Then shall I set fire upon the gates of Jerusalem, and it shall burn up the houses of Jerusalem, and no man shall be able to quench it."

³ and say thus unto them: 'Hear the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and ye citizens of Jerusalem! Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such a plague upon this place, that the ears of all that hear it, shall glow.

⁴ And if ye keep these things faithfully, then shall there come in at the door of this house, kings, to sit upon David's seat: they shall be carried in Chariots and ride upon horses, both they and their servants, and their people.

²⁹ O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD! ³⁰ Write this man among the outlaws, for no prosperity shall this man have all his life long. Neither shall any of his seed be so happy as to sit upon the seat of David, and to bear rule in Judah."

¹⁶ Thus hath the LORD spoken concerning the king that sitteth in the stool of David, and all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone with you into captivity. ¹⁷ Thus, I say, speaketh the LORD of Hosts: Behold, I will send a sword, hunger and pestilence upon them, and will make them like untimely figs, that may not be eaten for bitterness.

²⁰ Hear therefore the word of the LORD, all ye prisoners, whom I sent from Jerusalem unto Babylon.

³⁰ Therefore thus the LORD sayeth, of Jehoiakim the king of Judah: There shall none of his generation sit upon the throne of David. His dead corpse shall be cast out, that the heat of the day and the frost of the night may come upon him.

⁷ "'Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

¹⁶ And therefore, bear thou now the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, 'Prophesy not against Israel, and speak nothing against the house of Isaac.'

³² He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the seat of his father David:

²² Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

⁶ Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit. ⁷ "Keep thee far from a false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous. ⁹ Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of a stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously.

¹⁸ but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

¹⁸ Judges and officers thou shalt make thee in all thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: And let them judge the people righteously. ¹⁹ Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous. ²⁰ But in all things follow righteousness, that thou mayest live and enjoy the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

¹⁰ that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee. ¹¹ But and if there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities; ¹² Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die. ¹³ Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.

⁷ If any man be found stealing any of his brethren the children of Israel, and maketh chevisance of him or selleth him, the thief shall die. And thou shalt put evil away from thee.

¹ When there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser.

¹⁹ "'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

³ The God of Israel spake unto me, and the strength of Israel said, 'He that beareth rule over men, he that ruleth justly in the fear of God,

⁴ and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

⁹ They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

⁷ When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street; ⁸ When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me; ⁹ when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth; ¹⁰ when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths; ¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. ¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

⁵ He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

² Then shall he judge thy people according unto right, and defend the poor. ³ The mountains also shall bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people. ⁴ He shall keep the simple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer.

⁶ They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

²¹ They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.

¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well. ¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD. ¹⁸ And so though your sins be like to purple, they shall be made as white as snow; and though they be as red as scarlet, they shall be made like white wool. ¹⁹ If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God. ²⁰ But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.

²³ Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

²⁸ hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

⁵ "For if ye will amend your ways and counsels, if ye will judge right betwixt a man and his neighbour; ⁶ If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;

²⁴ But who so will rejoice, let him rejoice in this: that he understandeth, and knoweth me. For I am the LORD, which do mercy, equity and righteousness upon the earth. Therefore have I pleasure in such things, sayeth the LORD."

¹² O house of David, for thus sayeth the LORD: Minister righteousness, and that soon. Deliver the oppressed from violent power: before my terrible wrath break out like a fire, and burn so that no man may quench it, because of the wickedness of your imaginations.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

¹⁶ Then said the rulers and the people unto the priests and prophets, "This man may not be condemned to death, for he hath preached unto us in the name of the LORD our God."

⁷ In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

¹⁹ Egypt shall go to ruin, and Edom shall be a desert and a wilderness, which oppressed the children of Israel, and which shed innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

⁸ I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

⁹ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother. ¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart." ¹¹ Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²⁷ Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

²⁵ then shall there go through the gates of this city, kings and princes, that shall sit upon the stool of David: They shall be carried upon chariots, and ride upon horses, both they and their princes. Yea, whole Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem shall go herethrough, and this city shall ever be the more and more inhabited.

¹⁶ saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,

²⁸ Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. ²⁹ Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me ³⁰ come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein — save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

⁴⁰ For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live ever. ⁴¹ If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will show vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me. ⁴² I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the bare head of the enemy.'

¹⁹ But and if ye turn away and forsake mine ordinances and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them:

²² And it shall be answered then, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and caught hold on other gods, and bowed to them and served them: even therefore brought he on them all this evil.'"

¹¹ Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

²⁰ But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.

¹³ And now, though ye have done all these deeds, sayeth the LORD, and I myself rose up ever betimes to warn you and to commune with you, yet would ye not hear me: I called, ye would not answer. ¹⁴ And therefore even as I have done to Shiloh, so will I do to this house that my name is given unto, and that ye put your trust in: yea, unto the place that I have given to you and your fathers.

²⁷ But if ye will not be obedient unto me, to hallow the Sabbath: so that ye will bear your burdens through the gates of Jerusalem upon the Sabbath: Then shall I set fire upon the gates of Jerusalem, and it shall burn up the houses of Jerusalem, and no man shall be able to quench it."

⁶ then will I do to this house, as I did unto Shiloh, and will make this city to be abhorred of all the people of the earth.'" ⁷ And the priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah preach these words in the house of the LORD. ⁸ Now when he had spoken out all the words that the LORD commanded him to preach unto all the people, then the priests, the prophets and all the people took hold upon him, and said, "Thou shalt die. ⁹ How darest thou be so bold, as to say in the name of the LORD, 'It shall happen to this house as it did unto Shiloh? And this city shall be so waste, that no man shall dwell therein?'"

⁸ Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

⁸ "'The LORD God hath sworn even by himself,' sayeth the LORD God of hosts, 'I hate the pride of Jacob, and I abhor his palaces: and I will give over the city, with all that is therein:

⁷ The LORD hath sworn against the pride of Jacob, "These works of theirs will I never forget. ⁸ Shall not the land tremble; and all they that dwell therein, mourn for this? Shall not their destruction come upon them like a water stream; and flow over them, as the flood of Egypt?

¹² Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

¹⁸ To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

¹⁷ So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,

²⁵ And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into Egypt.

²⁵ let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan; that goodly high country, and Lebanon.'

³⁴ A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

¹⁵ His legs are as the pillars of Marble, set upon sockets of gold; His face is as Lebanon, and as the beauty of the Cedar trees.

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

¹ Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof. ² Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor as the debtor. ³ Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself. ⁴ The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught. ⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few.

¹⁰ The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up.

²⁰ They cry murder upon murder; the whole land shall perish. Immediately my tents were destroyed, and my hangings, in the twinkling of an eye.

³⁴ And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah and Jerusalem; the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate."

¹¹ I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."

⁷ For in this place will I slay the Senators of Judah and Jerusalem, and kill them down with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and of them that seek their lives. And their dead carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field. ⁸ And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.

¹⁴ For I will visit you, sayeth the LORD, because of the wickedness of your inventions, and will kindle such a fire in your wood, as shall consume all that is about you.'"

²⁴ As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD, Though Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet of my right hand, yet will I pluck him off:

⁹ Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert. ¹⁰ Moreover, I will take from them the voice of gladness and solace, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the voice of the anointed, with the cressets:

¹⁸ "Micah the Morasthite, which was a prophet under Hezekiah king of Judah, spake to all the people of Judah, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones, and the hill of the LORD's house shall be turned to a high wood.'

²⁷ Say thou these words unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, all ye that dwell in this wilderness, shall be slain with the sword. Whatsoever is upon the field, will I give unto the beasts to be devoured: those that be in strongholds and dens, shall die of the pestilence. ²⁸ For I will make the land desolate and waste, and the pomp of her strength shall come to an end. The mountains in Israel shall be so waste that no man shall travel thereby.

³ What will ye do in time of the visitation and destruction, that shall come from far? To whom will ye run for help? Or to whom will ye give your honour, that he may keep it? ⁴ That ye come not among the prisoners, or lie among the dead? After all this shall not the wrath of the LORD cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still. ⁵ Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment. ⁶ For I shall send him among those hypocritical people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street. ⁷ Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart of this fashion. But he imagineth only, how he may overthrow and destroy much people,

³³ But see, the Lord God of Hosts shall take away the proud from thence, with fear. He shall hew down the proud, and fell the high minded. ³⁴ The thorns of the wood shall be rooted out with iron, and Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.

³ For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory. ⁴ There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle. ⁵ They come not only out of far countries, but also from the ends of the heavens: Even the LORD himself with the ministers of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

¹⁰ The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up. ¹¹ Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

²⁴ Thou with thy servants hast blasphemed the LORD and thus holdest thou of thyself, I cover the high mountains, and sides of Lebanon with my horsemen. And there will I cut down the high Cedar trees and the fairest Fir trees. I will up into the height of it, and into the chiefest of his timber woods.

¹⁶ Behold, I make the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and he maketh a weapon after his handy work. I make also the waster to destroy: ¹⁷ but all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper. And as for all tongues that shall resist thee in judgment, thou shalt overcome them, and condemn them. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and the righteousness that they shall have of me, sayeth the LORD.

⁶ Set up the token in Zion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north. ⁷ For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a people upon you from far, O house of Israel, sayeth the LORD; a mighty people, an old people, a people whose speech thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

²⁰ In those days and at the same time, sayeth the LORD, if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall none be found. If men inquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto them, whom I suffer to remain over. ²¹ "Go down, O thou avenger, into the enemies' land, and visit them that dwell therein: down with them, and smite them upon the backs, sayeth the LORD. Do according to all, that I have commanded thee. ²² There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner: ²³ How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner?

¹ He cried also with a loud voice in mine ears, saying, "Come here, ye rulers of the city; every man with his weaponed hand to the slaughter." ² Then came there six men out of the street of the upper port toward the north, and every man a weapon in his hand to the slaughter. There was one amongst them, that had on him a linen raiment, and a writer's inkhorn by his side. These went in, and stood beside the brazen altar: ³ for the glory of God was gone away from the Cherub, and was come down to the threshold of the house. And he called the man that had the linen raiment upon him, and the writer's inkhorn by his side, ⁴ and the LORD said unto him, "Go thy way through the city of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that mourn and are sorry for all the abominations that be done therein." ⁵ And to the other, he said that I might hear, "Go ye after him through the city: slay, oversee none, spare none, ⁶ kill and destroy both old man and young, maidens, children and wives. But as for those, that have the mark upon them: see that ye touch them not. And begin at my Sanctuary." Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple, ⁷ for he had said unto them, "When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth." So they went out, and slew down through the city.

¹ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedar trees.

⁷ When the King heard that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warriors and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.

²³ how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger. ²⁴ And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?' ²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought.

⁸ And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?' ⁹ And it shall be answered then, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God which brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods and have stooped unto him and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.'"

²⁰ then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them, and will cast this house which I have sanctified for my name out of my sight, and will make a proverb and a tale of it among all nations. ²¹ And this house that is so high, shall be a wonder to all that passeth thereby that they shall say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this fashion with this land and with this house?' ²² And it shall be answered then, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and caught hold on other gods, and bowed to them and served them: even therefore brought he on them all this evil.'"

¹⁰ "Now when thou showest this people all these words, and they say unto thee, 'Wherefore hath the LORD devised all this great plague for us?' Or, 'What is the offense and sin that we have done against the LORD our God?'

¹⁵ {Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?" ¹⁶ {Ayin} All thine enemies gape upon thee, whispering and biting their teeth, saying, "Let us devour, for the time that we looked for is come: we have found and seen it." ¹⁷ {Pe} The LORD hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do; and performed that he had devised long ago. He hath destroyed; and not spared. He hath caused thine adversary to triumph over thee; and set up the horn of thine enemy.

¹² {Lamed} Neither the kings of the earth, nor all the inhabiters of the world, would have believed that the enemy and adversary should have come in at the gates of the city of Jerusalem.

⁷ O LORD righteousness belongeth unto thee; unto us pertaineth nothing but open shame: as it is come to pass this day unto every man of Judah, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem. Yea, unto all Israel, whether they be far or nigh, throughout all lands wherein thou hast strawed them, because of the offenses that they had done against thee.

²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought. ²⁷ And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

¹⁷ because they have forsaken me and have burnt offerings unto other gods, to anger me with all the works of their hands. Therefore is my wrath kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

²⁵ because they have forsaken me and have offered unto other gods to anger me with all manner works of their hands, therefore is my wrath set on fire against this place and shall not be quenched.

¹⁷ Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way? ¹⁸ And what hast thou now to do in the street of Egypt? To drink foul water? Either, what makest thou in the way to Assyria? To drink water of the flood? ¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.

² The chief Captain called for Jeremiah, and said unto him, "The LORD thy God spake mightily before of the misery upon this place: ³ Now the LORD hath sent it, and performed it as he had promised. For ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not been obedient to his voice, therefore cometh this plague upon you.

⁷ All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.'

²⁰ And therefore, see, I will receive ye unto thy fathers and will fetch thee unto thy grave in peace, thine eyes shall see none of the evil which I will bring upon this place." And they brought the king word again.

³⁰ And his servants carried him dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his father's room. ³¹ And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ³² And he did that displeased the LORD, in all things as his fathers had done. ³³ And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath in the time of his reign in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ³⁴ And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away — which, when he came to Egypt, died there.

²³ the shooters shot against the king Josiah. And the king said to his servants, "Carry me away for I am sore hurt." ²⁴ And his servants had him out of the chariot and put him in another, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. ²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented Josiah, and all singing men and singing women speak of Josiah to this day, and made it an ordinance in Israel: and they be written in lamentations.

² Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.

¹ But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

¹¹ For thus sayeth the LORD, as touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned after his father, and is carried out of this place, "He shall never come hither again,

¹⁸ And therefore, thus sayeth the LORD against Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, "They shall not mourn for him as they used to do, 'Alas brother, alas sister.' Neither shall they say unto him, 'Alas sir, alas for that noble prince.'

⁹ {Tet} They that be slain with the sword, are happier than such as die of hunger, and perish away famishing for the fruits of the field.

³ One of her whelps she brought up, and it became a lion: it learned to spoil, and to devour folk. ⁴ The heathen heard of him, and took him in their nets, and brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

²⁸ But Jesus turned back unto them, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me: but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

³¹ And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

³⁴ And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away — which, when he came to Egypt, died there.

¹⁵ And the sons of Josiah were: the eldest son Johanan, the second Jehoakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.

¹² And certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, as Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum and Amasa the son of Hadlai stood up against them that came from war,

²² And Hilkiah, with them that pertained to the king, went to Huldah, a prophetess, wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe - which prophetess dwelt in Jerusalem in the second ward - and they communed so with her.

¹ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king for his father in Jerusalem. ² And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³ For the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and merced the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king upon Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name unto Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz his brother, Neco took and carried him to Egypt.

¹³ Thou shalt not beguile thy neighbour with cavillations, neither rob him violently, neither shall the workman's labour abide with thee until the morning.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not defraud a hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be of thy brethren or a stranger that is in thy land within thy cities. ¹⁵ Give him his hire the same day, and let not the sun go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee.

³⁵ And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh: howbeit, he taxed the land, to give the money at the commandment of Pharaoh and as every man was set at, so he required the silver and the gold of the people of the land, to give Pharaoh Neco. ³⁶ Jehoiakim was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned an eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was named Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ³⁷ And he did that was evil-favored in the sight of the LORD, like in all things as did his fathers.

⁴ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king upon Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name unto Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz his brother, Neco took and carried him to Egypt.

¹⁰ insomuch that they let him go naked without clothing, and take way the sheaf of the hungry. ¹¹ The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

¹⁰ Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.

⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast devised the shame of thine own house, for thou hast slain too much people, and hast willfully offended: ¹¹ so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer.

⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields — which hire is of you kept back by fraud — crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

² he said unto Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar trees, but the Ark of God dwelleth in the midst of curtains."

⁵ And the great house he sealed with fir tree, and overlaid it with good gold, and graved thereto palm trees and chains.

¹⁹ He that loveth strife, delighteth in sin; and whoso setteth his door too high, seeketh after a fall.

²⁷ First, make up thy work that is without, and look well unto that which thou hast in the field, and then build thine house.

¹⁷ the ceilings of our house are of Cedar tree, and our balks of Cypress.

⁸ Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, that the poor can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone? ⁹ The LORD of Hosts roundeth me thus in mine ear: Shall not many greater and more gorgeous houses be so waste, that no man shall dwell in them?

⁹ And the people also of Ephraim, and they that dwell in Samaria, can say with pride and high stomachs, on this manner:

³⁰ and said, "This is the great city of Babylon, which I myself, with my power and strength, have made a king's court, for the honour of my majesty."

⁴ "Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?

⁴ And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal."

²⁸ Which of you is he that is disposed to build a tower, and sitteth not down before and counteth the cost: Whether he have sufficient to perform it? ²⁹ Lest after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to perform it, all that behold it, begin to mock him,

⁴⁰ Keep therefore his ordinances, and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee forever."

¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel and executed right and justice unto all his people.

²⁰ And Judah and Israel were many, even as the sand of the sea in number, eating, drinking, and making merry. ²¹ And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river throughout all the land of the Philistines unto the borders of Egypt, and they brought presents and served Solomon all days of his life. ²² And Solomon's food was in one day thirty quarters of manchet flour and three score quarters of meal; ²³ ten stalled oxen, and twenty out of the pastures and a hundred sheep and goats, besides harts, bucks and buballs and fat poultry.

⁹ And blessed be the LORD thy God which had a lust to thee, to set thee on the seat of Israel, because the LORD loved Israel for ever, and therefore made thee king, to do equity and righteousness."

² And he did that seemed right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and bowed neither to the righthand nor to the left.

²⁵ Like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any such.

² And he did that pleased the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, bowing neither to the righthand nor to the left.

⁷ And Josiah gave to the common people in lambs and kids, for Passover offerings only, unto all that were present thirty thousand by tally, and three thousand oxen; even of the king's substance. ⁸ And his lords gave willingly both unto the people and also unto the priests and unto the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred lambs and kids, and three hundred oxen.

¹² And they fetched away the burnt offerings, to give them unto the common people as they were divided by ancient houses, for to offer unto the LORD; like as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen too. ¹³ And they dressed the Passover with fire as the manner was. But the other hallowed, dedicated beasts they sod in pots, cauldrons and pans and divided them quickly among all the common people. ¹⁴ And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests and for the children of Aaron, which were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night. And therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron. ¹⁵ And the singers the children of Asaph stood in their standing according to the commandment of David and Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun the king's seer of visions: and the porters waited at every gate, and might not depart from their service. But their brethren the Levites prepared for them. ¹⁶ And so all the service of the LORD went forward the said day, in offering Passover of burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah. ¹⁷ And so the children of Israel that could be found, offered Passover the same time and kept the feast of sweet bread seven days. ¹⁸ And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel, from the time of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of the kings of Israel hold such a Passover feast as did Josiah and the priests and Levites and all Judah, and as much of Israel as could be had, and the inhabiters of Jerusalem.

¹ {A song of the stairs} Blessed are all they that fear the LORD, and walk in his ways. ² For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

²⁸ Mercy and faithfulness preserve the king, and with loving-kindness his seat is holden up.

³ To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

⁵ Take away ungodliness from the king, and his seat shall be established with righteousness.

⁴ With true judgment the king setteth up the land; but if he be a man that taketh gifts, he turneth it upside down.

⁹ With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.

²⁴ Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soul to be merry in his labour? Yea I saw that this also was a gift of God:

⁷ Go thou thy way then, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness, for thy works please God. ⁸ Let thy garments be always white, and let thy head want none ointment. ⁹ Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun. ¹⁰ Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

¹⁷ But well is thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is come of nobles, and whose princes eat in due season, for strength and not for lust.

¹⁰ Bid the righteous do well, for they shall enjoy the fruits of their studies.

¹⁶ He it is, that shall dwell on high; whose safeguard shall be in the true rock, to him shall be given the right true meat and drink.

³ Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

⁵ "Behold, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I will raise up the righteous Branch of David, which shall bear rule, and discuss matters with wisdom, and shall set up equity and righteousness again in the earth.

⁶ whether it be good or evil. We will hearken unto the voice of our LORD God to whom we send thee that we may prosper, when we have followed the voice of the LORD our God."

⁴¹ Nevertheless, ye give alms of that ye have, and behold: all is clean to you.

⁴⁶ And they continued daily with one accord in the temple, and brake bread in every house, and did eat their meat together with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God,

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the praise of God.

² There is none so holy as the LORD: no, there is none save thou. Neither is there any strength like unto our God.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

¹⁰ And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.

¹ {Of Solomon} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

¹² For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth, and the needy that hath no help. ¹³ He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

³ Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right. ⁴ Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

³¹ for he standeth at the righthand of the poor, to save him from such as condemn his soul.

¹¹ Deliver them that go unto death, and are led away to be slain, and be not negligent therein. ¹² If thou wilt say, "I knew not of it"; Thinkest thou that he which made the hearts, doth not consider it? And that he which regardeth thy soul, seeth it not? Shall not he recompense every man according to his works?

¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

³ They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword among them, to persecute them, until I bring them to naught."

³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And from thenceforth shall no man teach his neighbour or his brother, and say, 'Know the LORD.' But they shall all know me, from the lowest unto the highest, sayeth the LORD. For I will forgive their misdeeds, and will never remember their sins anymore.

¹⁹ Then said they unto him, "Where is thy father?" Jesus answered, "Ye neither know me, nor yet my father. If ye had known me, ye should have known my father also."

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I honour myself, mine honour is nothing worth. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God. ⁵⁵ And ye have not known him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you; But I know him, and keep his saying.

³ And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

³ This is life eternal: that they might know thee, that only very God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

⁶ "I have declared thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy sayings.

¹⁶ They confess that they know God: but with the deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.

³ And hereby we are sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, "I know him," and yet keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the verity is not in him.

²¹ Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

²¹ I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."

¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'"

⁸ The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his Abominations, and that was laid to his charge, are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

⁷ If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

³ For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. ³⁷ O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

²² Then Jehoiakim the king sent servants in to the land of Egypt; Namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. ²³ Which fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto king Jehoiakim that slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the common people's grave. ²⁴ But Ahikam the son of Shaphan helped Jeremiah, that he came not into the hands of the people to be slain.

⁶ Which went among the lions, and became a fierce lion: learned to spoil, and to devour folk:

³¹ These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.

³ Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.

²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

¹⁵ Wherefore he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness. For no man's life standeth in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." ¹⁶ And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously, ¹⁷ and he thought in himself saying, 'What shall I do? Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits.' ¹⁸ And he said, 'This will I do. I will destroy my barns, and build greater: and therein will I gather all my fruits, and my goods: ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.' ²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?' ²¹ So is it with him that gathered riches, and is not rich in God."

¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God, and mammon." ¹⁴ All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous. And they mocked him,

²⁹ being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

¹⁰ neither thieves, neither the covetous, neither drunkards, neither cursed speakers, neither extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

³ So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints: ⁴ neither filthiness, neither foolish talking, neither jestings, which are not comely: but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person, which is the worshipper of images, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction. ¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁴ But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence. ¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children, ¹⁵ See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world — as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods — are not of the father: but of the world.

²⁶ Woe is me for thee, my brother Jonathan! Delectable to me wast thou, exceeding. Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

³³ And the king lamented over Abner and said, "Abner died not as a wretch dieth. ³⁴ Thy hands were not manacled nor thy feet brought into fetters: but as men fall before wicked children, so fellest thou." And all the people wept yet more over him. ³⁵ And when all the people came to eat meat with David, while it was yet day, David sware, saying, "So do God to me and so thereto, if I taste bread or ought else till the sun be down." ³⁶ And the people wist it, and it pleased them, as well as all other good things which the king did in the sight of the people. ³⁷ And all the people and all Israel thereto understood that day how that it was not the king's mind to slay Abner the son of Ner. ³⁸ And the king said unto his servants, "Know ye not, how that there is a lord, and that a great, fallen this day in Israel?

³⁰ And he laid his body in his own grave and lamented over him, "Oh my brother."

¹⁹ And in process of time, even about the end of two years, his guts fell out by reason of his sickness: and so he died of evil diseases. But they made him no bonfire, like the bonfires of his fathers. ²⁰ When he began to reign, he was twenty seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchre of the kings.

²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented Josiah, and all singing men and singing women speak of Josiah to this day, and made it an ordinance in Israel: and they be written in lamentations.

⁴ They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.

⁶ And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.

¹⁰ Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more.

⁵ but shalt die in peace. Like as thy forefathers the kings, thy progenitors, were burnt: so shalt thou be burnt also, and in the mourning they shall say, 'Oh, lord.' For thus have I determined, sayeth the LORD.'"

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed.

²³ And thereto against Jezebel came the word of the LORD, saying, "Dogs shall eat Jezebel, under the walls of Jezreel. ²⁴ And he that dieth of Ahab in the town, him shall dogs eat: and he that dieth in the fields, him shall the fowls of the air eat."

³⁵ And when they came to bury her, they found no more of her, than the skull and the two feet and the two hands.

⁶ Against him came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

³ For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.

⁶ therefore go thou thither, and read the book, that thou hast written at my mouth: Namely, the words of the LORD, and read them in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: that the people, whole Judah, and all they that come out of the cities, may hear.

¹² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and behold, the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

⁴⁹ "Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel to possess.

⁷ But the king of Egypt came now no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

⁵ They shall be also at their wits end, and ashamed one of another: the Egyptians of the Ethiopians, and the Ethiopians of the Egyptians, considering what glory they were in afore. ⁶ Moreover, they that dwell in the Isles shall say even the same day, 'Behold, thus are we regarded! Whither shall we fly for help, that we might be delivered from the king of the Assyrians? How will we escape?'"

¹ Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin. ² They go down into Egypt, and ask me no counsel; to seek help at he power of Pharaoh, and comfort in the shadow of the Egyptians. ³ But Pharaoh's help shall be your confusion, and the comfort in the Egyptian's shadow shall be your own shame. ⁴ Your rulers have been at Zoan, and your messengers came unto Hanes. ⁵ They were all ashamed of the people that could do them no good, and that might not help them, nor show them any profit - but were their confusion and rebuke." ⁶ Your beasts have born burdens upon their backs toward the South, through the way that is full of peril and trouble, because of the lion and lioness; of the Cockatrice and shooting dragon. Yea the Mules bare your substance, and the Camels brought your treasure, upon their crooked backs, unto a people that cannot help you. ⁷ For the Egyptian's help shall be but vain and lost. Therefore I told you also that your pride should have an end.

¹ Woe be unto them that go down into Egypt for help, and trust in horses, and comfort themselves in chariots, because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lusty and strong. But they regard not the holy one of Israel, and they ask no question at the LORD. ² Whereas he nevertheless plagueth the wicked, and yet goeth not from his word, when he steppeth forth, and taketh the victory against the household of the froward, and against the help of evil doers. ³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And as soon as the LORD stretcheth out his hand: then shall the helper fall, and he that should have been helped, and they shall all together be destroyed.

³⁶ O how evil will it be for thee to abide it, when it shall be known how oft thou hast gone backward? For thou shalt be confounded as well of Egypt, as thou wast of the Assyrians.

³⁰ What wilt thou now do, thou being destroyed? For though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, and deckest thee with gold. Though thou paintest thy face with colors, yet shalt thou trim thyself in vain. For those that hitherto have been thy great favorers, shall abhor thee, and go about to slay thee.

²² All thy herdsmen shall be driven with the wind, and thy darlings shall be carried away into captivity. Then shalt thou be brought to shame and confusion, because of all thy wickedness:

⁹ Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.

¹⁷ Then took I the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the people drink thereof, unto whom the LORD had sent me. ¹⁸ But first the city of Jerusalem, and all the cities of Judah, their kings and princes: to make them desolate, waste, despised and cursed according as it is come to pass this day. ¹⁹ Yea, and Pharaoh the king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and his people altogether one with another; ²⁰ and all kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistine's land - Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod - ²¹ the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites; ²² all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the Isles that are beyond the sea; ²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz and the shaven Ishmaelites; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia, and, generally, all the kings that dwell in the desert; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, all the kings of the Medes; ²⁶ all kings toward the north, whether they be far or nigh, everyone with his neighbours; Yea, and all the kingdoms that are upon the whole earth. The king of Sheshach, said he, shall drink with them also. ²⁷ 'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you.

¹³ There is no man to meddle with thy cause, or to bind up thy wounds: there may no man help thee. ¹⁴ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and care nothing for thee. For I have given thee a cruel stroke, and chastened thee roughly: and that for the multitude of thy misdeeds, for thy sins have had the overhand. ¹⁵ Why makest thou moan for thy harm? I myself have pity of thy sorrow; but for the multitude of thy misdeeds and sins I have done this unto thee.

² {Beth} She weepeth sore in the night, so that the tears run down her cheeks: for among all her lovers, there is none that giveth her any comfort. Yea, her next friends transgress against her, and are become her enemies.

¹⁹ {Kuf} I called for my lovers, but they beguiled me; for my Priests and counselors, but they perished: even while they sought for meat, to save their lives.

⁹ Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved.

²² "Therefore, O Oholibah, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will raise up thy lovers, with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust, against thee; and gather them together round about thee.

⁷ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedest the LORD thy God in the wilderness: for since the day that thou camest out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have rebelled against the LORD.

²⁴ Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the day that I knew you.

²⁷ For I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my death.

¹⁵ "And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him. ¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not. ¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee. ¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. ²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith.

¹¹ And then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, ¹² and forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, even of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and angered the LORD. ¹³ And so they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ But unto whatsoever thing they went, the hand of the LORD was upon them with evil luck, even as the LORD promised them, and as he sware unto them. And they were sore vexed. ¹⁶ Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors, ¹⁷ and yet for all that they would not hearken unto their judges: But went a whoring after strange gods and bowed themselves unto them, and turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD, and did not so. ¹⁸ And when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. ¹⁹ Yet for all that, as soon as the judge was dead they turned and did worse than their fathers in following strange gods, and in serving them, and ceased not from their inventions nor from their malicious ways.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy. ¹⁷ And so he brought upon them the king of Chaldeans and slew their young men with the sword in their holy temple, and neither spared young man nor maiden, neither old man, neither so much as him that stooped for age: But gave all into his hand.

¹⁶ But our fathers were proud, and hard necked, so that they followed not thy commandments, ¹⁷ and refused to hear, and were not mindful of the wonders that thou didst for them: but became obstinate and heady insomuch that they turned back to their bondage in their disobedience. But thou, my God, forgavest, and wast gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness, and forsookest them not. ¹⁸ And though they made a molten calf, and said 'This is thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt,' and did great blasphemies, ¹⁹ yet thou forsookest them not in the wilderness, according to thy great mercy. And the cloudy pillar departed not from them in the daytime to lead them the way, neither the pillar of fire in the night season, to show them light in the way that they went. ²⁰ And thou gavest them thy good spirit to inform them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water when they were thirsty. ²¹ Forty years long madest thou provision for them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. ²² And thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and partest them according to their portions, so that they possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og the king of Bashan. ²³ And their children multipliedest thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go in to it, and have it in possession. ²⁴ And the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedest before them the inhabiters of the land, even the Cananites, and gavest them into their hand, and their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would. ²⁵ And they won their strong cities, and a fat land, and took possession of houses that were full of all manner goods, wells digged out, vineyards, olive gardens, and many fruitful trees: and they ate and were filled, and became fat, and lived in wealth through thy great goodness. ²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies. ²⁷ Therefore gavest thou them over into the hand of their enemies that vexed them. And in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven and through thy great mercy thou gavest them saviours, which helped them out of the hand of their enemies. ²⁸ But when they came to rest, they turned back again to do evil before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. So they converted, and cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven; and many times hast thou delivered them according to thy great mercy, ²⁹ and testified unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. Notwithstanding, they were proud, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws, which a man should do and live in them, and turned the shoulder away, and were stiff-necked, and would not hear. ³⁰ And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands. ³¹ But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God. ³² Now our God, thou great God, mighty and terrible, thou that keepest covenant and mercy, regard not a little all the travail that hath happened unto us, and our kings, princes, priests, prophets, fathers and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. ³³ Thou art righteous in all that thou hast brought upon us: for thou hast done right. ³⁴ As for us: we have been ungodly, and our kings, princes, priests, and fathers have not done after thy law, nor regarded thy commandments, and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them, ³⁵ and have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goods that thou gavest them, and in the large and plenteous land which thou gavest them; and have not converted from their wicked works. ³⁶ Behold, therefore are we in bondage this day: yea, even in the land that thou gavest unto our fathers, to enjoy the fruits and goods thereof, behold, there are we bondsmen. ³⁷ And great is the increase of it unto the kings, whom thou hast set over us because of our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and cattle, and we are in great trouble.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers; we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but were disobedient at the sea, even at the reed sea. ⁸ Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known. ⁹ He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness. ¹⁰ And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them; there was not one of them left. ¹² Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him. ¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel. ¹⁴ A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul. ¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay. ²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt, ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea. ²³ So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word, ²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ²⁶ Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷ to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased. ³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore. ³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes, ³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the LORD commanded them, ³⁵ but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works - ³⁶ insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay. ³⁷ Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils, ³⁸ and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood. ³⁹ Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. ⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance; ⁴¹ and gave them over into the hand of the Heathen; and they that hated them, were lords over them. ⁴² Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection. ⁴³ Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. ⁴⁴ Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint. ⁴⁵ He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies; ⁴⁶ yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them. ⁴⁷ Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end. And let all people say, "Amen, Amen." Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

⁹ Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.

⁸ Moreover, there be some whereof thou hast neither heard nor know, neither have they been open unto thine ears afore time. For I know that thou wouldest maliciously offend, therefore have I called thee a transgressor, even from thy mother's womb.

³¹ If ye be the people of the LORD, then hearken unto his word: Am I then become a wilderness unto the people of Israel? Or a land that hath no light? Wherefore sayeth my people then, 'We are lords; and we will come no more unto thee'?

²⁵ So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us: for we and our fathers from our youth up unto this day have sinned against the LORD our God, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

¹⁶ Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'

²² But when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no word unto them of burnt offerings and sacrifices: ²³ but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.' ²⁴ But they were not obedient. They inclined not their ears thereunto, but went after their own imaginations and after the motions of their own wicked heart: and so turned themselves away, and converted not unto me. ²⁵ And this have they done, from the time that your fathers came out of Egypt, unto this day. Nevertheless, I sent unto them my servants, all the prophets. I rose up early and sent them word, ²⁶ yet would they not hearken, nor offer me their ears; but were obstinate and worse than their fathers. ²⁷ "And thou shalt now speak all these words unto them, but they shall not hear thee: thou shalt cry upon them, but they shall not answer thee. ²⁸ Therefore shalt thou say unto them, 'This is the people, that neither heareth the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth his correction. Faithfulness and truth is clean rooted out of their mouth.

³⁰ For seeing the children of Israel, and the children of Judah have wrought wickedness before me ever from their youth up, what have they else done, but provoked me with the works of their own hands, sayeth the LORD?

¹⁵ Yea, I have sent my servants, all the prophets, unto you. I rose up early, and sent you word, saying: O turn you, every man from his wicked way: amend your lives, and go not after strange gods, to worship them: that ye may continue in the land, which I have given unto you and your fathers. But ye would neither hear me, nor follow me.

²¹ So the king sent Jehudi to fetch him the book, which he brought out of Elishama the Scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it, that the king and all the princes, which were about him might hear. ²² Now the king sat in the winter house, for it was in the ninth Month, and there was a good fire before him. ²³ And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth. ²⁴ Yet no man was abashed thereof, or rent his clothes: neither the king himself, nor his servants, though they heard all these words. ²⁵ Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah besought the king, that he would not burn the book: notwithstanding the king would not hear them, ²⁶ but commanded Jerahmeel the son of Amalek, and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to lay hands on Baruch the Scribe, and upon Jeremiah the Prophet: but the LORD kept them out of sight.

⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea, even in the midst of the land of Egypt.

¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness.

²¹ Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.

²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings.

³ These, when they were young, began to play the harlots in Egypt. There were their breasts bruised, and the paps of their maidenhead destroyed. ⁴ The eldest of them was called Oholah and her youngest sister Oholibah. These two were mine, and bare sons and daughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oholah: and Jerusalem, that was Oholibah. ⁵ As for Oholah, she began to go a whoring, when I had taken her to me. She was set on fire upon her lovers the Assyrians, ⁶ which had to do with her: even the princes and lords, that were decked in costly array: fair young men, lusty riders of horses. ⁷ Thus through her whoredom, she cleaved unto all the young men of Assyria: Yea she was mad upon them, and defiled herself with all their Idols. ⁸ Neither ceased she from the fornication, that she used with the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, they bruised the breasts of her maidenhead, and poured their whoredom upon her. ⁹ Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved. ¹⁰ These discovered her shame, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: An evil name gat she of all people, and they punished her. ¹¹ "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and destroyed herself with inordinate love, more than she, and exceeded her sister in whoredom: ¹² she loved the Assyrians, which also lay with her: namely, the princes and great lords, that were clothed with all manner of gorgeous apparel, all lusty horsemen and fair young persons. ¹³ Then I saw, that they both were defiled alike. ¹⁴ But she increased still in whoredom: for when she saw men painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth with fresh colors, ¹⁵ with fair girdles about them, and goodly bonnets upon their heads, looking all like princes after the manner of the Babylonians and Chaldeans in their own land, where they be born, ¹⁶ immediately, as soon as she saw them, she burnt in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldeans. ¹⁷ Now when the Babylonians came to her, they lay with her, and defiled her with their whoredom, and so was she polluted with them. And when her lust was abated from them, ¹⁸ her whoredom and shame was discovered and seen: then my heart forsook her, like as my heart was gone from her sister also. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, she used her whoredom ever the longer, the more; and remembered the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ She burnt in lust upon them, whose flesh was like the flesh of Asses, and their seed like the seed of horses. ²¹ Thus thou hast renewed the filthiness of thy youth, when thy lovers bruised thy paps, and marred thy breasts in Egypt. ²² "Therefore, O Oholibah, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will raise up thy lovers, with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust, against thee; and gather them together round about thee. ²³ Namely, the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans: Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, with all the Assyrians: all young and fair lovers, princes and lords, knights and gentlemen, which be all good horsemen. ²⁴ These shall come upon thee with horses, chariots, and a great multitude of people: which shall be harnessed about thee on every side, with breastplates, shields and helmets. I will punish thee before them; yea, they themselves shall punish thee according to their own judgment. ²⁵ I will put my jealousy upon thee, so that they shall deal cruelly with thee. They shall cut off thy nose and thine ears, and the remnant shall fall through the sword. They shall carry away thy sons and daughters, and the residue shall be burnt in the fire. ²⁶ They shall strip thee out of thy clothes, and carry thy costly jewels away with them. ²⁷ Thus will I make an end of thy filthiness and whoredom, which thou hast brought out from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt turn thine eyes no more after them, and cast thy mind no more upon Egypt. ²⁸ For thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest: yea, even into the hands of them with whom thou hast fulfilled thy lust. ²⁹ Which shall deal cruelly with thee: All thy labour shall they take with them, and leave thee naked and bare, and thus the shame of thy filthy whoredom shall come to light. ³⁰ All these things shall happen unto thee because of thy whoredom, which thou hast used among the Gentiles, with whose Idols thou hast defiled thyself. ³¹ Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, therefore will I give thee her cup in thy hand. ³² Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, how deep and far soever it be to the bottom. Thou shalt be laughed to scorn, and had as greatly in derision, as is possible. ³³ Thou shalt be full of drunkenness and sorrow, for the cup of thy sister Samaria is a cup of destruction and wasting: ³⁴ The same shalt thou drink, and sup it out even to the dregs. Yea, thou shalt eat up the broken pieces of it, and so tear thine own breasts: for even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God. ³⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom." ³⁶ The LORD said moreover unto me, "Thou son of man, wilt thou not reprove Oholah and Oholibah? Show them their abominations: ³⁷ namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed adultery, and offered them their own children to be devoured, whom they have born unto me. ³⁸ Yea, and this have they done unto me also: they have defiled my Sanctuary in that same day, and have unhallowed my Sabbath. ³⁹ For when they had slain their children for their idols, they came the same day into my Sanctuary to defile it. Lo, this have they done in my house.

⁶ We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.

⁸ The priests themselves said not once, 'Where is the LORD?' They that have the law in their hands, know me not: The shepherds offend against me. The Prophets do service unto Baal, and follow such things as shall bring them no profit.

²⁶ Like as a thief that is taken with the deed cometh to shame, even so is the house of Israel come to confusion: the common people, their kings and rulers, their priests and prophets. ²⁷ For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'

³⁷ Yea, thou shalt go thy way from them, and smite thine hands together upon thy head. Because the LORD shall bring that confidence and hope of thine to naught, and thou shalt not prosper withal."

¹¹ Then shall it be said to the people and to Jerusalem, "A strong wind in the high places of the wilderness cometh through the way of my people; but neither to fan nor to cleanse. ¹² After that shall there come unto me a strong wind, and then will I also give sentence upon them." ¹³ For lo, he cometh down like as a cloud, and his chariots are like a stormy wind: his horsemen are swifter than the Eagle. Woe unto us, for we are destroyed.

³⁰ Horrible and grievous things are done in the land. ³¹ The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?

²¹ For the herdsmen have done foolishly, that they have not sought the LORD. Therefore have they dealt unwisely with their cattle, and all are scattered abroad.

¹⁰ Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.

¹¹ But the LORD stood by me, like a mighty giant: therefore my persecutors fell, and could do nothing. They shall be sore confounded, for they have done unwisely, they shall have an everlasting shame.

¹ Woe be unto the shepherds, that destroy and scatter my flock," sayeth the LORD. ² Wherefore, this is the commandment of the LORD God of Israel, unto the shepherds that feed my people, "Ye scatter and thrust out my flock, and look not upon them. Therefore now will I visit the wickedness of your imaginations, sayeth the LORD:

²³ Behold, on the other side shall the wrath of the LORD break out as a stormy water, as a mighty whirlwind: and shall fall upon the heads of the ungodly. ²⁴ The terrible displeasure of the LORD shall not leave off, until he have done and performed the intent of his heart, which in the latter days ye shall understand.

² "Thou son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and speak unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Woe be unto the shepherds of Israel, that feed themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? ³ Ye have eaten up the fat, ye have clothed you with the wool: the best fed have ye slain, but the flock have ye not nourished. ⁴ The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again. The lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them. ⁵ Thus are they scattered here and there without a shepherd: yea, all the beasts of the field devour them, and they go astray. ⁶ My sheep go wandering upon all mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea they be scattered abroad in all fields, and there is no man, that careth for them, or seeketh after them. ⁷ "'Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD. ⁸ Thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, forsomuch as my sheep are robbed, and devoured of all the wild beasts of the field, having no shepherd: and seeing that my shepherds take no regard of my sheep, but feed themselves only, and not my sheep: ⁹ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O ye shepherds. ¹⁰ Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I myself will upon the shepherds, and require my sheep from their hands, and make them cease from feeding of my sheep: Yea the shepherds shall feed themselves no more: For I will deliver my sheep out of their mouths, so that they shall not devour them after this.

¹⁹ A wind shall take hold of their feathers, and they shall be confounded in their offerings.

¹⁵ Yet can I see no comfort, for when he is now the goodliest among the brethren, the East wind, even the wind of the LORD, shall come down from the wilderness, and dry up his conduits, and drink up his wells: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

⁸ Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

¹⁷ O idle shepherd, that leaveth the flock! The sword shall come upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be sore blinded."

⁵¹ "Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

²¹ And he looked on the Kenites, and took his parable, and said, "Strong is thy dwelling place, and put thy nest upon a rock.

²¹ And therefore the voice of the children of Israel was heard on every side, weeping and wailing: for they have defiled their way, and forgotten God their LORD.

³⁰ What wilt thou now do, thou being destroyed? For though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, and deckest thee with gold. Though thou paintest thy face with colors, yet shalt thou trim thyself in vain. For those that hitherto have been thy great favorers, shall abhor thee, and go about to slay thee. ³¹ For, methink I hear a noise, like as it were of a woman travailing, or one laboring of her first child: Even the voice of the daughter Zion, that casteth out her arms, and swooneth, saying, "Ah woe is me! How sore vexed and faint is my heart, for them that are slain?"

²⁴ Then shall this cry be heard, "Our arms are feeble! Heaviness and sorrow is come upon us, as upon a woman travailing with child!

¹³ Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will come upon you that dwell in the valleys, rocks and fields, and say: Tush, who will make us afraid? Or, who will come into our houses?

⁶ For thus hath the LORD spoken upon the king's house of Judah: Thou art the head, as Gilead is in Lebanon: What wilt thou lay of it, if I make thee and thy cities also not so waste that no man shall dwell therein?

⁵ "Thus sayeth the LORD: We hear a terrible cry, fear and disquietness. ⁶ For what else doth this signify, that I see? Namely, that all strong men smite every man his hand upon his loins, as a woman in the pain of her travail. Who ever saw a man travail with child? Enquire thereafter, and see. Yea, all their faces are marvelous pale.

²⁸ Ye Moabites shall leave the cities, and dwell in rocks of stone, and become like doves that make their nests in holes.

¹⁶ Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.

⁴ In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.

¹⁵ I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.

¹⁴ They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.

² Though they were buried in the hell, my hand shall fetch them from thence. Though they climb up to heaven, yet shall I cast them down.

⁴ But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.

⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

¹ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedar trees. ² Howl ye Fir trees, for the cedar is fallen, yea all the proud are wasted away. Howl, O ye oak trees of Bashan, for the mighty strong wood is cut down.

⁶ And Jehoiakim laid him to sleep with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. ⁷ But the king of Egypt came now no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. ⁸ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

¹⁶ The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son, whose son was Zedekiah.

⁶ O set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm: for love is mighty as the death, and jealousy as the hell. Her coals are of fire, and a very flame of the LORD:

²⁸ This man Jechoniah shall be like an image robbed and torn in pieces, which pleaseth no man, for all his apparel. Wherefore both he and his seed shall be sent away, and cast out into a land, that they know not.

¹ Jedekiah the son of Josiah, which was made king through Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, reigned in the land of Judah, in the stead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

²³ And as for thee, O Zerubbabel, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, thou son of Shealtiel my servant: I will take thee, sayeth the LORD, at the same time: and make thee as a seal. For I have chosen thee, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.'"

¹¹ Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon. ¹² And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel: Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel;

¹⁵ And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his chamberlains, and the mighty of the land carried he away from Jerusalem to Babylon. ¹⁶ And all the men of activity to the number of seven thousand, and craftsmen and joiners a thousand, all strong and apt for war, did the king of Babylon bring to Babylon to dwell.

²⁴ The thing that the ungodly are afraid of, shall come upon them; but the righteous shall have their desire.

⁷ And after this, sayeth the LORD, I shall deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his servants, his people - and such as are escaped in the city, from the pestilence, sword, and hunger - into the power of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon: yea into the hands of their enemies; into the hands of those that follow upon their lives, which shall smite them with the sword. They shall not pity them, they shall not spare them, they shall have no mercy upon them.'

²⁰ Those men will I give into the power of their enemies, and into the hands of them that follow upon their lives. And their dead bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field. ²¹ As for Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes, I will deliver them into the power of their enemies, and of them that desire to slay them, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's host, which now is departed from you.

¹⁶ So the king swore an oath secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, "As truly as the LORD liveth, that made us these souls, I will not slay thee, nor give thee in to the hands of them that seek after thy life."

⁸ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his chamberlains, and the mighty of the land carried he away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

⁹ Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and did that displeased the LORD. ¹⁰ And when the year was out, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and fetched him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁷ Behold, the LORD shall carry thee away into captivity, and shall surely cover thee with confusion.

² And if they say unto thee, 'Whither shall we go?' Then tell them, 'The LORD giveth you this answer: Some unto death, some to the sword, some to hunger, some into captivity.' ³ For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them. ⁴ I will scatter them about also in all kingdoms and lands to be plagued, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for the things that he did in Jerusalem.

⁹ So they bound him with chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: which put him in prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ "As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waterside: her fruits and branches are grown out of many waters, ¹¹ her stalks were so strong that men might have made staves thereof for officers, she grew so high in her stalks. So when men saw that she exceeded the height and multitude of her branches, ¹² she was rooted out in displeasure, and cast down to the ground. The East wind dried up her fruit; her strong stalks were broken off, withered, and burnt in the fire. ¹³ But now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. ¹⁴ And there is a fire gone out of her stalks, which hath burnt up her branches and her fruit: so that she hath no more strong stalks, to be staves for officers. This is a piteous and miserable thing."

²⁷ Notwithstanding yet the thirty seventh year after Jehoiachin king of Judah was carried away, the twenty seventh day of the twelfth month, did Evilmerodach king of Babylon lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of the prison house, ²⁸ and spake kindly to him and set his seat above the seat of all the kings that were with him at Babylon, ²⁹ and changed his prison garments. And he did ever eat bread before him all the days of his life: ³⁰ And a continual portion was assigned him of the king, day by day as long as he lived.

⁴ Comfort the soul of thy servant, for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

¹⁴ So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone to dwell in Egypt shall be left to come again into the land of Judah although they think to come thither again, and to dwell there. For none shall come again, but such as are fled away."

³¹ In the thirty seventh year after that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was carried away in the twenty fifth day of the twelfth Month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, the same year that he reigned, gave Jehoiachin the king of Judah his pardon, and let him out of prison, ³² and spake lovingly to him. And set his throne above the thrones of the other kings that were with him in Babylon. ³³ He changed also the clothes of his prison; yea, and he ate with him all his life long. ³⁴ And he had a continual living given him of the king of Babylon; every day a certain thing allowed him all the days of his life, until he died.

³ And when they of Ashdod were up in the morning, behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon and set him in his place again. ⁴ And when they were up early in the next morning behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and his two hands cut off upon the threshold, that the body only was left on him. ⁵ Wherefore neither the priests of Dagon, neither any man that cometh into Dagon's house might tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day.

²¹ And there they left their images, and David and his men took them up.

¹⁷ The sons of Jeconiah the Prisoner were Shealtiel, ¹⁸ Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah. ¹⁹ The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel, Meshullam, Hananiah and Shelomith their sister, ²⁰ and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, Joshabhesed, five in number. ²¹ The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, whose son was Rephaiah, and his son Arnan, and his son was Obadiah, and his son was Shecaniah. ²² The son of Shecaniah was Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah were Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, Shaphat and Hesa, six. ²³ And the sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam, three. ²⁴ And the sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Elsashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani, seven.

¹² I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

¹⁸ For if I go into the field, lo, it lieth all full of slain men: If I come into the city, lo, they be all famished of hunger. Yea, their prophets also and priests shall be led into an unknown land.'"

¹ Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

⁴ Ye shall be cast out also from the heritage, that I gave you. And I will subdue you under the heavy bondage of your enemies, in a land that ye know not. For ye have ministered fire to my indignation, which shall burn evermore."

³⁰ Write this man among the outlaws, for no prosperity shall this man have all his life long. Neither shall any of his seed be so happy as to sit upon the seat of David, and to bear rule in Judah."

³⁸ Upon all the housetops and streets of Moab, there shall be mourning: For I will break Moab like an unprofitable vessel sayeth the LORD.

⁸ Israel shall perish, the Gentiles shall entreat him as a foul vessel.

¹² And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel: Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel; ¹³ Zerubbabel begat Abiud; Abiud begat Eliakim; Eliakim begat Azor; ¹⁴ Azor begat Sadoc; Sadoc begat Achim; Achim begat Eliud; ¹⁵ Eliud begat Eleazar; Eleazar begat Matthan; Matthan begat Jacob; ¹⁶ Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born that Jesus, that is called Christ.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? ²² Even so, God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, suffered with long patience the vessels of wrath, ordained to damnation, ²³ that he might declare the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared unto glory:

²⁰ Notwithstanding, in a great house are not only vessels of gold and of silver: but also of wood and of earth: Some for honour, and some unto dishonour. ²¹ But if a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto honour meet for the Lord, and prepared unto all good works.

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed.

¹⁹ Now, therefore, write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths — that this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel.

¹ Hearken, o ye heavens; I will speak. And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw upon Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.

¹ Come ye heathen, and hear. Take heed, ye people. Hearken, thou earth and all that is therein; thou round compass and all that groweth thereupon.

¹⁹ Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations. For they have not been obedient unto my words and to my law, but abhorred them.

² Hear all ye people, mark this well, O earth, and all that therein is: Yea, the LORD God himself be witness among you, even the Lord from his holy temple.

¹ Hearken now what the LORD sayeth: Up, reprove the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. ² O hear the punishment of the LORD, ye mountains, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the LORD will reprove his people, and reason with Israel.

¹⁶ The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son, whose son was Zedekiah. ¹⁷ The sons of Jeconiah the Prisoner were Shealtiel,

²⁰ Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

¹¹ Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon.

³² He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the seat of his father David: ³³ And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom shall be none end."