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Jeremiah
Jeremiah prophesied
during the reigns of two kings of Judah (Josiah and Zedekiah) until the
carrying away of Jerusalem captive. He endured many things including being
thrown into a dungeon because his message was so hated.
Chapter 1
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1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,
of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the
son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the
son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I
ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am
a child.
7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou
shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver
thee, saith the LORD.
9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And
the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy
mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and
to throw down, to build, and to plant.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree.
12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
hasten my word to perform it.
13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and
the face thereof is toward the north.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of
the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall
set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all
their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own
hands.
17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto
them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces,
lest I confound thee before them.
18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and
an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land,
against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the
land.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver thee. |
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Who were the kings when Jeremiah prophesied? (1-3)
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When was Jeremiah ordained to be a prophet? (5)
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What did the LORD put in Jeremiah’s mouth? (9)
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What two things did Jeremiah see? (11,13)
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What did the LORD make Jeremiah to be? (18)
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Chapter 2
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2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to
me, saying,
2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the
LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of
thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not sown.
3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of
his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall
come upon them, saith the LORD.
4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
families of the house of Israel:
5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found
in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after
vanity, and are become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of
drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no
man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye
defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that
handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed
against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and
with your children's children will I plead.
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto
Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a
thing.
11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?
but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken
me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made
his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink
the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of
Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that
it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts.
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every
high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing
the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:
how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me?
22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord
GOD.
23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone
after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the
wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?
all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month
they shall find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have
loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house
of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their
priests, and their prophets,
27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou
hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto
me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they
will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them
arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for
according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed
against me, saith the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my
people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet
my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon
all these.
35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger
shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because
thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also
shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon
thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and
thou shalt not prosper in them. |
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What did Israel do when the LORD brought them into the land? (7)
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what did God’s people change their glory ? (11)
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What two evils did God’s people commit? (13)
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Who did God’s people forget? (32)
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Chapter 3
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3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and
she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return
unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but
thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again
to me, saith the LORD.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou
hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them,
as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the
land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath
been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou
refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
art the guide of my youth?
5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the
end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou
couldest.
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is
gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree,
and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou
unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister
Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a
bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not,
but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,
that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones
and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the
LORD.
11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will
not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful,
saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy
ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not
obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am
married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two
of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and
increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD:
neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it;
neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any
more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the
LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the
name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house
of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the
north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto
your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and
give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt
not turn away from me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,
so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
saith the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and
supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their
God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your
backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD
our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and
from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is
the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us:
for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our
fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. |
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In spite of their backslidings what was God going to give to Israel?
(15)
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How had Israel dealt with God? (20)
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Chapter 4
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4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the
LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine
abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in
judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the
foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow
ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I
will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of
the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to
make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,
without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the
fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that
the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the
princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly
deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness
toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now
also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall
be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe
unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
thee?
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out
their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto
thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it
reacheth unto thine heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my
heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because
thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the
alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land
is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in
a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of
the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are
wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;
and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the
hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and
all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the
LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be
desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will
not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell
therein.
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with
ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting,
in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise
thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that
spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is
wearied because of murderers. |
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What did the LORD say to the men of Judah?
(3-4)
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What would happen to the cities of Judah?
(7,26,29)
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What did God say about His people? (22)
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Chapter 5
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5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth
judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast
stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have
made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:
for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of
their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of
their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and
burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a
wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch
over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be
torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and
their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to
the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full
end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither
shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye
speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth
fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an
ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,
neither understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty
men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which
thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy
flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein
thou trustedst, with the sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make
a full end with you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt
thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a
land that is not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea
by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in
his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your
sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as
he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of
the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy
do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will
ye do in the end thereof? |
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What kind of man should they seek? (1)
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What was the Lord going to bring on Israel?
(15-17)
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How did the prophets prophesy? (31)
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Chapter 6
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6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather
yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the
trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem:
for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall
feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the
evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be
visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
continually is grief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may
hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach;
they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary
with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,
and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the
husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that
is full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their
fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon
the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are
not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the
sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his
friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of
the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and
have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride
upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O
daughter of Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:
anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in
travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and
wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only
son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly
come upon us.
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,
that thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:
they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire;
the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked
away.
30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
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What was the attitude of Jerusalem to the word of the LORD? (10)
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To what were all the people given? (13)
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What was their attitude when they committed abominations? (15)
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For what does the LORD instruct us to ask? (16)
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Chapter 7
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7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there
this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of
Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,
The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods
whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called
by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the
LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I
set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but
ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my
name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you
and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all
your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for
I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that
they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not
provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and
my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and
upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the
fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be
quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in
the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and
I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in
all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well
unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land
of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but
they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them;
but they will not answer thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction:
truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take
up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected
and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in
the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of
Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall
fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and
from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. |
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What did the LORD say for Judah to do? (3)
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Upon whom will God’s anger be poured? (20)
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How did they respond to the LORD’ prophets? (25-26)
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What will be meat for the fowls and the beasts? (33)
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Chapter 8
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8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall
bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of
his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of
the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and
all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face
of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain
in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD
of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;
Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not
return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time
of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the
LORD.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with
us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes
is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,
they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in
them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the
least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf
shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass
away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the
LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is
in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,
which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the
LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is
faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD
in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
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What will they do with the bones of kings, priests and prophets? (1-4)
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What word is used to describe their backslidings? (5)
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What creatures, in contrast to God’s people, know the time of their
coming? (7)
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What is past and ended but we are not saved? (20)
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Chapter 9
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9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes
a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the
slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring
men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they
be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but
they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they
proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the
LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in
any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and
every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not
speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my
people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in
heart he layeth his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and
for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because
they are burned up, so that none can pass through them;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of
the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is
he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may
declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like
a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither
walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,
and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and
give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword
after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out
with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken
the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into
our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the
young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not
the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which
exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the
earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish
all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in
the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and
all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. |
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Why did Jeremiah want his eyes to be a fountain of tears? (1)
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Into what was God going to make Jerusalem? (11)
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Where was God going to scatter the inhabitants of Judah (16)
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In what should we not glory? (23)
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In what should we glory? (24)
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Chapter 10
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10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh
unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and
be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a
tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman,
with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them;
for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do
good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
great, and thy name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth
it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto
thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a
doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold
from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the
founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the
work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and
the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made
the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the
earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established
the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by
his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters
in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The
LORD of hosts is his name.
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them,
that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said,
Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my
children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none
to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks
shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great
commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is
not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and
upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have
made his habitation desolate. |
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Who is like the LORD? (6-7)
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What has God made? (12)
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What is man not able to direct? (23)
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Chapter 11
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11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men
of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;
Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I
command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as
it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear
ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that
I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this
day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I
will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do; but they did them not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the
men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went
after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the
house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their
fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though
they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem
go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but
they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem
have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to
burn incense unto Baal.
14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a
cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time
that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from
thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled
fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of
the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to
provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices
against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
unto thee have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that
seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD,
that thou die not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons
and their daughters shall die by famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring
evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their
visitation. |
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What man is cursed? (3)
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What was found among the men of Judah? (9)
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Who will not save Judah in the time of their trouble? (12)
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What did the men of Anathoth want to do to Jeremiah? (19-21)
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Chapter 12
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12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet
let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way
of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal
very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they
grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their
mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the
slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the
beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
shall not see our last end.
5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied
thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the
land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then
how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called
a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak
fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I
have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her
enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth
out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the
field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a
desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth
unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man
layeth it to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no
flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be
ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the
LORD.
14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and
pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them
out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring
them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his
land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth;
as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be
built in the midst of my people.
17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
destroy that nation, saith the LORD. |
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What questions troubled Jeremiah? (1)
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Chapter 13
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13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get
thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not
in water.
2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put
it on my loins.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins,
and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the
rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto
me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence,
which I commanded thee to hide there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle
from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was
marred, it was profitable for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride
of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk
in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods,
to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the
whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto
me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with
wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings
that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness.
14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers
and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor
spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness,
and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and,
while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death,
and make it gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run
down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away
captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown
of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall
open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it
shall be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the
north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful
flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not
sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, and thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do
evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith
the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that
thy shame may appear.
27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the
lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills
in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be
made clean? when shall it once be? |
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What object did God use to show Jeremiah how he would mar the pride of
Judah? (1-10)
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What was God going to do with the inhabitants of Jerusalem?
(13-14)
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What would happen to all of Judah? (19)
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To what is someone compared who is accustomed to doing evil but
trying to do good? (23)
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Chapter 14
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14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with
their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and
covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because there was no grass.
6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they
snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because
there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it
for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have
sinned against thee.
8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of
trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and
as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man
that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us,
and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved
to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the
LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their
iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:
but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and
by the pestilence.
13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto
them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in
my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision
and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their
heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword
and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in
the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword;
and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor
their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their
wickedness upon them.
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes
run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for
the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great
breach, with a very grievous blow.
18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with
the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that
are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go
about into a land that they know not.
19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed
Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for
us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the
time of healing, and behold trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of
our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the
throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can
cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he,
O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou
hast made all these things. |
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What did Jeremiah confess for Judah? (7,20)
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For what was Jeremiah not to pray? (11)
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What did the false prophets prophesy? (13-14)
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What will happen to these prophets and the people to whom they prophesy?
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Chapter 15
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15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses
and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward
this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the
LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah,
for that which he did in Jerusalem.
5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone
backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,
and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since
they return not from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas:
I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a
spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it
suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath
been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I
deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet
every one of them doth curse me.
11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time
of evil and in the time of affliction.
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy
borders.
14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,
which shall burn upon you.
15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and
revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called
by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I
sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with
indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which
refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a
liar, and as waters that fail?
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I
bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou
take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my
mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto
them.
20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall:
and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail
against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver
thee, saith the LORD.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and
I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. |
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The LORD said he would not change his mind concerning his people even if
what two persons stood before him? (1)
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What was the future of those whom God was going to punish? (2-4)
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What attitude did Jeremiah have for the word of the LORD? (16)
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What was Jeremiah to take from the vile? (19)
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Chapter 16
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16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me,
saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning
the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning
their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers
that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as
dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for
the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even
lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor
cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup
of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath
the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is
our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed
against the LORD our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,
and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye
walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that
they may not hearken unto me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that
ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye
serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you
favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands
whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into
their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and
they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters,
and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every
hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid
from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the
day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the
ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have
inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I
will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall
know that my name is The LORD. |
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What three things was Jeremiah not to do? (2,5,8)
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What was to be the fate of those born in Judah? (3-4)
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What was God going to cause to cease? (9)
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Why were these evil things going to happen? (10-12)
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What did God want them to know? (21)
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Chapter 17
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17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of
iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the
table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills.
3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and
all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin,
throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine
heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve
thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have
kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in
the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope
the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when
heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of
his doings.
11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in
the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of
our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the
earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I
shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD?
let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to
follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou
knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of
evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:
bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,
and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings
of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
that enter in by these gates:
21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of
Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath
day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto
me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of
this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to
do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings
and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall
remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and
from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south,
bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings,
and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house
of the LORD.
27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath
day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates
of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in
the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. |
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Where is the sin of Judah written? (1)
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Who is cursed? (5)
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Who is blessed? (7)
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What is deceitful and desperately wicked? (9)
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Whose end will be a fool? (11)
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What were they not to do on the Sabbath day? (21-24)
Quiz on Jeremiah 1-17
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Chapter 18
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18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
cause thee to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he
wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand
of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed
good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand,
so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then
I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit
them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:
return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways
and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our
own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his
evil heart.
13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the
heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath
done a very horrible thing.
14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the
rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come
from another place be forsaken?
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way
not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every
one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his
head.
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy;
I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of
their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come,
and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed
to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a
pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak
good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour
out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives
be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their
men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword
in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring
a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take
me, and hid snares for my feet.
23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to
slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their
sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee;
deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. |
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Where did the LORD tell Jeremiah to go? (1-6)
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What was Jeremiah to speak to the men of Judah?
(11)
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What did they intend to do to Jeremiah? (22-23)
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Chapter 19
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19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's
earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of
the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is
by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words
that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their
sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this
place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in
this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before
their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives:
and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every
one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because
of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the
flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even
so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a
potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they
shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all
the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent
him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's
house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil
that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear my words. |
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What would happen to the ears of those who hear about the judgment God
was going to bring on Jerusalem? (3)
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What would Tophet, the valley of the son of Hinnom be called? (6)
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What was Jeremiah to do with the potter’s earthen bottle? (1,10-12)
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Chapter 20
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20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest,
who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard
that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by
the house of the LORD.
3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The
LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror
to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I
will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
with the sword.
5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and
all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof,
and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into
the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take
them, and carry them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go
into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou
shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy
friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art
stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,
every one mocketh me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and
a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning
fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and
I could not stay.
10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.
Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars
watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be
enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take
our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore
my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they
shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their
everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
unto thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and
the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother
might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with
me.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
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What did Pashur do to Jeremiah? (1-2)
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What did Jeremiah prophesy regarding Pashur? (3-6)
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What happened when Jeremiah said he would not make mention of the LORD
or speak any more in his name? (9)
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What question did Jeremiah ask? (18)
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21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of
Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest,
saying,
2 Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he
may go up from us.
3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back
the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight
against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which
besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into
the midst of this city.
5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king
of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are
left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and
from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand
of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with
the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have
pity, nor have mercy.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of
death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and
falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye
the word of the LORD;
12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in
the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand
of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and
rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come
down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
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Who did Jeremiah prophesy would be delivered into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon? (7)
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Who would live? (9)
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