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1 Thus says the Lord, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word
2 and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who asits on David’s throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.
3 ‘Thus says the Lord, “aDo justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his boppressor. Also cdo not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not dshed innocent blood in this place.
4 “For if you men will indeed perform this thing, then akings will enter the gates of this house, sitting 1in David’s place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself and his servants and his people.
5 “aBut if you will not obey these words, I bswear by Myself,” declares the Lord, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”
6 For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are like aGilead to Me,
Like the summit of Lebanon;
Yet most assuredly I will make you like a bwilderness,
Like cities which are not inhabited.
7 “For I will set apart adestroyers against you,
Each with his weapons;
And they will bcut down your choicest cedars
And cthrow them on the fire.
8 “Many nations will pass by this city; and they will asay to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’
9 “Then they will 1answer, ‘Because they aforsook the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’ ”
10 aDo not weep for the dead or mourn for him,
But weep continually for the one who goes away;
For bhe will never return
Or see his native land.
11 For thus says the Lord in regard to 1aShallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, “He will never return there;
12 but in the place where they led him captive, there he will adie and not see this land again.
13 “Woe to him who builds his house awithout righteousness
And his 1upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And bdoes not give him his wages,
14 Who says, ‘I will abuild myself a roomy house
With spacious 1upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,
2Paneling it with bcedar and painting it 3bright red.’
15 “Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
And ado justice and righteousness?
Then it was bwell with him.
16 “He pled the cause of the aafflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
bIs not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.
17 “But your eyes and your heart
Are intent only upon your own adishonest gain,
And on bshedding innocent blood
And on practicing oppression and extortion.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord in regard to aJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
“They will not blament for him:
‘cAlas, my brother!’ or, ‘Alas, sister!’
They will not lament for him:
‘Alas for the master!’ or, ‘Alas for his splendor!’
19 “He will be aburied with a donkey’s burial,
Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 “Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry out also from aAbarim,
For all your blovers have been crushed.
21 “I spoke to you in your prosperity;
But ayou said, ‘I will not listen!’
bThis has been your practice cfrom your youth,
That you have not obeyed My voice.
22 “The wind will sweep away all your ashepherds,
And your blovers will go into captivity;
Then you will surely be cashamed and humiliated
Because of all your wickedness.
Nested in the cedars,
How you will groan when pangs come upon you,
aPain like a woman in childbirth!
24 “As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though 1aConiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a bsignet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull 1you 2off;
25 and I will agive you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 “I will ahurl you and your bmother who bore you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.
27 “But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.
28 “Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?
Or is he an aundesirable vessel?
Why have he and his descendants been bhurled out
And cast into a cland that they had not known?
29 “aO land, land, land,
Hear the word of the Lord!
‘Write this man down achildless,
A man who will bnot prosper in his days;
For no man of his cdescendants will prosper
Sitting on the throne of David
Or ruling again in Judah.’ ”
The Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch
1 “aWoe to the shepherds who are bdestroying and scattering the csheep of My pasture!” declares the Lord.
2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are 1tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to aattend to you for the bevil of your deeds,” declares the Lord.
3 “Then I Myself will agather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.
4 “I will also raise up ashepherds over them and they will 1tend them; and they will bnot be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, cnor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.
5 “Behold, the adays are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous 1bBranch;
And He will creign as king and 2act wisely
And ddo justice and righteousness in the land.
6 “In His days Judah will be saved,
And aIsrael will dwell securely;
And this is His bname by which He will be called,
‘The cLord our righteousness.’
7 “aTherefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’
8 abut, ‘As the Lord lives, who bbrought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”
9 As for the prophets:
My aheart is broken within me,
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
Even like a man overcome with wine,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words.
10 For the land is full of aadulterers;
For the land bmourns because of the curse.
The cpastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.
11 “For aboth prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their way will be like aslippery paths to them,
They will be driven away into the bgloom and fall down in it;
For I will bring ccalamity upon them,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.
13 “Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an aoffensive thing:
They bprophesied by Baal and cled My people Israel astray.
14 “Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a ahorrible thing:
The committing of badultery and walking in falsehood;
And they strengthen the hands of cevildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like dSodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going to afeed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’ ”
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“aDo not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are bleading you into futility;
They speak a cvision of their own 1imagination,
Not dfrom the mouth of the Lord.
17 “They keep saying to those who adespise Me,
‘The Lord has said, “bYou will have peace” ’;
And as for everyone who walks in the cstubbornness of his own heart,
They say, ‘dCalamity will not come upon you.’
18 “But awho has stood in the council of the Lord,
That he should see and hear His word?
Who has given bheed to 1His word and listened?
19 “Behold, the astorm of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,
Even a whirling tempest;
It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.
20 “The aanger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has bperformed and carried out the purposes of His heart;
cIn the last days you will clearly understand it.
21 “aI did not send these prophets,
But they ran.
I did not speak to them,
But they prophesied.
22 “But if they had astood in My council,
Then they would have bannounced My words to My people,
And would have turned them back from their evil way
And from the evil of their deeds.
23 “Am I a God who is anear,” declares the Lord,
“And not a God far off?
24 “Can a man ahide himself in hiding places
So I do not see him?” declares the Lord.
“bDo I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.
25 “I have aheard what the prophets have said who bprophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a cdream, I had a dream!’
26 “How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the adeception of their own heart,
27 who intend to amake My people forget My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers bforgot My name because of Baal?
28 “The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has aMy word speak My word in truth. bWhat does straw have in common with grain?” declares the Lord.
29 “Is not My word like afire?” declares the Lord, “and like a bhammer which shatters a rock?
30 “Therefore behold, aI am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who steal My words from each other.
31 “Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares.’
32 “Behold, I am against those who have prophesied afalse dreams,” declares the Lord, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and breckless boasting; yet cI did not send them or command them, nor do they dfurnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.
33 “Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, ‘What is the 1aoracle of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What 1oracle?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will babandon you.’
34 “Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The aoracle of the Lord,’ I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.
35 “Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ‘aWhat has the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
36 “For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have aperverted the words of the bliving God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
37 “Thus you will say to that prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
38 “For if you say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ ” ’
39 “Therefore behold, aI will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.
40 “I will put an everlasting areproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”
Baskets of Figs and the Returnees
1 After aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two bbaskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord!
2 One basket had very good figs, like afirst-ripe figs, and the other basket had bvery bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
3 Then the Lord said to me, “aWhat do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard aas good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 ‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will abring them again to this land; and I will bbuild them up and not overthrow them, and I will cplant them and not pluck them up.
7 ‘I will give them a aheart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be bMy people, and I will be their God, for they will creturn to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘But like the abad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will 1abandon bZedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the cremnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of dEgypt.
9 ‘I will amake them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a breproach and a proverb, a taunt and a ccurse in all places where I will scatter them.
10 ‘I will send the asword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’ ”
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