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The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH 11THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in Benjamin. 2The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah; 3also during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, was completed. In the fifth month the people of Jerusalem were carried away into exile. Jeremiah’s call and two visions 4THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: 5‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you for my own; before you were born I consecrated you, I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’ 6‘Ah! Lord GOD,’ I answered, ‘I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.’ 7But the LORD said, ‘Do not call yourself a child; for you shall go to whatever people I send you and say whatever I tell you to say. 8Fear none of them, for I am with you and will keep you safe.’ This was the very word of the LORD. 9Then the LORD stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and said to me, ‘I put my words into your mouth. 10This day I give you authority over nations and over kingdoms, to pull down and to uproot, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.’ 11The word of the LORD came to me: ‘What is it that you see, Jeremiah?’ ‘An almond in early bloom [Heb shaked]’, I answered. 12‘You are right,’ said the LORD to me, ‘for I am early on the watch [Heb shoked] to carry out my purpose.’ 13The word of the LORD came to me a second time: ‘What is it that you see?’ ‘A cauldron’, I said, ‘on a fire, fanned by the wind; it is tilted away from the north.’ 14The LORD said: From the north disaster shall flare up against all who live in this land; 15for now I summon all peoples and kingdoms of the north, says the LORD. Their kings shall come and each shall set up his throne before the gates of Jerusalem, against her walls on every side, and against all the cities of Judah. 16I will state my case against my people for all the wrong they have done in forsaking me, in burning sacrifices to other gods, worshipping the work of their own hands. 17Brace yourself, Jeremiah; stand up and speak to them. Tell them everything I bid you, do not let your spirit break at sight of them, or I will break you before their eyes. 18This day I make you a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze, to stand fast against the whole land, against the kings and princes of Judah, Page 1 of 84 its priests and its people. 19They will make war on you but shall not overcome you, for I am with you and will keep you safe. This is the very word of the LORD. Exhortations to Israel and Judah 21THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: 2Go, make a proclamation that all Jerusalem shall hear: These are the words of the LORD: I remember the unfailing devotion of your youth, the love of your bridal days, when you followed me in the wilderness, through a land unsown. 3Israel then was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; no one who devoured her went unpunished, evil always overtook them. This is the very word of the LORD. 4Listen to the word of the LORD, people of Jacob, families of Israel, one and all. 5These are the words of the LORD: What fault did your forefathers find in me, that they wandered far from me, pursuing empty phantoms and themselves becoming empty; 6that they did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up from Egypt, and led us through the wilderness, through a country of deserts and shifting sands, a country barren and ill-omened, where no man ever trod, no man made his home?’ 7I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its fruit and the goodness of it; but when you entered upon it you defiled it and made the home I gave you loathsome. 8The priests no longer asked, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handled the law had no thought of me, the shepherds of the people rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied in the name of Baal and followed gods powerless to help. 9Therefore I will bring a charge against you once more, says the LORD, against you and against your descendants. 10Cross to the coasts and islands of Kittim and see, send to Kedar and consider well, see whether there has been anything like this: 11has a nation ever changed its gods, although they were no gods? But my people have exchanged their Glory Page 2 of 84 for a god altogether powerless. 12Stand aghast at this, you heavens, tremble in utter despair, says the LORD. 13Two sins have my people committed: they have forsaken me, a spring of living water, and they have hewn out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water. 14Is Israel a slave? Was he born in slavery? If not, why has he been despoiled? 15Why do lions roar and growl at him? Why has his land been laid waste, why are his cities razed to the ground and abandoned? 16Men of Noph and Tahpanhes will break your heads. 17Is it not your desertion of the LORD your God that brings all this upon you? 18And now, why should you make off to Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why make off to Assyria to drink the waters of the River? 19It is your own wickedness that will punish you, your own apostasy that will condemn you. See for yourselves how bitter a thing it is and how evil, to forsake the LORD your God and revere me no longer. This is the very word of the Lord GOD of Hosts. 20Ages ago you broke your yoke and snapped your traces, crying, ‘I will not be your slave’; and you sprawled in promiscuous vice on all the hill-tops, under every spreading tree. 21I planted you as a choice red vine, true stock all of you, yet now you are turned into a vine debased and worthless! 22The stain of your sin is still there and I see it, though you wash with soda and do not stint the soap. This is the very word of the Lord GOD. 23How can you say, ‘I am not polluted, not I! I have not followed the Baalim’? Look how you conducted yourself in the valley; remember what you have done. You have been like a she-camel, twisting and turning as she runs, 24rushing alone into [rushing alone into: prob. rdg, Heb a wild-ass taught in] the wilderness, snuffing the wind in her lust; who can restrain her in her heat? Page 3 of 84 No one need tire himself out in pursuit of her; she is easily found at mating time. 25Why not save your feet from stony ground and your throats from thirst? But you said, ‘No; I am desperate. I love foreign gods and I must go after them.’ 26As a thief is ashamed when he is found out, so the people of Israel feel ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets; 27they say ‘You are our father’ to a block of wood and cry ‘Mother’ to a stone. But on me they have turned their backs and averted their faces from me. And now on the day of disaster they say, ‘Rise up and save us.’ 28Where are they, those gods you made for yourselves? Let them come and save you in the day of disaster. For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns [towns: or blood- spattered altars]. 29The LORD answers, Why argue your case with me? You are rebels, every one of you. 30In vain I struck down your sons, the lesson was not learnt; still your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion. 31[prob. rdg, Heb prefixes You, O generation, see the word of the LORD] Have I shown myself inhospitable to Israel like some wilderness or waterless land? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken away; we will never come back to thee’? 32Will a girl forget her finery or a bride her ribbons? Yet my people have forgotten me over and over again. 33How well you pick your way in search of lovers! Why! even the worst of women can learn from you. 34Yes, and there is blood on the corners of your robe – the life-blood of the innocent poor. You did not get it by housebreaking but by your sacrifices under every oak. 35You say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has passed away.’ But I will challenge your claim to have done no sin. 36Why do you so lightly change your course? Egypt will fail you as Assyria did; Page 4 of 84 37you shall go out from here, each of you with his hands above his head, for the LORD repudiates those in whom you trusted, and from them you shall gain nothing. 31If a man puts away his wife and she leaves him, and if she then becomes another’s, may he go back to her again? Is not that woman defiled, a forbidden thing? You have played the harlot with many lovers; can you come back to me? says the LORD.
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