36In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speak
37Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim. 2Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the Lord had spoken throu
22This is what the Lord says: Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there: 2'Hear the word of the Lord , O king of Judah, you who sit on David's throne-you, your officials and your people who come through these gates. 3
14This is the word of the Lord to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 2Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. 3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. The
13This is what the Lord said to me: Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water. 2So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist. 3Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time: 4Take
11This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3Tell them that this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: 'Cursed is the ma
10Hear what the Lord says to you, O house of Israel. 2This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. 3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they
9Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people. 2Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for t
8 'At that time, declares the Lord , the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. 2They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and
12You are always righteous, O Lord , when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? 2You have planted them, and they have taken root; they
30This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: 'Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you. 3The days are coming,' declares the Lord , 'when I will bring my people Israel and Judah b
28In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people: 2Thi
18This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message. 3So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4But the pot he was shaping from the clay was ma
21The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said: 2Inquire now of the Lord for us because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is attacking us. Perhaps the
19This is what the Lord says: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3a
15Then the Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! 2And if they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' tell them, 'This is what the Lord says: '
5Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city. 2Although they say, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' still
6Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction. 2I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicat
4If you will return, O Israel, return to me, declares the Lord . If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, 2and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' then the nations will b
7This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2Stand at the gate of the Lord 's house and there proclaim this message: 'Hear the word of the Lord , all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord . 3This is what the