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...
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...
20When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the chief officer in the temple of the Lord , heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, 2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the Lord 's temple. 3The next da...
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...
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...
17Judah's sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. 2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills....
16Then the word of the Lord came to me: 2You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place. 3For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their f...
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: '...
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...
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...
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...