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 thatbe
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 asa 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 andsupplications of the children of Israel:
for they have perverted their way, andthey have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children, andI will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto
thee; for thou artthe LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped forfrom the hills, and fromthe multitude of mountains:
truly in the LORD our God isthe 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.
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; andthy 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, thatthe 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 Evena full wind from those placesshall come unto me: now also will I give sentence
against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall beas 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, thatwatchers 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 thingsunto thee; this isthy 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, andmy curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, andhear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people isfoolish, they have not known me; they aresottish children, and they have
none understanding: they arewise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it waswithout form, and void; and the heavens, and they hadno
light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there wasno man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place wasa wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken
down at the presence of the LORD, andby 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 beforsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And whenthou artspoiled, 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; thylovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, andthe anguish as of her that bringeth
forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, thatbewaileth herself, thatspreadeth
her hands, saying, Woe isme now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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 anythat 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, arenot thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved;
thou hast consumed them, butthey 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 arepoor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the
LORD, northe 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, andthe judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, andburst
the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, anda 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, andtheir 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 asfed 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 arenot 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 isnot he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither
shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word isnot 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 isa mighty
nation, it isan ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest
what they say.
16 Their quiver isas an open sepulchre, they areall mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, whichthy 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
thingsunto 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 isnot 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 forthe 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 aretheir houses full of deceit: therefore they are become
great, and waxen rich.