28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not
the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not
judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have itso: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow
the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the
north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch theirtents against her
round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth
away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem:
this isthe city to be visited; she iswholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is
heard in her; before me continually isgrief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a
land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn
back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach;
they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out
upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that isfull of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with theirfields and wives together: for I will
stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one isgiven to
covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughterof my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
when there isno peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all
ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
thatI visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where isthe
good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not
walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We
will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what isamong them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, eventhe fruit of their thoughts,
because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far

country? your burnt offerings arenot acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the
fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation
shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they arecruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth
like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of
Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy andfear ison
every side.
26 O daughter of my people, gird theewith sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee
mourning, as foran only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon
us.
27 I have set thee fora tower anda fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try
their way.
28 They areall grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they arebrass and iron; they areall
corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the
wicked are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver shall mencall them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of
the LORD, all ye ofJudah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will
cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The
temple of the LORD, arethese.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment
between a man and his neighbour;
6 Ifye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in
this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever
and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are
delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold,
even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which wasin Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see
what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising
up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto thishouse, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto
the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, eventhe whole seed

of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead theirdough,
to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they
may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do theynot provokethemselves to the
confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon
this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the
ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of
the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall
be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto
you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels andin the
imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even
sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did
worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This isa nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their
God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast itaway, and take up a lamentation on high places;
for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which isin the valley of the son of Hinnom, to
burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded themnot, neither came it
into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor
the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till
there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts
of the earth; and none shall fray themaway.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride: for the land shall be desolate.
1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the
bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom
they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they