20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they areno gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand
and my might; and they shall know that my name isThe LORD.
1 The sin of Judah iswritten with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it isgraven
upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high
hills.
3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance andall thy treasures to the spoil, and
thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will
cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire
in mine anger, whichshall burn for ever.
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed bethe man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall
inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, ina salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed isthe man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and thatspreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart isdeceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, Itry the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,
andaccording to the fruit of his doings.
11 Asthe partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth themnot; sohe that getteth riches, and not
by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning isthe place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, andthey that depart from
me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living
waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou artmy praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where isthe word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from beinga pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the
woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was rightbefore thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: thou artmy hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be
dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with
double destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby
the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor
bring itin by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work,
but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might
not hear, nor receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no
burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no

work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne
of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and
from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south,
bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing
sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even
entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates
thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again
another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is
in the potter's hand, so areye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7 At whatinstant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and
to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do unto them.
9 And at whatinstant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and
to plant it;
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith
I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye
now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every
one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things:
the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14 Will a manleave the snow of Lebanon which comethfrom the rock of the field? orshall the
cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have
caused them to stumble in their ways fromthe ancient paths, to walk in paths, ina way not
cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, anda perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished, and wag his head.
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and
not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not
perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let
us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I
stood before thee to speak good for them, andto turn away thy wrath from them.

21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their bloodby the force of
the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and bewidows; and let their men
be put to death; lettheir young men beslain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for
they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity,
neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thuswith
them in the time of thine anger.
1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and takeof the ancients of the
people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which isby the entry of the east gate, and
proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which
whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it
unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire forburnt offerings
unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came itinto my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called
Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them
to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and
their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they
shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies,
and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and
this city, as onebreaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury
themin Tophet, till there beno place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and evenmake
this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the
place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood
in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon
all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their
necks, that they might not hear my words.
1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who wasalso chief governor in the house of the
LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that werein the high gate
of Benjamin, which wasby the house of the LORD.