ye did that which was evil in Mine eyes,And chose that wherein I delighted not. 13Therefore thus saith the Lord God:Behold, My servants shall eat,But ye shall be hungry;Behold, My servants shall drink,But ye shall be thirsty;Behold, My servants shall rejoice,But ye shall be ashamed;14Behold, My servants shall singFor joy of heart,But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart,And shall wail for vexation of spirit.15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto Mine elect:'So may the Lord God slay thee';But He shall call His servants by another name;16So that he who blesseth himself in the earthShall bless himself by the God of truth;And he that sweareth in the earthShall swear by the God of truth;Because the former troubles are forgotten,And because they are hid from Mine eyes.17For, behold, I create new heavensAnd a new earth;And the former things shall not be remembered,Nor come into mind.18But be ye glad and rejoice for everIn that which I create;For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,And her people a joy.19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,And joy in My people;And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her,Nor the voice of crying.20There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man,That hath not filled his days;For the youngest shall die a hundred years old,And the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.21And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;And they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.22They shall not build, and another inhabit,They shall not plant, and another eat;For as the days of a tree shall be the days of My people,And Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.23They shall not labour in vain,Nor bring forth for terror;For they are the seed blessed of the Lord,And their offspring with them.24And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer,And while they are yet speaking, I will hear.25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,And the lion shall eat straw like the ox;And dust shall be the serpent's food.They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,Saith the Lord. 66Thus saith the Lord:The heaven is My throne,And the earth is My footstool;Where is the house that ye may build unto Me?And where is the place that may be My resting-place?2For all these things hath My hand made,And so all these things came to be,Saith the Lord;But on this man will I look,Even on him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,And trembleth at My word.3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man;He that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck;He that offereth a meal-offering, as if he offered swine's blood;He that maketh a memorial-offering of frankincense, as if he blessed an idol;According as they have chosen their own ways,And their soul delighteth in their abominations;4Even so I will choose their mockings,And will bring their fears upon them;Because when I called, none did answer;When I spoke, they did not hear,But they did that which was evil in Mine eyes,And chose that in which I delighted not. 5Hear the word of the Lord,Ye that tremble at His word:Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for My name's sake, have said:'Let the Lord be glorified,That we may gaze upon your joy',But they shall be ashamed.6Hark! an uproar from the city,Hark! it cometh from the temple,Hark! the Lord rendereth recompense to His enemies.7Before she travailed, she brought forth;Before her pain came,She was delivered of a man-child.8Who hath heard such a thing?Who hath seen such things?Is a land born in one day?Is a nation brought forth at once?For as soon as Zion travailed,She brought forth her children.9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?Saith the Lord;Shall I that cause to bring forth shut the womb?Saith thy God. 10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem,And be glad with her, all ye that love her;Rejoice for joy with her,All ye that mourn for her;11That ye may suck, and be satisfiedWith the breast of her consolations;That ye may drink deeply with delightOf the abundance of her glory.12For thus saith the Lord:Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river.And the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream,And ye shall suck thereof:Ye shall be borne upon the side,And shall be dandled upon the knees.13As one whom his mother comforteth,So will I comfort you;And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.14And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice,And your bones shall flourish like young grass;And the hand of the Lord shall be known toward His servants,And He will have indignation against His enemies. 15For, behold, the Lord will come in fire,And His chariots shall be like the whirlwind;To render His anger with fury,And His rebuke with flames of fire.16For by fire will the Lord contend,And by His sword with all flesh;And the slain of the Lord shall be many.17They that sanctify themselves and purify themselvesTo go unto the gardens,Behind one in the midst,Eating swine's flesh, and the detestable thing, and the mouse,Shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
18For I [know] their works and their thoughts; [the time] cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see My glory. 19And I will work a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, neither have seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the nations. 20And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an offering unto the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in fitters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21And of them also will I take for the priests and for the Levites, saith the Lord. 22For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23And it shall come to pass,That from one new moon to another,And from one sabbath to another,Shall all flesh come to worship before Me,Saith the Lord.24And they shall go forth, and lookUpon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against Me;For their worm shall not die,Neither shall their fire be quenched;And they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
And it shall come to pass,That from one new moon to another,And from one sabbath to another,Shall all flesh come to worship before Me,Saith the Lord.
1. That is, A remnant shall return.
2. That is, God is with us.
3. That is, The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth.
4. That is, Wonderful in counsel is God the Mighty, the Everlasting Father, the Ruler of peace.
5. Heb. shear jashub.
6. That is, The hearth of God.
ירמיה
JEREMIAH (Yirmyāhû)
1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying:
5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee,And before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee;I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.
6Then said I: 'Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.' 7But the Lord said unto me:
Say not: I am a child;For to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go,And whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.8Be not afraid of them;For I am with thee to deliver thee,Saith
