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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
