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Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
