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Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
