13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. But Jehovah says that He will help him. Why should this city become a ruin? 15Does it make you a king to excelb in cedar? They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes. 10Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you, and to worship the works of their own hands. 19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. 13This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: 14Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; Take your positions and prepare yourself. 4Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 42For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them. 18Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt, What will you gain on your way to Assyria, Israels Unfaithfulness(Judges 2:1015; Isaiah 43:2228). They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them. 3and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. 3saying, Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. 24Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments. 4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again,d saying: Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.. Jeremiah tells the story of the prophet who abandons his family and the woman he loves in order to relay God's message in Jerusalem. 20As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure. So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them. 6I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. However, Jeremiah thinks he is too young to be a prophet. 5He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. Proroka Tvoego Ieremii pamyat, Gospodi, prazdnuyushche,/ tem Tya molim:// spasi dushi nasha. He saw the destruction of Jerusalem and the holy Temple, after he had incessantly warned his people to mend their ways before it was too late. , , ,/ :// . Because Shemaiah has prophesied to youthough I did not send himand has made you trust in a lie, 7After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, 7Then he put out Zedekiahs eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. 3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do., 4I have heard you, replied Jeremiah the prophet. 11Then he put out Zedekiahs eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day. 19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.. 57I will make her princes and wise men drunk. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see! Jeremiah 's Background. Jeremiah (c. 650 c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. 22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; 12they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. 47Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,j. 2This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation Sports4free Youth media reporter Jeremiah Fennell joined Fox & Friends Monday to discuss his interview with Las Vegas Raiders star Davante Adams, and his work as a young sports re So I will devote them to destructionc and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. 30For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD. 2This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. 8they came to Gedaliah at MizpahIshmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniaha son of the Maacathitethey and their men. 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. will come together, weeping as they come, They will come and join themselves to the LORD. proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim. 22You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!. But the LORD had hidden them. [10] The prophetess Huldah was a relative and contemporary of Jeremiah while the prophet Zephaniah was his mentor. 27The days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast. You said to Zephaniah:e, 26The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophetyou must put him in stocks and neck irons. 30This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.1 a Or Lower Egypt or northern Egypt; also in verse 151 b LXX; Hebrew Noph1 c Or Upper Egypt or southern Egypt; also in verse 154 d Literally the prophets, rising up early and sending (them),15 e That is, in Lower and Upper Egypt; possibly in the land of Egypt at Pathros. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. It may not have been the best basketball game of Jeremiah Charles career, but it might have been the most important game of his life. Season 1. 10For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts. Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. 1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. Both 18-year-old Jeremiah Ruffin and 19-year-old Tracey Williams were in the car that was collided into and died. 2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah. Jeremias is a form that it takes in some Romance languages. A boy, or a man who knows how to love their other half. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. 1At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD: No doubt Jeremiah, who was only about 17 when God called him, had great inner turmoil over the fate of his people, and he begged them to listen. However, Jeremiah thinks he is too young to be a prophet. 21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. 12a wind too strong for that comes from Me. 23They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD. They will attack all her surrounding walls, 16I will pronounce My judgments against them. 26At this I awoke and looked around. 34This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. [21] According to the Books of Kings and Jeremiah, Josiah's reforms were insufficient to save Judah and Jerusalem from destruction, because of the sins of Manasseh, Josiah's grandfather,[22] and Judah's lustful return to the idolatry of foreign gods after Josiah's death. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the Book of Jeremiah, the Books of Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple. You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers. 24If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it, indeed, they have fallen over one another. Jeremiah inspired the French noun jrmiade, and subsequently the English jeremiad, meaning "a lamentation; mournful complaint,"[62] or further, "a cautionary or angry harangue."[63]. 16After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD: Although Jeremiah is not mentioned in the Quran, Muslim exegesis and literature narrates many instances from the life of Jeremiah and fleshes out his narrative, which closely corresponds with the account given in the Hebrew Bible. In a post-apocalyptic future, a deadly virus has wiped out most of humanity. Muslim literature narrates a detailed account of the destruction of Jerusalem, which parallels the account given in the Book of Jeremiah. Davante Adams and a 10-year-old sports reporter and Las Vegas Raiders fan Jeremiah Fennell are the talk of the sports world right now, and for heartwarming reasons. But you have played the harlot with many lovers. WebJeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, a Levitical priest, was likely born between 650 and 645 B.C. Jeremiah tells the story of the prophet who abandons his family and the woman he loves in order to relay God's message in Jerusalem. 3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; 5Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, 6Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,c. 29You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?, 30Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on Davids throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night. 27But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid. 15And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him: 1The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, 2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles. In addition to his book of prophecy, he is also credited with writing the Books of Kings and Lamentations (perhaps written by his scribe, Baruch). Hosea seems to have been the first prophet to describe the desired relationship as an example of ancient Israelite marriage, where a man might be polygamous, while a woman was only permitted one husband. 21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; 22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? 7Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.. Called to prophecy c. 626 BCE, we know more about the life of Jeremiah than any other prophet. Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD. for they do not know the way of the LORD, But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke. will be like the heart of a woman in labor. 1Then all the commanders of the forces, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniaha son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached 17They surround her like men guarding a field. Nebraskas tight ends coach Bob Wager served as the head coach at Martin from 2006 to 2022. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds., 12But they will reply, It is hopeless. 18As surely as I live, declares the King, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains. 9Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. 18I have surely heard Ephraimsc moaning: and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.. 9But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, You will not serve the king of Babylon. Charles attends Martin High School in Arlington, TX. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. 15Please sit down, they said, and read it in our hearing., 16When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, Surely we must report all these words to the king., 17Tell us now, they asked Baruch, how did you write all these words? 1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time: 46At the sound of Babylons capture the earth will quake; for they will come against her from every side, 4And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans,c, 5For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned. and he will be unable to conceal himself. Although a number of chapters were written mainly in prose (chs. 8Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. 19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, 21What will you say when He sets over you, It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity. for the LORD is destroying their pasture. May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon. 7I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. Although Jeremiah was often thought of traditionally as the author of the Book of Lamentations, this is probably a collection of individual and communal laments composed at various times throughout the Babylonian captivity. Charles attends Martin High School in Arlington, TX. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors. who makes his countrymen serve without pay. 7So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant? 9that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. 4The word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and appointed you as a prophet to the nations., 6Ah, Lord GOD, I said, I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!. I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. 12Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. 22Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside., 1When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their Godeverything that the LORD had sent him to say Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us., 3But Jeremiah answered, You are to tell Zedekiah that 14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD., 20So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 11but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again. 23And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribes knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire. 3And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon. 7Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them. 4And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again,b but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear. [Jeremiah 11:2123] Unhappy with Jeremiah's message, possibly from concern that it would shut down the Anathoth sanctuary, his priestly kin and the men of Anathoth conspired to kill him. 6O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? 19The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf, 10As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid. 1Then the LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. 13For from the least of them to the greatest. 21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. 26then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jeremiah. 5Pharaohs army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeansc who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem. 1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach. I will weep in secret because of your pride. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness. 7So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper., 8For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them. 17And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt and their congregation will be established before Me; and their ruler will arise from their midst. WebJeremiah. Encyclopedia Britannica. He saw the destruction of Jerusalem and the holy Temple, after he had incessantly warned his people to mend their ways before it was too late. 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