And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king. ", "The Miniatures of the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh", "Ancient Document Confirms Existence Of Biblical Figure", Prophets in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeremiah&oldid=1134280490, Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 16 January commemoration of overthrowing the Idols by prophet Jeremiah (, 30 April Martyrdom of Jeremiah the Prophet (, This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 22:07. 22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; Jeremiah (c. 650-570 BCE) was a major prophet of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters. 10For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster. 12This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you., 28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: You most certainly must drink it! I will pour out their own evil upon them. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people, declares the LORD. It was through Jeremiahs childhood training for holy service in the priesthood that God began grooming him for his future role. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed., 6Jeremiah replied, The word of the LORD came to me, saying: 3and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile. 28Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned. 20So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. ah jer--m-. 32And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. They said, The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. 14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem. He was called as a prophet in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Josiah. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds. 9For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.b, 10For this is what the LORD says: When Babylons seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. but you keep doing all the evil you can.. 4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 30Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, 31Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,. 4For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation. 27Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.c 4Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: 5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. 9Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah. , , ,/ :// . 36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres. 2This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. WebJeremiah, Hebrew Yirmeyahu, Latin Vulgate Jeremias, (born probably after 650 bce, Anathoth, Judahdied c. 570 bce, Egypt), Hebrew prophet, reformer, and author of a biblical book that bears his name. 4and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. 33Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, What is the burden of the LORD? you are to say to them, What burden? from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. and throughout her land the wounded will groan. They are people who are selfless and very 26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers. 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.. [13] The difficulties he encountered, as described in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations, have prompted scholars to refer to him as "the weeping prophet". It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.. 24Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death. 27After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiahs dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 13Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam. 12Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.. 3For a nation from the north will come against her; the children of Israel and the children of Judah. They left the city at night by way of the kings garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.d Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. and your daughters have gone into captivity. 2Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: 4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel. 13then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this landthe kings who sit on Davids throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; 11And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. For around forty years, Jeremiah spoke for God to the people of Judah. 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. He resembles the northern prophet Hosea in his use of language and examples of God's relationship to Israel. 26Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, As surely as the Lord GOD lives.. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?, 24The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back, 1At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people., 3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:a. 57I will make her princes and wise men drunk. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon. WebJeremiah. 7After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, 33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor. It was through Jeremiahs childhood training for holy service in the priesthood that God began grooming him for his future role. 13So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you. 14and if you say, No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the rams horn or hunger for bread, You claim that the LORD says, Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 1Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucala son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people: 16Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes. WebJeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, a Levitical priest, was likely born between 650 and 645 B.C. 12Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes. Jeremiah did so, 7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD. 10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. 6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth., 7Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD, 19And when the people ask, For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us? You are to tell them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.. 14Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt. 15For behold, I will make you small among nations. 5and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and againa even though you did not listen, 1Then the LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. 11He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword. 10Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down., 11When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaohs army, 1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them. 5Indeed, this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, Judgment on the Philistines(Zephaniah 2:47). a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. 11When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them, 17But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear. 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. and set them apart for the day of carnage. 10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; 12Over all the barren heights in the wilderness. [52], In July 2007, Assyrologist Michael Jursa translated a cuneiform tablet dated to 595BC, as describing a Nabusharrussu-ukin as "the chief eunuch" of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. Jeremiah (c. 650-570 BCE) was a major prophet of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. [31] He condemned idolatry, the greed of priests, and false prophets. Indeed, it will be desolate forever., 63When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates. from the ends of the earth, and they will say. I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. 16After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD: Look, the whole land is before you. 5Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: Blow the rams horn throughout the land. Then there were further post-exilic redactions adding ch. 17At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.e. 21As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalemyou, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the landdid the LORD not remember and bring this to mind? 14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. 1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time: They can be really good boyfriends and can mess up at times, but they finally win their partner's heart with their adorable antics. Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible, containing more words than any other book. 3So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sonsthe entire house of the Rechabites 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. 30So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him. 3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply. 10As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid. Why should this city become a ruin? 14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you., Praise to the God of Jacob(Isaiah 25:112). 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. [50], Classical historians such as Wahb ibn Munabbih gave accounts of Jeremiah which turned "upon the main points of the Old Testament story of Jeremiah: his call to be a prophet, his mission to the king of Judah, his mission to the people and his reluctance, the announcement of a foreign tyrant who is to rule over Judah."[9]. 22They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again, declares the LORD. WebJeremy Phillip Felton (born July 17, 1987), known professionally as Jeremih (/ d r m a / JERR-m-eye), is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Then there was a third redaction around 525520 BC, expanding the book up to the ending at 51:64. 24The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.. 7No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother. For from the least of them to the greatest, 11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people. 32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 5But the army of the Chaldeanse pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. 26For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,. 10But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields. Jeremiah was substituted for the Irish Diarmuid/Diarmaid (also anglicised as Dermot), with which it has no etymological connection, when Gaelic names were frowned upon in official records. Gedaliah Governs in Judah(2 Kings 25:2224). You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon., 18Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison? 24Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all those of Judah who are in the land of Egypt. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? declares the LORD. 3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. His words are read in synagogues as part of the Haftara and he is quoted in the New Testament. Jeremiah 's Background. They come to devour the land and everything in it. 11Therefore this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!. on a level path where they will not stumble. [29] Since Jeremiah is described as emerging well trained and fully literate from his earliest preaching, his relationship with the Shaphan family has been used to suggest that he may have trained at the scribal school in Jerusalem over which Shaphan presided. 5This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.c It was through Jeremiahs childhood training for holy service in the priesthood that God began grooming him for his future role. They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down. 9Should I not punish them for these things?. 15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll. 30Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. 28Therefore you must say to them, This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. 20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. 9Therefore, I will contend with you again. 3And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life, declares the LORD of Hosts. 3Therefore the showers have been withheld. 9In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaohs palace at Tahpanhes. 16Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me. there is nothing but oppression in her midst. that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon. 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