Category Archives: Jeremiah

Jeremiah’s Complaint 1 You are always righteous,Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You […]

A Linen Belt 1 This is what theLordsaid to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” 2 So I bought a belt, as theLorddirected, and put it around my waist. 3 Then the word of theLordcame to me a second time: 4 […]

Drought, Famine, Sword 1 This is the word of theLordthat came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 2 “Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. 3 The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their […]

1 Then theLordsaid to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! 2 And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what theLordsays: “ ‘Those destined for death, to death; […]

Day of Disaster 1 Then the word of theLordcame to me: 2 “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.” 3 For this is what theLordsays about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: 4 […]

1 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. 2 Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills. 3 My mountain in the land and yourwealth and […]

At the Potter’s House 1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from theLord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from […]

1 This is what theLordsays: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3 and say, ‘Hear […]

Jeremiah and Pashhur 1 When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of theLord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, 2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at theLord’s temple. 3 The next day, when Pashhur released him from […]