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Bible Reading for August 11
Jeremiah 21
[1] The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent
unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
priest, saying,
[2] Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us
according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. [3] Then said
Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: [4] Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,
wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans,
which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst
of this city. [5] And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
[6] And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they
shall die of a great pestilence.
[7] And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and
his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the
pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into
the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge
of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
[8] And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set
before you the way of life, and the way of death. [9] He that abideth in this
city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he
that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be unto him for a prey. [10] For I have set my face against
this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
[11] And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the
LORD;
[12] O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning,
and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury
go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of
your doings.
[13] Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the
plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall
enter into our habitations?
[14] But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the
LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all
things round about it.
Jeremiah 22
[1] Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak
there this word,
[2] And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the
throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these
gates:
[3] Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver
the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence
to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in
this place.
[4] For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of
this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, he, and his servants, and his people. [5] But if ye will not hear
these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a
desolation. [6] For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou
art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a
wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. [7] And I will prepare
destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down
thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. [8] And many nations shall
pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore
hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? [9] Then they shall answer,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped
other gods, and served them. [10] Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan
him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor
see his native country. [11] For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son
of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which
went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: [12] But
he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see
this land no more.
[13] Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers
by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not
for his work;
[14] That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth
him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
[15] Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy
father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with
him?
[16] He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was
not this to know me? saith the LORD. [17] But thine eyes and thine heart are
not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it. [18] Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament
for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him,
saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! [19] He shall be buried with the burial of
an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
[20] Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from
the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. [21] I spake unto thee in thy
prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from
thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. [22] The wind shall eat up all thy
pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be
ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
[23] O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious
shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
[24] As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; [25]
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the
hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. [26] And I will cast thee
out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not
born; and there shall ye die. [27] But to the land whereunto they desire to
return, thither shall they not return.
[28] Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no
pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a
land which they know not?
[29] O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. [30] Thus saith the
LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days:
for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and
ruling any more in Judah.
Jeremiah 23
[1] Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!
saith the LORD.
[2] Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed
my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not
visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the
LORD.
[3] And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I
have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and increase.
[4] And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they
shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the
LORD.
[5] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth.
[6] In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this
is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. [7]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say,
The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt;
[8] But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house
of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had
driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. [9] Mine heart within me
is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken
man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because
of the words of his holiness. [10] For the land is full of adulterers; for
because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness
are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. [11] For
both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith the LORD.
[12] Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness:
they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them,
even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. [13] And I have seen folly
in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people
Israel to err. [14] I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands
of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them
unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. [15] Therefore thus
saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. [16] Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto
you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out
of the mouth of the LORD. [17] They say still unto them that despise me, The
LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. [18] For
who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his
word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? [19] Behold, a whirlwind of the
LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall
grievously upon the head of the wicked. [20] The anger of the LORD shall not
return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
[21] I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them,
yet they prophesied.
[22] But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the
evil of their doings.
[23] Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? [24] Can any
hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not
I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. [25] I have heard what the prophets
said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
[26] How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; [27] Which think to
cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to
his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
[28] The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my
word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith
the LORD.
[29] Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that
breaketh the rock in pieces?
[30] Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal
my words every one from his neighbour. [31] Behold, I am against the prophets,
saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
[32] Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and
do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their
lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not
profit this people at all, saith the LORD. [33] And when this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?
thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the
LORD. [34] And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall
say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. [35]
Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother,
What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? [36] And the
burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his
burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of
hosts our God.
[37] Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee?
and, What hath the LORD spoken?
[38] But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD;
Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you,
saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; [39] Therefore, behold, I,
even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I
gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
[40] And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.
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