caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that
they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would
not hear.
[12] Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every
bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle
shall be filled with wine?
[13] Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all
the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
[14] And I will dash them one against another,
even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but
destroy them.
[15] Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
[16] Give glory to the
LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
[17] But
if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
[18] Say unto the king and
to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of
your glory.
[19] The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried
away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
[20] Lift up your eyes, and behold them
that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
[21] What wilt thou
say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall
not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
[22] And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these
things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
[23]
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed
to do evil.
[24] Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
[25]
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me,
and trusted in falsehood.
[26] Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
[27]
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations
on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once
be?
Jer.14
[1] The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
[2] Judah mourneth, and the
gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
[3] And their
nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned
with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
[4] Because
the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their
heads.
[5] Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
[6] And the
wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because
there was no grass.
[7] O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for
our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
[8] O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in
time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth
aside to tarry for a night?
[9] Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot
save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
[10] Thus
saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet,
therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
[11]
Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
[12] When they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume
them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
[13] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you
assured peace in this place.
[14] Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I
sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false
vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
[15] Therefore thus saith the
LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and
famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
[16] And the
people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and