18:1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” 3So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. 5Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 10and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 11Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’ 12“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
13“Therefore thus says the LORD:Ask among the nations,Who has heard the like of this?The virgin Israelhas done a very horrible thing.14Does the snow of Lebanon leavethe crags of Sirion?Do the mountain waters run dry,the cold flowing streams?15But my people have forgotten me;they make offerings to false gods;they made them stumble in their ways,in the ancient roads,and to walk into side roads,not the highway,16making their land a horror,a thing to be hissed at forever.Everyone who passes by it is horrifiedand shakes his head.17Like the east wind I will scatter thembefore the enemy.I will show them my back, not my face,in the day of their calamity.”
18Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
19Hear me, O LORD,and listen to the voice of my adversaries.20Should good be repaid with evil?Yet they have dug a pit for my life.Remember how I stood before youto speak good for them,to turn away your wrath from them.21Therefore deliver up their children to famine;give them over to the power of the sword;let their wives become childless and widowed.May their men meet death by pestilence,their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.22May a cry be heard from their houses,when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!For they have dug a pit to take meand laid snares for my feet.23Yet you, O LORD, knowall their plotting to kill me.Forgive not their iniquity,nor blot out their sin from your sight.Let them be overthrown before you;deal with them in the time of your anger.
19:1Thus says the LORD, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, 2and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. 3You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. 4Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—6therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth. 8And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds. 9And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’ 10“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury. 12Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth. 13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’” 14Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house and said to all the people: 15“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.” 20:1Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD. 3The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. 4For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. 5Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. 6And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”
7O LORD, you have deceived me,and I was deceived;you are stronger than I,and you have prevailed.I have become a laughingstock all the day;everyone mocks me.8For whenever I speak, I cry out,I shout, “Violence and destruction!”For the word of the LORD has become for mea reproach and derision all day long.9If I say, “I will not mention him,or speak any more in his name,”there is in my heart as it were a burning fireshut up in my bones,and I am weary with holding it in,and I cannot.10For I hear many whispering.Terror is on every side!“Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”say all my close friends,watching for my fall.“Perhaps he will be deceived;then we can overcome himand take our revenge on him.”11But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior;therefore my persecutors will stumble;they will not overcome me.They will be greatly shamed,for they will not succeed.Their eternal dishonorwill never be forgotten.12O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous,who sees the heart and the mind,let me see your vengeance upon them,for to you have I committed my cause.
13Sing to the LORD;praise the LORD!For he has delivered the life of the needyfrom the hand of evildoers.
14Cursed be the dayon which I was born!The day when my mother bore me,let it not be blessed!15Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,“A son is born to you,”making him very glad.16Let that man be like the citiesthat the LORD overthrew without pity;let him hear a cry in the morningand an alarm at noon,17because he did not kill me in the womb;so my mother would have been my grave,and her womb forever great.18Why did I come out from the wombto see toil and sorrow,and spend my days in shame?
21:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying, 2“Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us.” 3Then Jeremiah said to them: “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 4‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city. 5I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath. 6And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence. 7Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’ 8“And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war. 10For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’ 11“And to the house of the king of Judah say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, 12O house of David! Thus says the LORD:
“‘Execute justice in the morning,and deliver from the hand of the oppressorhim who has been robbed,lest my wrath go forth like fire,and burn with none to quench it,because of your evil deeds.’”
13“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,O rock of the plain,declares the LORD;you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us,or who shall enter our habitations?’14I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,declares the LORD;I will kindle a fire in her forest,and it shall devour all that is around her.” 16Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
19You know my reproach,and my shame and my dishonor;my foes are all known to you.20Reproaches have broken my heart,so that I am in despair.I looked for pity, but there was none,and for comforters, but I found none.21They gave me poison for food,and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
22Let their own table before them become a snare;and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,and make their loins tremble continually.24Pour out your indignation upon them,and let your burning anger overtake them.25May their camp be a desolation;let no one dwell in their tents.26For they persecute him whom you have struck down,and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.27Add to them punishment upon punishment;may they have no acquittal from you.28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
29But I am afflicted and in pain;let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
30I will praise the name of God with a song;I will magnify him with thanksgiving.31This will please the LORD more than an oxor a bull with horns and hoofs.32When the humble see it they will be glad;you who seek God, let your hearts revive.33For the LORD hears the needyand does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34Let heaven and earth praise him,the seas and everything that moves in them.35For God will save Zionand build up the cities of Judah,and people shall dwell there and possess it;36the offspring of his servants shall inherit it,and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
30then I was beside him, like a master workman,and I was daily his delight,rejoicing before him always,31rejoicing in his inhabited worldand delighting in the children of man.Jeremiah 18–21
Matthew 28:16–20
Psalm 69:19–36
Proverbs 8:30–31
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