Read Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah1

¹The words of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], of the priests that [were] in ‘Anatot [answers to prayer] in the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]:

²To whom the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came in the days of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] the son of ‘Amon [master workman] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], in the thirteenth year of his reign.

³It came also in the days of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], unto the end of the eleventh year of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], unto the carrying away of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] captive in the fifth month.

⁴Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying,

⁵Before I formed youi in the belly I knew youi; and before youi came forth out of the womb I sanctified youi, [and] I ordained youi a prophet unto the nations.

⁶Then said I, Ah, Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER)! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.

⁷But the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for youi shall go to all that I shall send youi, and whatsoever I command youi youi shall speak.

⁸Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with youi to deliver youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁹Then the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in youri mouth.

¹⁰See, I have this day set youi over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

¹¹Moreover the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying, Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], what see youi? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

¹²Then said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, youi have well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

¹³And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me the second time, saying, What see youi? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof [is] toward the north.

¹⁴Then the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁵For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entering of the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹⁶And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

¹⁷youi therefore gird up youri waist, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command youi: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound youi before them.

¹⁸For, behold, I have made youi this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

¹⁹And they shall fight against youi; but they shall not prevail against youi; for I [am] with youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to deliver youi.

¹Moreover the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to me, saying,

²Go and cry in the ears of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); I remember youi, the kindness of youri youth, the love of youri espousals, when youi went after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.

³Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [was] holiness unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate); evil shall come upon them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴Hear you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O house of Ya’akov [Heal of God], and all the families of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]:

⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁶Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that brought us up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

⁷And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you2f entered, you2f defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

⁸The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and walked after [things that] do not profit.

⁹For what reason I will yet plead with you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and with your children’s children will I plead.

¹⁰For pass over the isles of Kittim [Bruisers], and see; and send unto Kedar [dark], and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

¹¹Has a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] does not profit.

¹²Be astonished, O you2f heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you2f very desolate, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

¹⁴[Is] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?

¹⁵The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

¹⁶Also the children of Nof [presentability] and Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity] have broken the crown of youri head.

¹⁷Have youi not procured this unto yourself, in that youi have forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], when he led youi by the way?

¹⁸And now what have youi to do in the way of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], to drink the waters of Shichor [Dark]? or what have youi to do in the way of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), to drink the waters of the river?

¹⁹Your1s own wickedness shall correct youi, and youri backslidings shall reprove youi: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that youi have forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and that my fear [is] not in youi, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

²⁰For of old time I have broken youri yoke, [and] burst youri bands; and youi said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree youi wander, playing the prostitute.

²¹Yet I had planted youi a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are youi turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

²²For though youi wash youi with lye, and take youi much soap, [yet] youri iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).

²³How can youi say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Ba’alim [lords (false gods)]? see youri way in the valley, know what youi have done: [youi are] a swift young female camel traversing her ways;

²⁴A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffs up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

²⁵Withhold youri foot from being unshod, and youi throat from thirst: but youi said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

²⁶As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

²⁷Saying to a stock, youi [are] my father; and to a stone, youi have brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

²⁸But where [are] youri gods that youi have made youi? let them arise, if they can save youi in the time of youri trouble: for [according to] the number of youri cities are youi gods, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²⁹For what reason will you2f plead with me? you2f all have transgressed against me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁰In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

³¹O generation, see you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Have I been a wilderness unto Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto youi?

³²Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

³³Why prepare youi youri way to seek love? therefore have youi also taught the wicked ones youri ways.

³⁴Also in youri skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

³⁵Yet youi say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with youi, because youi say, I have not sinned.

³⁶Why you cheapen yourselfi, you change youri course so often? youi also shall be ashamed of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], as youi were ashamed of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).

³⁷Yes, youi shall go forth from him, and youri hands upon youri head: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has rejected youri confidences, and youi shall not prosper in them.

¹They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but youi have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²Lift up youri eyes unto the high places, and see where have youi have not had sex? In the ways have youi sat for them, as the Aravi [Arabian] in the wilderness; and youi have polluted the land with youri cult prostitution and with youri wickedness.

³Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and youi have polluted the land with youri whoredoms and with your wickedness and refused to be ashamed.

⁴Will youi not from this time cry unto me, My father, youi [are] the guide of my youth?

⁵Will he reserve [his anger] forever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, youi have spoken and done evil things as youi could.

⁶The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said also unto me in the days of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] the king, Have youi seen [that] which backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

⁷And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn youi unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] saw [it].

⁸And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] feared not, but went and played the prostitute also.

⁹And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

¹⁰And yet for all this her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹¹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, The backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has justified herself more than treacherous Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹²Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, youi backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] I will not keep [anger] forever.

¹³Only acknowledge youri iniquity, that youi have transgressed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and have scattered youri ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you2f have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁴Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Tziyon [parched place]:

¹⁵And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

¹⁶And it shall come to pass, when you2f be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.

¹⁷At that time they shall call Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] the throne of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

¹⁸In those days the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall walk with the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

¹⁹But I said, How shall I put youi among the children, and give youi a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, youi shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.

²⁰Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you2f dealt treacherously with me, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²¹A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²²Return, you2f backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto youi; for youi [are] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²³Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] the salvation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁴For shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁵We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹If youi will return, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), return unto me: and if youi will put away youri abominations out of my sight, then shall youi not remove.

²And youi shall swear, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

³For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], Break up your fallow (to approve, commend, accept) ground, and sow not among thorns.

⁴Circumcise yourselves to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and take away the foreskins of your heart, you2f men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.

⁵Declare you2f in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and publish in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and say, Blow you2f the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

⁶Set up the Flag (banner) toward Tziyon [parched place]: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

⁷The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make youri land desolate; [and] youri cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

⁸For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is not turned back from us.

⁹And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

¹⁰Then said I, Ah, Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER)! surely youi have greatly deceived this people and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, You2f shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.

¹¹At that time shall it be said to this people and to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan (a fork-shaped tool to throw grain in the air, to let he wind separate the wheat from the chaff), nor to cleanse,

¹²[Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

¹³Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

¹⁴O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], wash youri heart from wickedness, that youi may be saved. How long shall youi vain thoughts lodge within youi?

¹⁵For a voice declares from Dan [Judge], and proclaims affliction from mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

¹⁶Make you2f mention to the nations; behold, publish against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹⁷As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁸Your1s way and youri doings have procured these [things] unto youi; this [is] youri wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto youi heart.

¹⁹My bowels (inward parts; affections), my bowels (inward parts; affections)! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because youi have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

²⁰Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.

²¹How long shall I see the Flag (banner), [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?

²²For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] drunken children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

²³I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

²⁴I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

²⁵I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

²⁶I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] by his fierce anger.

²⁷For thus has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

²⁸For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

²⁹The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.

³⁰And [when] youi [are] spoiled, what will youi do? Though youi clothe yourself with crimson, though youi deck yourselfi with ornaments of gold, though youi rent youri face with painting, in vain shall youi make yourself fair; [youri] lovers will despise youi, they will seek youri life.

³¹For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place], [that] bewails herself, [that] spreads her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

¹Run you2f to and fro through the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you2f can find a man, if there be [any] that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

²And though they say, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives; surely they swear falsely.

³O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [are] not youi eyes upon the truth? youi have stricken them, but they have not grieved; youi have consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

⁴Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [nor] the judgment of their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁵I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] the judgment of their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.

⁶For this reason a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil (plunder; prey; booty) them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

⁷How shall I pardon youi for this? youri children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the prostitutes’ houses.

⁸They were [as] fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

⁹Shall I not visit for these [things]? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰Go you2f up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate].

¹¹For the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹²They have belied (lied against; spoken falsely) the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

¹³And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

¹⁴For what reason thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Because you2f speak this word, behold, I will make my words in youri mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

¹⁵Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language youi know not, neither understand what they say.

¹⁶Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

¹⁷And they shall eat up youri harvest, and youri bread, [which] youri sons and youri daughters should eat: they shall eat up youri flocks and youri herds: they shall eat up youri vines and youri fig trees: they shall impoverish youri fenced cities, wherein youi trusted, with the sword.

¹⁸Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will not make a full end with you.

¹⁹And it shall come to pass, when you2f shall say, For what reason does the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] all these [things] unto us? then shall youi answer them, Like as you2f have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you2f serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.

²⁰Declare this in the house of Ya’akov [Heal of God], and publish it in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying,

²¹Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

²²Fear you2f not me? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): will you2f not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

²³But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

²⁴Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

²⁵Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withheld good [things] from you.

²⁶For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

²⁷As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

²⁸They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

²⁹Shall I not visit for these [things]? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

³⁰A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

³¹The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will you2f do in the end thereof?

¹O you2f children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and blow the trumpet in T’koa [a stockade], and set up a sign of fire in Beit-Hakerem [house of the vineyard]: for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.

²I have likened the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] to a comely (attractive; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular); becoming) and delicate [woman].

³The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.

⁴Prepare you2f war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

⁵Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

⁶For thus has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] said, Hew you2f down trees, and cast a mount against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.

⁷As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and spoil (plunder; prey; booty) is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.

⁸Be youi instructed, O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], lest my soul depart from youi; lest I make youi desolate, a land not inhabited.

⁹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] as a vine: turn back youi hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

¹⁰To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is unto them a reproach (disgrace; shame); they have no delight in it.

¹¹Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.

¹²And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them everyone [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹⁴They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

¹⁵Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁶Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Stand you2f in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and you2f shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].

¹⁷Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

¹⁸Therefore hear, you2f nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.

¹⁹Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

²⁰To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheva [Seven], and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

²¹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

²²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

²³They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array (to put on; to clothe) as men for war against youi, O daughter of Tziyon [parched place].

²⁴We have heard the fame thereof: our hands grow (become; advance) feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

²⁵Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

²⁶O daughter of my people, gird [youi] with sackcloth, and wallow (to approve, commend, accept) yourself in ashes: make youri mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

²⁷I have set youi [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that youi may know and try their way.

²⁸They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.

²⁹The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

³⁰Reprobate (rejected; failing the test; lost in sin) silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has rejected them.

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Stand in the gate of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), all [you2f of] Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

⁴Trust you2f not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), The temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), The temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [are] these.

⁵For if you2f thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you2f thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

⁶[If] you2f oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

⁷Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.

⁸Behold, you2f trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

⁹Will you2f steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and walk after other gods whom you2f know not;

¹⁰And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

¹¹Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹²But go you2f now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh [Place of Rest], where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹³And now, because you2f have done all these works, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you2f heard not; and I called you, but you2f answered not;

¹⁴Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein you2f trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh [Place of Rest].

¹⁵And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

¹⁶Therefore pray not youi for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear youi.

¹⁷See youi not what they do in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]?

¹⁸The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER); Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²²For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²³But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and you2f shall be my people: and walk you2f in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

²⁴But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

²⁵Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]:

²⁶Yet they listened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

²⁷Therefore youi shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to youi: youi shall also call unto them; but they will not answer youi.

²⁸But youi shall say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], nor receives correction: tis perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁹Cut off youi hair, [O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

³⁰For the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

³¹And they have built the high places of Tofet [place of fire], which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.

³²Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that it shall no more be called Tofet [place of fire], nor the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tofet [place of fire], till there be no place.

³³And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten (make afriad) [them] away.

³⁴Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and from the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the voice of gladness, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

¹At that time, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], out of their graves:

²And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

³And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue (part that remains, the rest) of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places to which I have driven them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

⁴Moreover youi shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

⁵Why [then] is this people of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

⁶I listened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright (in the right way): no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

⁷Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow (to approve, commend, accept) observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁸How do you2f say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

⁹The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and what wisdom [is] in them?

¹⁰Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹¹For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

¹²Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³I will surely consume them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

¹⁴Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has put us to silence, and given us water of gall (something bitter or poisonous) to (to do entirely, do wholly) drink, because we have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!

¹⁶The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan [Judge]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell in it.

¹⁷For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁸[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

¹⁹Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Tziyon [parched place]? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?

²⁰The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

²¹For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment has taken hold on me.

²²[Is there] no balm (a medicine; rosin from a bush) in Gil’ad [Rocky Region]; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

¹Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

²Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

³And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the tupon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴Take you2f heed everyone of his neighbour, and trust you2f not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

⁵And they will deceive everyone his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁶You1s habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁷Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

⁸Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.

⁹Shall I not visit them for these [things]? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

¹¹And I will make Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] desolate, without an inhabitant.

¹²Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?

¹³And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked in it;

¹⁴But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], which their fathers taught them:

¹⁵Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall (something bitter or poisonous) to (to do entirely, do wholly) drink.

¹⁶I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

¹⁷Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Consider you2f, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:

¹⁸And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Tziyon [parched place], How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.

²⁰Yet hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O you2f women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbour lamentation.

²¹For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

²²Speak, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them].

²³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

²⁴But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁵Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

²⁶Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and Edom [Red], and the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], and Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [are] uncircumcised in the heart.

¹Hear you2f the word which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) speaks unto you, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]:

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

³For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

⁴They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

⁵They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

⁶Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); youi [are] great, and youi name [is] great in might.

⁷Who would not fear youi, O King of nations? for to youi does it appertain (to belong to; to pertain to): forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto youi.

⁸But they are altogether cruel and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

⁹Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish [yellow jasper], and gold from Ufaz [desire of fine gold], the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].

¹⁰But the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] the true God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [is] the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

¹¹Thus shall you2f say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

¹²He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

¹³When he utters his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

¹⁴Every man is cruel in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

¹⁵They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶The portion of Ya’akov [Heal of God] [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name.

¹⁷Gather up youri wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

¹⁸For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].

¹⁹Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

²⁰My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

²¹For the pastors are become cruel, and have not sought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

²²Behold, the noise of the report is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] desolate, [and] a den of dragons.

²³O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walks to direct his steps.

²⁴O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), correct me, but with judgment; not in youri anger, lest youi bring me to nothing.

²⁵Pour out youri fury upon the heathen that know youi not, and upon the families that call not on youri name: for they have eaten up Ya’akov [Heal of God], and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Hear you2f the words of this Covenant, and speak unto the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];

³And say youi unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Cursed [be] the man that obeys not the words of this covenant,

⁴Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you2f be my people, and I will be your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]:

⁵That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶Then the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, Hear you2f the words of this covenant, and do them.

⁷For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

⁸Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked everyone in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.

⁹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and among the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁰They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

¹¹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

¹²Then shall the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

¹³For [according to] the number of youri cities were youri gods, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and [according to] the number of the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] have you2f set up altars to [that] shameful thing, [even] altars to burn incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)].

¹⁴Therefore pray not youi for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

¹⁵What has my beloved to do in my house, [seeing] she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from youi? when youi do evil, then youi rejoice.

¹⁶The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) called youi name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

¹⁷For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], that planted youi, has pronounced evil against youi, for the evil of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)].

¹⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then youi showed me their doings.

¹⁹But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

²⁰But, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], that judge righteously, that try the reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion) and the heart, let me see youri vengeance on them: for unto youi have I revealed my cause.

²¹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) of the men of ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], that seek youri life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that youi die not by our hand:

²²Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

²³And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], [even] the year of their visitation.

¹Righteous [are] youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), when I plead with youi: yet let me talk with youi of [youri] judgments: For what reason does the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

²Youi have planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: youi [are] near in their mouth, and far from their reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion).

³But youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), know me: youi have seen me, and tried my heart toward youi: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

⁴How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

⁵If youi have run with the footmen, and they have wearied youi, then how can youi contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] youi trusted, [they wearied youi], then how will youi do in the swelling of Yarden [Descender]?

⁶For even youri brethren, and the house of youri father, even they have dealt treacherously with youri; yes, they have called a multitude after youi: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto youi.

⁷I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

⁸Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me: therefore have I hated it.

⁹Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come you2f, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

¹⁰Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

¹¹They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourns unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays [it] to heart.

¹²The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

¹³They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against all my evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] from among them.

¹⁵And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

¹⁶And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives; as they taught my people to swear by Ba’al [lord (a false god)]; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

¹⁷But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, Go and get youi a linen belt, and put it upon youi waist, and put it not in water.

²So I got a belt according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and put [it] on my waist.

³And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me the second time, saying,

⁴Take the belt that youi have got, which [is] upon youri waist, and arise, go to Euphrates (to break forth, to gush), and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

⁵So I went, and hid it by Euphrates (to break forth, to gush), as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded me.

⁶And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates (to break forth, to gush), and take the belt from there, which I commanded youi to hide there.

⁷Then I went to Euphrates (to break forth, to gush), and excavated, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

⁸Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying,

⁹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), After this manner will I mar the pride of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the great pride of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁰This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is good for nothing.

¹¹For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to (hold onto; stick to) me the whole house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the whole house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); 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.

¹²Therefore youi shall speak unto them this word; Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto youi, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

¹³Then shall youi say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s [beloved]’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], with drunkenness.

¹⁴And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

¹⁵Hear you2f, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken.

¹⁶Give glory to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you2f look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

¹⁷But if you2f will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] flock is carried away captive.

¹⁸Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your Principalities (rulers or their territory) shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

¹⁹The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

²⁰Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where [is] the flock [that] was given youi, youri beautiful flock?

²¹What will youi say when he shall punish youi? for youi have taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over youi: shall not sorrows take youi, as a woman in travail?

²²And if youi say in youri heart, For what reason come these things upon me? For the greatness of youi iniquity are youi skirts discovered, [and] youi heels made bore.

²³Can the Cushi (Ethiopian) (Kushi [their blackness]) change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may you2f also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

²⁴Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

²⁵This [is] youri lot, the portion of youri measures from me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); because youi have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

²⁶Therefore will I discover (uncover; reveal; have first sight of) youri skirts upon youri face, that youri shame may appear.

²⁷I have seen youri adulteries, and youri neighings, the lewdness of youri whoredom, [and] youi abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto youi, O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]! will youi not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?

¹The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] concerning the famine.

²Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] mourns, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] is gone up.

³And 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.

⁴Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

⁵Yes, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

⁶And 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.

⁷O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), though our iniquities testify against us, do youi [it] for youi name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against youi.

⁸O the hope of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why should youi be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man [that] turns aside to wait for a night?

⁹Why should youi be as a man astonished, as a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [are] in the midst of us, and we are called by youi name; leave us not.

¹⁰Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) does not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

¹¹Then said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.

¹²When 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.

¹³Then said I, Ah, Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER)! behold, the prophets say unto them, You2f shall not see the sword, neither shall you2f have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

¹⁴Then the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their heart.

¹⁵Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) 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.

¹⁶And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

¹⁷Therefore youi shall say this word unto them; Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet), with a very grievous blow.

¹⁸If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yes, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

¹⁹Have youi utterly rejected Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]? has youri soul loathed Tziyon [parched place]? why have youi smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

²⁰We acknowledge, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against youi.

²¹Do not abhor [us], for youri name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of youri glory: remember, break not youri covenant with us.

²²Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [are] not youi he, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? therefore we will wait upon youi: for youi have made all these [things].

¹Then said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, Though Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] and Sh’mu’el [His name is El] stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

²And it shall come to pass, if they say unto youi, Where shall we go forth? then youi shall tell them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.

³And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

⁴And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] the son of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], for [that] which he did in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁵For who shall have pity upon youi, O Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]? or who shall bemoan youi? or who shall go aside to ask how youi do?

⁶Youi have forsaken me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against youi, and destroy youi; I am weary with repenting.

⁷And I will fan (a fork-shaped tool to throw grain in the air, to let he wind separate the wheat from the chaff) them with a fan (a fork-shaped tool to throw grain in the air, to let he wind separate the wheat from the chaff) in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.

⁸Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

⁹She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue (part that remains, the rest) of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁰Woe is me, my mother, that youi have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury (interest paid for using money), nor men have lent to me on usury (interest paid for using money); [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

¹¹The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Truly it shall be well with youri remnant; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat youi [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

¹²Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

¹³Your1s substance and youri treasures will I give to the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) without price, and [that] for all youri sins, even in all youri borders.

¹⁴And I will make [youi] to pass with youri enemies into a land [which] youi know not: for a fire is kindled in my anger, [which] shall burn upon you.

¹⁵O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in youri longsuffering: know that for youi sake I have suffered rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain).

¹⁶Your1s words were found, and I did eat them; and youri Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by youri Name, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

¹⁷I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of youri hand: for youi have filled me with indignation.

¹⁸Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuses to be healed? will youi be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?

¹⁹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), If youi return, then will I bring youi again, [and] youi shall stand before me: and if youi take forth the precious from the vile, youi shall be as my mouth: let them return unto youi; but return not youi unto them.

²⁰And I will make youi unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against youi, but they shall not prevail against youi: for I [am] with youi to save youi and to deliver youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²¹And I will deliver youi out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem youi out of the hand of the terrible.

¹The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came also unto me, saying,

²Youi shall not take youi a wife, neither shall youi have sons or daughters in this place.

³For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) them in this land;

⁴They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁵For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [even] lovingkindness and mercies.

⁶Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

⁷Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

⁸Youi shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

⁹For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of gladness, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

¹⁰And it shall come to pass, when youi shall show this people all these words, and they shall say unto youi, For what reason has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]?

¹¹Then shall youi say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my Torah;

¹²And you2f have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you2f walk everyone after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

¹³Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that you2f know not, [neither] you2f nor your fathers; and there shall you2f serve other gods day and night; where I will not show you favour.

¹⁴Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that it shall no more be said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, that brought up the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place];

¹⁵But, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, that brought up the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from the land of the north, and from all the lands to which he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

¹⁶Behold, I will send for many fishers, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

¹⁷For my eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.

¹⁸And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

¹⁹O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto youi from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.

²⁰Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods?

²¹Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹The sin of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

²Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

³O my mountain in the field, I will give youri substance [and] all youri treasures to the spoil (plunder; prey; booty), [and] youri high places for sin, throughout all youri borders.

⁴And youi, even yourself, shall discontinue from youri heritage that I gave youi; and I will cause youi to serve youri enemies in the land which youi know not: for you2f have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn forever.

⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Cursed [be] the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶For he shall be like the heath (small shrub found in open wastelands) in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [is] the man that trusts in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and whose hope the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is.

⁸For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

⁹The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹⁰I the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) search the heart, [I] try the eins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion), even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

¹¹[As] the partridge sits [on eggs], and hatches [them] not; [so] he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

¹²A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.

¹³O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the hope of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], all that forsake youi shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the fountain of living waters.

¹⁴Heal me, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for youi [are] my praise.

¹⁵Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? let it come now.

¹⁶As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow youi: neither have I desired the woeful day; youi know: that which came out of my lips was [right] before youi.

¹⁷Be not a terror unto me: youi [are] my hope in the day of evil.

¹⁸Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

¹⁹Thus said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];

²⁰And say unto them, Hear you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), you2f kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that enter in by these gates:

²¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Shabbat [Rest] day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];

²²Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Shabbat [Rest] day, neither do you2f any work, but hallow (to approve, commend, accept) you2f the Shabbat [Rest] day, as I commanded your fathers.

²³But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

²⁴And it shall come to pass, if you2f diligently hearken unto me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Shabbat [Rest] day, but hallow (to approve, commend, accept) the Shabbat [Rest] day, to do no work in it;

²⁵Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David [beloved], riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and this city shall remain forever.

²⁶And they shall come from the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and from the places about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and from the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁷But if you2f will not hearken unto me to hallow (to approve, commend, accept) the Shabbat [Rest] day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] on the Shabbat [Rest] day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and it shall not be quenched.

¹The word which came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause youi to hear my words.

³Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

⁴And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].

⁵Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to me, saying,

⁶O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], cannot I do with you as this potter? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter’s hand, so [are] you2f in my hand, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁷[At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];

⁸If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

⁹And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

¹⁰If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, which I said I would benefit them.

¹¹Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you2f now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

¹²And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.

¹³Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Ask you2f now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has done a very horrible thing.

¹⁴Will [a man] leave the snow of L’vanon [Whiteness] [which comes] from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

¹⁵Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

¹⁶To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

¹⁷I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

¹⁸Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

¹⁹Give heed to me, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have excavated a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before youi to speak good for them, [and] to turn away youi wrath from them.

²¹Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when youi shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have excavated a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

²³Yet, LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi know all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from youi sight, but let them be overthrown before youi; deal [thus] with them in the time of youri anger.

¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

²And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell youi,

³And say, Hear you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

⁵They have built also the high places of Ba’al [lord (a false god)], to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], which I commanded not, nor spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind:

⁶Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that this place shall no more be called Tofet [place of fire], nor The valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], but The Valley of Slaughter.

⁷And I will make void the counsel of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁸And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

⁹And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

¹⁰Then shall youi break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with youi,

¹¹And shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaks a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tofet [place of fire], till [there be] no place to bury.

¹²Thus will I do unto this place, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tofet [place of fire]:

¹³And the houses of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and the houses of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], shall be defiled as the place of Tofet [place of fire], because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the army of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

¹⁴Then came Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from Tofet [place of fire], to which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house; and said to all the people,

¹⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

¹Now Pash’chur [freedom] the son of Immer [he has said] the priest, who [was] also chief governor in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), heard that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] prophesied these things.

²Then Pash’chur [freedom] struck Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], which [was] by the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pash’chur [freedom] brought forth Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] out of the stocks. Then said Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto him, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has not called youri name Pash’chur [freedom], but Magor-Missaviv [terror on every side].

⁴For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will make youi a terror to yourself, and to all youri friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and youi eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall carry them captive into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and shall slay them with the sword.

⁵Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil (plunder; prey; booty) them, and take them, and carry them to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁶And youi, Pash’chur [freedom], and all that dwell in youri house shall go into captivity: and youi shall come to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and there youi shall die, and shall be buried there, youi, and all youri friends, to whom youi have prophesied lies.

⁷O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi have deceived me, and I was deceived: youi are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) daily, everyone mocks me.

⁸For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil (plunder; prey; booty); because the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was made a reproach (disgrace; shame) unto me, and a ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats), daily.

⁹Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his Name. But [his word] was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].

¹⁰For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹¹But the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

¹²But, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], that try the righteous, [and] see the reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion) and the heart, let me see youri vengeance on them: for unto youi have I opened my cause.

¹³Sing unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), praise you2f the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

¹⁴Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous).

¹⁵Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto youi; making him very glad.

¹⁶And let that man be as the cities which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

¹⁷Because he killed me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

¹⁸For what reason came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

¹The word which came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), when king Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] sent unto him Pash’chur [freedom] the son of Malkiyah [my king is Yehovah], and Tzefan’yahu [Yehovah has treasured] the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the priest, saying,

²Enquire, I pray youi, of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) for us; for N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] makes war against us; if so be that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

³Then said Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto them, Thus shall you2f say to Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous]:

⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, which you2f fight against the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and [against] the Kasdim [clod-breakers], which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

⁵And 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.

⁶And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

⁷And afterward, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will deliver Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], 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 N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

⁸And unto this people youi shall say, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

⁹He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes out, and falls to the Kasdim [clod-breakers] that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

¹⁰For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): it shall be given into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall burn it with fire.

¹¹And touching the house of the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], [say], Hear you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate);

¹²O house of David [beloved], thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); 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.

¹³Behold, I [am] against youi, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

¹⁴But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Go down to the house of the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and speak there this word,

²And say, Hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that sit upon the throne of David [beloved], youi, and youi servants, and youi people that enter in by these gates:

³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Execute you2f 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.

⁴For if you2f do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David [beloved], riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

⁵But if you2f will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that this house shall become a desolation.

⁶For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto the king’s house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; youi [are] Gil’ad [Rocky Region] unto me, [and] the head of L’vanon [Whiteness]: [yet] surely I will make youi a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.

⁷And I will prepare destroyers against youi, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down youri choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.

⁸And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, For what reason has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) done thus unto this great city?

⁹Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and worshipped other gods, and served them.

¹⁰Weep you2f not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

¹¹For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) touching Shalum [retribution] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which reigned instead of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return there any more:

¹²But he shall die in the place to which they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

¹³Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] uses his neighbour’s service without wages, and gives him not for his work;

¹⁴That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and [it’s] cieling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

¹⁵Shalt youi reign, because youi clothe [yourself] in cedar? did not youri father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?

¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁷But youri eyes and youri heart [are] not but for youri covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].

¹⁸Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) concerning Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; 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!

¹⁹He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

²⁰Go up to L’vanon [Whiteness], and cry; and lift up youri voice in Bashan [Fruitful], and cry from the passages: for all youri lovers are destroyed.

²¹I spoke unto youi in youri prosperity; [but] youi said, I will not hear. This [has been] youri manner from youri youth, that youi obeyed not my voice.

²²The wind shall eat up all youri pastors, and youri lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall youi be ashamed and confounded for all youri wickedness.

²³O inhabitant of L’vanon [Whiteness], that makes youri nest in the cedars, how gracious shall youi be when pangs (extreme sharp pains) come upon youi, the pain as of a woman in travail!

²⁴[As] I live, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), though Koniyahu [Yehovah will establish] the son of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] were the signet (seal or stamp) upon my right hand, yet would I pluck youi there;

²⁵And I will give youi into the hand of them that seek youri life, and into the hand [of them] whose face youi fear, even into the hand of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers].

²⁶And I will cast youi out, and youri mother that bore youi, into another country, where you2f were not born; and there shall you2f die.

²⁷But to the land whereunto they desire to return, there shall they not return.

²⁸[Is] this man Koniyahu [Yehovah will establish] a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? therefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

²⁹O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁰Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Write you2f 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 [beloved], and ruling any more in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] against the pastors that feed my people; You2f have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries to which I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

⁴And 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, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will raise unto David [beloved] a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

⁶In his days Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall be saved, and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall dwell safely: and this [is] His Name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD-Yehōvah Tzudkenu [Messiah Pre-Incarnate OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS].

⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that they shall no more say, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, which brought up the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place];

⁸But, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the north country, and from all countries to which I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

⁹Mine 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 has overcome, because of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and because of the words of his holiness.

¹⁰For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not right.

¹¹For both prophet and priest are Profane (treat as common; defile); yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹²For what reason their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³And I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomron [watch mountain]; they prophesied in Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and caused my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to err.

¹⁴I have seen also in the prophets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as S’dom [Burning], and the inhabitants thereof as ‘Amora [Submersion].

¹⁵Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall (something bitter or poisonous): for from the prophets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

¹⁶Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Listen 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁷They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has said, You2f shall have peace; and they say unto everyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

¹⁸For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard [it]?

¹⁹Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

²⁰The anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you2f shall consider it perfectly.

²¹I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

²²But 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-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] at hand, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and not a God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] afar off?

²⁴Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁵I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

²⁶How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yes, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

²⁷Which 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 Ba’al [lord (a false god)].

²⁸The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁹[Is] not my word like as a fire? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?

³⁰Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that steal my words everyone from his neighbour.

³¹Behold, I [am] against the prophets, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that use their tongues, and say, He says.

³²Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), 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, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³³And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask youi, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? youi shall then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁴And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will even punish that man and his house.

³⁵Thus shall you2f say everyone to his neighbour, and everyone to his brother, What has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered? and, What has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoken?

³⁶And the burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall you2f mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for you2f have perverted the words of El Chai [The Living God], of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

³⁷Thus shall youi say to the prophet, What has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered youi? and, What has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoken?

³⁸But since you2f say, The burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Because you2f say this word, The burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and I have sent unto you, saying, You2f shall not say, The burden of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate);

³⁹Therefore, 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:

⁴⁰And I will bring an everlasting reproach (disgrace; shame) upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

¹The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), after that N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] had carried away captive Y’khanyahu [Yehovah will establish] the son of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], with the carpenters and smiths, from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and had brought them to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

²One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

³Then said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, What see youi, Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

⁴Again the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying,

⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] for [their] good.

⁶For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.

⁷And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and they shall be my people, and I will be their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

⁸And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), So will I give Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and his princes, and the residue (part that remains, the rest) of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]:

⁹And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach (disgrace; shame) and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places to which I shall drive them.

¹⁰And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] concerning all the people of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that [was] the first year of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion];

²The which Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet spoke unto all the people of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and to all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying,

³From the thirteenth year of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] the son of ‘Amon [master workman] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but you2f have not listened.

⁴And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but you2f have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

⁵They said, Turn you2f again now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever:

⁶And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

⁷Yet you2f have not listened unto me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); that you2f might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

⁸Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Because you2f have not heard my words,

⁹Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

¹⁰Moreover I will take from them the voice of gladness, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

¹¹And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] seventy years.

¹²And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and that nation, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), for their iniquity, and the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and will make it perpetual desolations.

¹³And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book, which Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] has prophesied against all the nations.

¹⁴For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

¹⁵For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send youi, to drink it.

¹⁶And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

¹⁷Then took I the cup at the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had sent me:

¹⁸[To wit], Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;

¹⁹Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

²⁰And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Utz [wooded], and all the kings of the land of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and Ashkelon [The Fire of Infamy: I shall be Weighed], and ‘Azah [The Strong], and ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots], and the remnant of Ashdod [powerful],

²¹Edom [Red], and Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and the children of ‘Amon [Inbred],

²²And all the kings of Tzor (Tyrus) [a rock], and all the kings of Tzidon [Hunting], and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,

²³D’dan [low country], and Teima [desert], and Buz [contempt], and all [that are] in the utmost corners,

²⁴And all the kings of Arabia [steppe-dwellers], and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

²⁵And all the kings of Zimri [My Music], and all the kings of ‘Eilam [eternity], and all the kings of the Medes [middle land],

²⁶And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshakh [your fine linen] shall drink last of them [all].

²⁷Therefore youi shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Drink you2f, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

²⁸And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at youri hand to drink, then shall youi say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; You2f shall certainly drink.

²⁹For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you2f be utterly unpunished? You2f shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

³⁰Therefore prophesy youi against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that trample [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

³¹A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

³³And the slain of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

³⁴Howl, you2f shepherds, and cry; and wallow (to approve, commend, accept) yourselves [in the ashes], you2f principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you2f shall fall like a prized vase.

³⁵And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

³⁶A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoiled their pasture.

³⁷And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁸He has forsaken his colonnade, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

¹In the beginning of the reign of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] came this word from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Stand in the court of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, and speak unto all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which come to worship in the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, all the words that I command youi to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

³If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

⁴And youi shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); If you2f will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

⁵To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but you2f have not listened;

⁶Then will I make this house like Shiloh [Place of Rest], and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

⁷So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] speaking these words in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁸Now it came to pass, when Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] had made an end of speaking all that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, youi shall surely die.

⁹Why have youi prophesied in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, This house shall be like Shiloh [Place of Rest], and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁰When the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] heard these things, then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] [house].

¹¹Then spoke the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city, as you2f have heard with your ears.

¹²Then spoke Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you2f have heard.

¹³Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

¹⁴As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as seems good and right unto you.

¹⁵But know you2f for certain, that if you2f put me to death, you2f shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a tthe LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

¹⁶Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁷Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

¹⁸Mikhay’hu [Who is Like God?] from Moreshet [possession of Gat (wine-vat)] prophesied in the days of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and spoke to all the people of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Tziyon [parched place] shall be plowed [like] a field, and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹⁹Did Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] put him at all to (to do entirely, do wholly) death? did he not fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and besought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

²⁰And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Uriyah [Yehovah is my flame] the son of Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] of Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests], who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]:

²¹And when Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Uriyah [Yehovah is my flame] heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place];

²²And Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the king sent men into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [namely], Elnatan [God has given] the son of ‘Akhbor [mouse], and [certain] men with him into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

²³And they fetched forth Uriyah [Yehovah is my flame] out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and brought him unto Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the king; who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

²⁴Nevertheless the hand of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney] was with Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

¹In the beginning of the reign of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] came this word unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to me; Make youi bonds and yokes, and put them upon youri neck,

³And send them to the king of Edom [Red], and to the king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and to the king of the ‘Amon [Inbred], and to the king of Tzor (Tyrus) [a rock], and to the king of Tzidon [Hunting], by the hand of the messengers which come to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised];

⁴And command them to say unto their masters, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Thus shall you2f say unto your masters;

⁵I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

⁶And now have I given all these lands into the hand of N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

⁷And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

⁸And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], that nation will I punish, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

⁹Therefore hearken not you2f to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, You2f shall not serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]:

¹⁰For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you2f should perish.

¹¹But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they shall till it, and dwell in it.

¹²I spoke also to Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and serve him and his people, and live.

¹³Why will you2f die, youi and youri people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]?

¹⁴Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, You2f shall not serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

¹⁵For I have not sent them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you2f might perish, you2f, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

¹⁶Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Listen not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house shall now shortly be brought again from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

¹⁷Listen not unto them; serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

¹⁸But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and [in] the house of the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], go not to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹⁹For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue (part that remains, the rest) of the vessels that remain in this city,

²⁰Which N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] took not, when he carried away captive Y’khanyahu [Yehovah will establish] the son of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and all the nobles of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];

²¹Yes, thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and [in] the house of the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];

²²They shall be carried to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

¹And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananyah [God has favoured] the son of ‘Azur [he that assists] the prophet, which [was] of Giv’on [Hill City], spoke unto me in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

²Thus speaks the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

³Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, that N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] took away from this place, and carried them to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]:

⁴And I will bring again to this place Y’khanyahu [Yehovah will establish] the son of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], with all the captives of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that went into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for I will break the yoke of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁵Then the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto the prophet Hananyah [God has favoured] in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

⁶Even the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said, Amen: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) do so: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) perform youi words which youi have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, and all that is carried away captive, from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] into this place.

⁷Nevertheless hear youi now this word that I speak in youri ears, and in the ears of all the people;

⁸The prophets that have been before me and before youi of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

⁹The prophet which prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has truly sent him.

¹⁰Then Hananyah [God has favoured] the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]’s neck, and broke it.

¹¹And Hananyah [God has favoured] spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Even so will I break the yoke of N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] went his way.

¹²Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] [the prophet], after that Hananyah [God has favoured] the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

¹³Go and tell Hananyah [God has favoured], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); youi have broken the yokes of wood; but youi shall make for them yokes of iron.

¹⁴For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

¹⁵Then said the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto Hananyah [God has favoured] the prophet, Hear now, Hananyah [God has favoured]; The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has not sent youi; but youi make this people to trust in a lie.

¹⁶Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will cast youi from off the face of the earth: this year youi shall die, because youi have taught rebellion against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁷So Hananyah [God has favoured] the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

¹Now these [are] the words of the letter that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet sent from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] unto the residue (part that remains, the rest) of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] had carried away captive from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion];

²(After that Y’khanyahu [Yehovah will establish] the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace];)

³By the hand of El’asah [God has made] the son of Shafan [coney], and G’maryah [Yehovah has accomplished] the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], (whom Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] sent unto Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] to N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]) saying,

⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] unto Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion];

⁵Build you2f houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

⁶Take you2f wives, and beget (to be father of; be ancestor of) sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that you2f may be increased there, and not diminished.

⁷And seek the peace of the city to which I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) for it: for in the peace thereof shall you2f have peace.

⁸For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which you2f cause to be dreamed.

⁹For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁰For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), That after seventy years be accomplished at Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

¹²Then shall you2f call upon me, and you2f shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

¹³And you2f shall seek me, and find [me], when you2f shall search for me with all your heart.

¹⁴And I will be found of you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and I will bring you again into the place from what place I caused you to be carried away captive.

¹⁵Because you2f have said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has raised us up prophets in Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion];

¹⁶[Know] that thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) of the king that sits upon the throne of David [beloved], and of all the people that dwells in this city, [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

¹⁷Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

¹⁸And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach (disgrace; shame), among all the nations to which I have driven them:

¹⁹Because they have not listened to my words, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them]; but you2f would not hear, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁰Hear you2f therefore the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), all you2f of the captivity, whom I have sent from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]:

²¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], of Ach’av [father’s brother] the son of Kolayah [voice of Yehovah], and of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah], which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

²²And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] which [are] in Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) make youi like Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] and like Ach’av [father’s brother], whom the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] roasted in the fire;

²³Because they have committed villainy in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁴[Thus] shall youi also speak to Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the Nechelami [he of the dream], saying,

²⁵Thus speaks the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Because youi have sent letters in youri name unto all the people that [are] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and to Tzefan’yahu [Yehovah has treasured] the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

²⁶The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has made youi priest in the stead of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] the priest, that you2f should be officers in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), for every man [that is] mad, and makes himself a prophet, that youi should put him in prison, and in the stocks.

²⁷Now therefore why have youi not reproved Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] of ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], which makes himself a prophet to you?

²⁸For therefore he sent unto us [in] Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], saying, This [captivity is] long: build you2f houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

²⁹And Tzefan’yahu [Yehovah has treasured] the priest read this letter in the ears of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet.

³⁰Then came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

³¹Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) concerning Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the Nechelami [he of the dream]; Because that Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] has prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

³²Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will punish Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the Nechelami [he of the dream], and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); because he has taught rebellion against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Thus speaks the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Write youi all the words that I have spoken unto youi in a Book.

³For, lo, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will bring again the captivity of my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

⁴And these [are] the words that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke concerning Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and concerning Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁵For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

⁶Ask you2f now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

⁷Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Ya’akov’s [Heal of God]’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

⁸For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], [that] I will break his yoke from off youri neck, and will burst youri bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

⁹But they shall serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and David [beloved] their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

¹⁰Therefore fear youi not, O my servant Ya’akov [Heal of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); neither be dismayed, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for, lo, I will save youi from afar, and youri seed from the land of their captivity; and Ya’akov [Heal of God] shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.

¹¹For I [am] with youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to save youi: though I make a full end of all nations to which I have scattered youi, yet will I not make a full end of youi: but I will correct youi in measure, and will not leave youi altogether unpunished.

¹²For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), You1s bruise [is] incurable, [and] youri wound [is] grievous.

¹³[There is] none to plead youri cause, that youi may be bound up: youi have no healing medicines.

¹⁴All youri lovers have forgotten youi; they seek youi not; for I have wounded youi with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of youri iniquity; [because] youri sins were increased.

¹⁵Why cry youi for youri affliction? youri sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of youri iniquity: [because] youri sins were increased, I have done these things unto youi.

¹⁶Therefore all they that devour youi shall be devoured; and all youri adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil (plunder; prey; booty) youi shall be a spoil (plunder; prey; booty), and all that prey upon youi will I give for a prey.

¹⁷For I will restore health unto youi, and I will heal youi of youri wounds, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); because they called youi an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Tziyon [parched place], whom no man seeks after.

¹⁸Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Ya’akov [Heal of God]’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

¹⁹And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

²⁰Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

²¹And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²And you2f shall be my people, and I will be your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²³Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

²⁴The fierce anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall not return, until he have done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you2f shall consider it.

¹At the same time, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), will I be the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of all the families of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and they shall be my people.

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when I went to cause him to rest.

³The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yes, I have loved youi with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn youi.

⁴Again I will build youi, and youi shall be built, O virgin of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: youi shall again be adorned with youri tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

⁵youi shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Shomron [watch mountain]: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.

⁶For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall cry, Arise you2f, and let us go up to Tziyon [parched place] unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁷For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Sing with gladness for Ya’akov [Heal of God], and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you2f, praise you2f, and say, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), save youri people, the remnant of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁸Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return there.

⁹They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is] my firstborn.

¹⁰Hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O you2f nations, and declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [does] his flock.

¹¹For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has redeemed Ya’akov [Heal of God], and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.

¹²Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Tziyon [parched place], and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

¹³Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

¹⁴And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); A voice was heard in Ramah [Hill], lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rachel [ewe] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] no longer alive.

¹⁶Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Refrain youri voice from weeping, and youri eyes from tears: for youri work shall be rewarded, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

¹⁷And there is hope in youri end, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that youri children shall come again to their own border.

¹⁸I have surely heard Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] bemoaning himself [thus]; youi have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn youi me, and I shall be turned; for youi [are] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach (disgrace; shame) of my youth.

²⁰[Is] Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels (inward parts; affections) are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²¹Set youi up waymarks, make youri high heaps: set youri heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] youi went: turn again, O virgin of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], turn again to these youri cities.

²²How long will youi go about, O youi backsliding daughter? for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass (go around, encircle; encompass) a man.

²³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) bless youi, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of holiness.

²⁴And there shall dwell in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.

²⁵For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

²⁶Upon this I awakened, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

²⁷Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will sow the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

²⁸And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁹In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

³⁰But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

³¹Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and with the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]:

³²Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

³³But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; After those days, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and they shall be my people.

³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

³⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which gives the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name:

³⁶If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [then] the seed of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

³⁷Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] for all that they have done, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁸Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that the city shall be built to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) from the Tower of Hanan’el [God is favoured] unto the gate of the corner.

³⁹And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Garev [scabby], and shall compass (go around, encircle; encompass) about to Go’ah [bellowing].

⁴⁰And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron [dark], unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the tenth year of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which [was] the eighteenth year of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown].

²For then the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s army besieged Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]’s house.

³For Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had shut him up, saying, For what reason do youi prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall take it;

⁴And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall not escape out of the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

⁵And he shall lead Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and there shall he be until I visit him, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): though you2f fight with the Kasdim [clod-breakers], you2f shall not prosper.

⁶And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said, The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto me, saying,

⁷Behold, ‘Hanam’el [God is gracious] the son of Shalum [retribution] youri uncle shall come unto youi, saying, Buy youi my field that [is] in ‘Anatot [answers to prayer]: for the right of redemption [is] yoursi, so buy [it].

⁸So ‘Hanam’el [God is gracious] my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray youi, that [is] in ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], which [is] in the country of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]: for the right of inheritance [is] yoursi, and the redemption [is] yoursi; buy [it] for yourself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁹And I bought the field of ‘Hanam’el [God is gracious] my uncle’s son, that [was] in ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver.

¹⁰And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.

¹¹So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open:

¹²And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah], the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah], in the sight of ‘Hanam’el [God is gracious] my uncle’s [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Y’hudim (Judeans) that sat in the court of the prison.

¹³And I charged Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] before them, saying,

¹⁴Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

¹⁵For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

¹⁶Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah], I prayed unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

¹⁷Ah Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER)! behold, youi have made the heaven and the earth by youri great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing too hard for youi:

¹⁸youi show lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], [is] His Name,

¹⁹Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for youri eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

²⁰Which have set signs and wonders in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [even] unto this day, and in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and among [other] men; and have made youi a name, as at this day;

²¹And have brought forth youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

²²And have given them this land, which youi did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

²³And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not youri voice, neither walked in youi law; they have done nothing of all that youi commanded them to do: therefore youi have caused all this evil to come upon them:

²⁴Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what youi have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, youi see [it].

²⁵And youi have said unto me, O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), Buy youi the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers].

²⁶Then came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

²⁷Behold, I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

²⁸Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and into the hand of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall take it:

²⁹And the Kasdim [clod-breakers], that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

³⁰For the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] have only done evil before me from their youth: for the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³¹For this city has been to me [as] a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

³²Because of all the evil of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

³³And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

³⁴But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

³⁵And they built the high places of Ba’al [lord (a false god)], which [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molekh [king]; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] to sin.

³⁶And now therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], concerning this city, whereof you2f say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

³⁷Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, to which I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

³⁸And they shall be my people, and I will be their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]:

³⁹And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

⁴⁰And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

⁴¹Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

⁴²For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

⁴³And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof you2f say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers].

⁴⁴Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and in the places about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹Moreover the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) the maker thereof, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that formed it, to establish it; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] his name;

³Call unto me, and I will answer youi, and show youi great and mighty things, which youi know not.

⁴For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

⁵They come to fight with the Kasdim [clod-breakers], but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

⁷And I will cause the captivity of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the captivity of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to return, and will build them, as at the first.

⁸And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

⁹And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

¹⁰Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Again there shall be heard in this place, which you2f say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

¹¹The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] good; for his mercy [endures] forever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.

¹³In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and in the places about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that tells [them], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁴Behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and to the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹⁵In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto David [beloved]; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

¹⁶In those days shall Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] be saved, and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall dwell safely: and this [is the name] which she shall be called, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our righteousness.

¹⁷For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); David [beloved] shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God];

¹⁸Neither shall the priests the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

¹⁹And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

²⁰Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); If you2f can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

²¹[Then] may also my covenant be broken with David [beloved] my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] the priests, my ministers.

²²As the army of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David [beloved] my servant, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that minister unto me.

²³Moreover the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

²⁴Consider youi not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

²⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

²⁶Then will I cast away the seed of Ya’akov [Heal of God], and David [beloved] my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Avraham [Exalted Father], Yitz’khak [Laughter], and Ya’akov [Heal of God]: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

¹The word which came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), when N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and against all the cities thereof, saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Go and speak to Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and tell him, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall burn it with fire:

³And youi shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and youri eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and he shall speak with youi mouth to mouth, and youi shall go to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁴Yet hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), O Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) of youi, youi shall not die by the sword:

⁵[But] youi shall die in peace: and with the burnings of youri fathers, the former kings which were before youi, so shall they burn [odours] for youi; and they will lament youi, [saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet spoke all these words unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace],

⁷When the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s army fought against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and against all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that were left, against Lakhish [Invincible], and against ‘Azekah [Dug Over]: for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁸[This is] the word that came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), after that the king Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to proclaim liberty unto them;

⁹That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew male] or an ‘Evri’ah [Hebrew female], go free; that none should serve himself of them, [that is to say], of a Y’hudi (Jewish person) his brother.

¹⁰Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his manservant, and everyone his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them anymore, then they obeyed, and let [them] go.

¹¹But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

¹²Therefore the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

¹³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], out of the house of bondmen, saying,

¹⁴At the end of seven years let you2f go every man his brother an ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew], which has been sold unto youi; and when he has served youi six years, youi shall let him go free from youi: but your fathers listened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

¹⁵And you2f were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and you2f had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

¹⁶But you2f turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his female servant, whom you2f had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

¹⁷Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); You2f have not listened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

¹⁸And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in two, and passed between the parts thereof,

¹⁹The princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the princes of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

²⁰I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

²¹And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s army, which are gone up from you.

²²Behold, I will command, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] a desolation without an inhabitant.

¹The word which came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the days of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying,

²Go unto the house of the Rekhavim [uttermost part], and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

³Then I took Ya’azanyahu [Yehovah hears] the son of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], the son of Havatzinyah [light of Yehovah], and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rekhavim [uttermost part];

⁴And I brought them into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), into the chamber of the sons of Hanan [he is merciful], the son of Yigdalyahu [Yehovah is great], a man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the son of Shalum [retribution], the keeper of the door:

⁵And I set before the sons of the house of the Rekhavim [uttermost part] pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink you2f wine.

⁶But they said, We will drink no wine: for Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] the son of Rekhav [rider] our father commanded us, saying, You2f shall drink no wine, [neither you2f], nor your sons forever:

⁷Neither shall you2f build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days you2f shall dwell in tents; that you2f may live many days in the land where you2f [be] strangers.

⁸Thus have we obeyed the voice of Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] the son of Rekhav [rider] our father in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

⁹Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

¹⁰But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] our father commanded us.

¹¹But it came to pass, when N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] for fear of the army of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and for fear of the army of the Aram [Syrians]: so we dwell at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹²Then came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

¹³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Go and tell the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], Will you2f not receive instruction to hearken to my words? says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁴The words of Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] the son of Rekhav [rider], that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but you2f listened not unto me.

¹⁵I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them], saying, Return you2f now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you2f shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you2f have not inclined your ear, nor listened unto me.

¹⁶Because the sons of Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] the son of Rekhav [rider] have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not listened unto me:

¹⁷Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will bring upon Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and upon all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

¹⁸And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto the house of the Rekhavim [uttermost part], Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Because you2f have obeyed the commandment of Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he has commanded you:

¹⁹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Yonadav [Yehovah is willing] [Generous] the son of Rekhav [rider] shall not lack a man to stand before me forever.

¹And it came to pass in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], [that] this word came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,

²Take youi a roll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken unto youi against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto youi, from the days of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals], even unto this day.

³It may be that the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

⁴Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] called Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah]: and Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] wrote from the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] all the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

⁵And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] commanded Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)], saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

⁶Therefore go youi, and read in the roll, which youi have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the ears of the people in the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house upon the fasting day: and also youi shall read them in the ears of all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that come out of their cities.

⁷It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and will return everyone from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has pronounced against this people.

⁸And Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah] did according to all that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet commanded him, reading in the Book the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house.

⁹And it came to pass in the fifth year of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to all the people in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and to all the people that came from the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

¹⁰Then read Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] in the book the words of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in the chamber of G’maryah [Yehovah has accomplished] the son of Shafan [coney] the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house, in the ears of all the people.

¹¹When Mikhayah [who is like God?] the son of G’maryah [Yehovah has accomplished], the son of Shafan [coney], had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

¹²Then he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama [My God has Heard] the scribe, and D’layahu [Yehovah has accomplished] the son of Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears], and Elnatan [God has given] the son of ‘Akhbor [mouse], and G’maryah [Yehovah has accomplished] the son of Shafan [coney], and Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Hananyah [God has favoured], and all the princes.

¹³Then Mikhayah [who is like God?] declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] read the book in the ears of the people.

¹⁴Therefore all the princes sent Y’hudi [the Jewish one] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], the son of Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah], the son of Kushi [their blackness], unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)], saying, Take in youri hand the roll wherein youi have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah] took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

¹⁵And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] read [it] in their ears.

¹⁶Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)], We will surely tell the king of all these words.

¹⁷And they asked Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)], saying, Tell us now, How did youi write all these words at his mouth?

¹⁸Then Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.

¹⁹Then said the princes unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)], Go, hide youi, youi and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]; and let no man know where you2f be.

²⁰And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama [My God has Heard] the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

²¹So the king sent Y’hudi [the Jewish one] to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama [My God has Heard] the scribe’s chamber. And Y’hudi [the Jewish one] read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

²²Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

²³And it came to pass, [that] when Y’hudi [the Jewish one] had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.

²⁴Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

²⁵Nevertheless Elnatan [God has given] and D’layahu [Yehovah has accomplished] and G’maryah [Yehovah has accomplished] had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

²⁶But the king commanded Yerachme’el [my God have pity] the son of the king, and S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler] the son of ‘Azri’el [my help is God], and Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah] the son of ‘Acde’el [servant of God], to take Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the scribe and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet: but the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) hid them.

²⁷Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] wrote at the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

²⁸Take youi again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] has burned.

²⁹And youi shall say to Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); youi have burned this roll, saying, Why have youi written in it, saying, The king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?

³⁰Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David [beloved]: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

³¹And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and upon the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they listened not.

³²Then took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] another roll, and gave it to Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the scribe, the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah]; who wrote in it from the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] all the words of the book which Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

¹And king Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] reigned instead of Koniyahu [Yehovah will establish] the son of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up], whom N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] made king in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke by the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed].

³And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king sent Y’hukhal [Yehovah is able] the son of Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah] and Tzefan’yahu [Yehovah has treasured] the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah] the priest to the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying, Pray now unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] for us.

⁴Now Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

⁵Then Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] army was come forth out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: and when the Kasdim [clod-breakers] that besieged Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] heard tidings of them, they departed from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁶Then came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto the prophet Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

⁷Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Thus shall you2f say to the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] into their own land.

⁸And the Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

⁹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

¹⁰For though you2f had smitten the whole army of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

¹¹And it came to pass, that when the army of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] was broken up from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] for fear of Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] army,

¹²Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] went forth out of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to go into the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], to separate himself there in the midst of the people.

¹³And when he was in the gate of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], a captain of the ward (in custody, with a guard; prison) [was] there, whose name [was] Yir’iyah [speak], the son of Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah], the son of Hananyah [God has favoured]; and he took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, saying, youi fall away to the Kasdim [clod-breakers].

¹⁴Then said Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], [It is] false; I fall not away to the Kasdim [clod-breakers]. But he listened not to him: so Yir’iyah [speak] took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and brought him to the princes.

¹⁵For what reason the princes were exceedingly angry with Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

¹⁶When Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] had remained there many days;

¹⁷Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said, There is: for, said he, youi shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹⁸Moreover Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto king Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], What have I offended against youi, or against youri servants, or against this people, that you2f have put me in prison?

¹⁹Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall not come against you, nor against this land?

²⁰Therefore hear now, I pray youi, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray youi, be accepted before youi; that youi cause me not to return to the house of Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the scribe, lest I die there.

²¹Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king commanded that they should commit Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] remained in the court of the prison.

¹Then Sh’fatyah [Yehovah has judged] the son of Mattan [a gift], and G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Pash’chur [freedom], and Yukhal [Yehovah is able] the son of Shelemyah [repaid by Yehovah] [repaid by Yehovah], and Pash’chur [freedom] the son of Malkiyah [my king is Yehovah], heard the words that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] had spoken unto all the people, saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes forth to the Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s army, which shall take it.

⁴Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

⁵Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.

⁶Then took they Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and cast him into the dungeon of Malkiyah [my king is Yehovah] the son of the king, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] sunk in the mire.

⁷Now when ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian), one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength];

⁸‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] went forth out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

⁹My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.

¹⁰Then the king commanded ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian), saying, Take from hence thirty men with youi, and take up Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

¹¹So ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there old cast clouts (pieces of cloth used to patch) and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed].

¹²And ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian) said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], Put now [these] old cast clouts (pieces of cloth used to patch) and rotten rags under youri armholes under the cords. And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] did so.

¹³So they drew up Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] remained in the court of the prison.

¹⁴Then Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king sent, and took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and the king said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], I will ask youi a thing; hide nothing from me.

¹⁵Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], If I declare [it] unto youi, will youi not surely put me to death? and if I give youi counsel, will youi not hearken unto me?

¹⁶So Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king swore secretly unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, that made us this soul, I will not put youi to death, neither will I give youi into the hand of these men that seek youri life.

¹⁷Then said Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; If youi will assuredly go forth unto the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity)’s (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, then youri soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and youi shall live, and youri house:

¹⁸But if youi will not go forth to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity)’s (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and they shall burn it with fire, and youi shall not escape out of their hand.

¹⁹And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], I am afraid of the Y’hudim (Judeans) that are fallen to the Kasdim [clod-breakers], lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

²⁰But Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said, They shall not deliver [youi]. Obey, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which I speak unto youi: so it shall be well unto youi, and youri soul shall live.

²¹But if youi refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has showed me:

²²And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]’s house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes, and those [women] shall say, Your1s friends have set youi on, and have prevailed against youi: youri feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.

²³So they shall bring out all youri wives and youri children to the Kasdim [clod-breakers]: and youi shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: and youi shall cause this city to be burned with fire.

²⁴Then said Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], Let no man know of these words, and youi shall not die.

²⁵But if the princes hear that I have talked with youi, and they come unto youi, and say unto youi, Declare unto us now what youi have said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put youi to death; also what the king said unto youi:

²⁶Then youi shall say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Y’honatan’s [Yehovah has Given]’s house, to die there.

²⁷Then came all the princes unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

²⁸So Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] abode in the court of the prison until the day that Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] was taken: and he was [there] when Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] was taken.

¹In the ninth year of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], in the tenth month, came N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] and all his army against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and they besieged it.

²[And] in the eleventh year of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous], in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

³And all the princes of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] came in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergal-Sar’etzer [prince of fire], Samgar-N’vo [sword of Nebo], Sars’khim [prince of eunuchs], Rav-Saris [chief eunuch], Nergal-Sar’etzer [prince of fire], Rav-Mag [chief magician], with all the residue (part that remains, the rest) of the princes of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁴And it came to pass, [that] when Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

⁵But the Kasdim [clod-breakers] army pursued after them, and overtook Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] in the plains of Yericho [Its Moon]: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] to Rivlah [Fertility] in the land of Hamat [Fortress], where he gave judgment upon him.

⁶Then the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] killed the sons of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] in Rivlah [Fertility] before his eyes: also the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] killed all the nobles of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁷Moreover he put out Tzidkiyah’s [Yehovah is righteous]’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁸And the Kasdim [clod-breakers] burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

⁹Then N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard carried away captive into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

¹⁰But N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

¹¹Now N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] gave charge concerning Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] to N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard, saying,

¹²Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto youi.

¹³So N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard sent, and N’vushazban [Nebo delivers me], Rav-Saris [chief eunuch], and Nergal-Sar’etzer [prince of fire], Rav-Mag [chief magician], and all the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity)’s (Babylon) [confusion]’s princes;

¹⁴Even they sent, and took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney], that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

¹⁵Now the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

¹⁶Go and speak to ‘Eved-Melekh [servant of the king] the Cushi (Ethiopian), saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day before youi.

¹⁷But I will deliver youi in that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and youi shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom youi [are] afraid.

¹⁸For I will surely deliver youi, and youi shall not fall by the sword, but youri life shall be for a prey unto youi: because youi have put youri trust in me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), after that N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah [Hill], when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which were carried away captive unto Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

²And the captain of the guard took Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], and said unto him, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has pronounced this evil upon this place.

³Now the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has brought [it], and done according as he has said: because you2f have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

⁴And now, behold, I loose youi this day from the chains which [were] upon youri hand. If it seem good unto youi to come with me into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], come; and I will look well unto youi: but if it seem ill unto youi to come with me into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], refrain (restrain; refrein from acting): behold, all the land [is] before youi: to which it seems good and convenient (fit; appropriate; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular)) for youi to go, there go.

⁵Now while he was not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney], whom the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has made governor over the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and dwell with him among the people: or go wherever it seems convenient (fit; appropriate; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular)) unto youi to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals (food for humans) and a reward, and let him go.

⁶Then went Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] unto G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] to Mitzpah [watchtower]; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

⁷Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] had made G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion];

⁸Then they came to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] to Mitzpah [watchtower], even Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], and Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the sons of Kareach [bald], and S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler] the son of Tanchumet [consolation], and the sons of ‘Efai [gloomy] the N’tofati [dropping], and Y’zanyahu [Yehovah has listened] the son of a Ma’akhati [pressure (literally, she has pressed)], they and their men.

⁹And G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney] swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Kasdim [clod-breakers]: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and it shall be well with you.

¹⁰As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mitzpah [watchtower] to serve the Kasdim [clod-breakers], which will come unto us: but you2f, gather your2f wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you2f have taken.

¹¹Likewise when all the Y’hudim (Judeans) that [were] in Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and among the ‘Amon [Inbred], and in Edom [Red], and that [were] in all the countries, heard that the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] had left a remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and that he had set over them G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney];

¹²Even all the Y’hudim (Judeans) returned out of all places to which they were driven, and came to the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great], unto Mitzpah [watchtower], and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

¹³Moreover Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] to Mitzpah [watchtower],

¹⁴And said unto him, Do youi certainly know that Ba’al [lord (a false god)] is the king of the ‘Amon [Inbred] has sent Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] to slay youi? But G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] believed them not.

¹⁵Then Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald] spoke to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] in Mitzpah [watchtower] secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray youi, and I will slay Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], and no man shall know [it]: wherefore should he slay youi, that all the Y’hudim (Judeans) which are gathered unto youi should be scattered, and the remnant in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] perish?

¹⁶But G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] said unto Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], youi shall not do this thing: for youi speak falsely of Yishma’el [God will hear].

¹Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] the son of Elishama [My God has Heard], of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] to Mitzpah [watchtower]; and there they did eat bread together in Mitzpah [watchtower].

²Then arose Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], and the ten men that were with him, and struck G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney] with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] had made governor over the land.

³Yishma’el [God will hear] also killed all the Y’hudim (Judeans) that were with him, [even] with G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great], at Mitzpah [watchtower], and the Kasdim [clod-breakers] that were found there, [and] the men of war.

⁴And it came to pass the second day after he had slain G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great], and no man knew [it],

⁵That there came certain from Sh’khem [Shoulder], from Shiloh [Place of Rest], and from Shomron [watch mountain], [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶And Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] went forth from Mitzpah [watchtower] to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen].

⁷And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] killed them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.

⁸But ten men were found among them that said unto Yishma’el [God will hear], Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and killed them not among their brethren.

⁹Now the pit wherein Yishma’el [God will hear] had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great], [was] it which Asa [healer; injurious?] the king had made for fear of Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: [and] Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] filled it with [them that were] slain.

¹⁰Then Yishma’el [God will hear] carried away captive all the residue (part that remains, the rest) of the people that [were] in Mitzpah [watchtower], [even] the king’s daughters, and all the people that remained in Mitzpah [watchtower], whom N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard had committed to G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen]: and Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the ‘Amon [Inbred].

¹¹But when Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] had done,

¹²Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], and found him by the great waters that [are] in Giv’on [Hill City].

¹³Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which [were] with Yishma’el [God will hear] saw Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, then they were glad.

¹⁴So all the people that Yishma’el [God will hear] had carried away captive from Mitzpah [watchtower] cast about and returned, and went unto Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald].

¹⁵But Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] escaped from Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] with eight men, and went to the ‘Amon [Inbred].

¹⁶Then took Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah], from Mitzpah [watchtower], after [that] he had slain G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen], [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Giv’on [Hill City]:

¹⁷And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Khimham [their longing], which is by Beit-Lechem [House of Bread], to go to enter into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place],

¹⁸Because of the Kasdim [clod-breakers]: for they were afraid of them, because Yishma’el [God will hear] the son of N’tanyah [given of Yehovah] had slain G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen], whom the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] made governor in the land.

¹Then all the captains of the forces, and Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and Y’zanyahu [Yehovah has listened] the son of Hosha’yah [Yehovah has saved], and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

²And said unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, Let, we beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, our supplication be accepted before youi, and pray for us unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [even] for all this remnant; (for we are left [but] a few of many, as youi eyes do behold us)

³That the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

⁴Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet said unto them, I have heard [you]; behold, I will pray unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] according to your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall answer you, I will declare [it] unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

⁵Then they said to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall send youi to us.

⁶Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to whom we send youi; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁷And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed].

⁸Then called he Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

⁹And said unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto whom you2f sent me to present your supplication before him;

¹⁰If you2f will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

¹¹Be not afraid of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], of whom you2f are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

¹²And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

¹³But if you2f say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered],

¹⁴Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

¹⁵And now therefore hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), you2f remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; If you2f wholly set your faces to enter into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and go to sojourn there;

¹⁶Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which you2f feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and the famine, whereof you2f were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and there you2f shall die.

¹⁷So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

¹⁸For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you2f shall enter into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: and you2f shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach (disgrace; shame); and you2f shall see this place no more.

¹⁹The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has said concerning you, O you2f remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; Go you2f not into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

²⁰For you2f dissembled (used deceit; pretended; feigned) in your hearts, when you2f sent me unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], saying, Pray for us unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and according unto all that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it].

²¹And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but you2f have not obeyed the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], nor any [thing] for the which he has sent me unto you.

²²Now therefore know certainly that you2f shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place to which you2f desire to go [and] to sojourn.

¹And it came to pass, [that] when Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], for which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had sent him to them, [even] all these words,

²Then spoke ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Hosha’yah [Yehovah has saved], and Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the proud men, saying unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], youi speak falsely: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has not sent youi to say, Go not into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to sojourn there:

³But Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah] sets youi on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁴So Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to dwell in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁵But Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] the son of Kareach [bald], and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that were returned from all nations, to which they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised];

⁶[Even] men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and every person that N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard had left with G’dalyahu [Yehovah is great] the son of Achikam [my brother has arisen] the son of Shafan [coney], and Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, and Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah].

⁷So they came into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): thus came they [even] to Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity].

⁸Then came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] in Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity], saying,

⁹Take great stones in youi hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick factory, which [is] at the entry of Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] house in Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity], in the sight of the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised];

¹⁰And say unto them, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will send and take N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

¹¹And when he comes, he shall strike the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.

¹²And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array (to put on; to clothe) himself with the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.

¹³He shall break also the images of Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], that [is] in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and the houses of the gods of the Mitzri shall he burn with fire.

¹The word that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] concerning all the Y’hudim (Judeans) which dwell in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], which dwell at Migdol [Tower], and at Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity], and at Nof [presentability], and in the country of Patros [region of the south], saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; You2f have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and upon all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and, behold, this day they [are] a desolation, and no man dwells in it,

³Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, you2f, nor your fathers.

⁴However I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

⁵But they listened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

⁶For what reason my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.

⁷Therefore now thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; For what reason commit you2f [this] great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], to leave you none to remain;

⁸In that you2f provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], to which you2f be gone to dwell, that you2f might cut yourselves off, and that you2f might be a curse and a reproach (disgrace; shame) among all the nations of the earth?

⁹Have you2f forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]?

¹⁰They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

¹¹Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

¹²And I will take the remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that have set their faces to go into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach (disgrace; shame).

¹³For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], as I have punished Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

¹⁴So that none of the remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], which are gone into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

¹⁵Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], in Patros [region of the south], answered Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], saying,

¹⁶[As for] the word that youi have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), we will not hearken unto youi.

¹⁷But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: for [then] had we plenty of victuals (food for humans), and were well, and saw no evil.

¹⁸But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

¹⁹And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

²⁰Then Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,

²¹The incense that you2f burned in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the streets of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], you2f, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?

²²So that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which you2f have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

²³Because you2f have burned incense, and because you2f have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

²⁴Moreover Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that [are] in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]:

²⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying; You2f and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: you2f will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

²⁶Therefore hear you2f the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that dwell in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] in all the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], saying, The Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) lives.

²⁷Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that [are] in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

²⁸Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] into the land of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and all the remnant of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], that are gone into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, my, or theirs.

²⁹And this [shall be] a sign unto you, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will punish you in this place, that you2f may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

³⁰Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hofra [the great house - covering evil] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] into the hand of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], his enemy, and that sought his life.

¹The word that Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet spoke unto Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah], when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed], in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying,

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto youi, O Barukh [Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)];

³youi did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

⁴Thus shall youi say unto him, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) says thus; Behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

⁵And seek youi great things for yourself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): but youi life will I give unto youi for a prey in all places to which youi go.

¹The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet against the Gentiles;

²Against Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], against the army of Pharaoh N’kho [great house - he is smitten] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], which was by the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush) in Kark’mish [fortress of Chemosh (subdue)], which N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] struck in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] the son of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

³Order you2f the buckler (round shielf held with a grip) and shield, and draw near to battle.

⁴Harness the horses; and get up, you2f horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish (rub, scour or polish until bright) the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.

⁵For what reason have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace (at a quick pace; quickly), and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁶Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall to (to do entirely, do wholly) ward (in custody, with a guard; prison) the north by the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush).

⁷Who [is] this [that] comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

⁸Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] rises up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

⁹Come up, you2f horses; and rage, you2f chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Ludim [strife], that handle [and] bend the bow.

¹⁰For this [is] the day of the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush).

¹¹Go up into Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and take balm (a medicine; rosin from a bush), O virgin, the daughter of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: in vain shall youi use many medicines; [for] youi shall not be cured.

¹²The nations have heard of youri shame, and youri cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.

¹³The word that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet, how N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] should come [and] strike the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

¹⁴Declare you2f in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and publish in Migdol [Tower], and publish in Nof [presentability] and in Tachpanches [you will fill hands with pity]: say you2f, Stand fast, and prepare youi; for the sword shall devour round about youi.

¹⁵Why are youri valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) did drive them.

¹⁶He made many to fall, yes, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

¹⁷They did cry there, Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] [is but] a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

¹⁸[As] I live, says the King, whose name [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], Surely as Tavor [Mound] [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel [Garden-land] by the sea, [so] shall he come.

¹⁹O youi daughter dwelling in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Nof [presentability] shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

²⁰Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction comes; it comes out of the north.

²¹Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.

²²The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

²³They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

²⁴The daughter of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House], and Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], with their gods, and their kings; even Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House], and [all] them that trust in him:

²⁶And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁷But fear not youi, O my servant Ya’akov [Heal of God], and be not dismayed, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for, behold, I will save youi from afar off, and youri seed from the land of their captivity; and Ya’akov [Heal of God] shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.

²⁸Fear youi not, O Ya’akov [Heal of God] my servant, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for I [am] with youi; for I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven youi: but I will not make a full end of youi, but correct youi in measure; yet will I not leave youi wholly unpunished.

¹The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet against the P’lishtim [Immigrants], before that Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] struck ‘Azah [The Strong].

²Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

³At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;

⁴Because of the day that comes to spoil (plunder; prey; booty) all the P’lishtim [Immigrants], [and] to cut off from Tzor (Tyrus) [a rock] and Tzidon [Hunting] every helper that remains: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will spoil (plunder; prey; booty) the P’lishtim [Immigrants], the remnant of the country of Kaftor [A Crown].

⁵Baldness is come upon ‘Azah [The Strong]; Ashkelon [The Fire of Infamy: I shall be Weighed] is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long will youi cut yourself?

⁶O youi sword of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), how long [will it be] before youi be quiet? put up yourself into youri scabbard, rest, and be still.

⁷How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given it a charge against Ashkelon [The Fire of Infamy: I shall be Weighed], and against the sea shore? there has he appointed it.

¹Against Mo’av [Seed of my Father] thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Woe unto Nevo [Prophet]! for it is spoiled: Kiryatayim [two cities] is confounded [and] taken: Misgav [refuge] is confounded and dismayed.

²[There shall be] no more praise of Mo’av [Seed of my Father]: in Heshbon [Stronghold] they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also youi shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue youi.

³A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonayim [two caves] [two caves], spoiling and great destruction.

⁴Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

⁵For in the going up of Luchit [tablets (small, flat ornaments or jewelry)] continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonayim [two caves] [two caves] the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

⁶Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath (small shrub found in open wastelands) in the wilderness.

⁷For because youi have trusted in youri works and in youri treasures, youi shall also be taken: and K’mosh [Subduer] shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.

⁸And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken.

⁹Give wings unto Mo’av [Seed of my Father], that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell in it.

¹⁰Cursed [be] he that does the work of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keeps back his sword from blood.

¹¹Mo’av [Seed of my Father] has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees (sediment settled in liquid; the dregs), and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

¹²Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

¹³And Mo’av [Seed of my Father] shall be ashamed of K’mosh [Subduer], as the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] was ashamed of Beit-El [House of God] their confidence.

¹⁴How say you2f, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?

¹⁵Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

¹⁶The calamity of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] [is] near to come, and his affliction hastes fast.

¹⁷All you2f that are about him, bemoan him; and all you2f that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod!

¹⁸Youi daughter that does inhabit Divon [Wasting], come down from [youri] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] shall come upon youi, [and] he shall destroy youri strong holds.

¹⁹O inhabitant of ‘Aeo’er [Ruins], stand by the way, and espy; ask him that flees, and her that escapes, [and] say, What is done?

²⁰Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell you2f it in ‘Arnon [Rushing Stream], that Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is spoiled,

²¹And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon [Sandy], and upon Yah’zah [trampled down] and upon Mepha’et [Spendour or Height],

²²And upon Divon [Wasting], and upon Nevo [Prophet], and upon Beit-Diblatayim [house of the two fig-cakes],

²³And upon Kiryatayim [two cities], and upon Beit-Gamul [house of recompense], and upon Beit-M’on [house of Ba’al],

²⁴And upon K’riot [Surrounded by a Wall], and upon Botzrah [sheepfold or fortress], and upon all the cities of the land of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], far or near.

²⁵The horn of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁶Make you2f him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): Mo’av [Seed of my Father] also shall wallow (to approve, commend, accept) in his vomit, and he also shall be in ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats).

²⁷For was not Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] a ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) unto youi? was he found among thieves? for since youi spoke of him, youi skipped for joy.

²⁸O you2f that dwell in Mo’av [Seed of my Father], leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] makes her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

²⁹We have heard the pride of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

³⁰I know his wrath, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].

³¹Therefore will I howl for Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and I will cry out for all Mo’av [Seed of my Father]; [my heart] shall mourn for the men of Kir-Heres [wall of potsherds].

³²O vine of Sivnah [Fragrance], I will weep for youi with the weeping of Ya’zer [Helped]: youri plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Ya’zer [Helped]: the spoiler is fallen upon youri summer fruits and upon youri vintage.

³³And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Mo’av [Seed of my Father]; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall trample with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.

³⁴From the cry of Heshbon [Stronghold] [even] unto El’aleh [God is Ascending], [and even] unto Yachatz [Trampled Down], have they uttered their voice, from Tzo’ar [Insignificance] [even] unto Horonayim [two caves] [two caves], [as] an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim [pure] shall be desolate.

³⁵Moreover I will cause to cease in Mo’av [Seed of my Father], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), him that offers in the high places, and him that burns incense to his gods.

³⁶Therefore my heart shall sound for Mo’av [Seed of my Father] like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-Heres [wall of potsherds]: because the riches [that] he has gotten are perished.

³⁷For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the waist sackcloth.

³⁸[There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Mo’av [Seed of my Father] like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁹They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how has Mo’av [Seed of my Father] turned the back with shame! so shall Mo’av [Seed of my Father] be a ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) and a dismaying to all them about him.

⁴⁰For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Mo’av [Seed of my Father].

⁴¹K’riot [Surrounded by a Wall] is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Mo’av [Seed of my Father] at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs (extreme sharp pains).

⁴²And Mo’av [Seed of my Father] shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he has magnified [himself] against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴³Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon youi, O inhabitant of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴⁴He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Mo’av [Seed of my Father], the year of their visitation, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴⁵They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon [Stronghold] because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [Stronghold], and a flame from the midst of Sichon [Warrior], and shall devour the corner of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

⁴⁶Woe be unto youi, O Mo’av [Seed of my Father]! the people of K’mosh [Subduer] perishes: for youri sons are taken captives, and youri daughters captives.

⁴⁷Yet will I bring again the captivity of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] in the latter days, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Thus far [is] the judgment of Mo’av [Seed of my Father].

¹Concerning the ‘Amon [Inbred], thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Has Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] no sons? has he no heir? why [then] does their king inherit Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and his people dwell in his cities?

²Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah [Great] of the ‘Amon [Inbred]; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be heir unto them that were his heirs, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³Howl, O Heshbon [Stronghold], for ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] is spoiled: cry, you2f daughters of Rabbah [Great], gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.

⁴For what reason glory youi in the valleys, youri flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come unto me?

⁵Behold, I will bring a fear upon youi, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], from all those that be about youi; and you2f shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wanders.

⁶And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁷Concerning Edom [Red], thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman [south]? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

⁸Flee you2f, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of D’dan [low country]; for I will bring the calamity of ‘Esav [Hairy] upon him, the time [that] I will visit him.

⁹If grapegatherers come to youi, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

¹⁰But I have made ‘Esav [Hairy] bore, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.

¹¹Leave youri fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let youri widows trust in me.

¹²For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [are] youi he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? youi shall not go unpunished, but youi shall surely drink [of it].

¹³For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that Botzrah [sheepfold or fortress] shall become a desolation, a reproach (disgrace; shame), a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

¹⁴I have heard a rumour from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, [saying], Gather you2f together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

¹⁵For, lo, I will make youi small among the heathen, [and] despised among men.

¹⁶You1s terribleness has deceived youi, [and] the pride of youri heart, O youi that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that holds the height of the hill: though youi should make youri nest as high as the eagle, I will bring youi down from there, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁷Also Edom [Red] shall be a desolation: everyone that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

¹⁸As in the overthrow of S’dom [Burning] and ‘Amora [Submersion] and the neighbour [cities] thereof, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), no man shall abide there, neither shall a Son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Yarden [Descender] against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

²⁰Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that he has taken against Edom [Red]; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman [south]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

²¹The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

²²Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Botzrah [sheepfold or fortress]: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom [Red] be as the heart of a woman in her (birth) pangs (extreme sharp pains).

²³Concerning Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver]. Hamat [Fortress] is confounded, and Arpad [I shall be spread out (or supported)]: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

²⁴Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] is waxed feeble, [and] turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

²⁵How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

²⁶Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

²⁷And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad].

²⁸Concerning Kedar [dark], and concerning the kingdoms of Hatzor [Castle], which N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall strike, thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Arise you2f, go up to Kedar [dark], and spoil (plunder; prey; booty) the men of the east.

²⁹Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on every side.

³⁰Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you2f inhabitants of Hatzor [Castle], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

³¹Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwells without care, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone.

³²And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil (plunder; prey; booty): and I will scatter into all winds them [that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³³And Hatzor [Castle] shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] Son of man dwell in it.

³⁴The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that came to Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet against ‘Eilam [eternity] in the beginning of the reign of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying,

³⁵Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Behold, I will break the bow of ‘Eilam [eternity], the chief of their might.

³⁶And upon ‘Eilam [eternity] will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation to which the outcasts of ‘Eilam [eternity] shall not come.

³⁷For I will cause ‘Eilam [eternity] to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

³⁸And I will set my throne in ‘Eilam [eternity], and will destroy from there the king and the princes, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³⁹But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captivity of ‘Eilam [eternity], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹The word that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] [and] against the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] by Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet.

²Declare you2f among the nations, and publish, and set up a Flag (banner); publish, [and] conceal not: say, Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] is taken, Bel [lord] is shamed, M’rodakh [your rebellion] is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

³For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

⁴In those days, and in that time, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall come, they and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁵They shall ask the way to Tziyon [parched place] with their faces toward it, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.

⁶My people has been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

⁷All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate) not, because they have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the habitation of justice, even the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the hope of their fathers.

⁸Remove out of the midst of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and go forth out of the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and be as the he goats before the flocks.

⁹For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

¹⁰And Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall be a spoil (plunder; prey; booty): all that spoil (plunder; prey; booty) her shall be satisfied, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹¹Because you2f were glad, because you2f rejoiced, O you2f destroyers of my heritage, because you2f are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

¹²Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

¹³Because of the wrath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: everyone that goes by Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

¹⁴Put yourselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] round about: all you2f that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.

¹⁶Cut off the sower from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

¹⁷Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) has devoured him; and last this N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has broken his bones.

¹⁸Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; Behold, I will punish the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] and his land, as I have punished the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).

¹⁹And I will bring Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel [Garden-land] and Bashan [Fruitful], and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and Gil’ad [Rocky Region].

²⁰In those days, and in that time, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the iniquity of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

²¹Go up against the land of Meratayim [double rebellion], [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of P’kod [visitation]: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and do according to all that I have commanded youi.

²²A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.

²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] become a desolation among the nations!

²⁴I have laid a snare for youi, and youi are also taken, O Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and youi were not aware: youi are found, and also caught, because youi have striven against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁵The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has opened his armoury, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] in the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers].

²⁶Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

²⁸The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], to declare in Tziyon [parched place] the vengeance of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], the vengeance of his temple.

²⁹Call to (to do entirely, do wholly) gether the archers against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: all you2f that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), against the Holy One of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³⁰Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³¹Behold, I [am] against youi, [O youi] most proud, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]: for youi day is come, the time [that] I will visit youi.

³²And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

³³Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; The people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [were] oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

³⁴Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

³⁵A sword [is] upon the Kasdim [clod-breakers], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and upon the inhabitants of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].

³⁶A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

³⁷A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

³⁸A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.

³⁹Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

⁴⁰As God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] overthrew S’dom [Burning] and ‘Amora [Submersion] and the neighbour [cities] thereof, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any Son of man dwell in it.

⁴¹Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

⁴²They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [everyone] put in array (to put on; to clothe), like a man to the battle, against youi, O daughter of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁴³The king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs (extreme sharp pains) as of a woman in travail.

⁴⁴Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Yarden [Descender] unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

⁴⁵Therefore hear you2f the counsel of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that he has taken against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their] habitation desolate with them.

⁴⁶At the noise of the taking of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

¹Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will raise up against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

²And will send unto Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] fanners, that shall fan (a fork-shaped tool to throw grain in the air, to let he wind separate the wheat from the chaff) her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

³Against [him that] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifts himself up in his brigandine (armor): and spare you2f not her young men; destroy you2f utterly all her host.

⁴Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.

⁵For Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [has] not [been] forsaken, nor Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] of his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁶Flee out of the midst of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

⁷Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] [has been] a golden cup in the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

⁸Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm (a medicine; rosin from a bush) for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁹We would have healed Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country: for her judgment reaches unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to the skies.

¹⁰The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Tziyon [parched place] the work of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹¹Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes [middle land]: for his device [is] against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the vengeance of his temple.

¹²Set up the Flag (banner) upon the walls of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹³O youi that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, youri end is come, [and] the measure of youri covetousness.

¹⁴The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill youi with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against youi.

¹⁵He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

¹⁶When he utters [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

¹⁷Every man is cruel by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

¹⁸They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁹The portion of Ya’akov [Heal of God] [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and [Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name.

²⁰Youi [are] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with youi will I break in pieces the nations, and with youi will I destroy kingdoms;

²¹And with youi will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with youi will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

²²With youi also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with youi will I break in pieces old and young; and with youi will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

²³I will also break in pieces with youi the shepherd and his flock; and with youi will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with youi will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

²⁴And I will render unto Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] and to all the inhabitants of Kasdim [clod-breakers] all their evil that they have done in Tziyon [parched place] in your sight, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁵Behold, I [am] against youi, O destroying mountain, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which destroys all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon youi, and roll youi down from the rocks, and will make youi a burnt mountain.

²⁶And they shall not take of youi a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but youi shall be desolate forever, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁷Set you2f up a Flag (banner) in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call to (to do entirely, do wholly) gether against her the kingdoms of Ararat [the curse reversed], Minni [division], and Ashchenaz [scattered fire]; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.

²⁸Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes [middle land], the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

²⁹And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall be performed against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], to make the land of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] a desolation without an inhabitant.

³⁰The mighty men of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] that his city is taken at [one] end,

³²And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

³³For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; The daughter of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] [is] like a threshing floor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

³⁴N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], shall the inhabitant of Tziyon [parched place] say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Kasdim [clod-breakers], shall Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] say.

³⁶Therefore thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, I will plead youri cause, and take vengeance for youi; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

³⁷And Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

³⁸They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

³⁹In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

⁴¹How is Sheshakh [your fine linen] taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] become an astonishment among the nations!

⁴²The sea is come up upon Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

⁴³Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does [any] Son of man pass thereby.

⁴⁴And I will punish Bel in Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yes, the wall of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall fall.

⁴⁵My people, go you2f out of the midst of her, and deliver you2f every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴⁶And lest your heart faint, and you2f fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one] year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁸Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] in it, shall sing for Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion]: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁴⁹As Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] [has caused] the slain of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to fall, so at Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall fall the slain of all the earth.

⁵⁰You2f that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) afar off, and let Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] come into your mind.

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach (disgrace; shame): shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house.

⁵²For what reason, behold, the days come, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵³Though Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto her, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁵⁴A sound of a cry [comes] from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and great destruction from the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers]:

⁵⁵Because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoiled Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

⁵⁶Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and her mighty men are taken, everyone of their bows is broken: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-El G’mul’ot [The Powerful Living Word of Retribution]; [he will] surely repay.

⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name [is] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies].

⁵⁸Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; The broad walls of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

⁵⁹The word which Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet commanded S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler] the son of Neriyah [lamp of Yehovah], the son of Ma’aseiyah [work of Yehovah], when he went with Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] into Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler] [was] a quiet prince.

⁶⁰So Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], [even] all these words that are written against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁶¹And Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] said to S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler], When youi come to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and shall see, and shall read all these words;

⁶²Then shall youi say, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi have spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.

⁶³And it shall be, when youi have made an end of reading this Book, [that] youi shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates (to break forth, to gush):

⁶⁴And youi shall say, Thus shall Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed].

¹Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Hamuta [father-in-law is protection] the daughter of Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] of Livnah [Pavement].

²And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that Y’hoyakim [Yehovah raises up] had done.

³For through the anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) it came to pass in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], till he had cast them out from his presence, that Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] rebelled against the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

⁴And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] came, he and all his army, against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

⁵So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous].

⁶And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁷Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king’s garden; (now the Kasdim [clod-breakers] [were] by the city round about) and they went by the way of the plain.

⁸But the army of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] pursued after the king, and overtook Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] in the plains of Yericho [Its Moon]; and all his army was scattered from him.

⁹Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] to Rivlah [Fertility] in the land of Hamat [Fortress]; where he gave judgment upon him.

¹⁰And the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] killed the sons of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] in Rivlah [Fertility].

¹¹Then he put out the eyes of Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous]; and the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] bound him in chains, and carried him to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and put him in prison till the day of his death.

¹²Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], came N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed], captain of the guard, [which] served the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], into Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace],

¹³And burned the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the king’s house; and all the houses of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:

¹⁴And all the army of the Kasdim [clod-breakers], that [were] with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] round about.

¹⁵Then N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard carried away captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue (part that remains, the rest) of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], and the rest of the multitude.

¹⁶But N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

¹⁷Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the Kasdim [clod-breakers] broke, and carried all the brass of them to Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion].

¹⁸The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass which they ministered, took they away.

¹⁹And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of silver [in] silver, took the captain of the guard away.

²⁰The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

²¹And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet (an ornamental band around the top of a pillar; a thin band or strip) of twelve cubits did compass (go around, encircle; encompass) it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.

²²And a column of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one column [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the columns round about, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto these.

²³And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round about.

²⁴And the captain of the guard took S’rayah [Yehovah is ruler] the chief priest, and Tzefan’yahu [Yehovah has treasured] the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

²⁵He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

²⁶So N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] to Rivlah [Fertility].

²⁷And the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] struck them, and put them to death in Rivlah [Fertility] in the land of Hamat [Fortress]. Thus Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] was carried away captive out of his own land.

²⁸This [is] the people whom N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Y’hudim (Judeans) and three and twenty:

²⁹In the eighteenth year of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] he carried away captive from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] eight hundred thirty and two persons:

³⁰In the three and twentieth year of N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] N’vuzar’adan [Nebo has given seed] the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Y’hudim (Judeans) seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.

³¹And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Y’hoyakhin [Yehovah establishes] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Eveel-M’rodakh [man of bitter contrition] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Y’hoyakhin [Yehovah establishes] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and brought him forth out of prison,

³²And spoke kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion],

³³And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

³⁴And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

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