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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

Verse ConceptsMonth 5Exile Of Judah To BabylonYears Of ZedekiahTimes Of People

The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryPriests, Function In Ot TimesInadequate ShepherdingStudying The LawWhere Is God?Prophets Of Other Gods

"So, once more I will state my case against you," says the Lord. "I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.

Verse ConceptsChildren Of Evil


“For cross over to the coasts of Kittim (Cyprus) [to the west] and see,
Send also to Kedar (Arabia) [to the east] and carefully observe and consider
And see whether there has been such [a thing] as this!

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

Verse ConceptsShavingMemphiscrowns

I shall answer them: Where are now thy gods, that thou hast made thee? Bid them stand up, and help thee in the time of need! For look how many cities thou hast, O Judah: so many gods hast thou also.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorMany Spiritual BeingsSalvation By Other Things

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.

Verse ConceptsSkillDegradationDecadenceMisteachingFinding Lovelovers

Also on your skirts is found [the] blood of [the] life of [the] innocent, [the] poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these [things],

Verse ConceptsBlood, as basis of lifeJudged As MurderersNot Helping The Poor

How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Verse ConceptsBeing AshamedInstabilityFicklenessDisappointmentChanging Yourself

Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected {those in whom you trust}, and you will not prosper through them.

Verse ConceptsRejecting PeopleHands On HeadsTrusting Other PeopleNot Prospering

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessSpiritual HarlotryHarlotsWantonnessSacrificing On The High PlacesTimes Of PeopleWorship At Trees

Hast thou seen also, when she had done all this, how I said unto her that she should turn again unto me, and yet she is not returned? Judah, that unfaithful sister of hers also saw this:

Verse ConceptsNot Returning To GodRelated Nations

And I saw that {for this very reason, that} on account of apostate Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted [herself] also.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, amongst believersCertificate of divorceSpiritual HarlotryBills Of DivorceRelated NationsNo Fear Of GodBackslidingBackslidersInfidelitywhores

And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsNot Whole HeartedPretenceRepentance, Nature OfHalf HeartednessNot Returning To GodRelated Nations

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfPeople Of God, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfSpiritual AdoptionIsrael As Sons Of GodFollowing Godfatherhood

So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us: for we and our fathers from our youth up unto this day have sinned against the LORD our God, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfParents SinSelf AbasementBeing Evil From YouthShame Has ComeWe Have Sinned

“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord, “that the heart and courage of the king will fail (be paralyzed), and also the heart of the princes; the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded and horrified.”

Verse ConceptsPessimismAstonishmentProphecy AbolishedLosing CouragePeople Appalled

{a wind too strong for} these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them."

Behold, the Heathen give Jerusalem warning, and preach unto her, that her destroyers are coming from far countries. They tell the cities of Judah the same also.

Verse ConceptsVoicesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldPeople From Far AwayTelling Of MovementsNations Attacking Israel


My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is pounding and throbbing within me;
I cannot be silent,
For you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartAgony, God's JudgmentRenewed HeartBowelsTrumpets For BattleOther References To The HeartReady For WarWarTragedyheartbeat

I beheld, The earth; and lo! it was waste and wild, - The heavens also and their light was not:

Verse ConceptsemptinessFormlessness

Look through Jerusalem, behold and see. Seek through her streets also within, if ye can find one man, that doth equal and right, or that laboureth to be faithful: and I shall spare him, sayeth the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBalances, Dishonest UseRoadsEvil TimesCitizenshipCity SquaresGod Will ForgiveFinding LoveGodly ManA Good ManBeing Singleseekingjerusalem

I will go to the powerful
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
However, these also had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.

Verse ConceptsYokesEscaping From GodBreaking Chains

And also in those days, says Jehovah, I will not make with you a completion.

Verse ConceptsNot Destroyed

But if they say, 'Wherefore doth the LORD our God all this unto us?' Then answer them, 'Because, that like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your own land, even so shall ye serve other gods also in a strange land!'"

Verse ConceptsForeignersForsaking GodRenunciationUnfaithfulness, To GodIdolatry Consists OfSuffering From ForeignersNo Earthly InheritanceServing GroupsWhy Does God Do This?

They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilOrphansFat PeopleNot Helping The Poorprospering

Amend thee, O Jerusalem, lest I withdraw my heart from thee, and make thee desolate: and thy land also, that no man dwell in it."

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfThreatsSeparation From GodLand Becoming Empty

I was filled with the wrath of Jehovah; I was weary holding up; to pour out upon the child in the street and upon the assembly of the young men together; for also the man with the woman shall be taken, the old man with the full of days.

Verse ConceptsYoung People SufferingJudgement On Old PeopleGod Has AngerTired In Activitywrathtiredventing

Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed; also they knew not feeling shame; for this they shall fall with those falling: in the time of my reviewing them they shall faint, said Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

Also I have set watchmen over you: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Verse ConceptsWatchmanTrumpets For SignallingPay Attention To God!

Hear, O earth, look, I [am] about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.

Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;
friends and neighbors will also perish.

Verse ConceptsStumblingFathers And SonsFriends FailingGod HinderingHindrances

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I also have seen, says Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For God's CharacterStealingDensStatus Of The TempleA Place For God's Namethieves

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

Verse ConceptsIndifferenceListeningRejection Of GodWatchfulness, DivineGod's Call, Few RespondThose Who Rose EarlyDoing RepeatedlyOthers Not AnsweringEarly Rising

I also to the house on which My name is called, In which ye are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, Have done, as I have done to Shiloh.

Verse ConceptsTrust, Lack OfA Place For God's Name

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringDoughQueensTablesFirewoodKneading DoughDifferent GodsFood For Other godsWorshipping Material ThingsServing Asherahgathering

I also explicitly commanded them: "Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, and graceEarsWalkingObedience To GodI Will Be Their GodObedienceObeying Godobeying

And thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

Verse ConceptsOthers Not AnsweringListening To God

They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfBalaams DonkeyFalse GodsChild sacrificeAbsence Of ThoughtShrines

"This shalt thou say unto them also: Thus sayeth the LORD, Do men fall also, that they arise not up again? And turn they so far away, that they never convert?

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The Wicked

Also the stork in the heavens knew her appointment; and the turtle-dove, and the swallow, and the twitterer watched the time of their coming; and my people knew not the judgment of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsdovesSkyThe Right TimeBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsInstinctSwallowsAutumnKnowingGod's TimingGods Timing

Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed, and they knew not to feel shame: for this they shall fall among the falling: in the time of their reviewing they shall faint, said Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBlushingDecadencePeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown Things

I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyTearsDestruction Of JerusalemEmpty Citiesjerusalem

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelNot Knowing PeopleGod Will Kill His People

They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFruitResponseUnreliabilityUprightnessDisdainImpotence Of IdolsObelisksCarrying IdolsDumbnessGood Or BadDumbChristmas Treestatues

They have turned themselves to the blasphemies of their forefathers, which had no lust to hear my word. Even likewise have these also followed strange gods, and worshiped them. The houses of Israel and Judah have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodRefusing To HearDifferent GodsReturning to the oldBreaking The Covenant

For as many cities as thou hast, O Judah, so many gods hast thou also: And look how many streets there be in thee, O Jerusalem: so many shameful altars have ye set up, to offer upon them unto Baal.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryAltars, PaganIncense Offered AmissMany Spiritual Beings

Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You [are] near in their mouths, but far from their {inmost beings}.

Verse ConceptsLipsNominal ReligionRootsMetaphorical PlantingLack Of Meaning

As for me, say I, I have forsaken mine own dwelling place, and left mine heritage. My life also that I love so well, have I given into the hands of mine enemies.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGod Will Cause Defeat

"I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: 'I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.

Verse ConceptsPlucking Out

Then tell them, 'The Lord says, "I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David's dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor.

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Making DrunkThe Dynasty Of Daviddrunkards

Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

Verse ConceptsGod Stripping People

For the ground shall be dried up, because there cometh no rain upon it. The plowmen also shall be ashamed, and shall cover their heads.

Verse ConceptsVeilsShaming People

Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young , because there is no grass.

Verse ConceptsDeersGrassYoung AnimalAnimals ForsakingDeer Etc.Deer

The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinNo Burials

"This shalt thou say also unto them: 'Mine eyes shall weep without ceasing day and night. For my people shall be destroyed with great harm, and shall perish with a great plague.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

If I shall go forth into the field, and behold, the wounded of the sword and if I came into the city, and behold, they shall be sick with famine for also the prophet, also the priest went about to a land they knew not

Verse ConceptsThe CountrysideCities Under AttackUnknown ThingsWicked ProphetsFamine ComingFamine Will Come

I will scatter them about also in all kingdoms and lands to be plagued, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for the things that he did in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Verse ConceptsSitting

Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedDeteriorationimagination

that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsPeople RememberingServing AsherahWorship At Trees

Ye shall be cast out also from the heritage, that I gave you. And I will subdue you under the heavy bondage of your enemies, in a land that ye know not. For ye have ministered fire to my indignation, which shall burn evermore."

Verse ConceptsFaultsLand, As A Divine GiftLossUnknown ThingsAbandoning ThingsServing GroupsInheritanceIdentityculture

Thus, said Yahweh unto me - Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter in, and through which they come out, - also in all the gates of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsGoing Out And Coming In

ye shall bear no burden also out of your houses in the Sabbath: Ye shall do no labour therein, but hallow the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers.

Verse ConceptsSabbath Observed

There shall come men also from the cities of Judah; from about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin; from the plain fields; from the mountains and from the wilderness; which shall bring burnt offerings, sacrifices, oblations, and incense, and offer up thanksgiving in the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsThank OfferingThe Shephelah

Therefore, give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the power of the sword;
And let their wives become childless and widowed.
Let their men also be smitten to death,
Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfFamine KillingApproval To Kill

And that because they have forsaken me, and unhallowed this place, and have offered in it unto strange gods: whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. They have filled this place also with the blood of innocents,

Verse ConceptsMonotheismSacrifice, In OtKilling The InnocentUnknown GodsDifferent Gods

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of ThoughtSanctity Of LifeShrinesBaal Worship, Nature OfChild sacrificeSacrificeKids

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

Verse ConceptsRidicule, Nature OfScoffingDestruction Of JerusalemHissing

I will feed them also with the flesh of their sons and their daughters. Yea every one shall eat up another in the besieging and straightness, wherewith their enemies, that seek their lives, shall keep them in.'

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Thus will I do unto this place also, sayeth the LORD, and to them that dwell therein: yea I will do to this city as unto Tophet.

Verse ConceptsSimilar Items

Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Verse ConceptsOverseers

For, Thus, saith Yahweh - Behold me! making thee a terror to thyself and to all who love thee, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, thine own eyes also, beholding, And all Judah, will I deliver into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon and smite them with the sword.

Verse ConceptsSpectatorsExile In ProspectMade A HorrorGod Will Cause Defeatrelentlessterrorism

I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonTreasure

I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDeath Of CreaturesBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other Groups

“You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Verse ConceptsHell, As Incentive To ActionSpiritually DeadLife And DeathLife After Death

Thus said the LORD also, "Go down in to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there these words,

Verse ConceptsRoyal HousesKings of judah

Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toAliens, God's AttitudeExploitationsBereaved, Care ForSocial JusticeInnocence, Teaching OnOppression, Nature OfOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansOutsidersRighteousness, Of BelieversSanctity Of LifeViolenceWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersSaving PeopleDo Not MurderRobbing PeopleImmigrants

For thus hath the LORD spoken upon the king's house of Judah: Thou art the head, as Gilead is in Lebanon: What wilt thou lay of it, if I make thee and thy cities also not so waste that no man shall dwell therein?

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesWeed

“Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry out also from Abarim,
For all your lovers have been crushed.

“As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet [ring] on My right hand, yet would I pull you (Coniah) off.

Verse ConceptsRingsSealsEvil For The Right HandTaking Other People

I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdFeeding The FlockAll PeopleThose Not FearingMissing Someone

For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguagedrynessPower, HumanCursingDry PlacesDrawbacks To Man's PowerSwearingAbuseadultry

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofImmorality, Examples Of SexualSodom And GomorrahEvildoersWicked ProphetsThose Who Committed Adultery

And the prophet, priest, or people that useth this term, 'the burden of the LORD' - him will I visit, and his house also.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFake Friends

For if you say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’”’

Behold therefore, I will repute you as a burden, and will cast you out of my presence: yea and the city also, that I gave you and your fathers.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentDriven From God's PresenceGod Forgetting

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken Jeconiah [who was also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah [along] with the craftsmen and smiths into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, the Lord showed me [in a vision] two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToCarpentersCraftsmenBlacksmithsKings ExiledTwo Plant Products

"I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: 'King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of IsraelBad Items

This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah. (This was also the first year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.)

Verse ConceptsKings of judah

I'll destroy the sounds of gladness and rejoicing from them, the sounds of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of the hand mill and also the light of the lamp.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesBanishmentMillstonesVoicesCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

When the seventy years are expired, I will visit also the wickedness of the king of Babylon and his people sayeth the LORD: yea, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it a perpetual wilderness,

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Prophecies Of70 To 80 Years

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

Verse ConceptsRepaid For Deeds

all kings toward the north, whether they be far or nigh, everyone with his neighbours; Yea, and all the kingdoms that are upon the whole earth. The king of Sheshach, said he, shall drink with them also.