He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the Lord’s spokesman.

Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.

For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, “Flee to a mountain like a bird!

Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.

The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say, ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’

Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the Lord goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.

There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?

Now Pashhur son of Immer heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. He was the priest who was chief of security in the Lord’s temple.

For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”’

But he left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing. He gave them fields and vineyards at that time.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.

Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

I will send fire on Magog and those who live securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am the Lord.

He rescues and delivers and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”

The crown will then be turned over to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.