Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Moreover, all the Judeans who were in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other countries heard what had happened. They heard that the king of Babylon had allowed some people to stay in Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, to govern them.

Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah will take possession of it. By the sea they will graze, in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord their God will intervene for them and restore their prosperity.

“I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750.

Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

The Lord rules forever! The nations are driven out of his land.

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

For the sake of your reputation, O Lord, forgive my sin, because it is great.

Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!

A song of ascents. O Lord, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

The righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked turns up in his stead.

by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.