The Beloved to Her Lover: Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit.

Where now are the prophets who prophesied to you that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?

So Jeremiah remained confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem was captured.The following events occurred when Jerusalem was captured.

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Moab and Seir say, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations.”

And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!

I have appointed a time to reap judgment for you also, O Judah!Whenever I want to restore the fortunes of my people,

Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.