(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:3 | Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them, they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing.<n id="1" /> If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.8221;<n id="2" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:4 | <p class="bodytext">So Jeremiah summoned Baruch son of Neriah. Then Jeremiah dictated to Baruch everything the <sc>Lordsc> had told him to say and Baruch wrote it all down in a scroll.<n id="1" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:6 | So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast<n id="1" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the <sc>Lordsc> said, which you wrote in the scroll.<n id="2" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:7 | Perhaps then they will ask the <sc>Lordsc> for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing.<n id="1" /> For the <sc>Lordsc> has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people.8221;<n id="2" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:31 | I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done.<n id="1" /> I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.8221;8217;8221;<n id="3" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 36:32 | Then Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. As Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on this scroll everything that had been on the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned in the fire. They also added on this scroll several other messages of the same kind.<n id="1" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal<n id="1" /> son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur<n id="2" /> son of Malkijah had heard<n id="3" /> the things that Jeremiah had been telling the people. They had heard him say, |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:6 | So the officials<n id="1" /> took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern<n id="2" /> of Malkijah, one of the royal princes,<n id="3" /> that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.<n id="4" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:14 | <t /><p class="bodytext">Some time later<n id="1" /> Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah brought to him at the third entrance<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s temple. The king said to Jeremiah, 8220;I would like to ask you a question. Do not hide anything from me when you answer.8221;<n id="3" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:19 | Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, 8220;I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians.<n id="1" /> The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me.8221;<n id="2" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:22 | All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">8216;Your trusted friends misled you;p> <p class="poetry">they have gotten the best of you.p> <p class="poetry">Now that your feet are stuck in the mud,p> <p class="poetry">they have turned their backs on you.8217;<n id="2" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 38:27 | All the officials did indeed come and question Jeremiah.<n id="1" /> He told them exactly what the king had instructed him to say.<n id="2" /> They stopped questioning him any further because no one had actually heard their conversation.<n id="3" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 39:4 | When King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they tried to escape. They departed from the city during the night. They took a path through the king8217;s garden and passed out through the gate between the two walls.<n id="1" /> Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.<n id="2" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 39:9 | Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,<n id="1" /> took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him.<n id="2" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 39:10 | But he<n id="1" /> left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing. He gave them fields and vineyards at that time.p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 40:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah<n id="1" /> after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah.<n id="2" /> He had taken him there in chains<n id="3" /> along with all the people from Jerusalem<n id="4" /> and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon. |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 40:12 | So all these Judeans returned to the land of Judah from the places where they had been scattered. They came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. Thus they harvested a large amount of wine and dates and figs.<n id="1" />p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 41:18 | They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do<n id="1" /> because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country.p> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 42:2 | They said to him, 8220;Please grant our request<n id="1" /> and pray to the <sc>Lordsc> your God for all those of us who are still left alive here.<n id="2" /> For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before.<n id="3" /> |
(0.9167775862069) | Jer 42:4 | The prophet Jeremiah answered them, 8220;Agreed!<n id="1" /> I will indeed pray to the <sc>Lordsc> your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the <sc>Lordsc> replies in response to you.<n id="2" /> I will not keep anything back from you.8221; |