Jeremiah 7-8

English Standard Version

Evil in the Land

7 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²^(A)“Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. ³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(B)Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. ⁴^(C)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

⁵“For if you truly ^(D)amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly ^(E)execute justice one with another, ⁶if you ^(F)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, ^(G)or shed innocent blood in this place, ^(H)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, ⁷^(I)then I will let you dwell in this place, ^(J)in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

⁸“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. ⁹^(K)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, ^(L)swear falsely, ^(M)make offerings to Baal, ^(N)and go after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand before me in this house, ^(O)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? ¹¹^(P)Has this house, ^(Q)which is called by my name, ^(R)become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. ¹²Go now to ^(S)my place that was in Shiloh, ^(T)where I made my name dwell at first, and ^(U)see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. ¹³And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and ^(V)when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and ^(W)when I called you, you did not answer, ¹⁴therefore I will do to ^(X)the house ^(Y)that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, ^(Z)as I did to Shiloh. ¹⁵^(AA)And I will cast you out of my sight, ^(AB)as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of ^(AC)Ephraim.

¹⁶“As for you, ^(AD)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. ¹⁷Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, ^(AE)and the women knead dough, to ^(AF)make cakes for ^(AG)the queen of heaven. And ^(AH)they pour out drink offerings to other gods, ^(AI)to provoke me to anger. ¹⁹^(AJ)Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, ^(AK)to their own shame? ²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(AL)my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; ^(AM)it will burn and not be quenched.”

²¹Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(AN)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. ²²For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^(AO)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²³But this command I gave them: ^(AP)‘Obey my voice, and ^(AQ)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^(AR)And walk in all the way that I command you, ^(AS)that it may be well with you.’ ²⁴^(AT)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(AU)but walked in their own counsels and ^(AV)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(AW)went backward and not forward. ²⁵From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(AX)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. ²⁶^(AY)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(AZ)but stiffened their neck. ^(BA)They did worse than their fathers.

²⁷^(BB)“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. ^(BC)You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. ²⁸And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; ^(BD)truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

²⁹^(BE)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
raise a lamentation on ^(BF)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.’

The Valley of Slaughter

³⁰“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set ^(BG)their detestable things in the house ^(BH)that is called by my name, to ^(BI)defile it. ³¹And they have built the high places of ^(BJ)Topheth, which is in ^(BK)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, ^(BL)to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, ^(BM)which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind. ³²^(BN)Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no more be called ^(BO)Topheth, or ^(BP)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; ^(BQ)for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere. ³³^(BR)And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, ^(BS)and none will frighten them away. ³⁴^(BT)And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(BU)for the land shall become a waste.

8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. ²And they shall be spread ^(BV)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. ^(BW)And they shall not be gathered or buried. ^(BX)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. ³^(BY)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ^(BZ)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Sin and Treachery

⁴“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
^(CA)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
⁵Why then has this people ^(CB)turned away
    in perpetual ^(CC)backsliding?
^(CD)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
⁶^(CE)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    ^(CF)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(CG)the turtledove, ^(CH)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(CI)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

⁸^(CJ)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie.
⁹^(CK)The wise men shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed ^(CL)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    so what wisdom is in them?
¹⁰^(CM)Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone ^(CN)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.
¹¹They have healed ^(CO)the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
    when there is no peace.
¹²Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, ^(CP)they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
^(CQ)Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
    when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.
¹³When I would gather them, declares the Lord,
    there are ^(CR)no grapes on the vine,
    ^(CS)nor figs on the fig tree;
^(CT)even the leaves are withered,
    and what I gave them has passed away from them.”^[c]

¹⁴Why do we sit still?
^(CU)Gather together; ^(CV)let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has ^(CW)given us ^(CX)poisoned water to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵^(CY)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

¹⁶^(CZ)“The snorting of their horses is heard ^(DA)from Dan;
    at the sound of the neighing ^(DB)of their stallions
    ^(DC)the whole land quakes.
They come ^(DD)and devour the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
¹⁷For behold, I am sending among you ^(DE)serpents,
    adders ^(DF)that cannot be charmed,
    ^(DG)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

¹⁸My joy is gone; grief is upon me;^[d]
    ^(DH)my heart is sick within me.
¹⁹Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from ^(DI)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    ^(DJ)Is her King not in her?”
^(DK)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”
²⁰“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
    and we are not saved.”
²¹For the wound of ^(DL)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    ^(DM)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

²²Is there no ^(DN)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?

Footnotes

Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees
Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Jeremiah 7-8

New International Version

False Religion Worthless

7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Stand^(A) at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message:

“‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. ³This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways^(B) and your actions, and I will let you live^(C) in this place. ⁴Do not trust^(D) in deceptive^(E) words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” ⁵If you really change^(F) your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,^(G) ⁶if you do not oppress^(H) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood^(I) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods^(J) to your own harm, ⁷then I will let you live in this place, in the land^(K) I gave your ancestors^(L) for ever and ever. ⁸But look, you are trusting^(M) in deceptive^(N) words that are worthless.

⁹“‘Will you steal^(O) and murder,^(P) commit adultery^(Q) and perjury,^[a]^(R) burn incense to Baal^(S) and follow other gods^(T) you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand^(U) before me in this house,^(V) which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?^(W) ¹¹Has this house,^(X) which bears my Name, become a den of robbers^(Y) to you? But I have been watching!^(Z) declares the Lord.

¹²“‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(AA) where I first made a dwelling^(AB) for my Name,^(AC) and see what I did^(AD) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^(AE) to you again and again,^(AF) but you did not listen;^(AG) I called^(AH) you, but you did not answer.^(AI) ¹⁴Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^(AJ) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^(AK) the temple^(AL) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. ¹⁵I will thrust you from my presence,^(AM) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’^(AN)

¹⁶“So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea^(AO) or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen^(AP) to you. ¹⁷Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven.^(AQ) They pour out drink offerings^(AR) to other gods to arouse^(AS) my anger. ¹⁹But am I the one they are provoking?^(AT) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?^(AU)

²⁰“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign^(AV) Lord says: My anger^(AW) and my wrath will be poured^(AX) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.^(AY)

²¹“‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices^(AZ) and eat^(BA) the meat yourselves! ²²For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands^(BB) about burnt offerings and sacrifices,^(BC) ²³but I gave them this command:^(BD) Obey^(BE) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.^(BF) Walk in obedience to all^(BG) I command you, that it may go well^(BH) with you. ²⁴But they did not listen^(BI) or pay attention;^(BJ) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.^(BK) They went backward^(BL) and not forward. ²⁵From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again^(BM) I sent you my servants^(BN) the prophets.^(BO) ²⁶But they did not listen to me or pay attention.^(BP) They were stiff-necked^(BQ) and did more evil than their ancestors.’^(BR)

²⁷“When you tell^(BS) them all this, they will not listen^(BT) to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.^(BU) ²⁸Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.^(BV) Truth^(BW) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

²⁹“‘Cut off^(BX) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament^(BY) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned^(BZ) this generation that is under his wrath.

The Valley of Slaughter

³⁰“‘The people of Judah have done evil^(CA) in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols^(CB) in the house that bears my Name and have defiled^(CC) it. ³¹They have built the high places of Topheth^(CD) in the Valley of Ben Hinnom^(CE) to burn their sons and daughters^(CF) in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.^(CG) ³²So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter,^(CH) for they will bury^(CI) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. ³³Then the carcasses^(CJ) of this people will become food^(CK) for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.^(CL) ³⁴I will bring an end to the sounds^(CM) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom^(CN) in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem,^(CO) for the land will become desolate.^(CP)

8 “‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones^(CQ) of the people of Jerusalem will be removed^(CR) from their graves. ²They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served^(CS) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.^(CT) They will not be gathered up or buried,^(CU) but will be like dung lying on the ground.^(CV) ³Wherever I banish them,^(CW) all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life,^(CX) declares the Lord Almighty.’

Sin and Punishment

⁴“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘When people fall down, do they not get up?^(CY)
    When someone turns away,^(CZ) do they not return?
⁵Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;^(DA)
    they refuse to return.^(DB)
⁶I have listened^(DC) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(DD) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(DE)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(DF)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(DG) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
⁹The wise^(DH) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed^(DI) and trapped.^(DJ)
Since they have rejected the word^(DK) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom^(DL) do they have?
¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to other men
    and their fields to new owners.^(DM)
From the least to the greatest,
    all are greedy for gain;^(DN)
prophets^(DO) and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.^(DP)
¹¹They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
    when there is no peace.^(DQ)
¹²Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame^(DR) at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when they are punished,^(DS)
says the Lord.^(DT)

¹³“‘I will take away their harvest,
declares the Lord.
    There will be no grapes on the vine.^(DU)
There will be no figs^(DV) on the tree,
    and their leaves will wither.^(DW)
What I have given them
    will be taken^(DX) from them.^[b]’”

¹⁴Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities^(DY)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water^(DZ) to drink,
    because we have sinned^(EA) against him.
¹⁵We hoped for peace^(EB)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.^(EC)
¹⁶The snorting of the enemy’s horses^(ED)
    is heard from Dan;^(EE)
at the neighing of their stallions
    the whole land trembles.^(EF)
They have come to devour^(EG)
    the land and everything in it,
    the city and all who live there.

¹⁷“See, I will send venomous snakes^(EH) among you,
vipers that cannot be charmed,^(EI)
and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁸You who are my Comforter^[c] in sorrow,
    my heart is faint^(EJ) within me.
¹⁹Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:^(EK)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King^(EL) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused^(EM) my anger with their images,
with their worthless^(EN) foreign idols?”^(EO)

²⁰“The harvest is past,
the summer has ended,
and we are not saved.”

²¹Since my people are crushed,^(EP) I am crushed;
    I mourn,^(EQ) and horror grips me.
²²Is there no balm in Gilead?^(ER)
    Is there no physician^(ES) there?
Why then is there no healing^(ET)
    for the wound of my people?

Footnotes

Jeremiah 7:9 Or and swear by false gods
Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
Jeremiah 8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Jeremiah 26

English Standard Version

Jeremiah Threatened with Death

26 ^(A)In the beginning of the reign of ^(B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord: ²“Thus says the Lord: ^(C)Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord ^(D)all the words that I command you to speak to them; ^(E)do not hold back a word. ³^(F)It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, ^(G)that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them ^(H)because of their evil deeds. ⁴You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(I)If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, ⁵^(J)and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you ^(K)urgently, ^(L)though you have not listened, ⁶then I will make this house ^(M)like Shiloh, and I will make this city ^(N)a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

⁷^(O)The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. ⁸And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then ^(P)the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! ⁹Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be ^(Q)like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, ^(R)without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

¹⁰When ^(S)the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the ^(T)entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord. ¹¹Then ^(U)the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, ^(V)“This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

¹²Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard. ¹³Now therefore ^(W)mend your ways and your deeds, ^(X)and obey the voice of the Lord your God, ^(Y)and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. ¹⁴^(Z)But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you. ¹⁵Only know for certain that if you put me to death, ^(AA)you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

Jeremiah Spared from Death

¹⁶^(AB)Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, ^(AC)“This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” ¹⁷^(AD)And certain of ^(AE)the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying, ¹⁸“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

^(AF)“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

¹⁹Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? ^(AG)Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, ^(AH)and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? ^(AI)But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”

²⁰There was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from ^(AJ)Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah. ²¹And when ^(AK)King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. ²²Then ^(AL)King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, ^(AM)Elnathan the son of ^(AN)Achbor and others with him, ²³and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, ^(AO)who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

²⁴But the hand of ^(AP)Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

Jeremiah 26

New International Version

Jeremiah Threatened With Death

26 Early in the reign of Jehoiakim^(A) son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the Lord: ²“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard^(B) of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord.^(C) Tell^(D) them everything I command you; do not omit^(E) a word. ³Perhaps they will listen and each will turn^(F) from their evil ways. Then I will relent^(G) and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. ⁴Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen^(H) to me and follow my law,^(I) which I have set before you, ⁵and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened^(J)), ⁶then I will make this house like Shiloh^(K) and this city a curse^[a]^(L) among all the nations of the earth.’”

⁷The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the Lord. ⁸But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded^(M) him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized^(N) him and said, “You must die!^(O) ⁹Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?”^(P) And all the people crowded^(Q) around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

¹⁰When the officials^(R) of Judah heard about these things, they went up from the royal palace to the house of the Lord and took their places at the entrance of the New Gate^(S) of the Lord’s house. ¹¹Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man should be sentenced to death^(T) because he has prophesied against this city. You have heard it with your own ears!”^(U)

¹²Then Jeremiah said to all the officials^(V) and all the people: “The Lord sent me to prophesy^(W) against this house and this city all the things you have heard.^(X) ¹³Now reform^(Y) your ways and your actions and obey^(Z) the Lord your God. Then the Lord will relent^(AA) and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you. ¹⁴As for me, I am in your hands;^(AB) do with me whatever you think is good and right. ¹⁵Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood^(AC) on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words^(AD) in your hearing.”

¹⁶Then the officials^(AE) and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man should not be sentenced to death!^(AF) He has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

¹⁷Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people, ¹⁸“Micah^(AG) of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“‘Zion^(AH) will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(AI)
the temple hill^(AJ) a mound overgrown with thickets.’^[b]^(AK)

¹⁹“Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah^(AL) fear the Lord and seek^(AM) his favor? And did not the Lord relent,^(AN) so that he did not bring the disaster^(AO) he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster^(AP) on ourselves!”

²⁰(Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim^(AQ) was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord; he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did. ²¹When King Jehoiakim^(AR) and all his officers and officials^(AS) heard his words, the king was determined to put him to death.^(AT) But Uriah heard of it and fled^(AU) in fear to Egypt. ²²King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan^(AV) son of Akbor to Egypt, along with some other men. ²³They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword^(AW) and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)^(AX)

²⁴Furthermore, Ahikam^(AY) son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 26:6 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.
Jeremiah 26:18 Micah 3:12

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Evil in the Land

The Valley of Slaughter

Sin and Treachery

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

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False Religion Worthless

The Valley of Slaughter

Sin and Punishment

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Jeremiah 26

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Jeremiah Threatened with Death

Jeremiah Spared from Death

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Jeremiah Threatened With Death

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Evil in the Land

The Valley of Slaughter

Sin and Treachery

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

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False Religion Worthless

The Valley of Slaughter

Sin and Punishment

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Jeremiah 26 English Standard Version

Jeremiah Threatened with Death

Jeremiah Spared from Death

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Jeremiah Threatened With Death

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Jeremiah 26

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