“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. And they shall be spread (A)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. (B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family (E)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Sin and Treachery

“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
(F)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
Why then has this people (G)turned away
    in perpetual (H)backsliding?
(I)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
(J)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,
    (K)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and (L)the turtledove, (M)swallow, and crane[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
(N)but my people know not
    the rules[b] of the Lord.

(O)“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.
(P)The wise men shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed (Q)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    so what wisdom is in them?
10 (R)Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone (S)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.
11 They have healed (T)the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
    when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, (U)they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
(V)Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
    when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.
13 When I would gather them, declares the Lord,
    there are (W)no grapes on the vine,
    (X)nor figs on the fig tree;
(Y)even the leaves are withered,
    and what I gave them has passed away from them.”[c]

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

16 (AE)“The snorting of their horses is heard (AF)from Dan;
    at the sound of the neighing (AG)of their stallions
    (AH)the whole land quakes.
They come (AI)and devour the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
17 For behold, I am sending among you (AJ)serpents,
    adders (AK)that cannot be charmed,
    (AL)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;[d]
    (AM)my heart is sick within me.
19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (AN)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (AO)Is her King not in her?”
(AP)“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.”
21 For the wound of (AQ)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    (AR)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

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

Footnotes

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

The Wedding at Cana

On (A)the third day there was a wedding at (B)Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with (C)his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, (D)“Woman, (E)what does this have to do with me? (F)My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Now there were six stone water jars there (G)for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty (H)gallons.[a] Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted (I)the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested (J)his glory. And (K)his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and (L)his brothers[b] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

13 (M)The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus (N)went up to Jerusalem. 14 (O)In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make (P)my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, (Q)“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, (R)“What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, (S)“Destroy this temple, and in three days (T)I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,[c] and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about (U)the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, (V)his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed (W)the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus Knows What Is in Man

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name (X)when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus (Y)on his part did not entrust himself to them, because (Z)he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for (AA)he himself knew what was in man.

Footnotes

  1. John 2:6 Greek two or three measures (metrētas); a metrētēs was about 10 gallons or 35 liters
  2. John 2:12 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
  3. John 2:20 Or This temple was built forty-six years ago

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