²⁷ Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.

²⁸ And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

³⁰ But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

³¹ Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

³⁵ Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

³⁶ If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

³⁷ Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.

³⁸ Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner.

³⁹ And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,

⁴⁰ And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes, and all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.

32 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of Sedecias king of Juda: the same is eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.

² At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of Juda.

³ For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?

⁴ And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes.

⁵ And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be there till I visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the Chaldeans, you shall have no success.

⁶ And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

⁷ Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to buy it, being akin.

⁸ And Hanameel my uncle's son cam to me, according to the word of the to the entry of the prison, and said me: Buy my field, which is in in the land of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thins, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I understood this was the word of the Lord.

⁹ And I bought the held of my uncle's son, that is in Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.

¹⁰ And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.

¹¹ And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and the stipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the outside.

¹² And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neri the son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

¹³ And I charged Baruch before them, saying:

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these writings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed that is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

¹⁶ And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:

¹⁷ Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:

¹⁸ Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

¹⁹ Great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

²⁰ Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as at this day.

²¹ And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror.

²² And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.

²³ And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon them.

²⁴ Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.

²⁵ And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans?

²⁶ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:

²⁷ Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be hard for me?

²⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.

³⁰ For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.

³¹ For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

³² Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³³ And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would not hearken to receive instruction.

³⁴ And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is called upon, to defile it.

³⁵ And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.

³⁶ And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to this city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence:

³⁷ Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.

³⁸ And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.

⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

⁴¹ And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

⁴² For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all this great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now speak to them.

⁴³ And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

⁴⁴ Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be written, and sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith the Lord.

3 A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

² It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

³ Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

⁴ One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

⁵ But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

⁶ Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

⁷ Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁸ Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁹ Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

¹¹ The women in like manner chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

¹² Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.

¹³ For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.

¹⁵ But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

¹⁶ And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

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88 Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

² The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

³ For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

⁴ I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

⁵ Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

⁶ The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

⁷ For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

⁸ God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

⁹ O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

¹⁰ Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

¹¹ Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

¹² Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

¹³ The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

¹⁴ Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

¹⁵ Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

¹⁶ Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

¹⁷ And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.

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²⁰ And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

²¹ If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

²² For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will reward thee.

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