Jeremiah 12-14

English Standard Version

Jeremiah's Complaint

12 ^(A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
    when I complain to you;
    yet I would plead my case before you.
^(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
    Why do all ^(C)who are treacherous thrive?
²You plant them, and they take root;
    they grow and produce fruit;
^(D)you are near in their mouth
    and far from their heart.
³^(E)But you, O Lord, know me;
    ^(F)you see me, and test my heart toward you.
^(G)Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
    and set them apart for ^(H)the day of slaughter.
⁴^(I)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
^(J)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    ^(K)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

The Lord Answers Jeremiah

⁵“If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you,
    how will you compete with horses?
And if in a safe land you are so trusting,
    what will you do in ^(L)the thicket of the Jordan?
⁶For ^(M)even your brothers and the house of your father,
    ^(N)even they have dealt treacherously with you;
    they are in full cry after you;
^(O)do not believe them,
    though they speak friendly words to you.”

⁷“I have forsaken my house;
    I have abandoned ^(P)my heritage;
I have given ^(Q)the beloved of my soul
    into the hands of her enemies.
⁸^(R)My heritage has become to me
    like a lion in the forest;
she has lifted up her voice against me;
    therefore I hate her.
⁹Is ^(S)my heritage to me like ^(T)a hyena's lair?
    Are the ^(U)birds of prey against her all around?
Go, ^(V)assemble all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.
¹⁰Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
    ^(W)they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
    a desolate wilderness.
¹¹They have made it a desolation;
    desolate, ^(X)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
    ^(Y)but no man lays it to heart.
¹²Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.
¹³^(Z)They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
    ^(AA)they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their^[a] harvests
    ^(AB)because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

¹⁴Thus says the Lord concerning all ^(AC)my evil neighbors ^(AD)who touch the heritage that ^(AE)I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. ¹⁵And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, ^(AF)and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. ¹⁶And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, ^(AG)to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, ^(AH)then they shall be built up in the midst of my people. ¹⁷^(AI)But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the Lord.”

The Ruined Loincloth

13 Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and ^(AJ)put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.” ²So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist. ³And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, ⁴“Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, ^(AK)go to the Euphrates and hide it there in ^(AL)a cleft of the rock.” ⁵So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. ⁶And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there ^(AM)the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” ⁷Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took ^(AN)the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was ^(AO)spoiled; it was ^(AP)good for nothing.

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹“Thus says the Lord: ^(AQ)Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great ^(AR)pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, ^(AS)who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is ^(AT)good for nothing. ¹¹For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, ^(AU)that they might be for me a people, ^(AV)a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

The Jars Filled with Wine

¹²“You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that ^(AW)every jar will be filled with wine?’ ¹³Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(AX)Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: ^(AY)the kings who sit on David's throne, ^(AZ)the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁴And I will ^(BA)dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”

Exile Threatened

¹⁵Hear and give ear; be not proud,
    for the Lord has spoken.
¹⁶^(BB)Give glory to the Lord your God
    ^(BC)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
    on the twilight mountains,
and ^(BD)while you look for light
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it ^(BE)deep darkness.
¹⁷But if you will not listen,
    ^(BF)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
    because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

¹⁸Say to ^(BG)the king and ^(BH)the queen mother:
    “Take a lowly seat,
for ^(BI)your beautiful crown
    has come down from your head.”
¹⁹^(BJ)The cities of the Negeb are shut up,
    with none to open them;
all Judah is taken into exile,
    wholly taken into exile.

²⁰“Lift up your eyes ^(BK)and see
    those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
    your beautiful flock?
²¹What will you say when they set as head over you
    those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
^(BL)Will not pangs take hold of you
    like those of a woman in labor?
²²And if you say in your heart,
    ^(BM)‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that ^(BN)your skirts are lifted up
    and you suffer violence.
²³^(BO)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or ^(BP)the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
²⁴I will scatter you^[b] ^(BQ)like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.
²⁵^(BR)This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because ^(BS)you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.
²⁶^(BT)I myself will lift up your skirts over your face,
    and your shame will be seen.
²⁷I have seen ^(BU)your abominations,
    your adulteries and ^(BV)neighings, your lewd whorings,
    ^(BW)on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will it be ^(BX)before you are made clean?”

Famine, Sword, and Pestilence

14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning ^(BY)the drought:

²^(BZ)“Judah mourns,
    and ^(CA)her gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
    and ^(CB)the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
³Her nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty;
they are ^(CC)ashamed and confounded
    and ^(CD)cover their heads.
⁴Because of the ground that is dismayed,
    since there is ^(CE)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
    they cover their heads.
⁵Even ^(CF)the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.
⁶^(CG)The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
    they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
    because there is no vegetation.

⁷“Though our iniquities testify against us,
    act, O Lord, ^(CH)for your name's sake;
^(CI)for our backslidings are many;
    ^(CJ)we have sinned against you.
⁸^(CK)O you hope of Israel,
    its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
    like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
⁹Why should you be like a man confused,
    ^(CL)like a mighty warrior who cannot save?
Yet ^(CM)you, O Lord, are in the midst of us,
    and ^(CN)we are called by your name;
    ^(CO)do not leave us.”

¹⁰Thus says the Lord concerning this people:
“They have loved to wander thus;
    they have not restrained their feet;
^(CP)therefore the Lord does not accept them;
    ^(CQ)now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins.”

¹¹The Lord said to me: ^(CR)“Do not pray for the welfare of this people. ¹²Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, ^(CS)and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them ^(CT)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Lying Prophets

¹³Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets ^(CU)say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” ¹⁴And the Lord said to me: “The ^(CV)prophets are prophesying lies in my name. ^(CW)I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, ^(CX)worthless divination, and ^(CY)the deceit of their own minds. ¹⁵Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although ^(CZ)I did not send them, and who say, ^(DA)‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: ^(DB)By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. ¹⁶And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, ^(DC)with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.

¹⁷“You shall say to them this word:
^(DD)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin ^(DE)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    ^(DF)with a very grievous blow.
¹⁸^(DG)If I go out into the field,
    behold, those pierced by the sword!
^(DH)And if I enter the city,
    behold, the diseases of famine!
^(DI)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
    and have no knowledge.’”

¹⁹^(DJ)Have you utterly rejected Judah?
    Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us down
    ^(DK)so that there is no healing for us?
^(DL)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    ^(DM)for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
²⁰^(DN)We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord,
    and the iniquity of our fathers,
    ^(DO)for we have sinned against you.
²¹Do not spurn us, ^(DP)for your name's sake;
    do not dishonor your glorious throne;
    ^(DQ)remember and do not break your covenant with us.
²²Are there any among ^(DR)the false gods of the nations ^(DS)that can bring rain?
    Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
    We set our hope on you,
    ^(DT)for you do all these things.

Notas al pie

Jeremiah 12:13 Hebrew your
Jeremiah 13:24 Hebrew them

John 9

English Standard Version

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ²And his disciples asked him, ^(A)“Rabbi, ^(B)who sinned, ^(C)this man or ^(D)his parents, that he was born blind?” ³Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but ^(E)that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴We must ^(F)work the works of him who sent me ^(G)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, ^(H)I am the light of the world.” ⁶Having said these things, ^(I)he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. ^(J)Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud ⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in ^(K)the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ^(L)came back seeing.

⁸The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^(M)“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He answered, ^(N)“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹²They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ¹⁴^(O)Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵^(P)So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^(Q)from God, ^(R)for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^(S)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^(T)there was a division among them. ¹⁷So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^(U)“He is a prophet.”

¹⁸^(V)The Jews^[a] did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ²²(His parents said these things ^(W)because they feared the Jews, for ^(X)the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^(Y)confess Jesus^[b] to be Christ, ^(Z)he was to be put out of the synagogue.) ²³Therefore his parents said, ^(AA)“He is of age; ask him.”

²⁴So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ^(AB)“Give glory to God. We know that ^(AC)this man is a sinner.” ²⁵He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I ^(AD)was blind, now I see.” ²⁶They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷He answered them, ^(AE)“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” ²⁸And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but ^(AF)we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ^(AG)we do not know where he comes from.” ³⁰The man answered, “Why, this is ^(AH)an amazing thing! ^(AI)You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that ^(AJ)God does not listen to sinners, but ^(AK)if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. ³²Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ³³^(AL)If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴They answered him, ^(AM)“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they ^(AN)cast him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in ^(AO)the Son of Man?”^[c] ³⁶He answered, ^(AP)“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and ^(AQ)it is he who is speaking to you.” ³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹Jesus said, ^(AR)“For judgment I came into this world, ^(AS)that those who do not see may see, and ^(AT)those who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^(AU)“Are we also blind?” ⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, ^(AV)you would have no guilt;^[d] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

Notas al pie

John 9:18 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 22
John 9:22 Greek him
John 9:35 Some manuscripts the Son of God
John 9:41 Greek you would not have sin