22 Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, and say, (A)‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates. Thus says the Lord: (B)Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And (C)do no wrong or violence (D)to the resident alien, (E)the fatherless, and the widow, nor (F)shed innocent blood in this place. For if you will indeed obey this word, (G)then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you will not obey these words, I (H)swear by myself, declares the Lord, that (I)this house shall become a desolation. For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“‘You are like Gilead to me,
    like the summit of (J)Lebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
    (K)an uninhabited city.[a]
(L)I will prepare destroyers against you,
    each with his weapons,
(M)and they shall cut down your choicest cedars
    and cast them into the fire.

“‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, (N)“Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?” (O)And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”

10 (P)Weep not for him who is dead,
    nor grieve for him,
(Q)but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
    for he shall return no more
    to see his native land.

Message to the Sons of Josiah

11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and (R)who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more, 12 but (S)in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”

13 (T)“Woe to him who builds his house by (U)unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice,
(V)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
    and does not give him his wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar
    and (W)painting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and (X)do justice and righteousness?
    (Y)Then it was well with him.
16 (Z)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    (AA)then it was well.
Is not this (AB)to know me?
    declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
(AC)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(AD)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (AE)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (AF)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (AG)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
    and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from (AH)Abarim,
    for all (AI)your lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(AJ)This has been your way from (AK)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 (AL)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
    and (AM)your lovers shall go into captivity;
(AN)then you will be ashamed and confounded
    because of all your evil.
23 O inhabitant of (AO)Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
    (AP)pain as of a woman in labor!”

24 (AQ)“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were (AR)the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and (AS)give you (AT)into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 (AU)I will hurl you and (AV)the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”

28 Is this man (AW)Coniah a despised, broken pot,
    a (AX)vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
    into a (AY)land that they do not know?
29 (AZ)O land, land, land,
    hear the word of the Lord!
30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as (BA)childless,
    a man who shall not succeed in his days,
(BB)for none of his offspring shall succeed
    (BC)in sitting on the throne of David
    and ruling again in Judah.”

The Righteous Branch

23 (BD)“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning (BE)the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. (BF)Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord. (BG)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock (BH)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, (BI)and they shall be fruitful and multiply. (BJ)I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord.

(BK)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous (BL)Branch, and (BM)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and (BN)Israel will (BO)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (BP)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

(BQ)“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he[b] had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

Lying Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

(BR)My heart is broken within me;
    (BS)all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.
10 (BT)For the land is full of adulterers;
    (BU)because of the curse (BV)the land mourns,
    and (BW)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
(BX)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.
11 (BY)“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even (BZ)in my house I have found their evil,
declares the Lord.
12 (CA)Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths (CB)in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    (CC)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of (CD)Samaria
    (CE)I saw an unsavory thing:
(CF)they prophesied by Baal
    (CG)and led my people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
(CH)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    (CI)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his evil;
(CJ)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    (CK)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
(CL)“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
    (CM)and give them (CN)poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, (CO)filling you with vain hopes. (CP)They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, (CQ)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who (CR)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, (CS)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

18 For (CT)who among them has stood in the council of the Lord
    to see and to hear his word,
    or who has paid attention to his word and listened?
19 (CU)Behold, the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
(CV)a whirling tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
20 (CW)The anger of the Lord will not turn back
    until he has executed and (CX)accomplished
    the intents of his heart.
(CY)In the latter days you will understand it clearly.

21 (CZ)“I did not send the prophets,
    yet they ran;
I did not speak to them,
    yet they prophesied.
22 (DA)But if they had stood in my council,
    then they would have proclaimed my words to my people,
(DB)and they would have turned them from their evil way,
    and (DC)from the evil of their deeds.

23 (DD)“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? 24 (DE)Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. (DF)Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord. 25 I have heard what the prophets have said (DG)who prophesy lies in my name, saying, (DH)‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long shall there be lies in the heart of (DI)the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, 27 who think to make my people forget my name (DJ)by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their (DK)fathers forgot my name for Baal? 28 (DL)Let the prophet who has a dream (DM)tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. (DN)What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord. 29 (DO)Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and (DP)like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? 30 (DQ)Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and (DR)lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when (DS)I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

33 (DT)“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden,[c] and (DU)I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’ 34 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ (DV)I will punish that man and his household. 35 Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 36 But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and (DW)you pervert the words of (DX)the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God. 37 Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ 38 But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the Lord,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’” 39 therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up[d] and (DY)cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers. 40 (DZ)And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and (EA)perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’”

The Good Figs and the Bad Figs

24 (EB)After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem (EC)Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with (ED)the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, (EE)two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. One basket had very good figs, (EF)like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had (EG)very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, (EH)whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. (EI)I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. (EJ)I will build them up, and not tear them down; (EK)I will plant them, and not pluck them up. (EL)I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, (EM)and they shall be my people (EN)and I will be their God, (EO)for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

“But thus says the Lord: Like (EP)the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat (EQ)Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who (ER)dwell in the land of Egypt. I will make them (ES)a horror[e] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (ET)a reproach, (EU)a byword, (EV)a taunt, and (EW)a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send (EX)sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:6 Hebrew cities
  2. Jeremiah 23:8 Septuagint; Hebrew I
  3. Jeremiah 23:33 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew What burden?
  4. Jeremiah 23:39 Or surely forget you
  5. Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

After this there was a (A)feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem by (B)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a] called Bethesda,[b] which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and (C)paralyzed.[c] One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, (D)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” (E)And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

(F)Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews[d] said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and (G)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (H)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! (I)Sin no more, (J)that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews (K)were persecuting Jesus, (L)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews (M)were seeking all the more to kill him, (N)because not only was he (O)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God (P)his own Father, (Q)making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (R)the Son (S)can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father[e] does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For (T)the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And (U)greater works than these will he show him, so that (V)you may marvel. 21 For as the Father (W)raises the dead and (X)gives them life, so (Y)also the Son gives life (Z)to whom he will. 22 (AA)For the Father judges no one, but (AB)has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they (AC)honor the Father. (AD)Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, (AE)whoever hears my word and (AF)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He (AG)does not come into judgment, but (AH)has passed from death to life.

25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, (AI)an hour is coming, and is now here, when (AJ)the dead will hear (AK)the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear (AL)will live. 26 (AM)For as the Father has life in himself, (AN)so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he (AO)has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for (AP)an hour is coming when (AQ)all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, (AR)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

30 (AS)“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and (AT)my judgment is just, because (AU)I seek not my own will (AV)but the will of him who sent me. 31 (AW)If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is (AX)another who bears witness about me, and (AY)I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. 33 (AZ)You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Not that (BA)the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and (BB)shining lamp, and (BC)you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36 But (BD)the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For (BE)the works that the Father has given me (BF)to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, (BG)bear witness about me that (BH)the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me (BI)has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, (BJ)his form you have never seen, 38 and (BK)you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. 39 (BL)You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and (BM)it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet (BN)you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 41 (BO)I do not receive glory from people. 42 But (BP)I know that you do not have (BQ)the love of God within you. 43 I have come (BR)in my Father's name, and (BS)you do not receive me. (BT)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and (BU)do not seek the glory that comes from (BV)the only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, (BW)on whom you have set your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for (BX)he wrote of me. 47 But (BY)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Or Hebrew
  2. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethsaida
  3. John 5:3 Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water; 4for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had
  4. John 5:10 The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed Jesus in that time; also verses 15, 16, 18
  5. John 5:19 Greek he

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