21 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying, 2 “Inquire of the Lord for u...  Read More

13          Sing to the Lord;praise the Lord!                        For he has delivered the life of the needyfrom the hand of evildoers.            14          Cursed be the dayon which I was born! ...  Read More

7           O Lord, you have deceived me,and I was deceived;                        you are stronger than I,and you have prevailed.                        I have become a laughingstock all the day;eve...  Read More

20 Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2 Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stock...  Read More

10 “Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s ...  Read More

19 Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, 2 and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the en...  Read More

19          Hear me, O Lord,and listen to the voice of my adversaries.            20          Should good be repaid with evil?Yet they have dug a pit for my life.                        Remember how I...  Read More

18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the t...  Read More

24 “‘But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 25 then there shall enter by t...  Read More

19 Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, ...  Read More

14          Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;save me, and I shall be saved,for you are my praise.            15          Behold, they say to me,“Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come!”      ...  Read More

9           The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately sick;who can understand it?            10          “I the Lord search the heartand test the mind,                        to give eve...  Read More