- 1 Jeremiah 1 1 Jeremiah 1 (19 verses in the MT) opens: The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: The middle of the chapter continues: See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. It closes: And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I with you, says YHWH, to deliver you.
- 2 Jeremiah 2 2 Jeremiah 2 (37 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that an evil and bitter, that you have forsaken YHWH your God, and that my fear not in you, says YHWH YHWH of hosts. It closes: Yea, you shall go forth from him, and your hands upon your head: for YHWH has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in them.
- 3 Jeremiah 3 3 Jeremiah 3 (25 verses in the MT) opens: They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return. The middle of the chapter continues: Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against YHWH your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says YHWH. It closes: We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against YHWH our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of YHWH our God.
- 4 Jeremiah 4 4 Jeremiah 4 (31 verses in the MT) opens: If you will return, O Israel, says YHWH, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove. The middle of the chapter continues: Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. It closes: For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, bewaileth herself, spreadeth her hands, , Woe me now! for my soul is.
- 5 Jeremiah 5 5 Jeremiah 5 (31 verses in the MT) opens: Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. The middle of the chapter continues: Their quiver as an open sepulchre, they all mighty men. It closes: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
- 6 Jeremiah 6 6 Jeremiah 6 (30 verses in the MT) opens: O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. The middle of the chapter continues: Thus says YHWH, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk . It closes: Reprobate silver shall call them, because YHWH has rejected them.
- 7 Jeremiah 7 7 Jeremiah 7 (34 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. It closes: Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be.
- 8 Jeremiah 8 8 Jeremiah 8 (23 verses in the MT) opens: At that time, says YHWH, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The middle of the chapter continues: Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast. It closes: Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- 9 Jeremiah 9 9 Jeremiah 9 (25 verses in the MT) opens: Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. The middle of the chapter continues: But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: It closes: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all nations uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in the heart.
- 10 Jeremiah 10 10 Jeremiah 10 (25 verses in the MT) opens: Hear you the word which YHWH speaketh to you, O house of Israel: The middle of the chapter continues: When he uttereth his voice, a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. It closes: Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
- 11 Jeremiah 11 11 Jeremiah 11 (23 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. It closes: And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.
- 12 Jeremiah 12 12 Jeremiah 12 (17 verses in the MT) opens: Righteous you, O YHWH, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? are all they happy that deal very treacherously? The middle of the chapter continues: Mine heritage to me a speckled bird, the birds round about against her; come you, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. It closes: But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says YHWH.
- 13 Jeremiah 13 13 Jeremiah 13 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH to me, Go and get you a linen girdle, and put it upon your loins, and put it not in water. The middle of the chapter continues: And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says YHWH: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. It closes: I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when once ?
- 14 Jeremiah 14 14 Jeremiah 14 (22 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. The middle of the chapter continues: When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. It closes: Are there among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? not you he, O YHWH our God? therefore we will wait upon you: for you have made all these .
- 15 Jeremiah 15 15 Jeremiah 15 (21 verses in the MT) opens: Then said YHWH to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my mind not toward this people: cast out of my sight, and let them go forth. The middle of the chapter continues: YHWH said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. It closes: And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
- 16 Jeremiah 16 16 Jeremiah 16 (21 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came also to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Then shall you say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says YHWH, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; It closes: Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name YHWH.
- 17 Jeremiah 17 17 Jeremiah 17 (27 verses in the MT) opens: The sin of Judah written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond: graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; The middle of the chapter continues: Heal me, O YHWH, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you my praise. It closes: But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour.
- 18 Jeremiah 18 18 Jeremiah 18 (23 verses in the MT) opens: The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. It closes: Yet, YHWH, you knowest all their counsel against me to slay : forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
- 19 Jeremiah 19 19 Jeremiah 19 (15 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; The middle of the chapter continues: And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. It closes: Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my.
- 20 Jeremiah 20 20 Jeremiah 20 (18 verses in the MT) opens: Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who also chief governor in the house of YHWH, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. The middle of the chapter continues: For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, , and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, , Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our. It closes: Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- 21 Jeremiah 21 21 Jeremiah 21 (14 verses in the MT) opens: The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And to this people you shall say, Thus says YHWH; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. It closes: But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says YHWH: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
- 22 Jeremiah 22 22 Jeremiah 22 (30 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, The middle of the chapter continues: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then well not this to know me? says YHWH. It closes: Thus says YHWH, Write you this man childless, a man shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
- 23 Jeremiah 23 23 Jeremiah 23 (40 verses in the MT) opens: Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says YHWH. The middle of the chapter continues: I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. It closes: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
- 24 Jeremiah 24 24 Jeremiah 24 (10 verses in the MT) opens: YHWH shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of YHWH, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah. The middle of the chapter continues: For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull down; and I will plant them, and not pluck up. It closes: And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
- 25 Jeremiah 25 25 Jeremiah 25 (38 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; The middle of the chapter continues: And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, It closes: He has forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
- 26 Jeremiah 26 26 Jeremiah 26 (24 verses in the MT) opens: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of YHWH your God; and YHWH will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you. It closes: Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
- 27 Jeremiah 27 27 Jeremiah 27 (22 verses in the MT) opens: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. It closes: They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, says YHWH; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
- 28 Jeremiah 28 28 Jeremiah 28 (17 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which of Gibeon, spake to me in the house of. The middle of the chapter continues: The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, shall the prophet be known, that YHWH has truly sent him. It closes: So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
- 29 Jeremiah 29 29 Jeremiah 29 (32 verses in the MT) opens: Now these the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom. The middle of the chapter continues: Thus says YHWH of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. It closes: Therefore thus says YHWH; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, says YHWH.
- 30 Jeremiah 30 30 Jeremiah 30 (24 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines. It closes: The fierce anger of YHWH shall not return, until he have done , and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.
- 31 Jeremiah 31 31 Jeremiah 31 (40 verses in the MT) opens: At the same time, says YHWH, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. The middle of the chapter continues: Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, the way you wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. It closes: And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, holy to YHWH; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more.
- 32 Jeremiah 32 32 Jeremiah 32 (44 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. The middle of the chapter continues: And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commandedst them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them: It closes: Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal , and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in.
- 33 Jeremiah 33 33 Jeremiah 33 (26 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. It closes: Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, that I will not take of his seed rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
- 34 Jeremiah 34 34 Jeremiah 34 (22 verses in the MT) opens: The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the. The middle of the chapter continues: Therefore the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, It closes: Behold, I will command, says YHWH, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
- 35 Jeremiah 35 35 Jeremiah 35 (19 verses in the MT) opens: The word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. It closes: Therefore thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
- 36 Jeremiah 36 36 Jeremiah 36 (32 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst you write all these words at his mouth? It closes: Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and.
- 37 Jeremiah 37 37 Jeremiah 37 (21 verses in the MT) opens: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. The middle of the chapter continues: And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, It closes: Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent.
- 38 Jeremiah 38 38 Jeremiah 38 (28 verses in the MT) opens: Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, will you not hearken to me? It closes: So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was when Jerusalem was taken.
- 39 Jeremiah 39 39 Jeremiah 39 (18 verses in the MT) opens: In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. The middle of the chapter continues: But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. It closes: For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you: because you have put your trust in me, says YHWH.
- 40 Jeremiah 40 40 Jeremiah 40 (16 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and. The middle of the chapter continues: And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware to them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. It closes: But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing: for you speakest falsely of Ishmael.
- 41 Jeremiah 41 41 Jeremiah 41 (18 verses in the MT) opens: Now it came to pass in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there. The middle of the chapter continues: Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that in Mizpah, the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the. It closes: Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
- 42 Jeremiah 42 42 Jeremiah 42 (22 verses in the MT) opens: Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near, The middle of the chapter continues: And I will shew mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. It closes: Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither you desire to go to sojourn.
- 43 Jeremiah 43 43 Jeremiah 43 (13 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of YHWH their God, for which YHWH their God had sent him to them, all these words, The middle of the chapter continues: So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of YHWH: thus came they to Tahpanhes. It closes: He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
- 44 Jeremiah 44 44 Jeremiah 44 (30 verses in the MT) opens: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: the word that you have spoken to us in the name of YHWH, we will not hearken to you. It closes: Thus says YHWH; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of.
- 45 Jeremiah 45 45 Jeremiah 45 (5 verses in the MT) opens: The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: You didst say, Woe is me now! for YHWH has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. It closes: And seekest you great things for thyself? seek not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says YHWH: but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places whither you goest.
- 46 Jeremiah 46 46 Jeremiah 46 (28 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; The middle of the chapter continues: Why are your valiant swept away? they stood not, because YHWH did drive them. It closes: Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says YHWH: for I with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not.
- 47 Jeremiah 47 47 Jeremiah 47 (7 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. The middle of the chapter continues: Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for YHWH will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. It closes: How can it be quiet, seeing YHWH has given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there has he appointed it.
- 48 Jeremiah 48 48 Jeremiah 48 (47 verses in the MT) opens: Against Moab thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe to Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. The middle of the chapter continues: And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. It closes: Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says YHWH. Thus far the judgment of Moab.
- 49 Jeremiah 49 49 Jeremiah 49 (39 verses in the MT) opens: Concerning the Ammonites, thus says YHWH; Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? The middle of the chapter continues: Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their. It closes: But it shall come to pass in the latter days, I will bring again the captivity of Elam, says YHWH.
- 50 Jeremiah 50 50 Jeremiah 50 (46 verses in the MT) opens: The word that YHWH spake against Babylon against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. The middle of the chapter continues: I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you wast not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against YHWH. It closes: At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
- 51 Jeremiah 51 51 Jeremiah 51 (64 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; The middle of the chapter continues: For thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon like a threshingfloor, time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. It closes: And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.
- 52 Jeremiah 52 52 Jeremiah 52 (34 verses in the MT) opens: Zedekiah one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. The middle of the chapter continues: The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. It closes: And his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.