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Jeremiah

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1 Now these are the words of the let­ter that Jeremi­ah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the el­ders which were car­ried away cap­tives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the peo­ple whom Neb­uchad­nez­zar had car­ried away cap­tive from Jerusalem to Baby­lon; 2 (Af­ter that Je­co­ni­ah the king, and the queen, and the eu­nuchs, the princes of Ju­dah and Jerusalem, and the car­pen­ters, and the smiths, were de­part­ed from Jerusalem;) 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemari­ah the son of Hilki­ah, (whom Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah sent unto Baby­lon to Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon) say­ing, 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael, unto all that are car­ried away cap­tives, whom I have caused to be car­ried away from Jerusalem unto Baby­lon; 5 Build ye hous­es, and dwell in them; and plant gar­dens, and eat the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daugh­ters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daugh­ters to hus­bands, that they may bear sons and daugh­ters; that ye may be in­creased there, and not di­min­ished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whith­er I have caused you to be car­ried away cap­tives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace there­of shall ye have peace. 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Let not your prophets and your di­vin­ers, that be in the midst of you, de­ceive you, nei­ther hear­ken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they proph­esy false­ly unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD. 10 For thus saith the LORD, That af­ter sev­en­ty years be ac­com­plished at Baby­lon I will vis­it you, and per­form my good word to­ward you, in caus­ing you to re­turn to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think to­ward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an ex­pect­ed end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hear­ken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your cap­tiv­i­ty, and I will gath­er you from all the na­tions, and from all the places whith­er I have driv­en you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be car­ried away cap­tive. 15 Be­cause ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Baby­lon; 16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sit­teth upon the throne of David, and of all the peo­ple that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into cap­tiv­i­ty; 17 Thus saith the LORD 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. 18 And I will per­se­cute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pesti­lence, and will de­liv­er them to be re­moved to all the king­doms of the earth, to be a curse, and an as­ton­ish­ment, and an hiss­ing, and a re­proach, among all the na­tions whith­er I have driv­en them: 19 Be­cause they have not hear­kened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my ser­vants the prophets, ris­ing up ear­ly and send­ing them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. 20 Hear ye there­fore the word of the LORD, all ye of the cap­tiv­i­ty, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Baby­lon: 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael, of Ahab the son of Ko­la­iah, and of Zedeki­ah the son of Maa­seiah, which proph­esy a lie unto you in my name; Be­hold, I will de­liv­er them into the hand of Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon; and he shall slay them be­fore your eyes; 22 And of them shall be tak­en up a curse by all the cap­tiv­i­ty of Ju­dah which are in Baby­lon, say­ing, The LORD make thee like Zedeki­ah and like Ahab, whom the king of Baby­lon roast­ed in the fire; 23 Be­cause they have com­mit­ted vil­lany in Is­rael, and have com­mit­ted adul­tery with their neigh­bours' wives, and have spo­ken ly­ing words in my name, which I have not com­mand­ed them; even I know, and am a wit­ness, saith the LORD. 24 Thus shalt thou also speak to She­ma­iah the Ne­he­lamite, say­ing, 25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael, say­ing, Be­cause thou hast sent let­ters in thy name unto all the peo­ple that are at Jerusalem, and to Zepha­ni­ah the son of Maa­seiah the priest, and to all the priests, say­ing, 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Je­hoia­da the priest, that ye should be of­fi­cers in the house of the LORD, for ev­ery man that is mad, and maketh him­self a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. 27 Now there­fore why hast thou not re­proved Jeremi­ah of Anathoth, which maketh him­self a prophet to you? 28 For there­fore he sent unto us in Baby­lon, say­ing, This ­cap­tiv­i­ty is long: build ye hous­es, and dwell in them; and plant gar­dens, and eat the fruit of them. 29 And Zepha­ni­ah the priest read this let­ter in the ears of Jeremi­ah the prophet. 30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremi­ah, say­ing, 31 Send to all them of the cap­tiv­i­ty, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD con­cern­ing She­ma­iah the Ne­he­lamite; Be­cause that She­ma­iah hath proph­e­sied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: 32 There­fore thus saith the LORD; 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, saith the LORD; be­cause he hath taught re­bel­lion against the LORD.