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| 1The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. | 1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: |
| 2The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, | 2To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. |
| 3and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile. | 3It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. |
| 4The word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 4Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 5"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." | 5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. |
| 6"Alas, Sovereign LORD," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am too young." | 6Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. |
| 7But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am too young.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. | 7But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. |
| 8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the LORD. | 8Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. |
| 9Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "I have put my words in your mouth. | 9Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. |
| 10See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant." | 10See, I have this day set thee 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. |
| 11The word of the LORD came to me: "What do you see, Jeremiah?" "I see the branch of an almond tree," I replied. | 11Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. |
| 12The LORD said to me, "You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled." | 12Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. |
| 13The word of the LORD came to me again: "What do you see?" "I see a pot that is boiling," I answered. "It is tilting toward us from the north." | 13And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. |
| 14The LORD said to me, "From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land. | 14Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. |
| 15I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms," declares the LORD. "Their kings will come and set up their thrones in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem; they will come against all her surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah. | 15For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. |
| 16I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made. | 16And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. |
| 17"Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. | 17Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. |
| 18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land--against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land. | 18For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. |
| 19They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the LORD. | 19And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee. |
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