AND THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
AND THE DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND (overpower) IT. john 1.5
jeremiah 1.17f...'now gird up your loins and arise and speak to them all which i command you.
do not be dismayed before them,
lest I dismay you before them.
now behold, I HAVE MADE YOU TODAY
as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze AGAINST THE WHOLE LAND,
to the kings of judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land.
and they will fight against you,
but they will not overcome you,
for I AM WITH YOU TO DELIVER YOU, declares the Lord.
11.13fa few encounters below..
'for your gods are as many as your cities, Judah..
therefore do not pray for this people
nor lift up a cry or prayer for them,
for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster..
and the Lord of hosts who planted you
has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of israel and of the house of judah,
which they have done to provoke me...
moreover the Lord made it known to me and i knew it.
then Thou didst show me their deeds.
but i was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter
and i did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
'let us destroy the tree with its fruit
and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.
but O Lord of hosts who judges righteously,
who tries the feelings of the hear.
let me see Thy vengeance on them,
for to Thee have i committed my cause.
therefore thus says the lord concerning the men of anathoth (jeremiah's home town)
who seek your life saying,
'do not prophesy in the name of the Lord,
that you might not die at our hand.
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts,
'behold i am about to punish them...
18.18f...then they said, 'come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah.
surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage
not the divine word to the prophet!
come on and let us strike at him with our tongue
and let us give no heed to any of his words'.
do give heed to me, O Lord
and listen to what my opponents are saying!should good be repaid with evil?
for they have dug a pit for me.
remember how i stood before Thee to speak good on their behalf,
so as to turn away Thy wrath from them.
20.1fwhen pashhur the priest the son of immer
who was chief officer in the house of the Lord heard jeremiah PROPHESYING
(publicly saying God's words)
these things,
pashur had jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate,
which was by the house of the Lord.
then it came about on the next day, when pashur released Jeremiah from the stocks,
that Jeremiah sad to him,
'pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you,
but rather Magor-missabib ('terror on every side')
for thus says the Lord,
behold I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends
and while your eyes look on,
they will fall by the sword of their enemies.
so I shall give over all judah to the hand of the king of babylon
and he will carry them away as exiles to babylon and will slay them with the sword.....20.1f
....O Lord, Thou hast deceived me and i was deceived.
Thou hast overcome me and prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long
everyone mocks me.
for each time i speak, i cry aloud
i proclaim violence and destruction,
because for me the word of the Lord has resulted
in reproach and derision all day long.
but if i say, 'i will not remember Him
or speak any more in His name,
then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire
shut up in my bones
and i am weary of holding it in
and i cannot endure it.
for i have heard the whispering of many,
'terror on every side!
denounce him. yet, let us denounce him!
all my trusted friends,
watching for my fall, say,
'perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him
and take our revenge on him.
but the Lord is with me like a dread champion,
therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
they will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed
with an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.
yet, O Lord of hosts Thou who dost test the righteous,
Who seest the mind and the heart.
let me see Thy vengeance on them,
for to Thee i have set forth my cause.
sing to the Lord, praise the Lord!
for He has delivered the soul of the needy one from the hand of evildoers.
cursed be the day when i was born...
why did i ever come forth from the womb
to look on trouble and sorrow,
so that my days have been spent in shame?
26.1f.....in the beginning of the reign of jehoiakim
the son of josiah, king of judah, this word came from the Lord, saying,
..stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak to all the cities of judah
who have come to worship in the Lord's house
all the words I have commanded you to speak to them.
DO NOT OMIT A WORD!
perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way ,
that i may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them
because of the evil of their deeds.
and you will say to them...'if you will not listen to Me,
to walk in My law which I have set before you,
to listen to the words of My servants the prophets,
whom i have been sending to you again and again,
then I will make this house like shiloh (destroyed)
and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.
and the PRIESTS and the PROPHETS (note: leaders of the Church in the old testament)
and all the people (note: exact counterparts to those who currently go to the Big Box every sunday)
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
and when Jeremiah finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak
to all the people, the priests and the prophets
and all the people seized saying, 'YOU MUST DIE!
why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord saying,
'this house will be like shiloh and this city will be desolate without inhabitant?
and all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
and when the princes of judah heard these things,
they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and sat in the entrance of the New Gate
of the Lord's house.
then the priest and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people saying,
'A DEATH SENTENCE TO THIS MAN!
for he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing.
then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying,
'the Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
now therefore AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DEEDS and
OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD
and the Lord will change His mind about the misfortune which He has pronounced against you.
but as for me, behold, i am in your hands;
do with me as is good and right in your sight.
only know for certain that if you put me to death,
you will bring INNOCENT blood on yourselves and on this city and on its inhabitants,
for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.
then the officials and all the people said to the priest and to the prophets,
NO DEATH SENTENCE FOR THIS MAN!
for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
32.1f...the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the 10th year of Zedekiah king of judah,
which was the eighteenth year of nebuchadnezzar.
now at that time the army of the king of babylon was besieging Jerusalem
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard
which was in the house of the king of judah,
because Z king of judah had shut him up, saying,
'why do you prophesy, saying,
'thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of babylon
and he will take it
and Z king of judah shall not escape out of the hand of the chaldeans,
but he shall surely be given into the hand of the king of babylon
and he shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye
and he shall take Z to babylon and he shall be there until i visit him,
declares the Lord.
'if you fight against the chaldeans you shall not succeed.
and Jeremiah said, 'the word of the Lord came to me, saying
'behold hanamel the son of shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying,
'buy for yourself my field which is at anathoth,
for you have the right of redemption to buy it.
then hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the Lord
and said to me, 'buy my field, please, that is at anathoth...for you have the right of possession
and the redemption is yours.
buy it for yourself.
then in knew that this was the word of the Lord.
and i bought the field which was at anathoth from hanamel my uncle's son
and i weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.
and i signed and sealed the deed and called in witnesses...
and i gave the deed of purchase to baruch the son of neriah..in the sight of hanamel my uncle's son
and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase before all the jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.
and i commanded baruch in their presence, saying,
thus says the Lord of host, the God of israel,
'take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed and put them in an earthenware jar,
that they may last a long time.
for thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of israel,
'houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.
(note: this, within a year or so of when the city of jerusalem was destroyed and leveled
and all the remaining people in israel were either exiled to babylon
or, those remaining under the authority of babylon, fled to egypt leaving the land empty for 70 years)
after i had given the deed of purchase to baruch the son of neriah, then i prayed to the Lord, saying,
Ah Lord God!
behold Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power and by Thine outstretched arm!
NOTHING IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR THEE
WHO SHOWEST LOVINGKINDNESS TO THOUSANDS
but repayest the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them.
O great and mighty God, the Lord of hosts is His name.
great in counsel and mighty in deed,
whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men,
giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds..
36.1f...and it came about in the fourth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah,inkg of judah,
that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
take a scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you
concerning israel and concerning judah and concerning all the nations,
from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
perhpas the house of judah will hear all the clamity which I plan to bring on them,
in order that every man will turn from his evil way.
then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.
then Jeremiah commanded baruch, saying,
'i am restricted;
i cannot go into the house of the lord.
so you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation
the words of the Lord to the people in the Lord's house on a fast day.
and also you shall read them to all the people of judah who come from their cities.
perhaps their supplication will come before the lord
and everyone will turn from his evil way,
for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.
and baruch the son of neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading the words of the lord in the Lord's house...
v11 now when micaiah the son of gemariah, the son of shaphan
had heard all the words of the Lord from the book,
he went down to the king's house into the scribe's chamber.
and, behold all the officials were sitting there
-elishama the scribe and delaiah the son of shemaiah,
and elnathan the son of achbor and gemariah the son of shaphan
and Zediekiah the son of hananiah and all the other officials.
and micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when baruch read from the book...
and they said to him, 'sit down please and read it to us'.
so baruch read it to them.
now it came about when they had heard all the words,
they turned in fear one to another and said to baruch,
'we will surely report all these words to the king....
v20 so they went to the king in the court,
but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of elishama the scribe
and they reported all the words to the king.
then the king sent jehudi to get the scroll and he took it out of the chamber of elishama the scribe.
and jehudi had read three or four columns,
the king cut it with a scribe's knife
and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier,
until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words
were not afraid
nor did they rend their garments.
even though elnathan and delaiah and gemariah entreated the king not to burn the scroll,
he would not listen to them.
and the king commanded jerahmeel the king's son,
seriah the son of azriel and shelemiah the son of abdeel
to seize baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet,
but the Lord hid them.
then the word of the lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll
and the words which baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,
'TAKE AGAIN ANOTHER SCROLL AND
WRITE ON IT ALL THE FORMER WORDS that were on the first scroll
which jehoiakim the king of judah burned.
and concderning jehoiakim king of judah you shall say,
'thus says the Lord,
'you have burned this scroll, saying,
'why have you written on it that the king of babylon shall
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