Judges 19.0:

Judges 19.1: 19In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Judges 19.2: 2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.

Judges 19.3: 3 Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

Judges 19.4: 4 His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.

Judges 19.5: 5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”

Judges 19.6: 6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Judges 19.7: 7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.

Judges 19.8: 8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both ate.

Judges 19.9: 9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

Judges 19.10: 10 But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.

Judges 19.11: 11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it.”

Judges 19.12: 12 His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”

Judges 19.13: 13 He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”

Judges 19.14: 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

Judges 19.15: 15 They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.

Judges 19.16: 16 Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Judges 19.17: 17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

Judges 19.18: 18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

Judges 19.19: 19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

Judges 19.20: 20 The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”

Judges 19.21: 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

Judges 19.22: 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”

Judges 19.23: 23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.

Judges 19.24: 24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”

Judges 19.25: 25 But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.

Judges 19.26: 26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.

Judges 19.27: 27 Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 19.28: 28 He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

Judges 19.29: 29 When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

Judges 19.30: 30 It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

Ruth 0.0:

The Book of

Ruth

Ruth 1.0:

Ruth 1.1: 1In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Ruth 1.2: 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.

Ruth 1.3: 3 Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

Ruth 1.4: 4 They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Ruth 1.5: 5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Ruth 1.6: 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh 1 had visited his people in giving them bread.

Ruth 1.7: 7 She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Ruth 1.8: 8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Ruth 1.9: 9 May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”

Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

Ruth 1.10: 10 They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

Ruth 1.11: 11 Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Ruth 1.12: 12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,

Ruth 1.13: 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

Ruth 1.14: 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth 1.15: 15 She said, “Behold,2 your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Ruth 1.16: 16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God3 my God.

Ruth 1.17: 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Ruth 1.18: 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Ruth 1.19: 19 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

Ruth 1.20: 20 She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.4 Call me Mara,5 for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Ruth 1.21: 21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Ruth 1.22: 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Ruth 2.0:

Ruth 2.1: 2Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

Ruth 2.2: 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.”

She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Ruth 2.3: 3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

Ruth 2.4: 4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.”

They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

Ruth 2.5: 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”

Ruth 2.6: 6 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

Ruth 2.7: 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

Ruth 2.8: 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

Ruth 2.9: 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

Ruth 2.10: 10 Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

Ruth 2.11: 11 Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

Ruth 2.12: 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Ruth 2.13: 13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

Ruth 2.14: 14 At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”

She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

Ruth 2.15: 15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

Ruth 2.16: 16 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

Ruth 2.17: 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah1 of barley.

Ruth 2.18: 18 She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.

Ruth 2.19: 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”

She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

Ruth 2.20: 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

Ruth 2.21: 21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”

Ruth 2.22: 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”

Ruth 2.23: 23 So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth 3.0:

Ruth 3.1: 3Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Ruth 3.2: 2 Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

Ruth 3.3: 3 Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Ruth 3.4: 4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

Ruth 3.5: 5 She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

Ruth 3.6: 6 She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

Ruth 3.7: 7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

Ruth 3.8: 8 At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

Ruth 3.9: 9 He said, “Who are you?”

She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

Ruth 3.10: 10 He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Ruth 3.11: 11 Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Ruth 3.12: 12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Ruth 3.13: 13 Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

Ruth 3.14: 14 She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

Ruth 3.15: 15 He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.

Ruth 3.16: 16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?”

She told her all that the man had done for her.

Ruth 3.17: 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”

Ruth 3.18: 18 Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”

Ruth 4.0:

Ruth 4.1: 4Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Ruth 4.2: 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

Ruth 4.3: 3 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

Ruth 4.4: 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”

He said, “I will redeem it.”

Ruth 4.5: 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

Ruth 4.6: 6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

Ruth 4.7: 7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.

Ruth 4.8: 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.

Ruth 4.9: 9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

Ruth 4.10: 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Ruth 4.11: 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Ruth 4.12: 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring1 which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

Ruth 4.13: 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Ruth 4.14: 14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Ruth 4.15: 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Ruth 4.16: 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.

Ruth 4.17: 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4.18: 18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,

Ruth 4.19: 19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,

Ruth 4.20: 20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,

Ruth 4.21: 21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,

Ruth 4.22: 22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

Job 2.0:

Job 2.1: 2Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

Job 2.2: 2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Job 2.3: 3 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Job 2.4: 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2.5: 5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 2.6: 6 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

Job 2.7: 7 So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Job 2.8: 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Job 2.9: 9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Job 2.10: 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”

In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Job 2.11: 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Job 2.12: 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

Job 2.13: 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Jeremiah 10.0:

Jeremiah 10.1: 10Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

Jeremiah 10.2: 2 Yahweh says,

“Don’t learn the way of the nations,

and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky;

for the nations are dismayed at them.

Jeremiah 10.3: 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity;

for one cuts a tree out of the forest,

the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

Jeremiah 10.4: 4 They deck it with silver and with gold.

They fasten it with nails and with hammers,

so that it can’t move.

Jeremiah 10.5: 5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work,

and don’t speak.

They must be carried,

because they can’t move.

Don’t be afraid of them;

for they can’t do evil,

neither is it in them to do good.”

Jeremiah 10.6: 6 There is no one like you, Yahweh.

You are great,

and your name is great in might.

Jeremiah 10.7: 7 Who shouldn’t fear you,

King of the nations?

For it belongs to you.

Because among all the wise men of the nations,

and in all their royal estate,

there is no one like you.

Jeremiah 10.8: 8 But they are together brutish and foolish,

instructed by idols!

It is just wood.

Jeremiah 10.9: 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,

and gold from Uphaz,

the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith.

Their clothing is blue and purple.

They are all the work of skillful men.

Jeremiah 10.10: 10 But Yahweh is the true God.

He is the living God,

and an everlasting King.

At his wrath, the earth trembles.

The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Jeremiah 10.11: 11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”

Jeremiah 10.12: 12 God has made the earth by his power.

He has established the world by his wisdom,

and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10.13: 13 When he utters his voice,

the waters in the heavens roar,

and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightnings for the rain,

and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Jeremiah 10.14: 14 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge.

Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image;

for his molten image is falsehood,

and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10.15: 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion.

In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Jeremiah 10.16: 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these;

for he is the maker of all things;

and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance:

Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Jeremiah 10.17: 17 Gather up your wares out of the land,

you who live under siege.

Jeremiah 10.18: 18 For Yahweh says,

“Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time,

and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

Jeremiah 10.19: 19 Woe is me because of my injury!

My wound is serious;

but I said,

“Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

Jeremiah 10.20: 20 My tent has been destroyed,

and all my cords are broken.

My children have gone away from me, and they are no more.

There is no one to spread my tent any more,

to set up my curtains.

Jeremiah 10.21: 21 For the shepherds have become brutish,

and have not inquired of Yahweh.

Therefore they have not prospered,

and all their flocks have scattered.

Jeremiah 10.22: 22 The voice of news, behold, it comes,

and a great commotion out of the north country,

to make the cities of Judah a desolation,

a dwelling place of jackals.

Jeremiah 10.23: 23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself.

It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 10.24: 24 Yahweh, correct me, but gently;

not in your anger,

lest you reduce me to nothing.

Jeremiah 10.25: 25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,

and on the families that don’t call on your name;

for they have devoured Jacob.

Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him,

and have laid waste his habitation.

Jeremiah 38.0:

Jeremiah 38.1: 38Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 38.2: 2 “Yahweh says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’

Jeremiah 38.3: 3 Yahweh says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’”

Jeremiah 38.4: 4 Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Jeremiah 38.5: 5 Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

Jeremiah 38.6: 6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 38.7: 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

Jeremiah 38.8: 8 Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

Jeremiah 38.9: 9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 38.10: 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38.11: 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 38.12: 12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.”

Jeremiah did so.

Jeremiah 38.13: 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38.14: 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

Jeremiah 38.15: 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

Jeremiah 38.16: 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Jeremiah 38.17: 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

Jeremiah 38.18: 18 But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’”

Jeremiah 38.19: 19 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

Jeremiah 38.20: 20 But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 38.21: 21 But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Jeremiah 38.22: 22 ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say,

“Your familiar friends have turned on you,

and have prevailed over you.

Your feet are sunk in the mire,

they have turned away from you.”

Jeremiah 38.23: 23 They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”

Jeremiah 38.24: 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.

Jeremiah 38.25: 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’

Jeremiah 38.26: 26 then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

Jeremiah 38.27: 27 Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Jeremiah 38.28: 28 So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Jeremiah 40.0:

Jeremiah 40.1: 40The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Jeremiah 40.2: 2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, “Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;

Jeremiah 40.3: 3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Jeremiah 40.4: 4 Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”

Jeremiah 40.5: 5 Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go.”

So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

Jeremiah 40.6: 6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

Jeremiah 40.7: 7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;

Jeremiah 40.8: 8 then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.

Jeremiah 40.9: 9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.

Jeremiah 40.10: 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

Jeremiah 40.11: 11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

Jeremiah 40.12: 12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.

Jeremiah 40.13: 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

Jeremiah 40.14: 14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?”

But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them.

Jeremiah 40.15: 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

Jeremiah 40.16: 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”

Jeremiah 48.0:

Jeremiah 48.1: 48Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:

“Woe to Nebo!

For it is laid waste.

Kiriathaim is disappointed.

It is taken.

Misgab1 is put to shame

and broken down.

Jeremiah 48.2: 2 The praise of Moab is no more.

In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:

‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’

You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.

The sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 48.3: 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim,

desolation and great destruction!

Jeremiah 48.4: 4 Moab is destroyed.

Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Jeremiah 48.5: 5 For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.

For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

Jeremiah 48.6: 6 Flee! Save your lives!

Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 48.7: 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,

you also will be taken.

Chemosh will go out into captivity,

his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 48.8: 8 The destroyer will come on every city,

and no city will escape;

the valley also will perish,

and the plain will be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

Jeremiah 48.9: 9 Give wings to Moab,

that she may fly and get herself away:

and her cities will become a desolation,

without anyone to dwell in them.

Jeremiah 48.10: 10 “Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;

and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Jeremiah 48.11: 11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth,

and he has settled on his lees,

and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,

neither has he gone into captivity:

therefore his taste remains in him,

and his scent is not changed.

Jeremiah 48.12: 12 Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,

“that I will send to him those who pour off,

and they will pour him off;

and they will empty his vessels,

and break their containers in pieces.

Jeremiah 48.13: 13 Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,

as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

Jeremiah 48.14: 14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,

and valiant men for the war?’

Jeremiah 48.15: 15 Moab is laid waste,

and they have gone up into his cities,

and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”

says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

Jeremiah 48.16: 16 “The calamity of Moab is near to come,

and his affliction hurries fast.

Jeremiah 48.17: 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him,

and all you who know his name; say,

‘How the strong staff is broken,

the beautiful rod!’

Jeremiah 48.18: 18 “You daughter who dwells in Dibon,

come down from your glory,

and sit in thirst;

for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you.

He has destroyed your strongholds.

Jeremiah 48.19: 19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.

Ask him who flees, and her who escapes;

say, ‘What has been done?’

Jeremiah 48.20: 20 Moab is disappointed;

for it is broken down.

Wail and cry!

Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

Jeremiah 48.21: 21 Judgment has come on the plain country,

on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,

Jeremiah 48.22: 22 on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,

Jeremiah 48.23: 23 on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,

Jeremiah 48.24: 24 on Kerioth, on Bozrah,

and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

Jeremiah 48.25: 25 The horn of Moab is cut off,

and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48.26: 26 “Make him drunken;

for he magnified himself against Yahweh.

Moab will wallow in his vomit,

and he also will be in derision.

Jeremiah 48.27: 27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?

Was he found among thieves?

For as often as you speak of him,

you shake your head.

Jeremiah 48.28: 28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.

Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

Jeremiah 48.29: 29 “We have heard of the pride of Moab.

He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,

his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.

Jeremiah 48.30: 30 I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing;

his boastings have done nothing.

Jeremiah 48.31: 31 Therefore I will wail for Moab.

Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.

They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.

Jeremiah 48.32: 32 With more than the weeping of Jazer

I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.

Your branches passed over the sea.

They reached even to the sea of Jazer.

The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits

and on your vintage.

Jeremiah 48.33: 33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field

and from the land of Moab.

I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.

No one will tread with shouting.

The shouting will be no shouting.

Jeremiah 48.34: 34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,

even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice,

from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;

for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.

Jeremiah 48.35: 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh,

“him who offers in the high place,

and him who burns incense to his gods.

Jeremiah 48.36: 36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,

and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.

Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

Jeremiah 48.37: 37 For every head is bald,

and every beard clipped.

There are cuttings on all the hands,

and sackcloth on the waist.

Jeremiah 48.38: 38 On all the housetops of Moab,

and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;

for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48.39: 39 “How it is broken down!

How they wail!

How Moab has turned the back with shame!

So will Moab become a derision

and a terror to all who are around him.”

Jeremiah 48.40: 40 For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,

and will spread out his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 48.41: 41 Kerioth is taken,

and the strongholds are seized.

The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day

will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 48.42: 42 Moab will be destroyed from being a people,

because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48.43: 43 Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,

inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48.44: 44 “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;

and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:

for I will bring on him, even on Moab,

the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48.45: 45 “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;

for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,

and a flame from the middle of Sihon,

and has devoured the corner of Moab,

and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

Jeremiah 48.46: 46 Woe to you, O Moab!

The people of Chemosh are undone;

for your sons are taken away captive,

and your daughters into captivity.

Jeremiah 48.47: 47 “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”

says Yahweh.

Thus far is the judgment of Moab.