6Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction. 2I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicat...
5Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city. 2Although they say, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' still...
4If you will return, O Israel, return to me, declares the Lord . If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, 2and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' then the nations will b...
3If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers- would you now return to me? declares the Lord . 2Loo...
2The word of the Lord came to me: 2Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: 'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown. 3Israel was holy to the Lord , the firstf...
1The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory 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, 3and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of...
