Category Archives: Yirmeyahu (Jer)

1 Here is whatAdonaisays: “The people escaping the sword found favor in the desert — I have brought Isra’el to its rest.” 2 From a distanceAdonaiappeared to me, [saying,] “I love you with an everlasting love; this is why in my grace I draw you to me. 3 Once again, I will build you; you […]

1 This is the word that came to Yirmeyahu fromAdonaiin the tenth year of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, which was the eighteenth year of N’vukhadretzar. 2 At that time the army of the king of Bavel was besieging Yerushalayim; and Yirmeyahu the prophet was imprisoned in the guards’ quarters attached to the king of Y’hudah’s […]

1 The word ofAdonaicame to Yirmeyahu a second time while he was still imprisoned in the guards’ quarters: 2 “Thus saysAdonaithe maker, Adonaiwho formed [the universe] so as to keep directing it — Adonaiis his name: 3 ‘Call out to me, and I will answer you — I will tell you great things, hidden things […]

1 This word came to Yirmeyahu fromAdonaiwhen N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel, his whole army, all his vassal kingdoms and all the peoples fought against Yerushalayim and all its cities: 2 “Adonaithe God of Isra’el says to go and speak to Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah. Tell him thatAdonaisays: ‘I am going to hand this city over […]

1 This word came to Yirmeyahu fromAdonaiduring the time of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah: 2 “Go to the Rekhavim, speak to them, bring them to one of the rooms in the house ofAdonai, and give them some wine to drink.” 3 So I took Ya’azanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son […]

1 In the fourth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, this word came to Yirmeyahu fromAdonai: 2 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you against Isra’el, Y’hudah and all the other nations, from the day I started speaking to you, back in the […]

1 Tzidkiyahu the son of Yoshiyahu became king, succeeding Koniyahu the son of Y’hoyakim, whom N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel had made king over the land of Y’hudah. 2 But neither he, his servants nor the people of the land paid attention to the words ofAdonai, which he spoke through the prophet Yirmeyahu. 3 Tzidkiyahu the […]

1 But Sh’fatyah the son of Mattan, G’dalyahu the son of Pash’chur, Yukhal the son of Shelemyahu and Pash’chur the son of Malkiyah heard these words which Yirmeyahu had said to all the people, 2 “Here is whatAdonaisays: whoever remains in this city will die by sword, famine and plague; but whoever leaves and surrenders […]

1 In the ninth year of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, in the tenth month, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel marched against Yerushalayim with his entire army and began to lay siege against it. 2 On the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu, they broke through into the city. 3 All […]

1 This word came to Yirmeyahu fromAdonaiafter N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard had let him leave Ramah, after having taken him, bound in chains, with all the captives from Yerushalayim and Y’hudah that had been carried off to Bavel. 2 The commander of the guard took Yirmeyahu and said to him, “Adonaiyour God decreed […]