1 Now these
2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
4 Thus saith the
5 Build ye houses, and dwell
6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the
8 For thus saith the
9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the
10 For thus saith the
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find
14 And I will be found of you, saith the
15 Because ye have said, The
16 Know
17 Thus saith the
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
20 Hear ye therefore the word of the
21 Thus saith the
22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which
23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and
24 Thus
25 Thus speaketh the
26 The
27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
28 For therefore he sent unto us
29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
30 Then came the word of the
31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the
32 Therefore thus saith the