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 <div class="label">37</div><div class="s2">The King's Appeal</div><div class="p"> 1And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. 2But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.</div><div class="p"> 3And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us. 4Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. 5Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.</div><div class="p"> 6Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 7Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. 8And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. 9Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. 10For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.</div><div class="s2">Jeremiah Imprisoned</div><div class="p"> 11And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, 12then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. 13And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. 14Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. 15Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.</div><div class="p"> 16When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; 17then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. 18Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? 19Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? 20Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.</div><div class="p"> 21Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.</div>
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And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.</div><div class="s2">Rescued by an Ethiopian</div><div class="p"> 7Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; 8Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, 9My 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; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. 10Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. 11So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. 13So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.</div><div class="s2">A Secret Interview</div><div class="p"> 14Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. 15Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me? 16So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.</div><div class="p"> 17Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: 18but if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.</div><div class="p"> 19And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. 20But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. 21But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me: 22and, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back. 23So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.</div><div class="p"> 24Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. 25But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee: 26then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. 27Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. 28So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.</div>
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 <div class="label">83</div><div class="d">A Song or Psalm of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1Keep not thou silence, O God:</div><div class="q2">Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.</div><div class="q1"> 2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:</div><div class="q2">And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.</div><div class="q1"> 3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,</div><div class="q2">And consulted against thy hidden ones.</div><div class="q1"> 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;</div><div class="q2">That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5For they have consulted together with one consent:</div><div class="q2">They are confederate against thee:</div><div class="q1"> 6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites;</div><div class="q2">Of Moab, and the Hagarenes;</div><div class="q1"> 7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;</div><div class="q2">The Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Assur also is joined with them:</div><div class="q2">They have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.</div><div class="q1"> 9Do unto them as unto the Midianites;</div><div class="q2">As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:</div><div class="q1"> 10 Which perished at Endor:</div><div class="q2">They became as dung for the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb:</div><div class="q2">Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:</div><div class="q1"> 12Who said, Let us take to ourselves</div><div class="q2">The houses of God in possession.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13O my God, make them like a wheel;</div><div class="q2">As the stubble before the wind.</div><div class="q1"> 14As the fire burneth a wood,</div><div class="q2">And as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;</div><div class="q1"> 15So persecute them with thy tempest,</div><div class="q2">And make them afraid with thy storm.</div><div class="q1"> 16Fill their faces with shame;</div><div class="q2">That they may seek thy name, O LORD.</div><div class="q1"> 17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever;</div><div class="q2">Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:</div><div class="q1"> 18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,</div><div class="q2"> Art the Most High over all the earth.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"> 1My son, attend unto my wisdom,</div><div class="q2"> And bow thine ear to my understanding:</div><div class="q1"> 2That thou mayest regard discretion,</div><div class="q2">And that thy lips may keep knowledge.</div><div class="q1"> 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,</div><div class="q2">And her mouth is smoother than oil:</div><div class="q1"> 4But her end is bitter as wormwood,</div><div class="q2">Sharp as a twoedged sword.</div><div class="q1"> 5Her feet go down to death;</div><div class="q2">Her steps take hold on hell.</div><div class="q1"> 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life,</div><div class="q2">Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children,</div><div class="q2">And depart not from the words of my mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 8Remove thy way far from her,</div><div class="q2">And come not nigh the door of her house:</div><div class="q1"> 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others,</div><div class="q2">And thy years unto the cruel:</div><div class="q1"> 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth;</div><div class="q2">And thy labours be in the house of a stranger;</div><div class="q1"> 11And thou mourn at the last,</div><div class="q2">When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,</div><div class="q1"> 12And say, How have I hated instruction,</div><div class="q2">And my heart despised reproof;</div><div class="q1"> 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,</div><div class="q2">Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</div><div class="q1"> 14I was almost in all evil</div><div class="q2">In the midst of the congregation and assembly.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern,</div><div class="q2">And running waters out of thine own well.</div><div class="q1"> 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,</div><div class="q2"> And rivers of waters in the streets.</div><div class="q1"> 17Let them be only thine own,</div><div class="q2">And not strangers' with thee.</div><div class="q1"> 18Let thy fountain be blessed:</div><div class="q2">And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.</div><div class="q1"> 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;</div><div class="q2">Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;</div><div class="q2">And be thou ravished always with her love.</div><div class="q1"> 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,</div><div class="q2">And embrace the bosom of a stranger?</div><div class="q1"> 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,</div><div class="q2">And he pondereth all his goings.</div><div class="q1"> 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,</div><div class="q2">And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.</div><div class="q1"> 23He shall die without instruction;</div><div class="q2">And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1">Sermon on the Mount</div><div class="p"> 1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2and he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,</div><div class="p"> 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.</div><div class="p"> 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.</div><div class="p"> 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.</div><div class="p"> 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.</div><div class="p"> 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.</div><div class="p"> 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</div><div class="p"> 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.</div><div class="p"> 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.</div><div class="p"> 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.</div><div class="p"> 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.</div><div class="p"> 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.</div><div class="s2">The New Law</div><div class="p"> 21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.</div><div class="p"> 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 31It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 32but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.</div><div class="p"> 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.</div><div class="p"> 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.</div><div class="p"> 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.</div>
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 <div class="p">14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.</div>
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