The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 01
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in
Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
2 Yahweh’s† word came to him in the
days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also inthedays ofJehoiakimthe
son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of
the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away
of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
5 “Before Iformed you in the womb,I knew
you. Before you were born,I sanctified you.
I have appointed you a prophet to the
nations.”
6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord‡ Yahweh! Behold,§
I don’t know how to speak; for I am
a child.”
7 But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I
am a child;’ for you must go to whomever
I send you, and you must say whatever I
command you.
8 Don’t be afraid because of them, for I
am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.
9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand
and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said
to me, “Behold, I have put my words in
your mouth.
10 Behold, I have today set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot
and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”
11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”
I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
12 Then Yahweh said to me, “You have
seen well; for I watch over my word to
perform it.”
13 Yahweh’s word came to me the second
time, saying, “What do you see?”
I said, “I see a boiling cauldron; and it is
tipping away from the north.”
14 Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the
north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For behold, I will call all the families of
the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh.
“They will come, and they will each set his
throne atthe entrance ofthe gates of
Jerusalem, andagainst allits walls all around, and
against all the cities of Judah.
16 I will utter my judgments against them
concerning all their wickedness,
in that they have forsaken me,
and have burned incense to other
gods, and worshiped the works of their own
hands.
17 “You therefore put your belt on your
waist, arise, and say to them all that I
command you. Don’t be dismayed at them,
lest I dismay you before them.
18 For behold, I have made you today a
fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze
walls against the whole land—against the
kings of Judah, against its princes, against
its priests, and against the people of the
land.
19 They will fight against you, but they
will not prevail against you; for I am with
you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”