WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.340 day 200 and 65 00:00:04.817 --> 00:00:08.897 this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, early in the reign of Je Jolla 00:00:08.897 --> 00:00:11.027 Kim, son of Josiah, king of Judah. 00:00:12.197 --> 00:00:13.517 This is what the Lord says. 00:00:14.087 --> 00:00:17.297 Stand in the courtyard in front of the temple of the Lord and make an 00:00:17.297 --> 00:00:20.897 announcement to the people who have come there to worship from all over Judah. 00:00:21.437 --> 00:00:23.087 Give them my entire message. 00:00:23.537 --> 00:00:24.797 Include every word. 00:00:25.832 --> 00:00:29.312 Perhaps they will listen and turn from their evil ways, then I will 00:00:29.312 --> 00:00:31.232 change my mind about the disaster. 00:00:31.232 --> 00:00:33.842 I am ready to pour out on them because of their sins. 00:00:34.772 --> 00:00:37.322 Say to them, this is what the Lord says. 00:00:38.042 --> 00:00:42.542 If you will not listen to me and obey my word, I have given you, and if you 00:00:42.542 --> 00:00:46.622 will not listen to my servants, the prophets for I sent them again and 00:00:46.622 --> 00:00:51.092 again to warn you, but you would not listen to them, then I will destroy 00:00:51.092 --> 00:00:53.552 this temple as I destroyed Shiloh. 00:00:53.897 --> 00:00:57.287 The place where the Tabernacle was located, and I will make 00:00:57.287 --> 00:01:00.317 Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth. 00:01:01.547 --> 00:01:05.057 The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened to Jeremiah as he 00:01:05.057 --> 00:01:06.587 spoke in front of the Lord's temple. 00:01:07.217 --> 00:01:10.997 But when Jeremiah had finished his message saying everything the Lord 00:01:10.997 --> 00:01:15.407 had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the temple 00:01:15.707 --> 00:01:18.527 mobbed him, kill him, they shouted. 00:01:19.217 --> 00:01:19.697 What right. 00:01:19.697 --> 00:01:22.847 Do you have to prophesy in the Lord's name that this temple 00:01:22.847 --> 00:01:24.407 will be destroyed like Shiloh? 00:01:24.977 --> 00:01:25.697 What do you mean? 00:01:25.847 --> 00:01:29.387 Saying that Jerusalem will be destroyed and left with no inhabitants 00:01:30.167 --> 00:01:33.317 and all the people threatened him as he stood in front of a temple. 00:01:34.547 --> 00:01:37.907 When the officials of Judah heard what was happening, they rushed over 00:01:37.907 --> 00:01:41.657 from the palace and sat down at the new gate of the temple to hold court. 00:01:42.347 --> 00:01:45.677 The priests and prophets presented their accusations to 00:01:45.682 --> 00:01:47.297 the officials and the people. 00:01:48.017 --> 00:01:49.247 This man should die. 00:01:49.307 --> 00:01:53.357 They said, you have heard with your own ears what a traitor he is for. 00:01:53.357 --> 00:01:55.157 He has prophesied against this city. 00:01:55.997 --> 00:01:59.987 Then Jeremiah spoke to the officials and the people in his own defense. 00:02:01.187 --> 00:02:04.637 The Lord sent me to prophesy against this temple and this city. 00:02:04.787 --> 00:02:08.507 He said, the Lord gave me every word that I have spoken. 00:02:09.392 --> 00:02:13.952 But if you stop your sinning and begin to obey the Lord your God, he will 00:02:13.952 --> 00:02:17.372 change his mind about this disaster that he has announced against you. 00:02:18.152 --> 00:02:20.582 As for me, I am in your hands. 00:02:21.302 --> 00:02:26.372 Do with me as you think best, but if you kill me, rest assured that 00:02:26.372 --> 00:02:28.052 you will be killing an innocent man. 00:02:28.772 --> 00:02:32.672 The responsibility for such a deeded will lie on you on this 00:02:32.672 --> 00:02:36.992 city and on every person living in it for it is absolutely true. 00:02:37.622 --> 00:02:40.442 That the Lord sent me to speak every word you have heard. 00:02:41.582 --> 00:02:44.732 Then the officials and the people said to the priests and prophets, 00:02:45.632 --> 00:02:49.442 this man does not deserve the death sentence for he has spoken to us 00:02:49.502 --> 00:02:51.002 in the name of the Lord our God. 00:02:52.022 --> 00:02:57.062 Then some of the wise old men stood and spoke to all the people assembled there. 00:02:57.782 --> 00:03:02.252 They said, remember when Micah of Mahe prophesied during the 00:03:02.252 --> 00:03:03.932 reign of King Hezekiah of Judah? 00:03:04.442 --> 00:03:06.002 He told the people of Judah. 00:03:06.662 --> 00:03:08.732 This is what the Lord of Heaven's army says. 00:03:09.362 --> 00:03:12.092 Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field. 00:03:12.302 --> 00:03:14.582 Jerusalem will be reduced to ruins. 00:03:15.092 --> 00:03:18.242 A thicket will grow on the heights where the temple now stands. 00:03:19.292 --> 00:03:22.382 But did King Hezekiah and the people kill him for saying this? 00:03:23.072 --> 00:03:23.522 No. 00:03:24.182 --> 00:03:26.762 They turned from their sins and worshiped the Lord. 00:03:27.272 --> 00:03:28.652 They begged him for mercy. 00:03:29.342 --> 00:03:32.342 Then the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he 00:03:32.342 --> 00:03:33.362 had pronounced against them. 00:03:34.727 --> 00:03:38.987 We are about to do ourselves great harm at this time. 00:03:39.227 --> 00:03:44.237 Uriah son of Shamaya from ETH Jira was also prophesying for the Lord 00:03:44.717 --> 00:03:48.167 and he predicted the same terrible disaster against the city and 00:03:48.167 --> 00:03:53.207 nation as Jeremiah did when King Je Hoya Kim and the Army officers and 00:03:53.207 --> 00:03:55.007 officials heard what he was saying. 00:03:55.457 --> 00:03:58.907 The king sent someone to kill him, but Uriah heard about the 00:03:58.907 --> 00:04:01.277 plan and escaped in fear to Egypt. 00:04:01.952 --> 00:04:06.782 Then King Jehoiakim sent l Nathan, son of Aboar to Egypt, along with 00:04:06.782 --> 00:04:08.672 several other men to capture Uriah. 00:04:09.332 --> 00:04:12.362 They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim. 00:04:13.052 --> 00:04:17.972 The king then killed Uriah with a sword and had him buried in an unmarked grave. 00:04:19.022 --> 00:04:23.792 Nevertheless, a Hakum son of Chaffin stood up for Jeremiah and 00:04:23.792 --> 00:04:27.062 persuaded the court not to turn him over to the mob to be killed. 00:04:28.787 --> 00:04:32.177 This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, early in the Reign of 00:04:32.177 --> 00:04:34.907 Zakiah, son of Josiah, king of Judah. 00:04:35.687 --> 00:04:37.187 This is what the Lord said to me. 00:04:37.757 --> 00:04:41.627 Make a yoke and fasten it on your neck with leather straps. 00:04:42.317 --> 00:04:47.747 Then send messages to the kings of Edem, Moab, Amman Tire and Seiden 00:04:48.137 --> 00:04:51.737 through their ambassadors who have come to see kings at AIAA in Jerusalem. 00:04:52.427 --> 00:04:54.347 Give them this message for their masters. 00:04:54.962 --> 00:04:59.432 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, with 00:04:59.432 --> 00:05:04.502 my great strength and powerful arm, I made the earth and all its people 00:05:04.502 --> 00:05:08.912 and every animal I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose. 00:05:09.692 --> 00:05:12.692 Now I will give your countries to King Nebuchadnezzar of 00:05:12.697 --> 00:05:14.672 Babylon, who is my servant. 00:05:15.152 --> 00:05:18.842 I have put everything, even the wild animals under his control. 00:05:19.532 --> 00:05:23.732 All the nations will serve him, his son and his grandson. 00:05:24.092 --> 00:05:28.592 Until his time is up, then many nations and great kings will 00:05:28.592 --> 00:05:30.362 conquer and rule over Babylon. 00:05:31.172 --> 00:05:33.932 So you must submit to Babylon's King and serve him. 00:05:34.592 --> 00:05:36.482 Put your neck under Babylon's yoke. 00:05:37.202 --> 00:05:41.372 I will punish any nation that refuses to be his slave, says the Lord. 00:05:41.792 --> 00:05:46.022 I will send war, famine, and disease upon that nation until 00:05:46.022 --> 00:05:47.282 Babylon has conquered it. 00:05:48.347 --> 00:05:52.907 Do not listen to your false prophets, fortune tellers, interpreters of dreams, 00:05:53.087 --> 00:05:58.277 mediums, and sorcerers who say The King of Babylon will not conquer you. 00:05:58.937 --> 00:06:02.117 They're all liars, and their lies will lead to your being 00:06:02.122 --> 00:06:03.347 driven out of your land. 00:06:04.037 --> 00:06:08.777 I will drive you out and send you far away to die, but the people of any 00:06:08.777 --> 00:06:12.737 nation that submits to the King of Babylon will be allowed to stay in their 00:06:12.737 --> 00:06:15.227 own country to farm the land as usual. 00:06:16.517 --> 00:06:18.287 I the Lord have spoken. 00:06:19.757 --> 00:06:23.477 Then I repeated this same message to King Zakiah of Judah. 00:06:24.107 --> 00:06:29.537 If you want to live, submit to the yoke of the king of Babylon and his people, why do 00:06:29.537 --> 00:06:32.477 you insist on dying you and your people? 00:06:33.077 --> 00:06:37.127 Why should you choose war, famine, and disease, which the Lord will 00:06:37.127 --> 00:06:40.997 bring against every nation that refuses to submit to Babylon's King? 00:06:41.822 --> 00:06:45.062 Do not listen to the false prophets who keep telling you, the King 00:06:45.062 --> 00:06:46.532 of Babylon will not conquer you. 00:06:47.012 --> 00:06:47.912 They are liars. 00:06:48.812 --> 00:06:50.222 This is what the Lord says. 00:06:51.002 --> 00:06:52.652 I have not sent these prophets. 00:06:53.162 --> 00:06:57.752 They are telling you lies in my name, so I will drive you out from this land. 00:06:58.142 --> 00:07:01.802 You will all die, you and all these prophets too. 00:07:03.362 --> 00:07:08.582 Then I spoke to the priests and the people and said, this is what the Lord says. 00:07:09.227 --> 00:07:13.787 Do not listen to your prophets who claim that soon the gold articles taken from 00:07:13.787 --> 00:07:15.977 my temple will be returned from Babylon. 00:07:16.697 --> 00:07:17.807 It is all a lie. 00:07:18.437 --> 00:07:19.577 Do not listen to them. 00:07:20.207 --> 00:07:22.787 Surrender to the king of Babylon and you will live. 00:07:23.417 --> 00:07:27.887 Why should this whole city be destroyed if they really are prophets 00:07:27.887 --> 00:07:29.387 and speak the Lord's messages. 00:07:29.897 --> 00:07:32.057 Let them pray to the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:07:32.597 --> 00:07:36.107 Let them pray that the articles remaining in the Lord's temple and in 00:07:36.107 --> 00:07:40.547 the king's palace and in the palaces of Jerusalem will not be carried away 00:07:40.552 --> 00:07:43.307 to Babylon for the Lord of Heaven's. 00:07:43.307 --> 00:07:47.957 Armies has spoken about the pillars in front of the temple, the great bronze 00:07:47.962 --> 00:07:53.657 basin called the Sea, the water carts, and all the other ceremonial articles. 00:07:54.497 --> 00:07:58.187 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon left them here when he exiled. 00:07:58.187 --> 00:08:01.727 Je Hoya Kin son of Je Hoya Kim, king of Judah, Babylon. 00:08:02.537 --> 00:08:05.447 Along with all the other nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. 00:08:06.197 --> 00:08:06.707 Yes. 00:08:06.707 --> 00:08:11.327 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says about the precious 00:08:11.327 --> 00:08:15.947 things still in the temple, in the palace of Judah's King and in Jerusalem. 00:08:16.817 --> 00:08:21.017 They will all be carried away to Babylon and will stay there until 00:08:21.107 --> 00:08:22.817 I send for them, says the Lord. 00:08:23.597 --> 00:08:26.147 Then I will bring them back to Jerusalem again. 00:08:27.797 --> 00:08:30.287 One day in late summer of that same year. 00:08:30.722 --> 00:08:35.702 The fourth year of the Reign of Zakiah, king of Judah, Hananiah, son of Azer, 00:08:35.912 --> 00:08:40.172 A prophet from Gibeon addressed me publicly in the temple while all 00:08:40.177 --> 00:08:41.702 the priests and people listened. 00:08:42.272 --> 00:08:46.232 He said, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel 00:08:46.232 --> 00:08:50.432 says, I will remove the yoke of the king of Babylon from your next. 00:08:51.002 --> 00:08:54.902 Within two years, I will bring back all the temple treasures that King 00:08:54.902 --> 00:08:57.032 Nebuchadnezzar carried off to Babylon. 00:08:57.452 --> 00:09:02.162 And I will bring back JE Joa kin son of Je Joa Kim, king of Judah, and all the 00:09:02.162 --> 00:09:04.142 other captives that were taken to Babylon. 00:09:04.772 --> 00:09:08.612 I will surely break the yo that the King of Babylon has put on your necks. 00:09:09.332 --> 00:09:10.832 I the Lord have spoken. 00:09:12.002 --> 00:09:15.332 Jeremiah responded to Hananiah as they stood in front of all the 00:09:15.332 --> 00:09:16.952 priests and people at the temple. 00:09:17.762 --> 00:09:20.072 He said, amen. 00:09:20.672 --> 00:09:22.322 May your prophecies come true. 00:09:22.892 --> 00:09:24.842 I hope the Lord does everything you say. 00:09:25.667 --> 00:09:28.697 I hope he does bring back from Babylon, the treasures of this 00:09:28.697 --> 00:09:30.287 temple and all the captives. 00:09:31.097 --> 00:09:32.927 But listen now to the solemn words. 00:09:32.927 --> 00:09:36.677 I speak to you in the presence of all these people, the ancient 00:09:36.677 --> 00:09:41.267 prophets who preceded you and me spoke against many nations always 00:09:41.272 --> 00:09:43.787 warning of war, disaster, and disease. 00:09:44.417 --> 00:09:49.157 So a prophet who predicts peace must show he is right only 00:09:49.157 --> 00:09:50.777 when his predictions come true. 00:09:50.987 --> 00:09:53.087 Can we know that he is really from the Lord? 00:09:54.227 --> 00:09:58.937 Then Hananiah, the prophet took the yoke off Jeremiah's neck and broke 00:09:58.937 --> 00:10:03.197 it in pieces, and Hananiah said again to the crowd that had gathered. 00:10:03.767 --> 00:10:05.237 This is what the Lord says. 00:10:05.777 --> 00:10:10.367 Just as this yoke has been broken within two years, I will break the yoke 00:10:10.372 --> 00:10:12.197 of oppression from all the nations. 00:10:12.347 --> 00:10:14.987 Now subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 00:10:16.037 --> 00:10:21.257 With that, Jeremiah left the temple area soon after this 00:10:21.257 --> 00:10:22.697 confrontation with Hananiah. 00:10:23.057 --> 00:10:25.067 The Lord gave this message to Jeremiah. 00:10:25.877 --> 00:10:29.207 Go and tell Hananiah this is what the Lord says. 00:10:29.777 --> 00:10:34.517 You have broken a wooden yoke, but you have replaced it with a yoke of iron. 00:10:35.267 --> 00:10:39.647 The Lord of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, says, I have put a yoke 00:10:39.647 --> 00:10:43.817 of iron on the necks of all these nations, forcing them into slavery. 00:10:43.817 --> 00:10:48.107 Under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, I have put everything, even the 00:10:48.107 --> 00:10:49.967 wild animals under his control. 00:10:51.227 --> 00:10:55.277 Then Jeremiah the prophet, said to Hananiah, listen, Hananiah, 00:10:55.907 --> 00:10:59.837 the Lord has not sent you, but the people believe your lies. 00:11:00.587 --> 00:11:02.867 Therefore, this is what the Lord says. 00:11:03.347 --> 00:11:04.277 You must die. 00:11:04.817 --> 00:11:09.227 Your life will end this very year because you have rebelled against the Lord. 00:11:09.577 --> 00:11:13.157 Two months later, the prophet Hananiah died. 00:11:14.867 --> 00:11:19.607 Jeremiah wrote a letter from Jerusalem to the elders, priests, prophets, and 00:11:19.607 --> 00:11:23.537 all the people who had been exiled to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. 00:11:24.257 --> 00:11:28.037 This was after King Je Hoa kin, the Queen mother, the court officials, 00:11:28.157 --> 00:11:31.667 the other officials of Judah and all the craftsmen and artisans 00:11:31.907 --> 00:11:33.587 had been deported from Jerusalem. 00:11:34.007 --> 00:11:38.807 He sent the letter with ssa, son of Shahan and Miah, son of Hill Kayah. 00:11:39.152 --> 00:11:43.442 When they went to Babylon as King Zedekiah's ambassadors to Nebuchadnezzar, 00:11:44.132 --> 00:11:45.752 this is what Jeremiah's letter said. 00:11:46.982 --> 00:11:51.512 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says to all the captives 00:11:51.512 --> 00:11:58.922 he has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem, build homes and plan to stay plant gardens 00:11:59.132 --> 00:12:04.862 and eat the food they produce, marry and have children, then find spouses for them 00:12:04.892 --> 00:12:06.692 so that you may have many grandchildren. 00:12:07.322 --> 00:12:08.102 Multiply. 00:12:08.342 --> 00:12:12.722 Do not dwindle away and work for the peace and prosperity of the 00:12:12.722 --> 00:12:14.462 city where I sent you into exile. 00:12:15.272 --> 00:12:20.132 Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare. 00:12:21.362 --> 00:12:24.632 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:12:25.412 --> 00:12:28.472 Do not let your prophets and fortune tellers who are with you in the 00:12:28.472 --> 00:12:33.212 land of Babylon trick you do not listen to their dreams because they 00:12:33.212 --> 00:12:34.982 are telling you lies in my name. 00:12:35.582 --> 00:12:37.682 I have not sent them, says the Lord. 00:12:38.642 --> 00:12:39.932 This is what the Lord says. 00:12:41.162 --> 00:12:46.982 You will be in Babylon for 70 years, but then I will come and do for you all 00:12:46.982 --> 00:12:51.902 the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again for I know 00:12:51.907 --> 00:12:54.242 the plans I have for you, says the Lord. 00:12:54.752 --> 00:12:57.692 They are plans for good and not for disaster. 00:12:58.322 --> 00:13:03.602 To give you a future and a hope in those days when you pray, I will listen. 00:13:04.187 --> 00:13:07.217 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 00:13:08.177 --> 00:13:10.757 I will be found by you, says the Lord. 00:13:11.627 --> 00:13:14.777 I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. 00:13:15.197 --> 00:13:18.767 I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring 00:13:18.772 --> 00:13:20.447 you home again to your own land. 00:13:21.737 --> 00:13:26.057 You claim that the Lord has raised up prophets for you in Babylon, but this 00:13:26.057 --> 00:13:30.467 is what the Lord says about the king who sits on David's throne and all 00:13:30.472 --> 00:13:32.507 those still living here in Jerusalem. 00:13:33.242 --> 00:13:35.612 Your relatives who are not exiled to Babylon. 00:13:36.392 --> 00:13:38.492 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says. 00:13:39.422 --> 00:13:43.772 I will send war, famine, and disease upon them and make them 00:13:43.772 --> 00:13:46.382 like bad figs, too rotten to eat. 00:13:47.162 --> 00:13:51.962 Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will 00:13:51.962 --> 00:13:53.462 scatter them around the world. 00:13:54.062 --> 00:13:58.982 In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damn nation horror, 00:13:59.162 --> 00:14:04.982 contempt, and mockery for They refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them 00:14:04.982 --> 00:14:06.962 repeatedly through the prophets I sent. 00:14:07.382 --> 00:14:14.432 And you who are in exile have not listened either, says the Lord, therefore, 00:14:14.867 --> 00:14:16.697 Listen to this message from the Lord. 00:14:16.877 --> 00:14:18.857 All you captives there in Babylon. 00:14:19.427 --> 00:14:21.887 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of 00:14:21.887 --> 00:14:23.927 Israel says about your prophets. 00:14:24.767 --> 00:14:31.337 Ahab, son of Coah and Zakiah, son of Meia, who are telling you lies in my name. 00:14:32.027 --> 00:14:36.347 I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar for execution before your eyes. 00:14:37.037 --> 00:14:41.687 Their terrible fate will become proverbial so that the Judean exiles will curse 00:14:41.687 --> 00:14:46.787 someone by saying, may the Lord make you like Zeek and Ahab, whom the King of 00:14:46.787 --> 00:14:51.947 Babylon burned alive for these men have done terrible things among my people. 00:14:52.577 --> 00:14:56.627 They have committed adultery with their neighbor's wives and have lied in my 00:14:56.627 --> 00:14:59.507 name saying things I did not command. 00:15:00.497 --> 00:15:01.847 I am a witness to this. 00:15:02.717 --> 00:15:04.607 I the Lord have spoken. 00:15:05.762 --> 00:15:09.482 The Lord sent this message to Shamaya, the Alemite in Babylon. 00:15:10.232 --> 00:15:13.652 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:15:14.642 --> 00:15:19.352 You wrote a letter on your own authority to Zephaniah son of Meia, the priest, 00:15:19.802 --> 00:15:23.102 and you sent copies to the other priests, sent people in Jerusalem. 00:15:23.732 --> 00:15:29.012 You wrote to Zephaniah, the Lord has appointed you to replace Je Jolla as the 00:15:29.012 --> 00:15:30.902 priest in charge of the house of the Lord. 00:15:31.607 --> 00:15:35.537 You are responsible to put into stocks and neck irons any crazy 00:15:35.537 --> 00:15:36.977 man who claims to be a prophet. 00:15:37.607 --> 00:15:41.387 So why have you done nothing to stop Jeremiah from OV who 00:15:41.387 --> 00:15:43.037 pretends to be a prophet among you? 00:15:43.667 --> 00:15:46.937 Jeremiah sent a letter here to Babylon predicting that our 00:15:46.937 --> 00:15:48.497 captivity will be a long one. 00:15:49.037 --> 00:15:52.907 He said, build homes and plan to stay plant gardens and 00:15:52.907 --> 00:15:53.897 eat the food they produce. 00:15:55.337 --> 00:15:59.117 But when Zephaniah, the priest received Shah's letter, he took 00:15:59.117 --> 00:16:00.917 it to Jeremiah and read it to him. 00:16:01.787 --> 00:16:04.007 Then the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah. 00:16:04.817 --> 00:16:07.697 Send an open letter to all the exiles in Babylon. 00:16:08.117 --> 00:16:12.947 Tell them this is what the Lord says concerning Shamaya, the Alemite, 00:16:13.607 --> 00:16:17.477 since he has prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has 00:16:17.477 --> 00:16:19.277 tricked you into believing his lies. 00:16:19.787 --> 00:16:21.557 I will punish him and his family. 00:16:22.187 --> 00:16:26.537 None of his descendants will see the good things I will do for my people, for 00:16:26.537 --> 00:16:28.847 he has incited you to rebel against me. 00:16:29.747 --> 00:16:31.637 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:16:33.317 --> 00:16:35.297 The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. 00:16:35.747 --> 00:16:39.407 He said, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:16:39.977 --> 00:16:43.367 Write down for the record everything I have said to you, Jeremiah. 00:16:44.072 --> 00:16:45.152 For the time is coming. 00:16:45.152 --> 00:16:49.802 When I will restore the fortunes of my people of Israel and Judah, I will bring 00:16:49.802 --> 00:16:54.332 them home to this land that I gave to their ancestors and they will possess it. 00:16:54.332 --> 00:16:54.782 Again. 00:16:55.652 --> 00:16:57.272 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:16:58.652 --> 00:17:02.222 This is the message the Lord gave concerning Israel and Judah. 00:17:03.092 --> 00:17:04.442 This is what the Lord says. 00:17:05.822 --> 00:17:07.412 I hear cries of fear. 00:17:07.892 --> 00:17:09.872 There is terror and no peace. 00:17:10.892 --> 00:17:12.392 Now let me ask you a question. 00:17:13.202 --> 00:17:14.972 Do men give birth to babies? 00:17:16.172 --> 00:17:17.642 Then why do they stand there? 00:17:17.732 --> 00:17:22.352 Ashen faced, hands pressed against their sides like a woman in labor. 00:17:23.522 --> 00:17:26.522 In all history, there has never been such a time of terror. 00:17:27.212 --> 00:17:31.772 It will be a time of trouble for my people, Israel, yet in the end, 00:17:32.192 --> 00:17:37.592 they will be saved for in that day, says the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:17:38.132 --> 00:17:41.912 I will break the yoke from their necks and snap their chains. 00:17:42.572 --> 00:17:44.972 Foreigners will no longer be their masters. 00:17:45.602 --> 00:17:49.022 For my people will serve the Lord their God and their king 00:17:49.022 --> 00:17:51.362 descended from David the king. 00:17:51.362 --> 00:17:52.802 I will raise up for them. 00:17:53.852 --> 00:17:54.992 So do not be afraid. 00:17:54.997 --> 00:17:59.642 Jacob, my servant, do not be dismayed Israel says the Lord. 00:18:00.152 --> 00:18:04.352 For I will bring you home again from distant lands and your children 00:18:04.472 --> 00:18:06.062 will return from their exile. 00:18:06.692 --> 00:18:11.672 Israel will return to a life of peace and quiet and no one will terrorize them. 00:18:12.497 --> 00:18:15.677 For I am with you and will save you, says the Lord. 00:18:16.427 --> 00:18:20.447 I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you, but I 00:18:20.447 --> 00:18:22.097 will not completely destroy you. 00:18:22.877 --> 00:18:28.097 I will discipline you, but with justice, I cannot let you go unpunished. 00:18:29.147 --> 00:18:30.527 This is what the Lord says. 00:18:31.727 --> 00:18:35.627 Your injury is incurable, a terrible wound. 00:18:36.317 --> 00:18:39.467 There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. 00:18:40.082 --> 00:18:41.702 No medicine can heal you. 00:18:42.362 --> 00:18:47.432 All your lovers, your allies have left you and do not care about you anymore. 00:18:48.362 --> 00:18:53.072 I have wounded you cruelly as though I were your enemy for your sins 00:18:53.072 --> 00:18:55.232 are many, and your guilt is great. 00:18:56.312 --> 00:18:58.082 Why do you protest your punishment? 00:18:58.682 --> 00:19:00.572 This wound that has no cure? 00:19:01.322 --> 00:19:06.092 I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great. 00:19:07.487 --> 00:19:11.687 But all who devour you will be devoured and all your enemies 00:19:11.687 --> 00:19:13.157 will be sent into exile. 00:19:13.697 --> 00:19:18.767 All who plunder you will be plundered and all who attack you will be attacked. 00:19:19.607 --> 00:19:23.147 I will give you back your health and heal your wounds, says the 00:19:23.147 --> 00:19:28.427 Lord for you called an outcast Jerusalem for whom no one caress. 00:19:30.767 --> 00:19:32.057 This is what the Lord says. 00:19:33.467 --> 00:19:37.307 When I bring Israel home again from captivity and restore their fortunes, 00:19:37.847 --> 00:19:42.677 Jerusalem will be rebuilt on its ruins and the palace reconstructed. 00:19:42.682 --> 00:19:47.387 As before, there will be joy and songs of Thanksgiving, and I will 00:19:47.387 --> 00:19:50.057 multiply my people, not diminish them. 00:19:50.597 --> 00:19:52.907 I will honor them, not despise them. 00:19:53.447 --> 00:19:56.267 Their children will prosper as they did long ago. 00:19:56.837 --> 00:20:00.317 I will establish them as a nation before me, and I will 00:20:00.317 --> 00:20:01.817 punish anyone who hurts them. 00:20:02.867 --> 00:20:06.827 They will have their own ruler again, and he will come from their own people. 00:20:07.457 --> 00:20:11.897 I will invite him to approach me, says the Lord, for who would dare 00:20:11.897 --> 00:20:17.867 to come unless invited you will be my people and I will be your God. 00:20:19.127 --> 00:20:25.487 Look, the Lord's anger bursts out like a storm, a driving wind that swirls 00:20:25.492 --> 00:20:27.047 down on the heads of the wicked. 00:20:27.752 --> 00:20:31.832 The fierce anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all 00:20:31.832 --> 00:20:34.382 he has planned in the days to come. 00:20:34.802 --> 00:20:40.322 You will understand all this in that day, says the Lord, I will 00:20:40.322 --> 00:20:44.282 be the God of all the families of Israel and they will be my people. 00:20:45.062 --> 00:20:46.442 This is what the Lord says. 00:20:47.792 --> 00:20:51.332 Those who survive the coming destruction will find blessings 00:20:51.362 --> 00:20:55.862 even in the barren land, for I will give rest to the people of Israel. 00:20:57.152 --> 00:21:01.982 Long ago, the Lord said to Israel, I have loved you, my 00:21:01.982 --> 00:21:04.142 people, with an everlasting love. 00:21:04.772 --> 00:21:07.832 With unfailing love, I have drawn you to myself. 00:21:08.822 --> 00:21:11.582 I will rebuild you my Virgin Israel. 00:21:12.182 --> 00:21:16.322 You will again be happy and dance merrily with your tambourines. 00:21:16.952 --> 00:21:20.822 Again, you will plant your vineyards on the mountains of Samaria and 00:21:20.822 --> 00:21:22.412 eat from your own gardens there. 00:21:23.267 --> 00:21:27.017 The day will come when Watchmen will shout from the hill country of Efraim. 00:21:27.557 --> 00:21:31.667 Come let us go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord our God. 00:21:32.867 --> 00:21:34.457 Now this is what the Lord says. 00:21:35.777 --> 00:21:37.487 Sing with joy for Israel. 00:21:37.787 --> 00:21:39.737 Shout for the greatest of nations. 00:21:40.217 --> 00:21:42.197 Shout out with praise and joy. 00:21:42.767 --> 00:21:47.687 Save your people, oh Lord, the remnant of Israel for I will bring 00:21:47.687 --> 00:21:50.687 them from the north and from the distant corners of the earth. 00:21:51.272 --> 00:21:56.222 I will not forget the blind and lame the expectant mothers and women in labor. 00:21:56.882 --> 00:22:02.792 A great company will return tears of joy, will stream down their faces, and 00:22:02.792 --> 00:22:04.712 I will lead them home with great care. 00:22:05.492 --> 00:22:09.662 They will walk beside quiet streams and on smooth paths where they 00:22:09.662 --> 00:22:15.482 will not stumble for I am Israel's father, and E is my oldest child. 00:22:16.697 --> 00:22:18.407 Listen to this message from the Lord. 00:22:18.467 --> 00:22:22.187 You nations of the world proclaim it in distant coastlands. 00:22:22.847 --> 00:22:27.227 The Lord who scattered his people will gather them and watch over 00:22:27.227 --> 00:22:29.267 them as a shepherd does His flock. 00:22:30.077 --> 00:22:33.647 For the Lord has redeemed Israel from those two strong for them. 00:22:34.547 --> 00:22:38.267 They will come home and sing songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem. 00:22:38.837 --> 00:22:41.807 They will be radiant because of the Lord's good gifts. 00:22:42.587 --> 00:22:47.867 The abundant crops of grain, new wine and olive oil, and the healthy flocks and 00:22:47.867 --> 00:22:53.957 herds, their life will be like a watered garden and all their sorrows will be gone. 00:22:54.797 --> 00:22:58.757 The young women will dance for joy, and the men old and young 00:22:58.937 --> 00:23:00.497 will join in the celebration. 00:23:01.397 --> 00:23:03.407 I will turn their mourning into joy. 00:23:03.887 --> 00:23:07.787 I will comfort them and exchange their sorrow for rejoicing. 00:23:08.597 --> 00:23:10.607 The priests will enjoy abundance. 00:23:11.222 --> 00:23:13.802 And my people will feast on my good gifts. 00:23:14.582 --> 00:23:16.502 I the Lord have spoken. 00:23:18.122 --> 00:23:19.472 This is what the Lord says. 00:23:20.492 --> 00:23:24.602 A cry is heard in rama deep anguish and bitter weeping. 00:23:25.382 --> 00:23:31.562 Rachel weeps for her children refusing to be comforted for her children are gone. 00:23:32.852 --> 00:23:34.742 But now this is what the Lord says. 00:23:35.522 --> 00:23:39.472 Do not weep any longer for I will reward you, says the Lord. 00:23:40.427 --> 00:23:44.657 Your children will come back to you From the distant land of the enemy, there 00:23:44.657 --> 00:23:47.207 is hope for your future, says the Lord. 00:23:47.957 --> 00:23:50.477 Your children will come again to their own land. 00:23:51.377 --> 00:23:56.297 I have heard Israel saying, you disciplined me severely like a calf 00:23:56.297 --> 00:23:57.827 that needs training for the yoke. 00:23:58.667 --> 00:24:01.127 Turn me again to you and restore me. 00:24:01.727 --> 00:24:03.887 For you alone are the Lord My God. 00:24:04.667 --> 00:24:07.307 I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. 00:24:07.892 --> 00:24:09.932 I kicked myself for my stupidity. 00:24:10.502 --> 00:24:16.442 I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days is not Israel, still 00:24:16.447 --> 00:24:19.862 my son, my darling child, says the Lord. 00:24:20.732 --> 00:24:24.122 I often have to punish him, but I still love him. 00:24:25.112 --> 00:24:28.922 That's why I long for him and surely will have mercy on him. 00:24:30.272 --> 00:24:34.052 Set up road signs, put up guideposts mark. 00:24:34.052 --> 00:24:35.972 Well, the path by which you came. 00:24:36.797 --> 00:24:37.967 Come back again. 00:24:37.967 --> 00:24:39.197 My Virgin Israel. 00:24:39.497 --> 00:24:41.177 Return to your towns here. 00:24:42.047 --> 00:24:46.427 How long will you wander my wayward daughter for the Lord will 00:24:46.427 --> 00:24:48.197 cause something new to happen. 00:24:48.827 --> 00:24:51.317 Israel will embrace her God. 00:24:52.607 --> 00:24:57.347 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says When I bring 00:24:57.347 --> 00:25:02.027 them back from captivity, the people of Judah and its towns will again say. 00:25:02.507 --> 00:25:03.827 The Lord bless you. 00:25:03.887 --> 00:25:05.117 Oh, righteous home. 00:25:05.297 --> 00:25:06.467 Oh Holy Mountain. 00:25:07.277 --> 00:25:10.397 Townspeople and farmers and shepherds alike will live 00:25:10.397 --> 00:25:12.197 together in peace and happiness. 00:25:12.917 --> 00:25:18.767 For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing at this. 00:25:19.487 --> 00:25:21.317 I woke up and looked around. 00:25:22.097 --> 00:25:23.957 My sleep had been very sweet. 00:25:25.832 --> 00:25:30.902 The day is coming, says the Lord, when I will greatly increase the human population 00:25:31.202 --> 00:25:36.422 and the number of animals here in Israel and Judah in the past, I deliberately 00:25:36.422 --> 00:25:38.462 uprooted and tore down this nation. 00:25:38.852 --> 00:25:42.662 I overthrew it, destroyed it, and brought disaster upon it. 00:25:43.322 --> 00:25:47.822 But in the future, I will just as deliberately plant it and build it up. 00:25:48.842 --> 00:25:50.372 I the Lord have spoken. 00:25:51.647 --> 00:25:53.957 The people will no longer quote this proverb. 00:25:54.437 --> 00:25:57.647 The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children's 00:25:57.647 --> 00:25:59.207 mouths pucker at the taste. 00:26:00.347 --> 00:26:02.927 All people will die for their own sins. 00:26:03.407 --> 00:26:07.397 Those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker. 00:26:08.567 --> 00:26:10.697 The day is coming, says the Lord. 00:26:11.267 --> 00:26:14.717 When I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 00:26:15.572 --> 00:26:19.232 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when 00:26:19.232 --> 00:26:22.262 I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. 00:26:23.042 --> 00:26:26.372 They broke that covenant though I loved them as a husband. 00:26:26.372 --> 00:26:28.592 Loves his wife, says the Lord. 00:26:29.492 --> 00:26:32.702 But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel 00:26:32.762 --> 00:26:34.832 after those days says the Lord. 00:26:35.672 --> 00:26:39.872 I will put my instructions deep within them and I will 00:26:39.872 --> 00:26:41.282 write them on their hearts. 00:26:41.927 --> 00:26:46.757 I will be their God and they will be my people and they will not need to 00:26:46.757 --> 00:26:50.897 teach their neighbors nor will they need to teach their relatives saying, 00:26:51.047 --> 00:26:55.877 you should know the Lord for everyone from the least to the greatest will 00:26:55.882 --> 00:27:01.787 know me already says the Lord and I will forgive their wickedness and I 00:27:01.787 --> 00:27:03.887 will never again remember their sins. 00:27:05.357 --> 00:27:09.317 It is the Lord who provides the sun to light the day and the moon and 00:27:09.317 --> 00:27:13.787 stars to light the night, and who stirs the sea into roaring waves. 00:27:14.447 --> 00:27:19.127 His name is the Lord of Heaven's armies, and this is what he says. 00:27:20.057 --> 00:27:25.097 I am as likely to reject my people Israel as I am to abolish the laws of nature. 00:27:26.057 --> 00:27:29.657 This is what the Lord says, just as the heavens cannot be 00:27:29.657 --> 00:27:33.107 measured and the foundations of the earth cannot be explored. 00:27:33.647 --> 00:27:37.577 So I will not consider casting them away for the evil they have done. 00:27:38.297 --> 00:27:39.827 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:27:40.967 --> 00:27:45.977 The day is coming, says the Lord, when all Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me. 00:27:46.607 --> 00:27:51.677 From the tower of Hael to the corner gate, a measuring line will be stretched out 00:27:51.677 --> 00:27:54.197 over the hill of Garib and across to Goa. 00:27:54.722 --> 00:27:59.162 And the entire area, including the graveyard and ash dump in the valley 00:27:59.282 --> 00:28:02.912 and all the fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the 00:28:02.912 --> 00:28:05.312 horse gate will be holy to the Lord. 00:28:06.152 --> 00:28:09.062 The city will never again be captured or destroyed. 00:28:10.562 --> 00:28:14.822 The following message came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the 10th year of 00:28:14.822 --> 00:28:16.862 the Reign of Zakiah, king of Judah. 00:28:17.642 --> 00:28:21.512 This was also the 18th year of the Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. 00:28:22.397 --> 00:28:26.597 Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army, and Jeremiah 00:28:26.597 --> 00:28:29.807 was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. 00:28:30.707 --> 00:28:34.877 Kings Akia had put him there asking why he kept giving this prophecy. 00:28:35.657 --> 00:28:37.127 This is what the Lord says. 00:28:37.457 --> 00:28:41.297 I'm about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon and he will take it. 00:28:41.807 --> 00:28:45.737 Kings at AIA will be captured by the Babylonians and taken to meet 00:28:45.737 --> 00:28:47.567 the king of Babylon face-to-face. 00:28:47.957 --> 00:28:52.637 He will take Zeek to Babylon and I will deal with him there, says the Lord. 00:28:53.417 --> 00:28:56.507 If you fight against the Babylonians, you will never succeed. 00:28:57.587 --> 00:29:00.107 At that time, the Lord sent me a message. 00:29:00.797 --> 00:29:07.127 He said, your cousin Hael son of Shalom will come and say to you by my field at 00:29:07.457 --> 00:29:12.317 Hoff, by law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else. 00:29:13.367 --> 00:29:16.997 Then just as the Lord had said he would, My cousin, Hannah Mel, 00:29:16.997 --> 00:29:19.127 came and visited me in the prison. 00:29:19.727 --> 00:29:24.377 He said, please buy my field at Anau in the land of Benjamin. 00:29:24.857 --> 00:29:28.517 By law, you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone 00:29:28.517 --> 00:29:30.437 else, so buy it for yourself. 00:29:31.667 --> 00:29:36.137 Then I knew that the message I had heard was from the Lord, so I bought 00:29:36.137 --> 00:29:40.727 the field at Hoff, paying Hannah Mel, 17 pieces of silver for it. 00:29:41.507 --> 00:29:44.927 I signed and sealed the deeded of purchase before witnesses. 00:29:45.422 --> 00:29:47.402 Weighed out the silver and paid him. 00:29:48.122 --> 00:29:52.322 Then I took the sealed deeded and an unsealed copy of the deeded, which 00:29:52.322 --> 00:29:56.822 contained the terms and conditions of the purchase, and I handed them to Barrack 00:29:56.852 --> 00:29:59.402 son of Niah and grandson of Macia. 00:29:59.972 --> 00:30:03.722 I did all this in the presence of my cousin Hael, the witnesses who 00:30:03.722 --> 00:30:06.782 had signed the deeded and all the men of Judah who were there in 00:30:06.782 --> 00:30:08.222 the courtyard of the Guardhouse. 00:30:09.002 --> 00:30:12.992 Then I said to Barrick, as they all listened, This is what the Lord of 00:30:12.992 --> 00:30:18.452 Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, take both this sealed deeded and the 00:30:18.452 --> 00:30:23.552 unsealed copy and put them into a pottery jar to preserve them for a long time. 00:30:24.362 --> 00:30:29.612 For this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, someday 00:30:30.152 --> 00:30:34.682 people will again own property here in this land and will buy and sell 00:30:34.682 --> 00:30:37.112 houses and vineyards and fields. 00:30:38.282 --> 00:30:42.302 Then after I had given the papers to Barrick, I prayed to the Lord. 00:30:43.412 --> 00:30:46.952 Oh, sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and earth by your 00:30:46.957 --> 00:30:48.842 strong hand and powerful arm. 00:30:49.382 --> 00:30:50.942 Nothing is too hard for you. 00:30:51.602 --> 00:30:56.912 You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences 00:30:56.912 --> 00:30:59.492 of one generation's sin upon the next. 00:31:00.272 --> 00:31:03.932 You are the great and powerful God, the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:31:04.502 --> 00:31:07.862 You have all wisdom and do great and mighty miracles. 00:31:08.642 --> 00:31:12.302 You see the conduct of all people and you give them what they deserve. 00:31:13.022 --> 00:31:16.622 You performed miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 00:31:17.012 --> 00:31:22.202 Things still remembered to this day, and you have continued to do great miracles 00:31:22.207 --> 00:31:24.452 in Israel and all around the world. 00:31:25.142 --> 00:31:27.482 You have made your name famous to this day. 00:31:28.562 --> 00:31:31.892 You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders 00:31:32.192 --> 00:31:36.452 with a strong hand and powerful arm, and with overwhelming terror. 00:31:37.232 --> 00:31:41.132 You gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long 00:31:41.132 --> 00:31:44.012 before a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:31:44.852 --> 00:31:49.562 Our ancestors came and conquered it and lived in it, but they refuse 00:31:49.562 --> 00:31:51.842 to obey you or follow your word. 00:31:52.622 --> 00:31:54.332 They have not done anything you commanded. 00:31:55.442 --> 00:31:58.382 That is why you have sent this terrible disaster upon them. 00:31:59.762 --> 00:32:03.362 See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls 00:32:04.112 --> 00:32:06.242 through war, famine, and disease. 00:32:06.632 --> 00:32:10.382 The city will be handed over to the Babylonians who will conquer it. 00:32:11.372 --> 00:32:16.742 Everything has happened, just as you said, and yet, oh, sovereign Lord, you 00:32:16.742 --> 00:32:21.812 have told me to buy the field paying good money for it before these witnesses. 00:32:22.592 --> 00:32:27.122 Even though the city will soon be handed over to the Babylonians, then 00:32:27.122 --> 00:32:31.772 this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, I am the Lord, the God 00:32:31.772 --> 00:32:33.182 of all the peoples of the world. 00:32:33.992 --> 00:32:35.822 Is anything too hard for me? 00:32:36.662 --> 00:32:39.032 Therefore, this is what the Lord says. 00:32:39.782 --> 00:32:43.802 I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar, king 00:32:43.802 --> 00:32:45.932 of Babylon, and he will capture it. 00:32:46.742 --> 00:32:51.062 The Babylonians outside the walls will come in and set fire to the city. 00:32:51.602 --> 00:32:55.082 They will burn down all these houses where the people provoked 00:32:55.082 --> 00:32:59.582 my anger by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out 00:32:59.582 --> 00:33:01.382 liquid offerings to other gods. 00:33:02.402 --> 00:33:06.872 Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. 00:33:07.622 --> 00:33:11.762 They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds, says the Lord. 00:33:12.842 --> 00:33:17.372 From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, 00:33:17.972 --> 00:33:19.772 so I am determined to get rid of it. 00:33:21.017 --> 00:33:25.667 The sins of Israel and Judah, the sins of the people of Jerusalem, the 00:33:25.667 --> 00:33:31.367 kings, the officials, the priests and the prophets have stirred up my anger. 00:33:32.027 --> 00:33:37.127 My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return even 00:33:37.132 --> 00:33:41.987 though I diligently taught them, they would not receive instruction or obey. 00:33:42.767 --> 00:33:47.207 They have set up their abominable idols right in my own temple, defiling it. 00:33:48.017 --> 00:33:51.347 They have built pagan shrines to bail in the valley of Ben Ham, 00:33:52.187 --> 00:33:55.577 and there they sacrificed their sons and daughters to Molech. 00:33:56.297 --> 00:33:58.547 I have never commanded such a horrible deeded. 00:33:58.697 --> 00:34:01.847 It never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. 00:34:02.747 --> 00:34:07.067 What an incredible evil causing Judah to sin so greatly. 00:34:08.477 --> 00:34:10.907 Now, I want to say something more about this city. 00:34:11.717 --> 00:34:12.767 You have been saying. 00:34:13.097 --> 00:34:17.117 It will fall to the king of Babylon through war, famine, and disease. 00:34:17.867 --> 00:34:20.777 But this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. 00:34:21.617 --> 00:34:25.157 I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries 00:34:25.157 --> 00:34:26.897 where I will scatter them in my fury. 00:34:27.467 --> 00:34:32.057 I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety. 00:34:32.837 --> 00:34:37.697 They will be my people and I will be their God, and I will give them one 00:34:37.697 --> 00:34:44.327 heart and one purpose to worship me forever for their own good and for 00:34:44.327 --> 00:34:45.857 the good of all their descendants. 00:34:45.857 --> 00:34:45.917 I. 00:34:46.202 --> 00:34:48.632 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 00:34:49.172 --> 00:34:51.362 I will never stop doing good for them. 00:34:52.142 --> 00:34:56.612 I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me and they will never leave me. 00:34:57.512 --> 00:35:02.972 I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly 00:35:03.122 --> 00:35:04.802 replant them in this land. 00:35:05.132 --> 00:35:11.972 This is what the Lord says, just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I 00:35:11.972 --> 00:35:14.702 will do all the good I have promised them. 00:35:15.467 --> 00:35:19.187 Fields will again be bought and sold in this land, about which you 00:35:19.187 --> 00:35:23.687 now say it has been ravaged by the Babylonians, a desolate land where 00:35:23.687 --> 00:35:25.727 people and animals have all disappeared. 00:35:26.357 --> 00:35:32.387 Yes, fields will once again be bought and sold deeds, signed and sealed and 00:35:32.392 --> 00:35:38.267 witnessed in the land of Benjamin and here in Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and 00:35:38.267 --> 00:35:44.087 in the Hill country, in the foothills of Judah and in the Negev too for someday. 00:35:44.552 --> 00:35:46.802 I will restore prosperity to them. 00:35:47.582 --> 00:35:49.382 I the Lord have spoken. 00:35:51.272 --> 00:35:54.122 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:35:54.272 --> 00:35:55.472 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