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Bible Reading for August 15

Jeremiah 33
[1] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while
he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, [2] Thus saith the
LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD
is his name; [3] Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great
and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
[4] For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of
this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; [5] They come to fight with
the Chaldeans, but it is fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have
slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid
my face from this city. [6] Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I
will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
[7] And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to
return, and will build them, as at the first. [8] And I will cleanse them
from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will
pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they
have transgressed against me. [9] And it shall be to me a name of joy, a
praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear
all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all
the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
[10] Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which
ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities
of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man,
and without inhabitant, and without beast, [11] The voice of joy, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the
sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return
the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
[12] Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate
without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an
habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. [13] In the
cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of
the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of
him that telleth them, saith the LORD. [14] Behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto
the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
[15] In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land.
[16] In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely:
and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.
[17] For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the
throne of the house of Israel;
[18] Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually.
[19] And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, [20] Thus saith
the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
[21] Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he
should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers.
[22] As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites
that minister unto me.
[23] Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, [24]
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families
which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have
despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. [25]
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I
have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; [26] Then will I
cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take
any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:
for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Jeremiah 34
[1] The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his
dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the
cities thereof, saying,
[2] Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king
of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: [3]
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and
delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king
of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go
to Babylon.
[4] Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the
LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: [5] But thou shalt die in
peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were
before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee,
saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
[6] Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of
Judah in Jerusalem,
[7] When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against
all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against
Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah. [8] This
is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem,
to proclaim liberty unto them; [9] That every man should let his
manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess,
go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his
brother. [10] Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant,
and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves
of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. [11] But afterward
they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let
go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids.
[12] Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
[13] Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondmen, saying,
[14] At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew,
which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years,
thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto
me, neither inclined their ear.
[15] And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming
liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in
the house which is called by my name: [16] But ye turned and polluted my
name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye
had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
[17] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in
proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. [18] And I will give the men
that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of
the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in
twain, and passed between the parts thereof, [19] The princes of Judah, and
the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people
of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
[20] I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat
unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. [21] And
Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand
of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you. [22] Behold, I
will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and
they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will
make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 35
[1] The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, [2] Go unto the house of
the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the
LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
[3] Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and
his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; [4]
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons
of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of
the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum,
the keeper of the door:
[5] And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of
wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. [6] But they said, We
will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us,
saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
[7] Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor
have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many
days in the land where ye be strangers.
[8] Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father
in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our
wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
[9] Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor
field, nor seed:
[10] But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all
that Jonadab our father commanded us. [11] But it came to pass, when
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come,
and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for
fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
[12] Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, [13] Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my
words? saith the LORD. [14] The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they
drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have
spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
[15] I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way,
and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye
shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but
ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. [16] Because the sons
of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their
father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto
me:
[17] Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the
evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them,
but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not
answered.
[18] And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of
Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all
that he hath commanded you:
[19] Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the
son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Jeremiah 36
[1] And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, [2]
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have
spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
this day.
[3] It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way;
that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. [4] Then Jeremiah called
Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all
the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
[5] And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into
the house of the LORD:
[6] Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from
my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's
house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of
all Judah that come out of their cities.
[7] It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and
will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the
fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. [8] And Baruch the
son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,
reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
[9] And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the
LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from
the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. [10] Then read Baruch in the book the
words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the
son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new
gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
[11] When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out
of the book all the words of the LORD, [12] Then he went down into the
king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat
there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah
the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. [13] Then Michaiah declared unto
them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears
of the people. [14] Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying,
Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the
people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand,
and came unto them. [15] And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it
in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
[16] Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were
afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the
king of all these words.
[17] And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all
these words at his mouth?
[18] Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with
his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. [19] Then said the
princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know
where ye be.
[20] And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll
in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears
of the king.
[21] So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of
Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king,
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. [22] Now
the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on
the hearth burning before him. [23] And it came to pass, that when Jehudi
had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it
into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in
the fire that was on the hearth. [24] Yet they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all
these words. [25] Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not
hear them. [26] But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch
the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them. [27] Then the
word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll,
and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
[28] Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words
that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
[29] And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim the king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and
shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? [30] Therefore thus saith
the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the
throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the
heat, and in the night to the frost. [31] And I will punish him and his
seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil
that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
[32] Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the
son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words
of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there
were added besides unto them many like words.---

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