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Bible Reading for August 14

Jeremiah 30
[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, [2] Thus speaketh
the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken
unto thee in a book. [3] For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the
LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their
fathers, and they shall possess it.
[4] And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and
concerning Judah.
[5] For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear,
and not of peace.
[6] Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do
I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all
faces are turned into paleness?
[7] Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. [8] For it shall
come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his
yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no
more serve themselves of him: [9] But they shall serve the LORD their God,
and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
[10] Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither
be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed
from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in
rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. [11] For I am with
thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations
whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but
I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished.
[12] For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
[13] There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou
hast no healing medicines.
[14] All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have
wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
[15] Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the
multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done
these things unto thee.
[16] Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a
prey. [17] For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This
is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
[18] Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be
builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner
thereof.
[19] And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that
make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will
also glorify them, and they shall not be small. [20] Their children also
shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before
me, and I will punish all that oppress them. [21] And their nobles shall be
of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and
I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is
this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
[22] And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. [23] Behold, the
whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it
shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. [24] The fierce anger of
the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have
performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider
it.

Jeremiah 31
[1] At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families
of Israel, and they shall be my people. [2] Thus saith the LORD, The people
which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel,
when I went to cause him to rest. [3] The LORD hath appeared of old unto
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee. [4] Again I will build thee, and thou
shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy
tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
[5] Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters
shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. [6] For there shall be a
day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let
us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. [7] For thus saith the LORD; Sing
with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish
ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
[8] Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from
the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman
with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company
shall return thither.
[9] They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them:
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,
wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is
my firstborn.
[10] Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him,
as a shepherd doth his flock.
[11] For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of
him that was stronger than he.
[12] Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall
flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for
oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall
be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. [13]
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old
together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them rejoice from their sorrow. [14] And I will satiate the soul
of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my
goodness, saith the LORD. [15] Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in
Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children
refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. [16] Thus
saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears:
for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again
from the land of the enemy. [17] And there is hope in thine end, saith the
LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
[18] I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. [19]
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was
instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth. [20] Is Ephraim my dear son?
is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly
remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely
have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. [21] Set thee up waymarks, make thee
high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou
wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
[22] How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD
hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. [23]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this
speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring
again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and
mountain of holiness.
[24] And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof
together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. [25] For I have
satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
[26] Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. [27]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel
and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
[28] And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
[29] In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. [30] But every one shall
die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge. [31] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah: [32] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them,
saith the LORD: [33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
[34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. [35] Thus saith the
LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the
moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the
waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: [36] If those ordinances
depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall
cease from being a nation before me for ever. [37] Thus saith the LORD; If
heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have
done, saith the LORD. [38] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the
city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of
the corner. [39] And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it
upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. [40] And the whole
valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the
brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall
be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more
for ever.

Jeremiah 32
[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
[2] For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah
the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king
of Judah's house.
[3] For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; [4] And Zedekiah
king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall
surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak
with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
[5] And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I
visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not
prosper?
[6] And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [7]
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee,
saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption
is thine to buy it.
[8] So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison
according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray
thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the
right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for
thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. [9] And I bought
the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him
the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. [10] And I subscribed the
evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in
the balances. [11] So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which
was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: [12]
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the
son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the
presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before
all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. [13] And I charged Baruch
before them, saying, [14] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed,
and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that
they may continue many days.
[15] For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields
and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. [16] Now when I had
delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed unto the LORD, saying, [17] Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the
heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is
nothing too hard for thee: [18] Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands,
and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his
name, [19] Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open
upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: [20] Which hast set signs
and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and
among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
[21] And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with
signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out
arm, and with great terror;
[22] And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers
to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; [23] And they came in,
and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law;
they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore
thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
[24] Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the
city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it,
because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what
thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. [25] And thou
hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take
witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. [26] Then
came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, [27] Behold, I am the
LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
[28] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and he shall take it:
[29] And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set
fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have
offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods,
to provoke me to anger.
[30] For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done
evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only
provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. [31] For
this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury
from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it
from before my face,
[32] Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children
of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings,
their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[33] And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I
taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened
to receive instruction.
[34] But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my
name, to defile it.
[35] And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the
son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the
fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. [36] And now
therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city,
whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon
by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; [37] Behold, I will
gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger,
and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this
place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: [38] And they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: [39] And I will give them one heart, and
one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them: [40] And I will make an everlasting covenant with
them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put
my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. [41] Yea, I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. [42] For thus saith
the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so
will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
[43] And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
[44] Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal
them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains,
and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will
cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

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