"*** JEREMIAH 09 ****" 
"Cursed is he who trusts in man The Lord says , Cursed is he who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength. Heshall be like a stunted shrub in the desert and will not see prosperity. Blessed is he who trusts in the Lord Blessed is he who trusts in the Lord. He shall be like a tree planted beside water, sending its roots into the stream. He will never fail to bear fruit. Unjustly obtained wealth will be lost in mid-life Like a bird hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who gains wealth by unjust means. When his"
"life is half gone his riches will desert him. For I Jehovah search the heart of a man and reward him according to what his deeds deserve. Jeremiah asks the Lord to intensify the coming disaster for the people are mocking his words I said to the Lord , O Jehovah , men keep mocking me saying , What has happened to the word of the Lord? We are waiting for it to come to pass . I have not run from being your shepherd , therefore keep me from humiliation . Let my persecutors be put to shame . Let them be terrified . Bring on them the day of disaster with double destruction . Jeremiah sent to call"
"on the people to keep the Sabbath day holy The Lord said to me , Go and stand in the Peoples Gate by which the kings of Judahgo in and out, and also all the other gates of Jerusalem and proclaim these words to the people. Hear the word of Jehovah O king of Judah, and all you people of Judah, Carry no load through these gates nor do anywork on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy. This commandment I gave to your forefathers but they obeyed itnot.Jerusalem to be inhabited forever if Sabbath kept If you obey me, then the kings who sit on Davids throne will pass through thegates of this"
"city with their officials, riding in chariots and on horses and this city will continue to be inhabited. People will continue to come from the towns of Judah and Benjamin bringing offerings and sacrifices to the house of theLord. But if you do not keep the Sabbath day holy I will kindle an unquenchable fire thatwill devour Jerusalem. Israel like clay in the hands of the potter to the Lord The word of the Lord came to me saying , Go down to the potter and there I will giveyou my word. So I went down to the potter s house and watched him working at his wheel . The pot he was shaping from clay"
"turned out wrong so he formed it into a different kind of pot , as seemed best to him . Then the word of the Lord came to me , O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? Like clay in the hand of thepotter are you to me. The Lord will relent of a threatened disaster if a nation repents If at any time I declare that a nation is to be uprooted or destroyed, and that nation repents of its evil, then I will relent and notinflict on it the disaster I had planned. If at another time I announce that a nation is to be built up, and that nation doeswrong in my eyes and obeys me not,"
"then I will reconsider the good I had intended. A potter at his wheel in Israel. O people of Judah, hear the word of Jehovah. I am preparing a disaster for you. So repent of your evil and reform yourways. But they will reply, We shall continue with our own plans, according to thestubbornness of our evil hearts. Therefore their land will be laid waste, an object of horror. All who pass by shall be appalled and will shake their heads. The people want to rid themselves of Jeremiah and listen to their false prophets Then the people said , Let us rid ourselves of Jeremiah . We have our priests to"
"teach us the Law and the wise to counsel us and the word from our prophets . Let us bring charges against this man and silence him . Then we will no longer have to hear his words . Jeremiah pleads with the Lord for vengeance on the people plotting against him Hear what my accusers are saying O Lord . They have dug a pit for me . Should good be repaid with evil? 24Remember that I once prayed for you to turn your wrath away fromthem . But now give their children over to famine , and hand them over to the sword . Let their wives be made widows and their sons be slain in battle . You know of"
"their plots to kill me . Do not forgive them O Lord . Deal with them in the day of your anger . Jeremiah told to buy a clay jar and take some leaders ou t to Valley of Hinnom The Lord said to me , Go buy a clay jar from the potter. Then take some of theelders and priests with you and go out to the valley of Hinnom.  There proclaim these words in their hearing: The valley of Hinnom a place of idolatry and child sacrifice Hear the word of Jehovah Almighty the God of Israel. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that it shall make the ears of all who hear tingle. For you have"
"forsaken me and made this valley a place of foreign gods and have filled it with the blood of innocent children. You have burned your children in fire to Molech, something I did not command nor did it ever enter my mind. The valley of Hinnom to be filled with the dead of Jerusalem Therefore the days are coming when this valley will no longer be called the valley of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter. For the bodies of the people who fall by the sword in Jerusalem shall be dragged here by their enemies and they will bury them until there is no more room. 33Then they will leave the unburied"
"carcasses to become food for the birds of the air and animals of the earth and there shall be no one to frighten them away.  Then you are to break the clay jar before the eyes of those who are with youand say to them, Jehovah Almighty says, As this jar is smashed beyond repair, so will I smash this city and nation. Pashhur the priest strikes Jeremiah and puts him in the stocks So Jeremiah took some of the elders and priests and did all that the Lord commanded him. Afterward he returned to the courtyard of the Temple and began again to prophesy of thedisaster to come upon Judah . Pashhur the"
"priest in charge of the Temple heard Jeremiah prophesying so he struck theprophet . Then he placed him in the stocks at the Upper Gate of the Temple . The valley of Hinnom, later kn own as Gehenna (Hell) and used by Jesus to symbolise the emotional torment of the wicked after death. Jeremiah prophesies regarding Pashhur The next day when Pashhur released him from the stocks , Jeremiah said to him , Jehovah has a new name for you Pashhur, it is Man of Terror. 40For he says, I will send terror on you and all your friends. Withyour own eyes you will see them fall by the sword. I will hand all"
"Judah over to the king of Babylon and he shall put them to the sword or carry them into exile. All the wealth of this city will also be carried away as spoil to Babylon, and you Pashhur and all your household will go there into exile and shall die there and be buried, along with those to whom you have prophesied falsely. Jeremiahs sorrowful prayer O Lord , you persuaded me to prophesy and prevailed , but I am ridiculed all day long . They mock me saying , Terror all around Terror all around And I hear threats . Report him Report him (translated Hell in some Bibles). Jesus used the burning"
"dump, with its horrific history to symbolise the emotional torment of the wicked after death. Even my former friends wait for me to slip saying , Perhaps he will trip himself in his words then we can take our revenge on him . All I prophesy is vi olence and destruction . Therefore your words bring me insults and reproach all day long . 46But if I say to myself , I will no longer speak in the name of the Lord , your word becomes like fire in my bones and I cannot hold it in . But you O Lord are with me , like a mighty warrior , so my persecutors will not succeed . They will be eternally"
"dishonoured . O Lord Almighty , you who see and test the hearts and minds of the righteous , let me see your vengeance upon them . Sing to the Lord Praise the Lord , for he delivers the needy from evildoers . O cursed be the day I was born . Cursed be the man who brought my father the glad news saying , A son is born to you . Why did I ever come out of the womb only to see trouble and sorrow and to spend my days in shame?" 
"*** JEREMIAH 10 ****" 
"Ancient stocks Judah has not listened to Jeremiah and others of the Lords prophets In the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah , and the first year of"
"Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , Jeremiah the prophet proclaimed these words to the people of Judah : 2For twenty-three years from the thirteenth year of King Josiah until this very day , I have prophesied the word of the Lord to you , but you have not listened . The Lord has also sent other prophets to you but you have not heeded them . Therefore Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is coming to invade the land Therefore Jehovah Almighty says this to you: Because you have not listened to my words I will summon the people of thenorth, even my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bring him"
"against this land and all the surrounding nations. I shall ruin them and make them an object of horror and scorn, never to be forgotten. Judah and surrounding nations to be ruined and to serve Babylon for seventy years I shall banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voice of bride andbridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. This whole region shall become an empty wasteland, and the nations of this land will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Afterward the Babylonian s also to be ruined Then when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king"
"of Babylon and his people for their guilt, and will turn his city into a desert for all time. The Babylonians shall be enslaved by other nations, for I will repay them accord- ing to their deeds. Jeremiah to warn the other nations Then the Lord said to me , Take from my hand this winecup of my anger and have the nations to which I command you to send my word, drink of it. First to Judah, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn. Then to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his people. Then to the kings of the east, to Edom, Moab and Ammon. Then to the kings of the Philistines and the"
"kings of Tyre and Sidon and those of the coastal lands across the sea. Then to the kings of Arabia and the kings of Media, Elam, and Zimri and all the kings of the north, both near and far, oneafter the other. And after them you shall give it to the king of Babylon to drink. A brick from Babylon inscribed with the name and titles of Nebuchadnezzar. Disaster to come first upon Jerusalem as a sign Say to them all, Jehovah the God of Israel says, You will drink from the winecup of my anger. You shall become drunk, vomit, and fall helpless to the ground for Iam sending a sword among you. If they"
"reject your words say to them, Jehovah says, You shall indeed drink of it. See, I am about to bring disaster on the city that bears my name, so will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished for I am sending a sword among all the nations. The guilty of the whole earth to be slain by Lord in the last days Then prophesy these words against them: The day is coming when Jehovah willthunder mightily from his holy dwelling against all the inhabitants of earth. He shall judge all mankind and the guilty will be putto the sword. A mighty tempest will stir from the distant parts of the earth and"
"spread fromnation to nation. Those slain by Jehovah on that day will extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be mourned or buried but lie as dung on the ground."