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1 A copy of an Epistle which Ieremie sent vnto them which were to be led captiues into Babylon, by the king of the Babylonians, to certifie them as it was commanded him of God.

2 Because of þe sinnes which ye haue committed before God, ye shall be led away captiues vnto Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

3 So when ye be come vnto Babylon, ye shal remaine there many yeeres, and for a long season, namely seuen generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

4 Now shal ye see in Babylon gods of siluer, and of gold, and of wood, borne vpon shoulders, which cause the nations to feare.

5 Beware therefore that yee in no wise be like to strangers, neither be yee afraid of them, when yee see the multitude before them, and behinde them, worshipping them.

6 But say yee in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee.

7 For mine Angel is with you, and I my selfe caring for your soules.

8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the workeman, and they themselues are guilded and laid ouer with siluer, yet are they but false and cannot speake.

9 And taking golde, as it were for a virgine that loues to go gay, they make crownes for the heads of their gods.

10 Sometimes also the Priests conuey from their gods golde and siluer, and bestow it vpon themselues.

11 Yea they will giue thereof to the common harlots, and decke them as men with garments [being] gods of siluer, and gods of gold, and wood.

12 Yet cannot these gods saue themselues from rust and moths, though they be couered with purple raiment.

13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the Temple, when there is much vpon them.

14 And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him, holdeth a scepter as though hee were a iudge of the countrey.

15 Hee hath also in his right hand a dagger, and an axe: but cannot deliuer himselfe from warre and theeues.

16 Whereby they are knowen not to bee gods, therefore feare them not.

17 For like as a vessell that a man vseth, is nothing worth when it is broken: euen so it is with their gods: when they be set vp in the Temple, their eyes be full of dust, thorow the feet of them that come in.

18 And as the doores are made sure on euery side, vpon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: euen so the priests make fast their temples, with doores, with lockes and barres, lest their gods bee spoiled with robbers.

19 They light them candles, yea, more then for themselues, whereof they cannot see one.

20 They are as one of the beames of the temple, yet they say, their hearts are gnawed vpon by things creeping out of the earth, & when they eate them and their clothes, they feele it not.

21 Their faces are blacked, thorow the smoke that comes out of the temple.

22 Upon their bodies and heads, sit battes, swallowes, and birds, and the cats also.

23 By this you may know that they are no gods: therefore feare them not.

24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them, to make them beautifull, except they wipe off the rust they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feele it.

25 The things wherein there is no breath, are bought for a most hie price.

26 They are borne vpon shoulders, hauing no feete, whereby they declare vnto men that they be nothing worth.

27 They also that serue them, are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise vp againe of themselues: neither if one set them upright can they moue of themselues: neither if they be bowed downe, can they make themselues streight: but they set gifts before them as vnto dead men.

28 As for the things that are sacrificed vnto them, their priests sell and abuse: in like maner their wiues lay vp part thereof in salt: but vnto the poore and impotent, they giue nothing of it.

29 Menstruous women, and women in childbed eate their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: feare them not.

30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meate before the gods of siluer, gold, and wood.

31 And the priests sit in their temples, hauing their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shauen, and nothing vpon their heads.

32 They roare and crie before their gods: as men doe at the feast when one is dead.

33 The priestes also take off their garments, and clothe their wiues and children.

34 Whether it be euill that one doth vnto them, or good: they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set vp a king, nor put him downe.

35 In like maner, they can neither giue riches nor money: though a man make a vowe vnto them, and keepe it not, they will not require it.

36 They can saue no man from death, neither deliuer the weake from the mightie.

37 They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor helpe any man in his distresse.

38 They can shew no mercie to the widow: nor doe good to the fatherlesse.

39 Their gods of wood, and which are ouerlaid with gold, and siluer, are like the stones that be hewen out of the mountaine: they that worship them shall be confounded.

40 How should a man then thinke and say that they are gods? when euen the Chaldeans thēselues dishonor them.

41 Who if they shall see one dumbe that cannot speake, they bring him and intreate Bel that he may speake, as though he were able to vnderstand.

42 Yet they cannot vnderstand this themselues, and leaue them: for they haue no knowledge.

43 The women also with cordes aboue them, sitting in the wayes, burne branne for perfume: but if any of them drawen by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow that she was not thought as worthy as her selfe, nor her cord broken.

44 Whatsoeuer is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?

45 They are made of carpenters, and goldsmiths, they can be nothing else, then the workman will haue them to be.

46 And they themselues that made them, can neuer continue long, how should then the things that are made of them, be gods?

47 For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

48 For when there commeth any warre or plague vpon them, the priests consult with themselues, where they may be hidden with them.

49 How then cannot men perceiue, that they be no gods, which can neither saue themselues from warre nor from plague?

50 For seeing they be but of wood, and ouerlaide with siluer and gold: it shall be knowen heereafter that they are false.

51 And it shall manifestly appeare to all nations and kings, that they are no gods: but the workes of mens hands, and that there is no worke of God in them.

52 Who then may not know that they are no gods?

53 For neither can they set vp a king in the land, nor giue raine vnto men.

54 Neither can they iudge their owne cause, nor redresse a wrong being vnable: for they are as crowes between heauen and earth.

55 Whereupon when fire falleth vpon the house of gods of wood, or layd ouer with gold or siluer, their priests will fly away, & escape: but they themselues shall be burnt asunder like beames.

56 Moreouer they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?

57 Neither are those gods of wood, and layd ouer with siluer or gold able to escape either from theeues or robbers.

58 Whose gold, and siluer, and garments wherwith they are clothed, they that are strong doe take, and goe away withall: neither are they able to helpe themselues.

59 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessell in an house, which the owner shall haue vse of, then such false gods: or to be a doore in an house to keepe such things safe as be therein, then such false gods: or a pillar of wood in a palace, then such false gods.

60 For Sunne, Moone, and starres, being bright and sent to doe their offices, are obedient.

61 In like maner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easie to bee seene, and after the same maner the wind bloweth in euery country.

62 And when God commandeth the clouds to goe ouer the whole world: they doe as they are bidden:

63 And the fire sent from aboue to consume hilles and woods, doth as it is commanded: but these are like vnto them neither in shew, nor power.

64 Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said, that they are gods, seeing they are able, neither to iudge causes, nor to doe good vnto men.

65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, feare them not.

66 For they can neither curse nor blesse kings.

67 Neither can they signes in the heauens among the heathen: nor shine as the Sunne, nor giue light as the Moone.

68 The beasts are better then they: for they can get vnder a couert, and helpe themselues.

69 It is then by no meanes manifest vnto vs that they are gods: therefore feare them not.

70 For as a scarcrow in a garden of Cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid ouer with siluer and gold.

71 And likewise their gods of wood, and laid ouer with siluer and gold, are like to a white thorne in an orchard that euery bird sitteth vpon: as also to a dead body, that is cast into the darke.

72 And you shall know them to be no gods, by the bright purple that rotteth vpon them: and they themselues afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

73 Better therefore is the iust man that hath none idoles: for he shall be farre from reproach.


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Tam's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 12/02/2012, 7:46am...

@Kat,
Jesus said that I did not come to change God’s laws but to reinforce them. So, thinking about sinning is just as sinful as doing the deed. Saturday is the day of rest, but with our calendars, good luck finding Saturday! Our calendars are not in synchronized with God's moon calendar. The day following the night of a new moon, is the 1st day of the month-look in the scriptures for the "New Moon Festivals." You will have to find a true Jewish calendar to-date to find the real "Lords Day," I think it’s from sun down on Friday to sundown on Saturday.

 


Kat's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 10/31/2012, 6:04pm...

I think it would do us all justice, if we began to look at the Hebrew instead of Greek, since that was the language at the beginning up until YHWH confused the languages (at the tower of Babel - Babylon). Do you know that the devil has truly deceived the whole world? Revelation 12:9, the very people who have translated the bibles down through the ages, have kept Our Creator's and Savior’s name from us. There are MANY God's ... How do we distinguish between the false god's i.e: Nimrod, Baal, Zeus, etc, and the true God? Our Creator has A NAME, and He wants it to be remembered for ALL GENERATIONS. That name was given to Moses. If you look in the preface of your bible, you will find that it states something like this "Because of the tradition of the Jews, and their belief that the Divine name was too sacred to utter, they have replaced the Divine name YHWH (which is the tetragrammaton) with LORD and GOD .... They REPLACED HIS DIVINE NAME WITH LORD AND GOD 7,000 times! God and Lord are TITLES not a NAME. He has ONE NAME YHWH. Also, our Savior's Name could not be Jesus, as there is no letter 'J' in Greek and no letter 'J' in Hebrew. Some say that Jesus is the English translation for the Hebrew Yeshua.....but, even if Yeshua is His Name, why would we need to transliterate it? Can’t we still pronounce the name Yeshua?? Eg: We don't need to transliterate Hussein into English, do we? The bible tells us to study to show ourselves approved (2 Timothy 2:15), also Hosea 4:6 tells us that we are destroyed for lack of knowledge. We need to prove all things, test all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21)... Also, where did Christmas come from? It isn't in the bible? Was the savior really born on 25th December? We need to PROVE ALL THINGS, and not just believe everything we are told. Is Sunday really the Sabbath? How do we know for sure? We need to question things.... The Father says, If you seek me with your whole heart you will find me. (John 8:32) We need the TRUTH.

 


Tmay's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 10/30/2012, 8:50am...

This makes more sense to me now concerning the 3 Hebrew boys who would not bow down to King Nabuchodonosor, if this at all is the same king. I often wondered how they even knew about Almighty God. Or that he could save them from the fiery furnace, since they were taken into captivity and named after foreign gods (idols). Amazing that's all I'm saying. This comment just sheds a little more light concerning them.

 


Mateo bugayong's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 9/06/2012, 12:08pm...

We read the word of GOD.

 


Robert Hoffman's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 9/06/2012, 9:08am...

I just recently started studying out of the 1611 KJV. I have a 1917 KJV that has a great commentary. For what I have studied from these books, it seems to me that they were removed truly without cause. For the knowledge I have been blessed with & what these books are saying, especially this letter of Jeremiah seem to coincide. I just pray that more peoples eyes can truly be opened of the truth rather than the false gods blinding them as satan as done for so long. God bless & let Jesus guide your ways.

 


Mac's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment about verse 33 on 8/19/2011, 12:21pm...

ths letter of jeremiah show that god is an answer for all question we have in our life

 


Lino's Letter of Jeremiah Chapter 1 comment on 7/27/2010, 11:58am...

edifies for sound doctrine

 


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