PDF Jeremiah 21-25

24-JER.usfm

@@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 8 Then to this people you must say, 'Yahweh says this: See, I am about to place before you the way of life and the way of death.
-\v 9 Anyone staying in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague; but anyone going out and falling on his knees before the Chaldeans who have closed in against you will live. He will escape with his life.
+\v 9 Anyone staying in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague; but anyone going out and falling on his knees before the Chaldeans who have closed in against you will live. His life will be his loot.
 \v 10 For I have set my face against this city in order to bring disaster and not to bring good—this is Yahweh's declaration. It has been given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it.'
 
 \s5
@@ -1607,14 +1607,14 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 4 For if you truly do these things, then kings sitting on David's throne will enter the gates of this house riding in a chariot and on horses—he, his servants, and his people!
-\v 5 But if you do not listen to these words from me that I have announced—this is Yahweh's declaration—then this royal house will become a ruin."'
+\v 5 But if you do not listen to these words, then I have sworn by myself—this is Yahweh's declaration—that this royal house will become a ruin."'
 
 \s5
 \v 6 For Yahweh says this concerning the house of the king of Judah,
 \q 'You are like Gilead, or like the summit of Lebanon to me. Yet I will turn you into a wilderness,
 \q into cities with no inhabitants.
 \q
-\v 7 For I have designated destroyers to come against you! Men with their weapons
+\v 7 For I have appointed destroyers to come against you! Men with their weapons
 \q will cut off the best of your cedars and let them fall into the fire.
 
 \s5
@@ -1701,11 +1701,11 @@
 \c 23
 \p
 \v 1 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture—this is Yahweh's declaration."
-\v 2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this concerning the shepherds who are shepherding his people, "You have scattered my flock and have driven them away. You have not cared for them. So I am about to punish you for the evil you have done—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this concerning the shepherds who are shepherding his people, "You have scattered my flock and have driven them away. You have not cared for them. So I am about to punish you for the evil of your deeds—this is Yahweh's declaration.
 
 \s5
 \v 3 I myself will gather the remnant of my flock from all of the lands where I have driven them, and I will return them to a grazing place, where they will be fruitful and increase.
-\v 4 Then I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them so they will no longer fear or be shattered. None of them will go missing—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 4 Then I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them so they will no longer fear or be dismayed. None of them will go missing—this is Yahweh's declaration.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -1718,14 +1718,14 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 7 Therefore see, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when they will no longer say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought the people of Israel up from the land of Egypt.'
-\v 8 Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where they had been driven.' Then they will live in their own land."
+\v 8 Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where I had driven them.' Then they will live in their own land."
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 9 Regarding the prophets, my heart is broken in me, and all of my bones tremble. I have become like a drunk man,
 \q like a man whom wine has overpowered, because of Yahweh and his holy words.
 \q
-\v 10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of these the land is dried up.
+\v 10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of the curse the land mourns.
 \q The meadows in the wilderness dry up. These prophets' paths are wicked; their power is not used in a right manner.
 
 \s5
@@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 16 Yahweh of hosts says this, "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
-\q They have deluded you! They are announcing visions from their own minds, not from Yahweh's mouth.
+\q They are leading you into vanity! They are announcing visions from their own minds, not from Yahweh's mouth.
 \q
 \v 17 They are constantly saying to those who dishonor me, 'Yahweh declares there will be peace for you.'
 \q For everyone walking in the stubbornness of his own heart says, 'Disaster will not come upon you.'
@@ -1765,12 +1765,12 @@
 \v 19 See, there is a storm coming from Yahweh! His fury is going out, and a tempest is whirling about.
 \q It is whirling around the heads of the wicked.
 \q
-\v 20 Yahweh's wrath will not return until it has carried out and brought into being his heart's intentions.
+\v 20 Yahweh's wrath will not return until it has carried out and brought into being his heart's purposes.
 \q In the final days, you will understand it.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 21 I did not send out these prophets. They just appeared.
+\v 21 I did not send out these prophets, but they ran.
 \q I did not proclaim anything to them, but they have still prophesied.
 \q
 \v 22 For if they had stood in my council meeting, they would have caused my people to hear my word;
@@ -1815,12 +1815,12 @@
 \q
 \v 39 therefore, behold, I am about to pick you up and throw you away from me, along with the city that I gave you and your ancestors.
 \q
-\v 40 Then I will put everlasting shame and insult on you that will not be forgotten.'"
+\v 40 Then I will put everlasting reproach and shame on you that will not be forgotten.'"
 
 \s5
 \c 24
 \p
-\v 1 Yahweh showed me something. Behold, two baskets of figs were placed before the house of Yahweh. (This vision happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took into exile Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, the officials of Judah, the craftsmen and the metalworkers from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon.)
+\v 1 Yahweh showed me something. Behold, two baskets of figs were placed before the temple of Yahweh. (This vision happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took into exile Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, the officials of Judah, the craftsmen and the metalworkers from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon.)
 \v 2 One basket of figs was very good, like first ripe figs, but the other basket of figs was so very bad that they could not be eaten.
 \v 3 Yahweh said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs. Figs that are very good and figs that are so very bad they cannot be eaten."
 
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 8 But like the bad figs that are too bad to be eaten—this is what Yahweh says—I will act in this way with Zedekiah, king of Judah, with his officials, and with the rest of Jerusalem who remain in this land or go to stay in the land of Egypt.
-\v 9 I will turn them into a frightening thing, a disaster, in the sight of all the kingdoms on earth, a disgrace and a subject for proverbs, taunts, and curses in every place where I will have driven them.
+\v 9 I will turn them into a terrifying thing, a disaster, in the sight of all the kingdoms on earth, a disgrace and a subject for proverbs, taunts, and curses in every place where I will have driven them.
 \v 10 I will send out sword, famine, and plague against them, until they are destroyed from the land that I gave them and their ancestors."
 
 \s5
@@ -1873,16 +1873,16 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 17 So I took the cup from Yahweh's hand, and I made all the nations to which Yahweh had sent me drink it:
-\v 18 Jerusalem, the cities of Judah and her kings and officials—to turn them into ruins and something terrifying, and into an object for hissing and cursing, as they are at this present day.
+\v 18 Jerusalem, the cities of Judah and her kings and officials—to turn them into ruins and a waste, and into an object for hissing and cursing, as they are at this present day.
 
 \s5
 \v 19 Other nations also had to drink it: Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants; his officials and all his people;
-\v 20 all people of mixed heritage and all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of Philistia—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
+\v 20 all people of mixed heritage and all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
 \v 21 Edom and Moab and the people of Ammon.
 
 \s5
 \v 22 The kings of Tyre and Sidon, the kings of the coasts on the other side of the sea,
-\v 23 Dedan, Tema, and Buz with all the ones who cut the hair on the sides of their heads, they also had to drink it.
+\v 23 Dedan, Tema, and Buz with all the ones who cut the hair on the sides of their heads very short, they also had to drink it.
 
 \s5
 \v 24 All the kings of Arabia and all the kings of people of mixed heritage who live in the wilderness;
@@ -1923,13 +1923,13 @@
 \q
 \v 34 Wail, shepherds, and shout for help!
 \q Roll about in the dust,
-\q you leaders of the flock,
+\q you noblemen of the flock,
 \q for the days of your slaughter have come;
 \q you will be scattered when you fall like fine pottery.
 \q
-\v 35 There is no refuge for the shepherds, there will be no escape for the leaders of the flock.
+\v 35 There is no refuge for the shepherds, there will be no escape for the noblemen of the flock.
 \q
-\v 36 Hear the cries of the shepherds and the wails of the leaders of the flock,
+\v 36 Hear the outcry of the shepherds and the wails of the noblemen of the flock,
 \q for Yahweh is destroying their pastures.
 
 \s5
@@ -3456,7 +3456,7 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 32 For their camels will become plunder, and the abundance of their property will become war plunder.
-\q Then I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair,
+\q Then I will scatter to every wind those who cut the hair on the sides of their heads very short,
 \q and I will bring disaster on them from every side—this is Yahweh's declaration.
 \q
 \v 33 Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a permanent wasteland.