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And Hananiah spoke in the sight of all the people, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.'" Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am about to do to My people," declares Yahweh, "because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh."'"

Ask now, and seeIf a male can give birth.Why do I see every manWith his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?And why have all faces turned pale?

‘And it will be in that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off your neck and will tear off your bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.

"Thus says Yahweh,‘Behold, I will return the fortunes of the tents of JacobAnd have compassion on his dwelling places;And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin,And the palace will sit on its just place.

And their mighty one shall be one of them,And their ruler shall come forth from their midst;And I will bring Him near, and He shall approach Me;For who would dare to give his heart as security to approach Me?' declares Yahweh.

The burning anger of Yahweh will not turn backUntil He has done and until He has establishedThe intent of His heart;In the last days you will understand this.

Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,And declare in the coastlands far away,And say, "He who dispersed Israel will gather himAnd keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock."

But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

And they will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Thus says Yahweh,Who gives the sun for light by dayAnd the statutes for the moon and the stars for light by night,Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;Yahweh of hosts is His name:

who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. Yahweh of hosts is His name,

great in counsel and abundant in deeds, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds,

"Thus says Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it; Yahweh is His name,

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,"Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts,For Yahweh is good,For His lovingkindness endures forever";and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of Yahweh. For I will return the fortunes of the land as they were at first,' says Yahweh.

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

then I would reject the seed of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his seed rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will return their fortunes and will have compassion on them.'"

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military force, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

And you will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be seized and given into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.'"'

that each man should let his male slave go free and each man his female slave, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, so that no one should enslave them, each being a Jew, his brother.