Jeremiah 11:18

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’