Jeremiah 36:23

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

“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.” ’

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.

Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.