Jeremiah 38:6

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

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

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

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.

Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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

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;

The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

“So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’ ”

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

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.” ’ ”

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.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.