Bible Reading for August 16

Bible Reading for August 16

Jeremiah Chapter 14

1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto 
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came 
to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; 
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the 
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there 
was no grass.

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the 
wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy 
name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why 
shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that 
turneth aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot 
save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy 
name; leave us not.

10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, 
they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept 
them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt 
offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume 
them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye 
shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give 
you assured peace in this place.

14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I 
sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: 
they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of 
nought, and the deceit of their heart.

15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy 
in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall 
not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets 
of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have 
none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their 
daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down 
with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin 
daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very 
grievous blow.

18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! 
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with 
famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that 
they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast 
thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, 
and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our 
fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of 
thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? 
or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? 
therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Jeremiah Chapter 15

1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, 
yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, 
and let them go forth.

2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go 
forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for 
death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such 
as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, 
to the captivity.

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to 
slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts 
of the earth, to devour and destroy.

4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, 
because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he 
did in Jerusalem.

5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan 
thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: 
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I 
am weary with repenting.

7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will 
bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return 
not from their ways.

8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have 
brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at 
noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon 
the city.

9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; 
her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and 
confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before 
their enemies, saith the LORD.

10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a 
man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor 
men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I 
will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the 
time of affliction.

12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without 
price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which 
thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn 
upon you.

15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my 
persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy 
sake I have suffered rebuke.

16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me 
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD 
God of hosts.

17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone 
because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to 
be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that 
fail?

19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee 
again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the 
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto 
thee; but return not thou unto them.

20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they 
shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I 
am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will 
redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Jeremiah Chapter 16

1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or 
daughters in this place.

3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the 
daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that 
bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither 
shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the 
earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their 
carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of 
the earth.

5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither 
go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this 
people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be 
buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make 
themselves bald for them:

7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort 
them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to 
drink for their father or for their mother.

8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to 
eat and to drink.

9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will 
cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the 
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, 
and the voice of the bride.

10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these 
words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced 
all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our 
sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, 
saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, 
and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every 
one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken 
unto me:

13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know 
not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods 
day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no 
more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel 
out of the land of Egypt;

15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the 
land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: 
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall 
fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt 
them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of 
the rocks.

17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, 
neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; 
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance 
with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of 
affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the 
earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, 
and things wherein there is no profit.

20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause 
them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is 
The LORD.

Jeremiah Chapter 17

1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of 
a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the 
horns of your altars;

2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the 
green trees upon the high hills.

3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy 
treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy 
borders.

4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I 
gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land 
which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which 
shall burn for ever.

5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and 
maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when 
good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in 
a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth 
out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her 
leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, 
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who 
can know it?

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man 
according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that 
getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his 
days, and at his end shall be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, 
and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they 
have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be 
saved: for thou art my praise.

15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: 
neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out 
of my lips was right before thee.

17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be 
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon 
them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children 
of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they 
go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, 
and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by 
these gates:

21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on 
the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, 
neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded 
your fathers.

23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck 
stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith 
the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the 
sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes 
sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, 
they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places 
about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and 
from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and 
sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of 
praise, unto the house of the LORD.

27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not 
to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the 
sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it 
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

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