2Q13
Jeremiah
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
30 B.C. – 68 A.D.
Location:
Qumran Cave 2
Contents:
Jeremiah 13:22; 32:24-25; 42:7-11, 14; 43:8-11; 44:1-3, 12-14; 46:27-28;
47:1-7; 48:2-4; 48:25-39, 41-45; 49:10
Jeremiah
13
22 If
you say
in your heart,
“Why
have these things come on me?”
Your
skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity,
and
your heels suffer violence.
[..]
Jeremiah
32
24 “Behold, siege ramps
have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the
pestilence. What
you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it. 25 You
have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the
field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans.”
[..]
Jeremiah
42
7 After ten days, Yahweh’s
word came to Jeremiah. 8 Then he
called Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the
greatest, 9 and
said to them, “Yahweh, the God of
Israel, to whom you sent me to present your
supplication before him, says: 10 ‘If you will still live in this land, then I
will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress
that I have brought on you. 11 Don’t be afraid of
the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid.
Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to
deliver you from his hand.
[..]
14 saying, “No; but we will
go
into the land of Egypt,
where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of
bread; and there will we dwell:” ’
[..]
Jeremiah
43
8 Then Yahweh’s word
came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 “Take
great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at
the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 10 and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant,
and will set his throne on these
stones that I have hidden; and he will spread
his royal pavilion over them. 11 He will come,
and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to
death, and such as are for
captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
[..]
Jeremiah
44
1 The word that came to
Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who
lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country
of Pathros, saying, 2 “Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have
seen all the evil that I have
brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them, 3 because of their wickedness which they have
committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods
that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
[..]
12 I will take the
remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to
live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt.
They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from
the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an
object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish those who dwell in
the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to
live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which
they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except
those who will escape.’ ”
[..]
Jeremiah
46
27 “But
don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant.
Don’t
be dismayed, Israel;
for,
behold,
I will save you from
afar,
and
your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob
will return,
and
will be quiet and at ease.
No
one will make him afraid.
28 Don’t
be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh;
“for
I am with you;
for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have driven you;
but
I will not make a full end of you,
but I will correct you in measure,
and
will in no way leave you unpunished.”
Jeremiah
47
1 Yahweh’s
word that
came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
2 Yahweh
says:
“Behold,
waters rise up out of the north,
and
will become an overflowing stream,
and
will overflow the
land and all that is therein,
the
city and those who dwell therein.
The
men will cry,
and
all the inhabitants of the land will wail.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
at the rushing of his chariots,
at
the rumbling of his wheels,
the
fathers don’t look back to their children
for
feebleness of hands;
4 because of the day
that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
to
and I will cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every helper who remains;
for
Yahweh will destroy the Philistines,
the
remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
5 Baldness
has come on Gaza;
Ashkelon
is brought to nothing,
the
remnant of their valley:
how
long will you cut yourself?
6 “ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you
are quiet?
Put
yourself back into your scabbard;
rest,
and be still.’
7 “How can you be quiet,
since
Yahweh has given you a command?
Against
Ashkelon, and against the seashore,
there
has he appointed it.”
Jeremiah
48
2 The praise of Moab is
no more.
In
Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
‘Come!
Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’
You
also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.
The
sword will pursue you.
3 The sound of a cry
from Horonaim,
desolation
and great destruction!
4
Moab is destroyed.
Her
little ones have caused a cry to
be heard.
[..]
7 For, because you have
trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you
also will be taken.
Chemosh
will go out into captivity,
his
priests and his princes together.
[..]
25 The horn of Moab is cut off,
and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.
26 “Make him drunken;
for he magnified himself against Yahweh.
Moab
will wallow in his vomit,
and
he also will be in
derision.
27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
Was he found
among your thieves?
For
as often as you speak of him,
you shake your head.
28 You
inhabitants of
Moab, leave the
your cities,
and dwell in the rock.
Be
like the dove that makes her nest over
the mouth of the abyss.
29 “We have heard of Hear,
therefore, the pride of Moab.
He is very proud in his loftiness vanity, his pride
and there is none like him,
his
arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
30 I know his wrath,” says Yahweh,
“that it is nothing;
his
boastings have done
nothing.
31 Therefore I will wail
for Moab.
Yes,
I will cry out for
all Moab.
They
will mourn for the men of Kir Heres
Hereset.
32 With more than the
weeping of Jazer
I
will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.
Your branches passed over the sea.
They
reached even to the sea of Jazer.
The
destroyer has fallen
on your summer
fruits
and
on your vintage.
33 Gladness
and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
and
from the land of Moab.
I
have caused wine
to cease from the wine presses.
No
one will tread with shouting.
The
shouting will be no shouting.
34 From the cry of
Heshbon even to Elealeh,
even
to Jahaz have they uttered their voice,
from
Zoar even to Horonaim,
to Eglath Shelishiyah;
for
the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
35 Moreover
I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh,
“him
who offers in the high place,
and
him who burns incense to his gods.
36 Therefore
my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,
and
my heart sounds
like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.
Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
37 For
every head is bald,
and every
beard clipped.
There
are cuttings on all the hands,
and
sackcloth
on the waist.
38 On all the housetops of
Moab,
and
in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;
for
I have broken Moab like
a vessel in which no one delights,” says
Yahweh.
39 “How
it is broken down!
How
they wail!
How
Moab has turned the back with shame!
So
will Moab become a derision
and
a terror to all who are around him.”
[..]
41 Kerioth
is taken,
and
the strongholds are seized.
The
heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
will
be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 Moab
will be destroyed from being a people,
because
he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
43 Terror,
the pit, and the snare are on you,
inhabitant
of Moab,” says Yahweh.
44 “He
who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:
for
I will bring on him, even on Moab,
the
year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
45 “Those
who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
for
a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
and
a flame from the middle
city
of Sihon,
and
has devoured the corner of Moab,
and
the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
[..]
Jeremiah
49
10 But
I have made Esau bare,
I
have uncovered his secret places,
and
he will not
be able to hide himself.
His
offspring is destroyed,
with
his brothers and his neighbors;
and
he is no more.