The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled

And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.

Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.

So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.

As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.

But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women and all the people who had given him that answer,

And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

Further, Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all those of Judah who are living in Egypt:

And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.

And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.

The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:

This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land

Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.

Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth I will send destruction on the town and its people.

But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.

Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.

...are stopped in their going, they are falling and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.

Egypt is a fair young cow but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.

And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.

Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover be at peace, be quiet.

And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,

I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

He who has no love for me does not keep my words and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.

Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me