[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 20

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DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 20

DAILY BIBLE READING

	Jeremiah 28-30 New King James Version
Hananiah's Falsehood and Doom
28 And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that
Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in
the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people,
saying, 2 "Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: 'I have
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two full years I will bring
back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, that Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 4 And I
will bring back to this place [a]Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,' says the Lord,
'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.' "

5 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of
the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of
the Lord, 6 and the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! The Lord do so; the Lord
perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of
the Lord's house and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this
place. 7 Nevertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in
the hearing of all the people: 8 The prophets who have been before me and
before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms-of
war and disaster and pestilence. 9 As for the prophet who prophesies of
peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known
as one whom the Lord has truly sent."

10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck
and broke it. 11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people,
saying, "Thus says the Lord: 'Even so I will break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space
of two full years.' " And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

12 Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had
broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 13 "Go and
tell Hananiah, saying, 'Thus says the Lord: "You have broken the yokes of
wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron." 14 For thus says the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of
all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and
they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also." ' "

15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now,
Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a
lie. 16 Therefore thus says the Lord: 'Behold, I will cast you from the face
of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion
against the Lord.' "

17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Jeremiah's Letter to the Captives
29 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from
Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive-to
the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 (This happened after
Jeconiah[b] the king, the queen mother, the [c]eunuchs, the princes of Judah
and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.) 3
The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah
the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried
away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to
Babylon:

5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take
wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give
your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters-that
you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the
city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the
Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace. 8 For thus says the Lord
of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who
are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to
be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent
them, says the Lord.

10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I
will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return
to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the
Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your
heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back
from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the
places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the
place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

15 Because you have said, "The Lord has raised up prophets for us in
Babylon"- 16 therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on
the throne of David, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and
concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity- 17
thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot
be eaten, they are so bad. 18 And I will pursue them with the sword, with
famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all
the kingdoms of the earth-to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a
reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 19 because they
have not heeded My words, says the Lord, which I sent to them by My servants
the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says
the Lord. 20 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you of the captivity,
whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son
of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in
My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes. 22 And because of them a
curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon,
saying, "The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
roasted in the fire"; 23 because they have done disgraceful things in
Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken
lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I know, and
am a witness, says the Lord.

24 You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, 25 Thus speaks
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent letters in your
name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, to Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26 "The Lord has made
you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there should be officers
in the house of the Lord over every man who is demented and considers
himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks. 27
Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes
himself a prophet to you? 28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'This
captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat
their fruit.' "

29 Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the
prophet. 30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying: 31 Send to
all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him,
and he has caused you to trust in a lie- 32 therefore thus says the Lord:
Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his [d]family: he shall
not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I
will do for My people, says the Lord, because he has taught rebellion
against the Lord.

Restoration of Israel and Judah
30 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 "Thus speaks the
Lord God of Israel, saying: 'Write in a book for yourself all the words that
I have spoken to you. 3 For behold, the days are coming,' says the Lord,
'that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' says the
Lord. 'And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their
fathers, and they shall possess it.' "

4 Now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

5 "For thus says the Lord:

'We have heard a voice of trembling,
Of [e]fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask now, and see,
Whether a [f]man is ever in [g]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
7 Alas! For that day is great,
So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob's trouble,
But he shall be saved out of it.

8 'For it shall come to pass in that day,'
Says the Lord of hosts,
'That I will break his yoke from your neck,
And will burst your bonds;
Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
9 But they shall serve the Lord their God,
And David their king,
Whom I will raise up for them.

10 'Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob,' says the Lord,
'Nor be dismayed, O Israel;
For behold, I will save you from afar,
And your seed from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet,
And no one shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you,' says the Lord, 'to save you;
Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you,
Yet I will not make a complete end of you.
But I will correct you in justice,
And will not let you go altogether unpunished.'

12 "For thus says the Lord:

'Your affliction is incurable,
Your wound is severe.
13 There is no one to plead your cause,
That you may be bound up;
You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you;
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the chastisement of a cruel one,
For the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased.
15 Why do you cry about your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased,
I have done these things to you.

16 'Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.
17 For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,' says the Lord,
'Because they called you an outcast saying:
"This is Zion;
No one seeks her." '

18 "Thus says the Lord:

'Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents,
And have mercy on his dwelling places;
The city shall be built upon its own [h]mound,
And the palace shall remain according to its own plan.
19 Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who make merry;
I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as before,
And their congregation shall be established before Me;
And I will punish all who oppress them.
21 Their nobles shall be from among them,
And their governor shall come from their midst;
Then I will cause him to draw near,
And he shall approach Me;
For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?' says the Lord.
22 'You shall be My people,
And I will be your God.' "

23 Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord
Goes forth with fury,
A [i]continuing whirlwind;
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until He has done it,
And until He has performed the intents of His heart.

In the latter days you will consider it.

Footnotes
Jeremiah 28:4 Jehoiachin, 2 Kin. 24:12
Jeremiah 29:2 Jehoiachin, 2 Kin. 24:12; 2 Chr. 36:10
Jeremiah 29:2 Or officers
Jeremiah 29:32 descendants, lit. seed
Jeremiah 30:5 dread
Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth
Jeremiah 30:18 ruins
Jeremiah 30:23 Or sweeping