Quotes from Jeremiah

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

2. 3

   For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

3. 4

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

4. 5

   Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

5. 6

   They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

6. 7

   Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

7. 8

   But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

8. 9

   The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

9. 10

   But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

10. 11

    They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

11. 12

    For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

12. 13

    Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.

13. 14

    Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

14. 15

    Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

15. 16

    Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

16. 17

    Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

17. 18

    And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

18. 19

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

19. 20

    O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

20. 21

    In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

21. 22

    Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.