This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.
Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,
In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.
Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:
But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the people, who had nothing whatever, go on living in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-gardens and fields at the same time.
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
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.
Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.
Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.
Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.
For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.
Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.
Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,
And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.
Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.
Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.
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