1. For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, takes away from JERUSALEM and from Judah supply and support,the whole supply of bread,and the whole supply of water;

2. the mighty man,the man of war,the judge,the prophet,the diviner,the elder,

3. the captain of fifty,the honorable man,the counselor,the skilled craftsman,and the clever enchanter.

4. I will give boys to be their princes,and children shall rule over them.

5. The people will be oppressed,everyone by another,and everyone by his neighbor.The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,and the base against the honorable.

6. Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,"You have clothing, you be our ruler,and let this ruin be under your hand."

7. In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer;for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.You shall not make me ruler of the people."

8. For JERUSALEM is ruined, and Judah is fallen;because their tongue and their doings are against The LORD,to provoke the eyes of his glory.

"I will make JERUSALEM heaps,a dwelling place of jackals.I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,without inhabitant."

6. therefore, behold, the days come," says The LORD, "that this place will no more be called 'Topheth', nor 'The Valley of the son of Hinnom', but 'The valley of Slaughter'.

7. "'"I will make the counsel of Judah and JERUSALEM void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

8. I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9. I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them."'

10. "Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

11. and shall tell them, 'The LORD of Armies says: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

12. Thus will I do to this place," says The LORD, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.

13. The houses of JERUSALEM, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"

14. Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of The LORD's house, and said to all the people:

15. "The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, 'Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.'"

For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good," says The LORD. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire."'

9. Why have you prophesied in The LORD's name, saying, 'This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?'" All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in The LORD's house.

10. When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to The LORD's house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of The LORD's house.

11. Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, "This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears."

2. in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which The LORD's word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of JERUSALEM, even seventy years.

3. I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

4. I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said,"Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5. we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

6. We haven't listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7. "Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of JERUSALEM, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

8. Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

10. We haven't obeyed the LORD our God's voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11. Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice."Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

12. He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to JERUSALEM.

13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet have we not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

14. Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

15. "Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

16. Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city JERUSALEM, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, JERUSALEM and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

17. "Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18. My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

19. Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name."

20. While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

21. yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

22. He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, "I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.

23. At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

24. "Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

25. "Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build JERUSALEM to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

26. After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

27. He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate."