19 YAHUVEH, my strength, my fortress,my refuge in time of trouble,the nations
will come to you from the ends of the earth, saying,“Our ancestors inherited
nothing but lies,futile idols, completely useless.”
20 Can a person make himself ELOHIMs?(In fact they aren’t ELOHIMs at all.)
21 “Therefore, I will make them know,once and for all, I will make them know my
power and my might.Then they will know that my name is YAHUVEH.
Chapter
17
1 “Y’hudah’s sin is written with an iron pen;with a diamond point it is
engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of your altars.
2 As they remember their children, so they remember their altars and their
sacred poles by the green trees on the high hills.
3 My mountain in the field, your wealth and all your treasures will be
plundered;because of the sin of your high places throughout your territory.
4 You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I gave you. I will make
you serve your enemies in a land you do not know.For you have kindled my fiery
anger,and it will burn forever.”
5 Here is what YAHUVEH says:“A curse on the person who trusts in humans,who
relies on merely human strength,whose heart turns away from YAHUVEH.
6 He will be like a tamarisk in the ‘Aravah — when relief comes, it is
unaffected;for it lives in the sun-baked desert,in salty, uninhabited land.
7 Blessed is the man who trusts in YAHUVEH;YAHUVEH will be his security.
8 He will be like a tree planted near water;it spreads out its roots by the
river;it does not notice when heat comes;and its foliage is luxuriant;it is not
anxious in a year of drought but keeps on yielding fruit.
9 “The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can
fathom it?
10 I, YAHUVEH, search the heart;I test inner motivations;in order to give to
everyone what his actions and conduct deserve.”
11 A partridge hatches eggs it did not lay;like this are those who get rich
unjustly:in the prime of life their wealth will desert them;in the end they will
prove to be fools.
12 Throne of Glory,exalted from the beginning!Our Holy Sanctuary,
13 Hope of Isra’el, YAHUVEH!All who abandon you will be ashamed,those who leave
you will be inscribed in the dust,because they have abandoned YAHUVEH,the source
of living water.
14 Heal me, YAHUVEH, and I will be healed;save me, and I will be saved,for you
are my praise.
Jeremiah 32:6–27
6 Yirmeyahu said, “This word of YAHUVEH came to me:
7 ‘Hanam’el, the son of your uncle Shalum, will approach you and say, “Buy my
field at ‘Anatot; you have next-of-kin’s right to redeem it; so buy it.”’”
8 As YAHUVEH had said, my cousin Hanam’el came to me in the guards’ quarters and
said, “Please buy my field at ‘Anatot, in the territory of Binyamin; because you
will inherit it, and you have next-of-kin’s right to redeem it, so buy it for
yourself.” Then I was certain that this was YAHUVEH’s word.
9 So I bought the field at ‘Anatot which belonged to my cousin Hanam’el and
weighed out the money for him, seven ounces of silver shekels.
10 I signed on the purchase contract, sealed it, called witnesses and weighed
out the money for him on a balance scale.
11 I took the purchase contract, both the sealed copy with the terms and
conditions, and the unsealed copy,
12 and gave the purchase contract to Barukh the son of Neriyah, the son of
Machseyah, in the presence of my cousin Hanam’el, the witnesses who had signed
the purchase contract and the people from Y’hudah sitting by the guards’
quarters.
13 In their presence I instructed Barukh as follows:
14 “Here is what YAHUVEH-Tzva’ot, the ELOHIM of Isra’el, says: ‘Take these
contracts, both the sealed and unsealed copies, and place them in a clay jar, so
that they can be preserved for a long time.’
15 For YAHUVEH-Tzva’ot, the ELOHIM of Isra’el, says that one day homes, fields
and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
16 After giving the purchase contract to Barukh son of Neriyah, I prayed to
YAHUVEH:
17 “YAHUVEH, ELOHIM! You made heaven and earth by your great power and
outstretched arm; nothing is too hard for you.
18 You display your grace to thousands but also repay the guilt of the fathers
into the lap of their children who follow them. Great, powerful ELOHIM, whose
name is YAHUVEH-Tzva’ot,
19 great in counsel, mighty in deed! Your eyes are open to all the ways of human
beings in order to repay each one according to his ways, according to the
consequences of what he does.
20 You gave signs and performed miracles in the land of Egypt which continue to
this day, also in Isra’el and among other people; thus you made yourself the
reputation you have today.
21 You brought your people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt with signs and
miracles, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror.
22 Then you gave them this land, which you had sworn to their ancestors that you
would give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
23 They entered and took possession of it; but they did not pay attention to
your voice, did not live according to your Torah, and did nothing of all you
ordered them to do. Therefore you made this complete disaster befall them —
24 the siege-works are already there; they have come to the city to capture it;
and the city, by means of sword, famine and plague, is being handed over to the
Kasdim fighting against it. What you foretold is being fulfilled; here, you see
it, yourself.
25 Yet you, YAHUVEH, ELOHIM, have said to me, ‘Buy the field for money, and call
witnesses; even as the city is being turned over to the Kasdim!’”
26 Then this word of YAHUVEH came to Yirmeyahu:
27 “Look, I am YAHUVEH, the ELOHIM of every living creature; is there anything
too hard for me?
Matthew 21:33–46
33 “Now listen to another parable. There was a farmer who planted a vineyard. He
put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he
rented it to tenants and left.
34 When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his
share of the crop.
35 But the tenants seized his servants — this one they beat up, that one they
killed, another they stoned.
36 So he sent some other servants, more than the first group, and they did the
same to them.
37 Finally, he sent them his son, saying, ‘My son they will respect.’
38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir.
Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’
39 So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 They answered him, “He will viciously destroy those vicious men and rent out
the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop when it’s
due.”
42 YAHUSHUA said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Tanakh,‘The very rock
which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!This has come from
YAHUVEH,and in our eyes it is amazing’?[a]
43 Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of ELOHIM will be taken away from you
and given to the kind of people that will produce its fruit!”
44 [b]
45 As the head cohanim and the P’rushim listened to his stories, they saw that
he was speaking about them. 46 But when they set about to arrest him, they were
afraid of the crowds; because the crowds considered him a prophet.