Having therefore a  ¹great  ²High Priest who has  ³passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the  ⁴confession.

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come forward with boldness to the  ¹throne of grace that we may receive  ²mercy and find grace for timely help.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is established on behalf of men in the things pertaining to God that he may offer both  ¹gifts and  ¹sacrifices for sins.

He is able to exercise  ¹compassion toward the ignorant and erring since he also is encompassed with weakness;

And because of it, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

And no one takes the honor upon himself, but only as he is called by God, just as Aaron also was.

So also Christ did not  ¹glorify Himself in becoming a High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, “You are My Son; this day have I  ²begotten You”;

Even as also in another place He says,  ¹“You are a Priest forever according to the  ²order of Melchizedek.”

This One, in the days of His flesh, having offered up both petitions and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him  ¹out of death and having been heard because of His piety,

Even though He was a Son, learned  ¹obedience from the things which He suffered.

And having been  ¹perfected, He became to all those who obey Him the  ²source of  ³eternal salvation,

Being  ¹addressed by God as a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek;

The word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,

Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, concerning you, O Baruch:

You said, Woe is me! For Jehovah has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have not found rest.

Thus you shall say to him, Thus says Jehovah, What I have built I am about to tear down; and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, even this whole land.

And are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for I am about to bring evil upon all flesh, declares Jehovah, but I will give your own life to you as spoil in all places where you may go.

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the  ¹nations:

Concerning  ¹Egypt: Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:

Prepare the buckler and shield,
And draw near to battle.

Harness the horses,
And mount the steeds;
And take your stand with helmets on;
Polish the spears;
Put on the armor.

Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed;
They are turning backward;
And their mighty men are crushed and flee in hasty flight,
And they do not look back; terror is on every side,
Declares Jehovah.

Let not the swift one flee away
And the mighty man escape;
In the north by the river Euphrates
They have stumbled and fallen.

Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
Like rivers whose waters surge?

Egypt rises up like the Nile,
Even like rivers whose waters surge.
And he says, I will rise up and will cover the land;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.

Go up, O horses,
And drive furiously, O chariots;
And let the mighty men go forth:
Cush and Put, who handle the shield,
And the  ¹Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

For this day belongs to the Lord Jehovah of hosts,
A day of vengeance to avenge Himself on His adversaries;
And the sword will devour and be satisfied,
And it will drink its fill of their blood;
For there is a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of hosts
In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Go up to Gilead and take balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt.
In vain you have used many medicines —
There is no healing for you.

The nations have heard of your disgrace,
And your cry has filled the earth;
For mighty man has stumbled against mighty man;
Both of them have fallen together.

The word which Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol;
Proclaim also in Memphis and in Tahpanhes.
Say, Take your stand, and prepare yourself;
For the sword has devoured all around you.

Why are your mighty men prostrate?
He does not stand, because Jehovah has cast him down.

He made many stumble;
A man even fell against his neighbor;
And they said, Arise and let us return
To our own people and to the land of our birth,
Away from the sword of the oppressor.

There they cried, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is but a noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by.

As I live, says the King,
Whose name is Jehovah of hosts,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains,
And Carmel is by the sea, so he will come.

Prepare for yourself baggage for captivity,
O inhabitant, O daughter of Egypt;
For Memphis will become a waste,
And it will be burned, without inhabitant.

Egypt is a beautiful heifer;
A  ¹gadfly from the north has come  ²on her.

Also her hired men in her midst
Are like fattened calves.
But they have also turned back;
They have fled together; they did not stand.
For the day of their calamity has come on them,
The time of their punishment.

Her sound is like that of a serpent going away;
For they go forth in force,
And with axes they come against her,
Like those who fell trees.

They will cut down her forest, declares Jehovah,
Although it is impenetrable;
For they are more numerous than locusts
And are without number.

The daughter of Egypt is put to shame;
She is given into the hand of a people from the north.

Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, I will punish  ¹Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

And I will give them into the hand of those who seek their life, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants; and  ¹afterward she will be inhabited as in the days of old, declares Jehovah.

 ¹But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear;
And do not be dismayed, O Israel.
For indeed I will save you from afar
And your seed from the land of their captivity;
And Jacob will return and be undisturbed
And at ease, and no one will frighten him.

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, declares Jehovah,
For I am with you;
For I will make a full end of all the nations
To which I have driven you;
Yet I will not make a full end of you,
But will correct you in measure
And will by no means leave you unpunished.

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
 ¹Philistines before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

Thus says Jehovah,
See,  ¹waters are rising up from the north
And will become an overflowing stream;
And they will overflow the land and all that fills it,
The city and those who dwell in it;
And men will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will howl.

At the sound of the stamping of the hooves of his stallions,
At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers will not turn back for their children,
Because of the feebleness of their hands,

Because of the day which is coming,
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every helper who survives;
For Jehovah will destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been cut off.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you cut yourself?

Alas, O sword of Jehovah,
How long until you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath;
Rest and be still.

How can  ¹it be quiet,
When Jehovah has commanded it?
Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast —
There He has appointed it.