Bible in a Year.

On day 224, Jeremiah 1 introduces us to the prophet called by God to warn the people, while Ezekiel 27 offers a lamentation over the city of Tyre and its fleeting riches. Proverbs 14:5-8 teaches integrity, discernment, and the value of listening to wise counsel, strengthening the day's spiritual reflection.

1. The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.

2. The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

3. And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.

4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

5. Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

6. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.

7. And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.

8. Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

9. And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

10. Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.

12. And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it.

13. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying: What seest thou? I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.

14. And the Lord said to me: from the north shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

15. For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north: saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda,

16. And I will pronounce my judgements against them, touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, and have adored the work of their own hands.

17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence : for I will make thee not to fear their countenance.

18. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.

19. And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2. Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:

3. And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

4. And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

5. With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.

6. They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

7. Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.

8. The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers : thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.

9. The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

10. The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.

11. The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

12. The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

13. Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

14. From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.

15. The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.

16. The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.

17. Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil, and rosin in thy fairs.

18. The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.

19. Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.

20. The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.

21. Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rants, and kids.

22. The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in thy market.

23. Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.

24. They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy merchandise.

25. The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise : and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

26. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.

27. Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

28. Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29. And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:

30. And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads, and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

31. And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.

32. And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and snail lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?

33. Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

34. Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.

35. All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.

36. The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.

5. A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

6. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

7. Go against a foolish man, and he knoweth not the lips of prudence.

8. The wisdom of a. discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.