Judah threatened with war. father; and shalt not turn away † from me. 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her † husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. CHAPTER IV. Before Before CHRIST CHRIST cir. 612. Heb. from after me. Heb. friend. Is. 48. 8. ch. 5. 11. 21 A voice was heard upon u the high places, weeping and supplica-u Is. 15. 2. tions of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 x Return, ye backsliding chil-x ver. 14. dren, and y I will heal your back-Hos. 14. 1. slidings. Behold, we come unto Hos. 6. 1. thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Ꮓ & 14. 4. 23 z Truly in vain is salvation z Ps. 121. 1, hoped for from the hills, and from 2. the multitude of mountains: a truly a Ps. 3. 8. in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 b For shame hath devoured b ch. 11. 13. the labour of our fathers from our Hos. 9. 10. youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: c for we have sinned against the c Ezra 9. 7. LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and d have not obeyed the voice of d ch. 22. 21. the LORD our God. CHAPTER IV. 1 God calleth Israel by his promise. 3 He exhorteth Judah to repentance by fearful judgments. 19 Agrievous lamentation for the miseries of Judah. thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, a return unto me: and a ch. 3. 1, 22. if thou wilt put away thine abomi- Joel 2. 12. nations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. 2 b And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judg. ment, and in righteousness; d and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they e glory. 3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, f Break up your fallow ground, and g sow not among thorns. b Deut. 10. 23. & 65. 16. 20. Is. 45. see ch. 5. 2. Zech. 8. 8. c Is. 48. 1. d Gen. 22.18. Ps. 72. 17. Gal. 3. 8. e Is. 45. 25. 1 Cor. 1. 31. f Hos. 10. 12. 7, 22. ch. 9. 26. Col. 2. 11. 4h Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the fore-g Matt. 13. skins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem h Deut. 10. 16. & 30. 6. lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry gather together, and say, i Assem-i ch. 8. 14. ble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. Rom. 2. 28, 29. Or, 6 Set up the standard toward strengthen. Zion: retire, stay not: for I will k ch. 1. 13, bring evil from the k north, and a 14, 15. & 6. 1, 22. great destruction. 71 The lion is come up from his Heb breaking. thicket, and in the destroyer of the 12 Kings 24. Gentiles is on his way; he is gone 1. ch. 5. 6. forth from his place to make thy Dan. 7. 4. land desolate; and thy cities shall m ch. 25. 9. n Is. 1. 7. be laid waste, without an inhach. 2. 15. bitant. o Is. 22. 12. 8 For this gird you with sack-ch. 6. 26. cir. 612. Lamentation for Judah. cloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! P surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, a saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, rA Ezek. 17. 10. dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 15 For a voice declareth y from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. 16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come z from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 a As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. procured these things unto thee; 18 b Thy way and thy doings have this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. 19 My bowels, my bowels! 1 am pained at † my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 d Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are e my tents e ch. 10. 20. spoiled, and my curtains in a mo 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet ? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: f they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23 g I beheld the earth, and lo, it was h without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 i I beheld the mountains, and Ezek 39. 20. 1o, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. God's judgments upon the 25 I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and k all the birds of the heavens were fled. JEREMIAH. Before cir. 612. Before CHRIST cir. 612. 26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitfulk Zeph. 1. 3. Ps. 104. 20. place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolaus; 1 yet will I not make a full end. 1 ch. 5. 10, 18. & 30. 11. & 46. 28. n Is. 5. 30. 28 For this m shall the earth mourn, and n the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, Im Hos. 4. 3. have purposed it, and will repeut, neither will I turn back from it. not & 50. 3. o Num. 23. 19. ch. 7. 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, P though thou rendest thy tface with painting, in vain shaft thou make thyself fair: a thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that Hab. 1. 8. Zeph. 3. 3. Or, deserts. p Hos. 13. 7. + Heb. are strong. q Josh. 23. 7. Zeph. 1. 5. r Deut. 32. 21. Gal. 4. 8. s Deut. 32. 15. t Ezek. 22. 16.11. r spreadeth her hands, saying, Wor Is. 1. 15. is me now! for my soul is wearied Lam. 1. 17. because of murderers. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for kthey know not the way of the k ch. 7. 8. LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for I they have known the way of the 1 Mic. 3. 1. m broken the yoke, and burst them Ps. 2. 3. bonds. people for their various sins. forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, Pa leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and a sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning every one u neighed after u ch. 13. 27. his neighbour's wife. x ver. 29. ch. 9. 9. 9 x Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: y and y ch. 44. 22. shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? z ch. 39. 8. a ch. 4. 27. ver. 18. b ch. 3. 20. c 2 Chr. 36. 16. ch. 4. 10. Is. 28. 15. e ch. 14. 13. i Lev. 26.16. Deut. 28. 31, 33. k ch. 4. 27. 1 Deut. 29. 24, &c. 10 z Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; a but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. 11 For b the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. and said, d It is not he; neither 12 c They have belied the LORD, shall evil come upon us; e neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, fbehold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15 Lo, I will bring a g nation upon you h from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say: 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. 18 Nevertheless, in those days, saith the LORD, I'k will not make a full end with you. 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, 1 Wherefore 1 Kings 9.8, doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have m forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so n shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 21 Hear now this, O o foolish 6 Wherefore na lion out of the n ch. 4. 7. Hos, 7, 11. people, and without understand The prophet lamenteth ing; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 p Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the q bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, r that giveth rain, both the s former and the latter, in his season: the reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. CHAPTER VI. Before CHRIST cir. 612. p Rev. 15. 4. q Job 26. 10. & 38. 10, 11. Prov. 8. 29. Ps. 104. 9. r Ps. 147. 8. ch. 14. 22. Acts 14. 17. Matt. 5. 45. s Deut. 11. 25 Tu Your iniquities have turn-14. Joel 2. ed away these things, and your 23. sins have withholden good thingst Gen. 8. 22. from you. u ch. 3. 3. Or, they pry as fow lers lie in wait. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they x lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, sox Prov. 1. 11, are their houses full of deceit: 17, 18. Hab. therefore they are become great, 1. 15. and waxen rich. Or, coop. 28 They are waxen y fat, they y Deut. 32. shine yea, they overpass the 15. deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, a yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 b Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? z Is. 1. 23. Zech. 7. 10. a Job 12. 6. 30 | A wonderful and c horrible thing is committed in the land; tonishment 31 The prophets prophesy d falsely, and the priests || bear rule by their means; and my people e love to have it so and what will ye dod ch. 14. 14. in the end thereof ? CHAPTER VI. the judgments of God. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, CHRIST and let us destroy her palaces. Before cir. 612. Or, pour out the engine of shot. f Is. 57. 20. g Ps. 55. 9, 10, 11. ch. 20. 8. Ezek. 17. 11, 23. h Ezek. 23. † Heb. be disjointed. loosed, or, i ch. 7. 26. Acts 7. 61. See Ex. 6. 12. k ch. 20. 8. I ch. 20. 9. m ch. 9. 21. In Deut. 28. 30. ch. 8. 10. o Is. 56. 11. | Or, As and filthi ness. cch, 23. 14. Hos. 6. 10. & 23, 25, 26.5, 11. 1 The enemies sent against Judah 4 en-into their courage themselves. 6 God setteth them hands. on work because of their sins. 9 The e Mic. 2. 11. prophet lamenteth the judgments of God because of their sins. 18 He proclaimeth God's wrath. 26 He calleth the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins. OYE children of Benjamin, ga cir. 612. ther yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in a Beth-haccerem: a Neh. 3. 14. b for evil appeareth out of the north, b ch. 1. 14. and great destruction. & 4. 6. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate | Or, dwell woman. ing at home. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; c they shall c 1 Kin. 25. pitch their tents against her round 1, 4. ch. 4.17. about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4d Prepare ye war against her; d ch. 51. 27. arise, and let us go up e at noon. Joel 3. 9. Wo unto us! for the day goeth e ch. 15. 8. away, for the shadows of the even ing are stretched out. Bb ch. 8. 10. & 14. 18. & 23. 11. Mic. 3. p ch. 8. 11. Ezek. 13. 10. t Heb. bruise, or, breach. q ch. 4. 10. & 14. 13. & 23. 17. r ch. 3. 3. & 18. 12. s Is. 8.20.ch. 18. 15. Mal. 4. 4. Luke 16. 29. It Mat. 11. 29. u Is. 21. 11. & 58. 1. ch. 25. 4. Ezek. 3. 17. Hab. 2. 1. x Is. 1. 2. 7 f As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: g violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest h my soul † depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their i ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, k the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out m upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. 12 And n their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 14 They have p healed also the hurt of the daughter of my peo ple slightly, a saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15 Were they r ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; there fore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find t rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17 Also I set u watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. 18 T Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19 x Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, Prov. 1.31. even y the fruit of their thoughts, God threateneth their idolatry. 4 c Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye country? b your burnt-offerings are 66. 3. Amos d ch. 22. 3. thoroughly execute d judgment be not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks. before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. 5. 21. Mic. 6. 6, &c. a Is. 60. 6. b ch. 7. 21. e Deut. 6. 14, 15. & 8. 19. & 11. 28. ch. 13. 10. f Deut. 4. 40. g ch. 3. 18. c ch. 1. 15. & 5. 15. & 10. 22. & 50. 41, 42, 43. h ver. 4. 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roar-d Is. 5. 30. eth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble: e anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. 26 TO daughter of my people, fgird thee with sackcloth, g and wallow thyself in ashes: b make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation : for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. e ch. 4. 31.& 13. 21. & 49. 24. & 50. 43. fch. 4. 8. ch. 25. 34. Mic. 1. 10. h Zech. 12. 10. ch. 5. 31. & 14. 13, 14. k 1 Kín. 18. 21. Hos. 4. 1, 2. Zeph. 1.5. 1 Ex. 20. 3. ver. 6. m Ezek. 23. 39. + Heb. whereupon my name is called. ver. 11, 14, 30. ch. 32. 34. & 34. 15. o Is. 56. 7. p Matt. 21. 13. Mark 11. 17. Luke 19. 46. Josh. 18. 1. Judg. 18. 31. r Deut. 12. 11. s1 Sam. 4. 10, 11. Ps.78. 60. ch. 26. 6. 1 2 Chr. 36. 15. ver. 25. ch. 11. 7. u Prov. 1.24. Is. 65. 12. & 66.4. x1 Sam. 4. 10, 11. Ps. 78. 60. ch. 26. 6. v 2 Kin. 23. tween a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, e neither walk after other gods to your hurt; 7 fThen will I cause you to dwell in this place, ing the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 ¶ Behold, h ye trust in ilying words, that cannot profit. 9 k Will ye steal, murder, and and burn incense unto Baal, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 m And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations ? 11 Iso this house, which is called by my name, become a P den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto a my place which was in Shiloh, r where I set my name at the first, and see s what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, trising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I u called you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to x Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, y as I have cast out all 17. your brethren, z even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 Therefore a pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor ch. 11. 14. & Prayer for them, neither make in 14. 11. b ch. 15. 1. tercession to me: b for I will not hear thee. 17 T Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to d pour out drink-offermanship ofings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Or, frame, or, work heaven. d ch. 19. 13. e Deut. 32. 16, 21. 19 e Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces ? 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the sacrifices, and eat flesh. unto your cir. 600. Put f Is. 1. 11. ch. 6. 20. Amos 5. 21. See Hos. 8. 22 g For I spake not unto your 13. fathers, nor commanded them ini Sam. 15. the day that I brought them out of 22. Ps. 51. the land of Egypt, concerning 16, 17. burnt-offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded It them, saying, h Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded that it may be well unto you. yo24k But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the || imagina-1 tion of their evil heart, and †m went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have even n sent unto you all my servants the prophets, o daily rising up early and sending them: Hos. 6. 6. Heb. concerning the matter of. h Ex. 15. 26. Deut. 6. 3. ch. 11. 4, 7. i Ex. 19. 5. Lev. 26. 12. k Ps. 81. 11. ch. 11. 8. Deut. 29. 19. Ps. 81. 12. Or, stubbornness. Heb. were. m ch. 2. 27. & 32. 33. Hos. 4. 16. n 2 Chr. 36. 15. ch. 25. 4. 26 p Yet they hearkened not unto & 29. 19. me, nor inclined their ear, but q har-o ver. 13. dened their neck: r they did worse P ver. 24. than their fathers. ch. 11. 8. & 17. 23. & 25. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak 3, 4. all these words unto them; but a Neh. 9. 17, they will not hearken to thee: thou 29. ch. 19. shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. 15. r ch. 16. 12. s Ezek. 2. 7. struction. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth_not the voice of the LORD their God, t ch. 5. 3. & t nor receiveth || correction: u truth 32. 33. is perished, and is cut off from Or, intheir mouth. 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jeru-u ch. 9. 3. salem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. x Job 1. 20. Is. 15. 2. ch. 16. 6. & 48. 37. Mic. 1. 16. y 2 Kin. 21. 4, 7. 2 Chr. 33. 4, 5, 7. ch. 23. 11. & 32. 34. Ezek. 7. 20. & 8. 5, 6, &c. Dan. 9. 27. The calamities of the Jews. Before the voice of the bridegroom, and CHRIST the voice of the bride: for g the land shall be desolate. cir. 600. 1 The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive. 4 He upbraideth their foolish and shameless impenitency. 13 He sheweth their grievous judgment, 18 and bewaileth their desperate estate. AT that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha bitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and a whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, b nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And d death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil 22. & 7. 15, family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. 6. ech. 7. 24. f ch. 9. 6. g ch. 5. 3. h 2 Pet. 3. 9. i Is. 1. 3. k Cant. 2. 12. 4 Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem e slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? f they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 h hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and k the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their 1 ch. 5. 4, 5. coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD y they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the z high places of Tophet, which is in the z 2 Kings 23. m Rom. 2. valley of the son of Hinnom, to 10. ch. 19. a burn their sons and their daugh- 5. & 32. 35. Or, the ters in the fire; b which I com- a Ps. 106. 38. false pen of b See Deut.the scribes manded them not, neither † came 17. 3. it into my heart. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, m and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and t what wisdom is in them? 10 Therefore o will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to P covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they have a healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. r 12 Were they ashamed when |