Rachel mourning is comforted.

and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him t from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a y watered garden; z and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

y 1s. 58. 11. z Is. 35. 10.

& 65. 19.

Rev. 21. 4.

18. b Josh. 18. 25.

n Zech. 8. 3. o ch. 33. 12,

13.

p Ezek. 36.9, 10, 11. Hos. 2. 23. Zech.

10. 9.

r ch. 1. 10. & 18. 7.

s ch. 24. 6.

t Ezek. 18. 2,

15 Thus saith the LORD; a Aa Matt. 2.17,||3. voice was heard in b Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and d they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

c Gen. 42. 13.

Ezra 1. 5.

d ver. 4, 5. Hos. 1. 11.

u Gal. 6. 5, 7.

x ch. 32. 40. & 33. 14. Ezek. 37. 26. Heb. 8. 8,

17.

y Deut. 1. 31.

dah :

I have continued an husband

18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke e turn thou me, and I shall e Lam. 5 81. unto them? be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

z ch. 32. 40.

a Ps. 40. 8.

20. & 36. 26,

27. 2 Cor. 3.

3.

19 Surely fafter that I was turn- f Deut. 30. 2. Ezek. 11. 19, ed, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even founded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

con

20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: g therefore my g Deut. 32. bowels are troubled for him; hI36. Is. 63. will surely have mercy upon him, 15. Hos. 11. saith the LORD.

8.

+ Heb. sound.

21 Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thy hearth Is. 57. 18. toward the highway, even the way Hos. 14. 4. which thou wentest: turn again, Ŏi ch. 50. 5. virgin of Israel, turn again to these

thy cities.

22 1 How long wilt thou k go a-k ch. 2. 18, bout, O thou backsliding daugh- 23, 36, ter? for the LORD hath created a ch. 3. 6, 8, new thing in the earth, A woman 11, 12, 14, shall compass a man.

22.

23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; m The LORD bless thee, O 26.

6, 7, 8. Is. I.

m Ps. 122. 5,

b ch. 24. 7. & 30. 22. & 32. 38.

c Is. 54. 13. John 6. 45.

1 Cor. 2. 10. 1 John 2. 20.

d ch. 33. 8.

& 50.20.

Mic. 7. 18. Acts 10. 43. & 13. 39.

Rom. 11. 27. e Gen. 1. 16. Ps. 72. 5, 17. & 89. 2, 36, 37. & 119. 89.

f Is. 51. 15. g ch. 10. 16. Ps. 148. 6. Is. 54. 9, 10. ch. 33. 20.

i ch. 33. 22.

33 z But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, a I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; band will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for d I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no

more.

35 Thus saith the LORD, e which

giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth fthe sea when the waves thereof roar; g The LORD of hosts is his name:

36 h If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

37 Thus saith the LORD; i If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for

Before CHRIST cir. 606.

k Neh. 3. 1. Zech. 14. 10.

Ezek. 40. 8. Zech. 2. 1.

miah from the LORD a in the a 2 Kin. 25. tenth year of Zedekiah king of Ju-1, 2. Jer. 39. dah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut

1.

up bin the court of the prison, b Neh. 3. 25. which was in the king of Judah's ch. 33. 1. & house. 37. 21. & 38.

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah 6. & 39. 14. had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, & Behold, c ch. 34. 2. I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

4 And Zedekiah king of Judah d shall not escape out of the hand d ch. 34. 3. & of the Chaldeans, but shall surely 38. 18, 23. & be delivered into the hand of the 39. 5. & 52.9. king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be

e until I visit him, saith the LORD: e ch. 27. 22. fthough ye fight with the Chalde-fch. 21. 4. ans, ye shall not prosper?

61 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

& 33. 5.

7 Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the g right of redemptiom is thine tog Lev. 25.24, buy it.

25, 32. Ruth

8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son 4. 4. came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemp tion is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

9 And I bought the field of HaСс

Before CHRIST

cir. 590.

buyeth Hanameel's field. nameel mine uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and h weighed him the money, even || seventeen shekels of

h Gen. 23.16.silver. Zech. 11. 12.

Or, seven

shekels and

silver. ten pieces of

+ Heb. wrote in the book.

i ch. 36. 4.

10 And I subscribed the evi. dence, and sealed it, and took wit nesscs, and weighed him the money in the balances.

11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was seal ed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:

12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto i Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine un cle's son, and in the presence of k See Is. 8. 2. the k witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

13 ¶ And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses

1 ver. 37, 43. and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

m 2 Kin. 19. 15.

16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, m thou hast made the heaven and the earth

by thy great power and stretched n Gen. 18.14. out arm, and a there is nothing too hard for thee:

ver. 27.

Luke 1. 37.

Or, hid from thee. o Ex. 20. 6.

& 34. 7. Deut. 5.9,

10.

18 Thou shewest o loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: The Great, p The Mighty God, a The LORD of hosts, is his name;

19 Great in counsel, and mighty in twork: for thine s eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men; t to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee u a name, as at this day;

21 And x hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

22 And hast given them this land. which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, y a land flowing with milk and honey;

23 And they came in, and possessed it; but z they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

625

God's threats against Judah.

24 Behold the || mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city a is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of b the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and behold, thou seest it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord God, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; || for c the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

27 Behold, I am the LORD, the

d God of all flesh: e is there anyd Num. 16. thing too hard for me?

22.

the e ver. 17.

28 Therefore thus saith LORD; Behold, I will give this f ver. 3. city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and g set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, h upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to an

ger.

u ch. 23. 6.

& 33. 16.
x ch. 24. 7.

& 30, 22. &

31. 33. ly ch. 24. 7.

Ezek. 11. 19,

20.

+ Heb. all days.

z Is. 55. 3. ch. 31. 31. + Heb. from after them. a ch. 31. 33. b Deut. 30.9. Zeph. 3. 17. c ch. 24.6.& 31. 28. Ainos

19. 15.

+ Heb. in truth, or,

& 52. 13.

e ver. 15. f ch. 33. 10.

t

His promise to the captive 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them u to dwell safely:

38 And they shall be my people and I will be their God:

39 And I will y give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after

them:

40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but a I will put my fear in the hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

41 Yea, b I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land † assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

42 For thus saith the LORD; d Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

43 And e fields shall be bought in this land, f whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in g ch. 17. 26. the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for hI will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

h ch. 33. 7, 11, 26.

34 But they set their abomina-o ch. 7. 30, tions in the house which is called 31. & 23. 11. by my name, to defile it.

35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to P cause p ch. 7. 31. their sons and their daughters to & 19. 5. pass through the fire unto 4 Mo- Lev. 18.21. lech; r which I commanded them Kings 11. not, neither came it into my mind, 33. that they should de this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

r ch. 7. 31.

s ver. 24.

Ps. 91. 15.

ch. 29. 12. Or, hidden. Is. 48. 6.

e ch. 32. 24.

f ch. 32. 5.

2 Thus saith the LORD the b maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; || The LORD is

his name;

3 d Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou know

est not.

4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by e the mounts, and by the sword;

5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

Jews of a gracious return.

6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, i as at the first.

11.

1 Pet. 2. 5, 9. Rev. 1. 6.

e Ps. 89. 37.

28. & 42. 10. k Ezek. 36.

25. Zech. 13. 1. Heb. 9. 13, 14.

1 ch. 31. 34. Mic. 7. 18.

8 And I will k cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will 1 pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. 9 m And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them and they shall fearn Is. 60. 5. and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,

m Is. 62. 7. ch. 13. 11.

o which ye say shall be desolate o ch. 32. 43. without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judan, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

11 The P voice of joy, and the p ch. 7. 34. voice of gladness, the voice of the & 16. 9. & bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, a Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

25. 10. Rev. 18. 23. q1 Chr. 16.8, 34. 2 Chr. 5. 13. & 7. 3. Ps. 136. 1. Ezra 3. 11. Is. 12. 4. Lev. 7. 12. Ps. 107. 22.

& 116. 17.

12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; s ver. 7. t Again in this place, which is deso-t Is. 65. 10. late without man and without beast, ch. 31. 24. and in all the cities thereof, shall be & 50. 19. an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

13 u In the cities of the moun-u ch. 17. 26. tains, in the cities of the vale, and & 32. 44. in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the

places about Jerusalem, and in the

cities of Judah, shall the flocks

31. 36. ver. 25.

f Ps. 89. 34.

gGen. 13.16. & 15. 5. & 22. 17. ch. 31. 37.

21 Then may also f my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

22 As g the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto

cir. 591.

a 2 Kin. 25.

25 Thus saith the LORD; If i my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not k appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for m I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

:

CHAPTER XXXIV. 1Jeremiah prophesieth the captivity of Zedekiah and the city. 8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bondservanis,contrary to the covenant of God, reassume them. 12 Jeremiah, for their disobedience, giveth them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.

THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, a when 1,&c. ch.39. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and b all the kingdoms of the earth † of his dominion, and all the people fought against

1. & 52. 4.

b ch. 1. 15. + Heb. the

2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

3 And e thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and the shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with fthe burnings of thy

Fate of Zedekiah foretold.

fathers, the former kings which

Before

cir. 591.

Before

The obedience of the Rechabites. |proclaim a liberty for you, saith the

6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

8 T This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had. made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim k liberty unto them;

91 That every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; m that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

10 Now when all the princes, and all the people which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

i

18.

2 Kings 18. 13. & 19. 8.

2 Chr. 11. 5, 9.

cir. 591.

k Ex. 21. 2.

Lev. 25. 10. ver. 14. 1 Neh. 5. 11. m Lev. 25. 39,-46.

11 But n afterwards they turned, cir. 590. and caused the servants and then See ver.21. handmaids, whom they had let go ch. 37. 5. free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, from the LORD, saying,

13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

14 At the end of o seven years, let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee; but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

o Ex. 21. 2. & 23. 10. Deut. 15. 12. Or, hath sold himself.

15 And ye were now turned, + Heb. and had done right in my sight, in to-day. proclaiming liberty every man to

his neighbour; and ye had P madep So 2 Kings a covenant before me q in the houso 23. 3. Neh.

+ Heb. whereupon

† which is called by my name: 10. 29. 16 But ye turned and r polluted ch. 7. 10. my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his my name handmaid, whom he had set at is called. liberty at their pleasure, to return,r Ex. 20. 7. and brought them into subjection, Lev. 19. 12. to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, s Matt. 7. 2. every one to his brother, and every Gal. 6. 7. man to his neighbour: behold, I Jam. 2. 13.

+ Heb.for a removing. u Deut. 28. 25, 64. ch. 29. 18.

x See Gen. 15. 10, 17.

y ch. 7. 33.& 16.4. & 19. 7.

lence, and to the famine; and 1 will make you to be u removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when x they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their y dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of z See ch. 37. Babylon's army, z which are gone up from you.

5, 11.

a ch. 37. 8, 10.

22 a Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall bch. 38. 3.& fight against it, band take it, and burn it with fire: and c I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

39. 1, 2, 8. &

52. 7, 13.
c ch. 9. 11.
& 44. 2, 6.

3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, c the keeper of the † door:

5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

6 But they said, We will drink no wine for d Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; e that ye may