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of Babylon. a stone for a corner, nor a stone for jons: they shall yell as lions' whelps. foundations; but thou shalt be deso- 39 In their beat I will make their late forever, saith the LORD. feasts, and 1 will make them drunken, 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, that they may rejoice, and sleep a blow the trumpet among the natious, perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith prepare the nations against her, call the LORD. together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchienaz: ap point a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough cater pillars.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

42 The sea is come up upon Baby lon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

41 How is Sheshack taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth sur 28 Prepare against her the nations prised how is Babylon become an as with the kings of the Medes, the cap-tonishment among the nations! tains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry shall be performed against Babylon, land, and a wilderness, a land wherein to make the land of Babylon a deso-no man dwelleth, neither doth any tion without an inhabitant. son of man pass thereby.

30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath fail ed; they became as women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end.

32 And that the passages are stop ped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are af frighted.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon; and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, year shall come a rumour, and viothe God of Israel; The daughter of lence in the land, ruler against ruler. Baby lon is like a threshing-floor, it is 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, time to thresh her: yet a little while, that I will do judgment upon the gra and the time of her harvest shall come. ven images of Babylon: and her whole 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Bab- land shall be confounded, and all her ylon hath devoured me, he hath crush-slain shall fall in the midst of her. ed me, he hath made me an empty 48 Then the heaven and the earth, vessel, he hath swallowed me up like and all that is therein, shall sing for a dragon, he hath filled his belly with Babylon: for the spoilers shall come my delicates, he hath cast me out. unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

35 The violence done to me and in my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,shall Jerusalem say.

49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of the earth.

50 Ye that have escaped the sword, 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; go away, staud not still: remember Behold, I will plead thy cause, and the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem take vengeance for thee; and I will come into your mind. dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons,an aston ishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like

51 We are confounded because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Loup, that I will do judg

Jerusalem besieged

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and taken, ment upon her graven images: and Babylon sink, and shall not rise from through all her land the wounded the evil that I will bring upon her: shall groan. and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

53 Though Babylon should mount fortify the height of her strength, yet up to heaven, and though she should from me shall spoilers come unto her, Baith the LORD.

54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their

voice is uttered:

CHAP. LII.

years old when he began to reign; EDEKIAH was one and twenty

jand he reigned eleven years in Jeru salem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnal.

2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD And it came to pass, in the ninth God of recompenses shall surely re- year of his reign, in the tenth month, quite. in the tenth day of the month, that 57 And I will make drunk her prin- Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ces, and her wise men, her captains, came, he and all his army, against and her rulers, and her mighty men: Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, built forts against it round about. and not wake, saith the King, whose 5 So the city was besieged until the name is the LORD of hosts. eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: 6 And in the fourth month, in the The broad walls of Babylon shall be, ninth day of the month, the famine utterly broken, and her high gates was sore in the city, so that there was shall be burned with fire; and the no bread for the people of the land. people shall labour in vain, and the 7 Then the city was broken up, and folk in the fire, and they shall be all the men of war fled, and went weary. forth out of the city by night, by the 59 The word which Jeremiah the way of the gate between the two prophet commanded Seraiah the son walls, which was by the king's garof Neriah, the son of Maaseiab, when den; (now the Chaldeans were by the he went with Zedekiah the king of city round about;) and they went by Judah into Babylon in the fourth year the way of the plain. of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

8 T But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and the evil that should come upon Baby-all his army was scattered from him. lon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thon hast spoken against this place, to eut it off,that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it,and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

And thou shalt say, Thus shall

9 Then they took the king, and car ried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah,

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, (which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadres

The number

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of captives. zar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-pomegranates on a side; and all the adan, captain of the guard,nhich serv- pomegranates upon the net work were ed the king of Babylon,intoJerusalem, a hundred round about.

13 And burned the house of the 24 And the captain of the guard took LORD, and the king's house; and ali Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephathe houses of Jerusalem, and all the niah the second priest, and the three houses of the great men, burned he keepers of the door: with fire.

25 He took also out of the city a 14 And all the army of the Chalde- eunuch, which had the charge of the ans, that were with the captain of the men of war; and seven men of them gaard, brake down all the walls of that were near the king's person, Jerusalem round about. which were found in the city, and 15 Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain the principal scribe of the host, who of the guard, carried away enptive mustered the people of the land; and certain of the poor of the people, and threescore men of the people of the the residue of the people that remain-land, that were found in the midst of ed in the city, and those that fell away, the city. that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers,and for hus

bandmen.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

18 The caldrons also, and the shov els, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

away.

26 So Nebuzar adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Kib lah.

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

28 This is the people whom Nebu chadrezzar carried away captive: In the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

19 And the basons, and the fire-pans, 30 In the three and twentieth year of and the bowls, and the caldrons, and Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuar adan, the the candle-sticks, and the spoons, and captain of the guard, carried away the cups: that which was of gold in captive of the Jews seven hundred gold, and that which was of silver in forty and five persons: all the persons silver, took the captain of the guard were four thousand and six hundred. 31 ¶ And it came to pass, in the sev 20 The two pillars, one sea, and en and thirtieth year of the captivity twelve brasen bulls that were under of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the the bases, which king Solomon had twelfth month, in the five and twenti made in the house of the LORD: the eth day of the month, that Evil-mebrass of all the vessels was without rodach king of Babylon, in the first weight. year of his reign, lifted up the head of 21 And concerning the pillars, the Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought height of one pillar was eighteen cu-him forth out of prison, bits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did 32 And spake kindly unto him, and compass it; and the thickness thereof set his throne above the throne of the was four fingers; it was hollow. kings that were with him in Babylon, 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon 33 And changed his prison-garments: it; and the height of one chapiter seas and he did continually eat bread be five cubits, with net-work and pome-fore him all the days of his life. granates upon the chapiters round 34 And for his diet, there was a conabout, all of brass: the second pillar tinual diet given him of the king of also and the pomegranates were like Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of

unto these.

23 And there were ninety and six his life.

The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH. 11 All her people sigh, they seek TOW doth the city sit solitary that bread; they have given their pleasant

CHAP. I.

H was full of people: hoto is the things for meat to relieve the soul: see,

become as a widow! she that was O LORD, and consider; for I am be great among the nations, and princess come vile.

among the provinces, how is she be 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that come tributary!

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath none to com fort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against 3 Judah is gone into captivity be them he hath spread a net for my cause of affliction, and because of feet, he hath turned me back: he great servitude; she dwelleth among hath made me desolate and faint all the heathen, she findeth no rest all the day.

her persecutors overtook her between 14 The yoke of my transgressions is the straits. bound by his hand they are wreath

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, heed, and come upon my neck: he cause none come to the solemn feasts: hath made my strength to fall, the all ber gates are desolate; her priests LORD hath delivered me into their sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she hands, from whom I am not able to is in bitterness. rise up.

5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

6 Aud from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without atrength before the pursuer,

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affiction, and of her miseries, all ner pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press. 16 For these things I weep: mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me; my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstrous woman among them. 18 T The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his command ment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow; my virgins 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she and my young men are gone into cap. remembereth not her last end; there-tivity.

8 Jerusalem bath greviously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that hon oured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

fore she came down wonderfully: she 19 I called for my lovers, but they had no comforter. O LORD, behold deceived me; my priests and mine my affiction; for the enemy hath mag elders gave up the ghost in the city, nified himself. while they sought their meat to relieve

10 The adversary hath spread out their souls. his hands upon all her pleasant things: 20 Behold, O LORD, for I am in disfor she hath seen that the heathen en-tress; my bowels are troubled; mine tered into her sanctuary, whom thou heart is turned within me; for I have didst command that they should not greviously rebelled: abroad the sword enter into thy congregation. Ibereaveth, at home there is as death.

LAMENTATIONS.

Jeruzalem. 21 They have heard that sigh; there hath stretched out a line, he hath not is none to comfort me: all mine ene withdrawn his hand from destroying: mies have heard of my trouble; they therefore he made the rampart and are glad that thou hast done it thou the wall to lament; they languished wilt bring the day that thou hast call- together.

ed, and they shall be like unto me. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground: 22 Let all their wickedness come be- he hath destroyed and broken her fore thee; and do unto them as thou bars; her king and her princes are hast done unto me for all my trans-among the Gentiles: the law is no gressious: for my sighs are many, and more; her prophets also find no vision my heart is faint. from the LORD.

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee; and they have 5 The LORD was as an enemy; he not discovered thine iniquity, to turn hath swallowed up lsrael, he hath away the captivity; but have seen swallowed up all her palaces; he hath for thee false burdens, and causes of destroyed his strong holds, and hath banishment.

increased in the daughter of Judah 15 All that pass by clap their hands mourning and lamentation.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar; he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the 17 The LORD hath done that which enemy the walls of her palaces; they he had devised; he hath fulfilled his have made a noise in the house of the word that he had commanded in the LORD,as in the day of a solemn feast. days of old: he hath thrown down, 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy and hath not pitied: and he hath the wall of the daughter of Zion; he caused thine enemy to rejoice over