22 The wind shall eat up allthy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. Christ is promised. behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 24 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! 4 And I will set up d shepherds over them 24 As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah dwere the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25. And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born ; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken dol? is he & a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. 30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. CHAP. XXIII. 1 He prophesieth a restoration of the scattered flock. 5 Christ shall rule and save them. 9 Against false prophets, 33 and mockers of the true prophets. [BEFORE CHRIST 599.] WO O be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. 2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: which shall feed them: and they shall fear 5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 & In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 But, the Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; "all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness. zch 23.1. a ver. 20. f Heb. inhabitress. b ch.6.24. c See 2 Kings 24. 6, 8. 1 Chron. 3.16 ch. 37. 1. d Cant. 8.6. Hag. 2. 23. e ch. 31. 20. f2 Kings 24. 15. 2 Chron. 36. 10. g Heb. lift up their mind. ch. 44. 14. g Ps. 31. 12. ch. 48. 38. Hos.8.8. h Deut. 32. Isai. 1. 2. & 34. L. Mic. 1.2. i See 1 Chron. 3. 16, 17. Matt. 1. 12. k ch. 36. 30. CHAP. XXIII. a ch. 10. 21. & 22. 22. Ezek. 34. 2. 6 Еx. 32. 34. cch. 32. 37. Ezek. 14. 13 &c. d ch 3 15 Fizek. 34 23 &c. e Is. 4. 2. & 11. 1. & 40. 10, 11. ch 33. 14, 15, 16. Dan. 9.24. Zech. 3. 8. & 6. 12. John 1. 45. f Psalm 72.2. Isai. 32. 1, 18. & 9. 7. g Deut. 33.28. Zech. 14. 11. h ch. 32. 37. ich. 33.16. 1 Cor. 1. 30. a Heb. Jehovahtsidkenu. k ch. 16. 14, 15. 1 Is. 43. 5, 6. ver. 3. m See Hab. 3. 16. n ch. 5. 7,8. & 9. 2. o Hos. 4.2,3. b Or, cursing. pch. 9.10. & 12. 4. c Or, violence. q ch. 6. 13. & 8. 10. Zeph. 3.4. rch. 7.30 & 11. 15. & 32 34. Ezek. 8. 11. & 23. 39. s Ps. 35. 6. Prov. 4. 19. ch 13.16 they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; "they prophesiedin Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem fan horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they * strengthen also the hands of the evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: dthey speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21 'I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. false prophets. 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have " turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. P Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet * that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and hethat hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, 'that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32 Behold, I am against them that pro phesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD 33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou t ch. 11. 23. d Or, an absurd thing. e Heb. unsavoury. u ch. 2. 8. x Isai. 9. 16. 2. 16. i Or, secret. h ch. 25. 32. & 30.23. ich. 30.24. k Gon. 49.1. 1 ch. 14. 14. & 27 shalt then say unto them, What burden? " I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. 34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even "punish that man and his house. 35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken ? 36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. 37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; Desolation of Zedekiah. seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them fan heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole g heart. 8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of 39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and and the city that I gave you and your fa-them that dwell in the land of Egypt : thers, and cast you out of my presence : 9 And I will deliver them to be remov40 And I will bring an everlasting re-ed into all the kingdoms of the earth for proach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. CHAP. XXIV. 1 Under the type of good and bad figs, 4 he foreshoweth the restoration of them that were in captivity, 8 and the desolation of Zedekiah and the rest. [BEFORE CHRIST 598.] a their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt" and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. THE LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Ju- 1 Jeremiah reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets, 8 dah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, "they were so bad. 3 Then said the Lord unto me, What u verso 39. m Heb. visit upon. x Hosea 4. 6. y verse 33. z chapter 20. 11. CHAP. XXIV. a Amos 7.1, 4. & 8. 1. b 2 Kings 24. 12, &c. 2 Chron. 36. 10. € Sec ch. 22. 24. &c. & 29. 2. a leb. for badness, b Heh.the captivity, dich. 12. 15. & 20.10. ch. 32 41. & 33. 7 & 42. 10. f Deut. 30. 6. ch. 32.39 Ezek. 11. 19. & 36. 26, 27. g ch. CHAP XXV. foretelleth the seventy years' captivity, 12 and after that, the destruction of Babylon. 15 Under the type of a cup of wine, he foreshoweth the destruction of all nations. 34 The howling of the shepherds. [BEFORE CHRIST 606.] THE word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; 30. 22. & 31. 33. & 32.38. h ch. 29. 13. i ch. 29. 17. k See ch. 43. & 44. c Heb. for ro moving, or, vexation. I Deut. 28. 25, 37. 1 Kings 9... Chron. 7. 20. ch. 15. 4. & 29 18. & 34. 17. m Ps. 14. 13, 14. n ch. 29. 18, 22. CHAP. XXV. ach 36 1 94 1 The Babylonish captivity foretold; CHAP. XXV. and the overthrow of divers nations. 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake || nations shall serve the king of Babylon seunto all the people of Judah, and to all the venty years. inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto ine, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not heark ened. 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, drising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: 6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover "I will take from them the * voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these * 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 °For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them "a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of & Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, beh. 1.2. cch. 7. 13. & 11. 7, 8, 10. & 13. 10, 11. & 16. 12. & 17. 2. & 18. 12. & 19. 15. 22. 21 d ch. 7. 13, 25. & 26. 5. & 29. 19. e 2 Kings 17. 13. ch. 18. 11. & 35. 15. Jounh 2.8. f Deut. 32. 21. ch. 7. 19. & 32. 30. g ch. 1. 15. h ch. 27. 6. & 43. 10. Sec Lai. 14. 28. & 45. 1. ch. 40. 2. i ch. 18. 16. a Heb. I will cause to perish from them. k Iss. 24.7. ch.7.34. & 16. 9. Ezek. 26. 13. Hos. 2. 11. Rev. 18. 23. 1 Eccles. 12. 4. 2(hion. 36. 21, 22. Ezra 1. 1 ch. 29.10 Dan. 9. 2. 2 Kings 24. 1. Ezra 1. 1. b Heb. visit upon. n Isai. 13. 19. & 14. 23. & 21. 1, &c. & 47. 1. ch. 50. 3, 13, 23, 39, 40, 45. & 51. 25, 26. o ch. 50. 9. & 51. 27,28. p ch. 50. 41. & 51.27. q ch. 27.7. r ch. 50. 29. & 51. 6, 24. s Job 21. 20. Ps. 75.8. Isai. 51. 17. Rev. 14. 10. tch. 51 7. Ezek. 23.34. Nah. 3. 11. u ver. 9, 11. xch.24.9. y ch. 46. 2, 25. z ver. 24. a Job 1.1. b ch. 47.1, 5, 7 c See Isai. 20. 1. dch. 49.7, &c. ech. 48. 1. fch. 49. 1. g ch. 47. 4. c Or, region by * Beginning cir. 606. and ending 536. the sea side. heh. 49.23 1 i Howling of the shepherds. at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shal. not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. 34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like & a pleasant vessel. 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the 35 And the shepherds shall have no face of the earth: and the king of She-way to flee, nor the principal of the flock shach shall drink after them. 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. 29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Yeshall not be unpunished: for 'I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord. 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. CHAP. XXVI. 1 Jeremiah by promises and threatenings exhorteth to repentance 8 He is therefore apprehended, 10 and arraigned. 11 His apology. 16 He is quit in judgment, by the example of Micah, 20 and of Urijah, 24 and by the care of Ahikam. [BEFORE CHRIST 610.] IN the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judahcame this word from the Lord, saying, 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall u roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. ship in the Lord's house, all the words 2 Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worthat I command thee to speak unto them, 31 A noise shall come even to the ends 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, 33 d And the slain of the Lord shall be 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may *repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. 4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; 'If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, i ch. 49. 8. d Heb. cut off into corners, or, having the corners of the hair polled; ch. 9. 26. & 49. 32. k 2 Chron. 9. 14. 1 See verse 20. chap. 49. 31. & 50. 37. Ezek. 30. 5. m ch. 49. 34. n ch. 50. 9. o ch. 51. 41. p Hab. 2. 16. q Isai. 51. 21. & 63. 6. r Prov. 11. 31. ch. 49. 12. Ezek. 9. 6. Obad. 16. Luke 23. 31. 1 Pet. 4. 17. e Heb. upon which my name is called. s Dan 9. 18, 19. t Ezek. 38, 21. u Isai. 42. 13. Joel 3. 16. Amos 1.2 x Ps. 11. 4. ch. 17.12. y 1 Kings 9.8. Ps. 132. 14. z Isai. 16. 9 ch. 48. 33. a Hos. 4. 1. Mic. 6. 2. b Isai. 66. 16. Joel 3.2. c chap. 23. 19. & 30. 23. d Isai. 66. 16. ech 16. 4, 6. f Psalm 79.3. ch. 8.2. Rev. 11.9. g ch. 4. 8. & 6. 26. f Heb. your days for slaughter. g Heb. a vessel of desire, h Heb. fight shall perish from the shepherds and escaping from, &c. Amos 2. 14. h Ps. 76. 2. i Heb. a desolation. CHAP. XXVI a ch. 19. 14. b Ezek. 3. 10. Matt. 28. 20. e Acts 20. 27. d ch. 36. 3 e ch. 18.8. Jonah 3.8,9. f Lev. 26. 14 &c. Deut. 28. 15. |