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A grievous dearth causeth

JEREMIAH.

Jeremiah to pray 19 The cities of the south shall be shut || and found no water; they returned with their up, and none shall open them: Judah shall vessels empty; they were dashamed and be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful

flock?

21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not • sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? 22 And if thou say in thine heart, P Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted infalsehood.

confounded, and covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the ploughmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it & for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

8hO the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us

not.

26 Therefore "will I discover thy skirts 10 Thus saith the Lord unto this peoupon thy face, that thy shame may appear. ple, Thus have they loved to wander, they

27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy * neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Wo unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

CHAP. XIV.

have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; m he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

11 Then said the Lord unto me, "Pray not for this people for their good.

12° When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering

1 The grievous famine 7 causeth Jeremiah to pray. 10 The and an oblation, I will not accept them: phets are no excuse for them. 17 Jeremiah is moved to but I will consume them by the sword,

Lord not be entreated for the people. Lying pro

complain for them. [BEFORE CHRIST 601.]

THE word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning "the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereoflanguish; they are 'black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits,

and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 13 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: 'I sent

nch. 6. 22. e Heb. visit upon, och. 6. 24. pch. 5. 19. & 16. 10. q Isni. 3. 17. &. 47. 2, 3. ver. 26. Ezek. 16. 37, 38, 39. Nah. 3. 5. f Or, shall be violently taken away. Heb. taught. r Ps. 1. 4. Hos. 13. 3. s Job 20. 29. Ps. 11. 6. 1 ch. 10. 14. u ver. 22. Lam. 1.8. Ezek. 16.37. & 23, 29. Hos. 2. 10. x ch. 5. 8. y Isai. 65. 7. ch. 2. 20. & 3. 2. 6. Ezek. 6, 13. h Heb. after when yet?

CHAP. XIV. a Heb. the words of the dearths, or, restraints. a Isai. 3. 26. hch.

8.21. c See 1 Sam. 5.12, d Ps. 40. 14. e 2 Sam. 15.30. fch. 2.24. g Ps. 25. 11. hch 17. 13. i Isai. 59. 1. k Ex. 29 45, 46. Lev. 26. 11, 12. & Heb. thy name is called upon Dan. 9. 18, 19. 1 See oh, 2, 23, 24, 25. m Hos. 8. 13. & 9. 9. n Ex. 32. 10. ch. 7. 16 & 11. 14. o Prov. 1. 28. Isai. 1. 13. & 58. 3, ch. 11. 11. Ezek. 8, 18, Mic. 3. 4. Zech 7. 13. p ch. 6,20. & 7. 21,22, qch. 9. 16. rch. 4. 10. c Heb. peace of truth. s ch. 27

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10. 1 ch. 23.21. & 27. 15, & 29. 8, 9

The prophet lamenteth for his people.

CHAP. XV.

The rejection of the Jews. them not, neither have I commanded them, the heavens give showers? art not thou

neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, "yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; * and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: *for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest d go about into a land that they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us ? d we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

CHAP. XV.

1 The utter rejection and manifold judgments of the Jews. 10 Jeremiah, complaining of their spite, receiveth a promise for himself, 12 and a threatening for them. 15 He prayeth, 19 and receiveth a gracious promise. [BEFORE CHRIST 601.]

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HEN said the LORD unto me, a Though b Moses and • Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

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2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; d Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art1 gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; "I am weary with repenting.

7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young

u ch. 5. 12, 13. x Psalm 79. 3. y ch. 9. 1. & 13. 17. Lam. 1. 16. & 2. 18. z ch. 8. 21. Ezek. 7. 15. d Or, make merchandise against a lard, and men acknowledge it not. cn. 13. b Lam. 5.22. cch. 15. 18. d ch. 8. 15. e Ps. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 8. Ps. 74.2, 20. & 106. 45. g Zech. 10. 1,2. h Deut. 32. 21. i Ps. 135. 7. & 147 8. Isai. 30. 23. ch. 5 24. & 10, 13.

CHAP. XV. a Ezek. 14. 14, &c. b Ex. 32. 11, 12. Ps. 99. 6. c 1 Sam. 7. 9. d ch. 43

11. Ezek. 5. 2, 12. Zech. 11. 9. e Lev. 26. 16, &c. e Heb. families. fch. 7. 33. Deut 28. 26. f Heb. I will give them for a removing. g Deut. 28. 25. ch. 24. 9. Ezek. 23 46. h 2 Kings 21. 11, &c. & 23. 26. & 24. 3, 4. i Isai. 51. 19. g Heb. to ask of thy peace. k ch 2. 13. Ich. 7.24. m Hos. 13. 14. h Or, whatsoever is dear. n Isai. 9. 13. ch. 5. 3. Amos 4. 10, 11. i Or, against the mother city a young man spoiling, &c or, against the mother and the young men.

Jeremiah complaineth to God.

JEREMIAH.

men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused | 19 him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors thou upon the city.

9° She that hath borne seven languishoth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

10 Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily *I will cause 'the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies 'into a land which thou knowest not: for a "fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

15O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy long-suffering; know that "for thy sake I

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The utter ruin of the Jews foreshown. Therefore thus saith the LORD, & If return, then will I bring thee again. and thou shalt1 stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

CHAP. XVI.

I The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshoweth the utter ruin of the Jews, 10 because they were worse than their fa thers. 14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt. 16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry. [BEFORE CHRIST 601.]

THE word of the Lord came also unto

me, saying,

2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be blamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

5 For thus saith the Lord, * Enter not into the house of "mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even loving-kindness and mercies.

6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried,

ol Sam. 2. 5. p Amos 8. 9. q Job 3. 1, &c. ch. 20. 14. k Or, I will entreat the
enemy for thee. rch. 39. 11, 12. & 40. 4, 5. 8 Ps. 44. 12. ch. 17. 3. t ch. 16. 13. & 17. 4.
n Deut. 32. 22. x ch. 12. 3. 7 ch. 11. 20. & 20. 12. z Ps. 69. 7. a Ezek. 3. 1,3. Rev.
10. 9, 10 b Job 23. 12. Ps. 119. 72, 111. 1 Heb. thy name is called upon me c Ps. 1. i.

& 26.4, 5. d ch. 30. 15. e See ch. 1. 18, 19. f Job 6.15, &c. m Hob. be not sure. & Zech.
37. hver. 1. i Ezek. 22. 26. & 44.23. k ch. 1. 18. & 6. 27. 1 ch. 20. 11, 12
CHAP. XVL a ch. 15.2. b ch. 2. 18, 19. & 25. 33. c Ps. 83. 10. ch.8.2&9.22 d
79.2. ch. 7. 33. & 34 20. e Ezek. 24. 17, 22, 23. a Or, mourning feast.

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God will recompense the Jews' idolatry. CHAP. XVII. The captivity of Judah for her sın. *neither shall men lament for them, nor up the children of Israel from the land of cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

the north, and from all the lands whither
he had driven them: and I will bring them
again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers.
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7 Neither shall men 'tear themselves for them in inourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the Behold, I will send for many 'fishcup of consolation to drink for their father || ers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish or for their mother.

8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

17 For mine "eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiledmy land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

19 O LORD, "my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, va

11 Then shalt thou say unto them, m Be-nity, and things wherein there is no profit.

cause your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

12 And ye have done "worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not show you favour.

14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought

20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.

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CHAP. XVII.

1 The captivity of Judah for her sin. 5 Trust in man is cursed, 7 in God is blessed. 9 The deceitful heart cannot deceive God. 12 The salvation of God. 15 The prophet complaineth of the mockers of his prophecy. 19 He is sent to renew the covenant in hallowing the sabbath. [BEFORE CHRIST 601.]

THE sin of Judah is written with a "pen

of iron, and with the "point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

30 my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to

fch. 22, 18. g Lev. 19. 28. Deut. 14. 1. ch. 41. 5. & 41 5. h Isai. 22. 12. ch. 7. 29. b Or, break bread for them, as Ezek. 24. 17. Hos. 9. 4. See Deut. 26. 14. Job 42. 11. 1 Prov. 31. 6, 7. k Isai. 24. 7, 8. ch. 7. 34. & 25. 10. Ezek. 26. 13. Hos. 2. 11. Rev. 16. 23. 1 Deut. 29. 24. ch. 5. 19. & 13. 22. & 22.8. m Deut. 29. 25. ch. 22. 9. n ch. 7. 26. ch. 13. 10. Or, stubbornness. p Deut. 4. 26, 27, 28. & 28. 36, 63, 64, 65. q eh. 15. 14. Isai. 43. 18. ch. 23.7,8. 8 ch. 24. 6. & 30. 3. & 32. 37. t Amos 4.2. Hab. 1. 15. u Job

34. 21. Prov. 5. 21. & 15. 3. ch. 32. 19. x Isai. 40. 2. ch. 17. 18. y Ezek. 43. 7, 9. z Ps. 18. 2. a ch. 17. 17. b Isai. 44. 10. ch. 2. 11. & 10. 5. c Isai. 37. 19. ch. 2. 11. Galat. 4. 8. d Ex. 15. 3. ch. 33.2. Amos 5. 8. d Or, JEHOVAH. Ps. 83.18.

CHAP. XVII. a Job 19.24. a Heb. nail. b Prov. 3.3. 2 Cor. 3.3. e Judg. 3.7.2 Chron. 24. 18. & 33.5 19. Isai. 1. 29. & 17. 8. ch. 2. 20. d ch. 15. 13.

Trust in man is cursed.

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The sabbath to be hallowea. the spoil, and thy high places for sin, 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be throughout all thy borders. healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for

4 And thou, even 'thyself, shalt discon-thou art my praise. tinue from thine heritage that I gave thec; 15 Behold, they say unto me, Where and I will cause thee to serve thine ene- is the word of the LORD? let it come now. mies in the land which thou knowest not: for fye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

5 Thus saith the LORD; &Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor 'to follow thee: neither have I desired the woful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

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17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the 18 Let them be confounded that persedesert, and shall not see when good cute me, but let not me be confounded: cometh; but shall inhabit the parched let them be dismayed, but let not me be places in the wilderness, in a salt land dismayed: bring upon them the day of and not inhabited. evil, and destroy them with double de

7 m Blessed is the man that trusteth instruction. the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, 'all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be "written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem ;

20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

21 Thus saith the LORD; & Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem ;

22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither de ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

25k Then shall there enter into the gates

& Heb. in thyself. e ch. 16. 13. fch. 15. 14. g Isai. 30. 1, 2. & 31. 1. h See Isai. 31. ich. 48.6. k Job 20. 17. 1 Deat. 29. 23. m Ps. 2. 12. & 34. 8. & 125. 1. & 146. 5. Prov. 16. 20. Isai. 30. 18. n Job 8. 16. Ps. 1. 3. c Or, restraint. o1 Sam. 16.7. 1 Chron.

28. 9. Ps. 7. 9. & 139. 23, 24. Prov. 17. 3. ch. 11. 20. & 20. 12. Rom. 8. 27. Rev. 2. 23. p Pa. 62. 12. ch. 32. 19. Rom. 2. 6. d Or, gathereth young which she hath not brought forth. q Ps. 55 23 r Luke 12. 20. sch. 14.8. tl's. 73. 27. Isai. 1. 28. u See Luko

10. 20. x ch. 2. 13. y Deut. 10. 21. Ps. 109. 1. & 148. 14. z Isai. 5. 19. Ezek. 12. 22 Amos 5. 18. 2 Pet. 3. 4. a ch. 1. 4, &c. e Heb. after thee. b ch. 16. 19. с Ps. 35. 4. & 40. 14. & 70.2. d Ps. 25. 2. f Heb. break them with a double breach. e ch. 11. 20. fch 19. 3. & 22. 2. g Num. 15. 32, &c. Neh. 13. 19. h Ex. 20. 8 & 23. 12. & 31. 13. Ezet 20.12. ich 7 24, 26. & 11. 10. k ch. 22. 4.

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