14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Ps. 107. 17. 5 Heb. the 16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that heart. watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth to thy heart. 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at s 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. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 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 laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair: 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 spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. CHAP. V. 1 The judgments of God upon the Jews for their perverseness, 7 for their adultery, 10 for their impiety, 19 for their contempt of God, 25 and for their great corruption in the civil state, 30 and ecclesiastical. walls of my RUN ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. i c. 5. 18. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast a stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have re6 Heb. eyes. fused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether 21 How long shall I see the standard, 7 or, deserts. broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. and hear the sound of the trumpet ? 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no understand-8 Heb. are ing they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23 I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. strong. 24 I beheld the mountains, and lo, they Ezek. 27. trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and all the fowls of the heavens had fled. 26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 11. 6 Wherefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the 7 evenings shall spoil them, a 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 8 are increased. 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? Isa. 28. 15. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treach-dc. erously against me, saith the LORD. 12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; 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 to them. 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, & Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an an-9 cient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees: they shall impoverish with the sword thy fortified cities, in which thou hast trusted. 18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. 1. 9. Deut. 28. 6. 22. Lev. 26.16. Deut. 28. c. 13. 22. & John 12. 40. Rom. 11.8. Ps. 104. 9. Deut. 11. 14. 10'or, they wait. 11 or, coop. Deut. 32. 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these things to us? then shalt 15. thou answer them, As ye he have forsaken me, and served strange gods in " Isa. 1. 23. land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land Zech. 7. 10. that is not yours. your 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, Ói foolish people, and without 9 understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not: 12 or, aston. ishment setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a 11 cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich. 28 They have become m fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not " the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 30 T 12 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests 13 bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof CHAP. VI. 1 The enemies sent against Judah, 4 encour age themselves. 6 God setteth them on work because of their sins. 9 The 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 judg ment on their sins. YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a 1 comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place. 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the evening are lenghtened. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6 T For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and 2 cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppresc. 14. 14. &sion in the midst of her. 23. 25. 26. 13 or, take into their hands. 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; 1or, dwell. though they roar, yet can they not passing at over it? home. 2 pour 23 But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolt-out the en. ed and gone. gines of 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season: he reserveth to us the appointed weeks of harvest. 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: 10 they lay wait, as he that shot. 7a As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and devastation is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul 3 depart from thee; lest 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 thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, Isa. 57. 20. their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 13 For from the least of them even told c. 8. 11. the greatest of them every one is given Ezek. 13.10. to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely. 4 Heb. bruise, or, breach. 14 They have a healed also the 4 hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, e c. 33. & 8. saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore 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 in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it. 12. Isa. 8. 20. Mal. 4. 4. Luke 16. 29. Matt. 11. 29. A Isa. 1. 11. & 66. 3. Amos 5. 21. Mic. 6. 6,&c. ic. 1. 15. & 5. 15. & 10. 22. for the spoiler shall suddenly come up on us. 27 I have set thee for a tower and i å fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. 29 The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 305 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. CHAP. VII. 1 Jeremiah is sent to call for true repentance, to prevent the Jews captivity: 8 He rejecteth their vain confidence, 12 by the example of Shiloh: 17 He threateneth them for their idolatry: 21 He rejecteth the sacrifices of the disobedient: 29 He exhorteth to mourn for their abominations in Tophet, 32 and the judgments for the same. HE word that came to Jeremiah from Tthe LORD, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. a 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring c. 1. 18. & these. evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words, nor to my law, but have rejected it. m Ez. 22. 18. "Isa. 1. 22. 20h To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant country? your burntofferings are not acceptable, nor yours or, refuse sacrifices sweet to me. silver. 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth 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 of it: our hands become feeble: 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 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: 26. 13. 1 Heb. my name 5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 ¶ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, 1 which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a ‹ den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see a 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 spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do to this house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 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 dough, to make cakes to the 2 queen of heaven, and to pour out drinkofferings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 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, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Before CHRIST, 600. 10. 11. f 1 Sam. 4. & 132. 6. c. 26. 6. c. 11. 14. & h c. 44. 19. 2 or, frame, or, work. munship i Isa. 1. 11. Amos 5. 21. 3 Heb. con. cerning the matter of Deut. 6. 3. Ex. 19. 5. Lev. 26. 12. 4 or, stubbornness. 5 Heb. were. 2 Chr. 36. 15. n c. 16. 12. struction. 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the or, in. God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that Í brought them out of the land of Egypt, 3 concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, 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 you, that it may be well to you. 2 Kings 23. 10. c. 19. 5. 7 Heb. came it upon my heart. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and s and went backward, and not P c. 19. 6. forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them: Ps. 79. 2. c. 16. 4. & 34. 30. ✓ Isa. 24. 7. c. 16. 9. & 33. 11. Ezek. 26. 26 Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their 25. 10. & neck: they did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them;] but they will not answer thee. 13. house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I com manded them not, neither came it into my heart. 32 Therefore, behold, the days » come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there shall be no place. 33 And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. CHAP. VIII. 1 The calamity of the Jews both dead and alive: 4 He upbraideth their foolish and shameless impenitence: 13 He showeth their grievous judgment, 18 and bewaileth their desperate state. T that time, saith the LORD, they Ashall bring 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 inhabitants 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 whom they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 ¶ Moreover, thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backHos. 2. 11. sliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 28 But thou shalt say to them, This is a Isa. 1. 3. a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth 6 correction: truth hath perished, and is cut off 1 or, the from their mouth. 29 Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamenta tion on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the false pen scribes of the worketh for falsehood. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle. a 7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly 1 in vain he hath made it; the pen lof the scribes is in vain. 982 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and 3 what wisdom is in them? 10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely. of 3 Heb. the wisdom of what thing. . Isa. 56. c. 6. 13. 11 For they have a healed the hurt the daughter of my people slightly, say-dc. 6. 14. ing, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. 13 ¶ 4 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the & fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that 15 have given to them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to si-s lence, and given us water of 5 gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and 6 all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. 17 For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite yon, saith the LORD. 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint 7 in me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the| daughter of my people s because of them that dwell in a distant country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 1 Ezek. 13. 10. 11. c. 3. 3. & 6, 15. 4 or, In gath ering will consume. Isai. 5. 1, &e. Matt. 21. fulness. 7 Heb. upon. them that are far off. sor, foreign. c. 46. 11. 10 feb. gone up? He that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! a 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness lodging-place of way-faring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an asSembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his 2 neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 5 And they will 3 deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? C 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh d peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but 4 in heart he layeth 5 his wait. 9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the 6 habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are 7 burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; s both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, anda den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah 9 desolate, without an inhabitant. 12 Who is the wise man that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the 10 imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, & with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their sword after them, till I have consumed fathers have known: and I will send a them, |