from generation to generation.

c. 49. 18.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and] Gomorrah and the neighboring cities, dc. 49. 19. saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwelle Job 41. 10. therein.

41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the borders of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

c. 49. 19.

14 or, call me to plead.

1 Heb. heart.

44 Behold, he shall come up a like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and a c. 50. 8. who is a chosen man, that I may appoint| Rev. 18. 4. over her? for who is like me? and who will 14 appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Isa. 21. 9. Rev.14.8. &

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise of the taking of Baby-2 Heb. pure. lon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

CHAP. LI.

18. 2.

3 Heb. liers in wait.

1 The severe judgment of God against Baby lon in revenge of Israel. 59 Jeremiah deliv ereth the book of this prophesy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the per- Amos 6. 8. petual sinking of Babylon:

8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, it may be she may be healed.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth to heaven, and is lifted even to the skies.

10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

11 Make 2 bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the 3 ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thy end is come, and the measure of thy covetous

ness.

14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn 4 by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall 5 raise a shout against thee.

15 d He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

HUS LORD; Behold, I

soul.

against them that dwell in the 1 midst of them that rise against me, a destroying 5 Heb. utter. wind; 2 And will send to Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her c.10.12, &c. land for in the day of trouble they shall be against her on all sides.

3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

d Gen. 1. 1. 6.

6or, noise.

in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

20 Thou art my battle-ax and weapons of war: for 8 with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and its rider;

22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

Before CHRIST,

595.

Heb. everlasting des

olations.

25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make 10 or, in the thee a burnt mountain.

26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for

ever, saith the LORD.

27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call to

time that he thresheth

her.

38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall 14 yell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its

waves.

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass by it.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed: and the nations shall not flow together any more

rat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.

violence.

28 Prepare against her the nations 12 or, rewith the kings of Media, her captains, mainder. and all her rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

29 And the land shall tremble and 13 Heb. insorrow: for every purpose of the LORD habitress. shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burn

fall.

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

46 And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

47 Therefore behold, the days come, that I will 15 do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, and

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 stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, 10 it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

themselves.

upon.

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, 16 or, Both Babylon is he hath cast me out. to fall, Oye 35 The violence done to me and to slain of Is my 12 flesh be upon Babylon, shall the rael, and with Baby13 inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood lon, &c. upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps,

a dwelling-place for dragons, an aston-17 or, the ishment, and a hissing, without an inhab-country. itant.

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 LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the hight of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come to her, saith 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 laid waste Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows

hight of one pillar was eighteen cubits? and a 12 fillet of twelve cubits encompassed it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.

22 And a capital of brass was upon it; and the hight of one capital was five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon the capitals around, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like to these.

23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the net-work were a hundred on all sides.

24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the 13 door:

25 He took also out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that 14 were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the 15 principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

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

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was!

Before CHRIST,

588.

thread.

12 Heb.

13 Heb. threshhold.

14 Heb. sau

the face of the king.

15 or, scribe

of the captain of the host.

16 Heb. souls.

17 Heb. good things with him.

18 Heb. the matter of the day in his day.

carried away captive out of his own land. 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar 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 16 persons:

30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

32 And spoke 17 kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

33 And changed his prison garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his food there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, 18 every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

CHAP. I.

1 The miserable state of Jerusalem by reason of her sin: 12 She complaineth of her grief, 18 and confesseth God's judgment to be right

eous.

How

[OW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary.

b Job 7.3.

1 Heb. for the greatness of servitude.

* Deut. 28. 13, 14.

2 She a weepeth bitterly in the & night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her ene-d Jer. 52. 28

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her 2 pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her: the adversaries saw her, and mocked at her sabbaths.

8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she 3 is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sigheth and turneth backward.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she