b 2 Kings 20. 17. & 24. 1216. & 25. 13, 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the &c. ch. 3. 24. labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast C c ch. 14. 13, 14. prophesied lies. & 28. 15. & 29.21. | Or, enticed. d ch. 1. 6, 7. e Lam. 3. 14. f ch. 6. 7. g Job 32. 18, 19. Ps. 39. 3. h Job 32. 18. The captivity of Judah. the soul of the poor from the hand B. C. about 605. 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein Job 3. S. ch. my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 15. 10. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, Gen. 19. 25. and repented not: and let him 'heart ch. 18. 22. the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from Job 3, 10, 11. the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? CHAPTER XXI. Zedekiah inquireth of the prophet the issue of Nebu- O LORD, thou hast deceived THE word which came unto Jer me, and I was deceived: thou art 8 For since I spake, I cried out, 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. Job 5. M. y Lam. S. 1. 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your 10 For I heard the defaming of hands, wherewith ye fight against many, fear on every side. Report, the king of Babylon, and against + Heb. Every say they, and we will report it. All the Chaldeans, which besiege you my familiars watched for my halting, without the walls, and I will assaying, Peradventure he will be en- semble them into the midst of this ticed, and we shall prevail against city. him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 18. ch 29, 25. & S7. 3. e ch. 37. 3, 7. d Is. 13. 4. e Ex. 6. 6. 39. 5. & 52. 2. 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward, saith the LORD, If ch. 57. 17. & will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their h. 99. 18. & 635 Lev. 17. 10. 144. 11. ATL 9. 4. ch. 38. 3. 1: 34. 2, 22. 37. 10. & 31. 18, 23. & 172.13. about 609. 1 ch. 22. 3. Ez. 13. 8. iiresa. 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 1 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: mit shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall a burn it with fire. 11 ¶ And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD; 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. १ 13 Behold, I am against thee, O Heb. inhab† inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? ch 19.4. + Heb. visit топ • Prov. 1. 31. 13, 10, 11. 14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD and I will kindle a fire in the 2 Chr. 36. 19. forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. ch. 52. 13. a ch. 17. 20. ch. 21. 12. * See ver. 17. 1. 17. 25. CHAPTER XXII. Judgment upon Shallum. 13 Woe unto him that buildeth The king of Judah and his people exhorted to repent- 14 That saith, I will build me a Deut. 24. 14, 15. Mic. 3. 10. Hab. 2. 9. James 5. 4. + Heb. throughaired. the house king Ju- 10%, my inta 3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if ye do this thing indeed, d then shall there enter in by the gates He for Da- of this house kings sitting upon the + than his throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. throne. dows. 42 Kings 23, 25. r Ps. 128. 2. Is. S. 10. Or, incursion. 17 But thine eyes and thine heart Ez. 19. 6. are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall nott ch. 16. 4,6. lament for him, saying, "Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not u See 1 Kings 13. 30. 599. + Heb. prosperities. y ch. 3. 25. & 7. 23, &c. z ch. 23. 1. a ver. 20. + Heb. inhabitress. b ch. 6. 24. c See 2 Kings 24. 6, 8. I Chr. 3. 16. ch. 37. 1. d Cant. 8. 6. Hag. 2. 23. ⚫ ch. 34. 20. f 2 Kings 24. 15. 2 Chr. 36. 10. 20 T Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23 O tinhabitant 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 ! 24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; e 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 +Heb. lift up desire to return, thither shall they their mind, ch. 44. 14. g Ps. 31. 12. ch. 48. 38. Hos. 8. 8. h Deut. 32. 1. 1s. 1. 2. & 34. 1. Mic. 1. 2. iSee 1 Chr. 3. 16, 17. Matt. 1. 12. k ch. 36. 30. a ch. 10. 21. & 22. 22. Ez. 34. 2. 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. The Messiah promised. and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. B. C. 599. b Ex. $2. 34. Ez. 54. 13, &c. 3 And I will gather the remnant of ch. 32. 37. 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. 12 Wherefore their ways shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring t ch. 11, 23. A woe denounced against wicked pastors. 5 Predic evil upon them, even the year of their CHAPTER XXIII. tions concerning the Messiah. 9 Against false prophets, 33 and mockers of the true prophets. the that W destroy and scatter the sheep prophets of Samaria; "they prophe- furd thing 13 And I have seen folly in the Or, an ab 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, Χ sied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: Or, Althithey commit adultery, and 2 walk in y worm 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you; they make you vain: they 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 1. Zech. 10. shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, 'No raness, ch. evil shall come upon you. e ch. 6. 14. & 8 11. Ez. 13. 2 1 Or, stub Mic. 3. 11. 1 Or, secret. Job 15. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 16. b. 25, 32. & 3.33. 1 ch. 30. 24. * Gen. 49. 1. ch. 14. 14. & 27.15. & 29. ☐ ver. 13. ch. 25. 5. - P&. 159. 7, Ac. Am. 9. 4.4. P1 Kings 8. e 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. m 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 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. Do not I fill heaven and 4. P139.7. 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 Jalg 3.7.& neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their Zeph. 3. 4. 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 Mal. 1. 1. LORD? thou 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; let him tell a dream; and he that before the temple of the LORD, after about 598. a Am. 7, 1, 4. & 8. 1. : 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What 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 'a 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 h with their whole 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 Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: The captivity of Judah. B. C. 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, about 606. and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, b b ch. 1. 2. till 606. 3 From the thirteenth year of Jo- From 629 siah 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 me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not heark-ch. 7. 18. & ened. C 11. 7, 8, 10. & 13. 10, 11. & 16. 12. & 17 23. & 18. 12. 22.21. 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising & 19, 15. & early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. d ch. 7, 13, 21, & 26.5.& 29. 19. e 2 Kings 17. 13, ch. 18. 11. & 35. 15. Jonah 3. 8. 9 Behold, I will send and take all ch. 1. 15. the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will ch. 27.6.& 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 aich. 18. 16. hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them + Heb. I will the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound 18 24. 7. ch. of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and 2 Chr these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 T And it shall come to pass, m 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 21, 22 Ezra 1. 1. ch. 22. 10. Dan. 9. 2, + Heb, visit иров * Beginning about 649. 2 Kings 24. 1. Ending about 536: Ezra 1. 1. a Is. 13. 19. & 14. 25. & 21. 1. &c. & 47. 1. ch. 50. S, 13, 25, 59, 49, 45. & 51. 25, 26. |