Pashur's fearful doom.

JEREMIAH.

The captivity of Judah.

I That is, Fear round about, Ps. 31. 13. ver. 10. ch. 6. 25.

b 2 Kings 20. 17. & 21. 1216. & 25. 13,

chadrezzar's roar.

& 28. 15. & 29. 21. || Or, enticed.

e Lam. 3. 14.

B. C. said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD the soul of the poor from the hand B.C. about 605. hath not called thy name Pashur, of evil doers.

about 605. but | Magor-missabib.

14 Cursed be the day wherein I 4 For thus saith the Lord, Be- was born : let not the day wherein 18. 3. ch. hold, I will make thee a terror to my mother bare me be blessed.

thyself, and to all thy friends : and i5 Cursed be the man who brought & 16. 5. & 19. they shall fall by the sword of their tidings to my father, saying, A man

enemies, and thine eyes shall be child is born unto thee; making him
hold it: and I will give all Judah very glad.
into the hand of the king of Baby-

16 And let that man be as the
lon, and he shall carry them captive cities which the LORD 'overthrew, Gen. 19. 25.
into Babylon, and shall slay them and repented not: and let him 'hear 1 ch. 18. 22.
with the sword.

the cry in the morning, and the 5 Moreover I will deliver all the shouting at noontide ;

strength of this city, and all the 17 u Because he slew me not from Job S. 10.11. &c. cli. 3. 24. labours thereof, and all the precious the womb; or that my mother might

things thereof, and all the treasures have been my grave, and her womb
of the kings of Judah will I give into to be always great with me.
the hand of their enemies, which shall 18 *Wherefore came I forth out of < Job 3. 2.
spoil them, and take them, and carry the womb to y see labour and sorrow, 5 Lan. S. 1.
them to Babylon.

that my days should be consumed
6 And thou, Pashur, and all that with shame?
dwell in thine house, shall go into

CHAPTER XXI.
captivity: and thou shalt come to

Zedekiah inquireth of the prophel the issue of Nebu.
Babylon, and there thou shalt die,

3 The prophet foretelleth the
and shalt be buried there, thou, and

overthrow of the city and the captirity of the people.

8 He counselleth them to go orer to the Chaldeans; all thy friends, to whom thou hast ll and upbraideth the king's house. cch. 14. 13.14. prophesied lies.

THE word which came unto Jer- about 58 7 (0) Lord, thou hast deceived

me, and I was I deceived : d thou art | Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the a ch.5.1. 4 ch. 1. 6, 7. stronger than I, and hast prevailed: son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah 12 kinga

• I am in derision daily, every one the son of Maaseiuh the priest, say-
mocketh me.

ing,
8 For since I spake, I cried out, 2 ° Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD c ch. 37. 3, 7.
'I cried violence and spoil ; because for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
the word of the Lord was made a Babylon maketh war against us; if
reproach unto me, and a derision, so be that the Lord will deal with us
daily.

according to all his wondrous works,
9 'Then I said, I will not make men- that he may go up from us.
tion of him, nor speak any more in

3 Then said Jeremiah unto them,
his name. But his word was in mine Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah :
heart as a burning fire shut up in 4 Thus saith the LORD God of
my bones, and I was weary with for- Israel ; Behold, I will turn back the
bearing, and h I could not stay. weapons of war that are in your

10 TFor 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 d I will as-
saying, Peradventure he will be en- semble them into the midst of this

ticed, and we shall prevail against city.
Luku 11.53, him, and we shall take our revenge 5 And I myself will fight against

you with an outstretched hand and Ex.6.6. I ch. 1. 8, 19. 11 But 'the Lord is with me as with a strong arm, even in anger,

a mighty terrible one: therefore my ana in fury, and in great wrath.

persecutors shall stumble, and they 6 And I will smite the inhabitants m ch, 15. 20. & shall not "prevail : they shall be of this city, both man and beast :

greatly ashamed; for they shall not they shall die of a great pestilence.
prosper : their "everlasting confusion 7 And afterward, saith the Lord, 'I ch.57.17
shall never be forgotten.

will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah,
12 But, O Lord of hosts, that triest and his servants, and the people, and
the righteous, and seest the reins and such as are left in this city from the
the heart, ” let me see thy vengeance pestilence, from the sword, and from
on them : for unto thee have I opened the famine, into the hand of Nebu-
my cause.

chadrezzar king of Babylon, and into 9 P8.35. 6. 10. 13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the hand of their enemies, and into

the Lord: for 9 he hath delivered the hand of those that seek their

ich. 6. 7.

& Job 32. 18, 19. Ps. 39. 3.

h Job 32. 18.

Acts 18. 5. i Ps. 31. 13.

dls 18.4.

man of my peace. k Job 19. 19. Ps. 41.9. & 35. 13, 14,

54.

on him.

17. 18.

och. 11. 20, &

17. 10.

P P8, 54. 7. & 59. 10.

& 109, 30, 31.

The king's house warned.

JEREMIAH.

Judgment upon Shallum.

Deat. 28. 50. have mercy.

Chr. 36. 17.

17.

Lev. 17. 10.

cu 34. 2. 22.

37. 10. $ 12, 23. & 113

9. 8, 9.

17. 2 Chr. 34. 25.

B. C. life: and he shall smite them with 5 But if ye will not hear these B. C. aboat 589 the edge of the sword ; 5 he shall not words, • I swear by myself, saith the

about 609. spare them, neither have pity, nor Lord, that this house shall become a

e Heb. 6. 13, desolation 8 And unto this people thou shalt 6 For thus saith the Lord unto the

say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, king's house of Judah ; Thou art | 1 Deut. 3.). 19. I set before you the way of life, and Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebthe way of death.

anon: yet surely I will make thee a ich 58. 2, 17,

9 He that 'abideth in this city shall wilderness, and cities which are not
die by the sword, and by the famine, inhabited.
and by the pestilence : but he that 7 And I will prepare destroyers
goeth out, and falleth to the Chal- against thee, every one with his

| deans that besiege you, he shall live, weapons : and they shall cut down *ch 99. 18. & , and k his life shall be unto him for athy choice cedars, 5 and cast them 1 Is. 37. 24. prey. into the fire.

6 ch. 21. 14. 10 For I have set my face against 8 And many nations shall pass by i = 31.3.

this city for evil, and not for good, this city, and they shall say every
saith the Lord: mit shall be given man to his neighbour, "Wherefore Deut. 29. 24,

25, 1 Kings into the hand of the king of Babylon, hath the Lord done thus unto this

and he shall - burn it with fire. great city ? I about 609. 11 [ And touching the house of the 9 Then they shall answer, ' Because i 2 Kings 22.

king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word they have forsaken the covenant of
of the LORD;

the Lord their God, and worshipped
12 O house of David, thus saith the other gods, and served them.
Lord; •+ Execute judgment Pin the 10 | Weep ye not for the dead, k 2 Kings 22.
morning, and deliver him that is spoil- neither bemoan him; but weep sore
ed out of the hand of the oppressor, for him that goeth away: for he 1 ver. 11.
lest my fury go out like fire, and burn shall return no more, nor see his na-
that none can quench it, because of tive country.
the evil of your doings.

11 For thus saith the Lord touch13 Behold, 'I am against thee, o ing mShallum the son of Josiah king Feb. inhab- + inhabitant of the valley, and rock of Judah, which reigned instead of Jo

2 Kings 23. of the plain, saith the Lord; which siah his father," which went forth out say, 'Who shall come down against of this place; lle shall not return n 2 Kings 23. us? or who shall enter into our hab- thither any more : itations?

12 But he shall die in the place 14 But I will punish you according whither they have led him captive, to the 'fruit of your doings, saith the and shall see this land no more.

Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the 13 °Woe unto him that buildeth 2 Kings 23. !? Chr. 36. 19. forest thereof, and 'it shall devour all his house by unrighteousness, and his things round about it.

chambers by wrong; P that useth his p Lev. 19. 13.

neighbour's service without wages, CHAPTER XXII.

and giveth him not for his work ;
The king of Judah and his people exhorted to repent-

14 That saith, I will build me a
10 The judgment upon Shallum, 13 upon je-
henakim, 20 and upon Coniah.

wide house and + large chambers, and + 11:). MHUS saith the Lord; Go down cutteth him out ll windows; and it is

throughaired.

B. 22. 3.
2 h. 7. 9.

Heb. Judge.
Ps. 101. 8.

20.

? Ez. 13. &

m See 1 Chr. 3. 15, with

uresa.

30.

dah, and speak there this word, vermilion.
2 And say, “ Hear the word of the 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou
Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest closest thyself in cedar ? did not thy 72 Kings 23.
upon the throne of David, thou, and father eat and drink, and do judgment
thy servants, and thy people that en- and justice, and then it was well
ter in by these gates :

with him? och. 21. 12.

3 Thus saith the Lord; • Execute 16 He judged the cause of the poor
ye judgment and righteousness, and and needy; then it was well with
deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him: was not this to know me? saith
the oppressor: and do no wrong, do the Lord.
no violence to the stranger, the fa- 17 .But thine eyes and thine heart • Ez. 19.6.
therless, nor the widow, neither shed are not but for thy covetousness, and
innocent blood in this place.

for to shed innocent blood, and for op-
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, pression, and for il violence, to do it.

& then shall there enter in by the gates 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD * Het for Dare of this house kings sitting upon the concerning Jehoiakim the son of Jothere are on his throne of David, riding in chariots siuh king of Judah ; They shall not ech. 16. 4, 6. and on horses, he, and his servants, lament for him, saying, "Ah my broth

1 Kings and his people.

er! or, Ah sister! they shall not

Judgment upon Coniah.

JEREMIAH.

The Messiah proinised.

b Ex. 32. 31.

ch. 36. 30.

E2, $4. 13, &c.

d ch, S. 15 Ez

perities.

y ch. 3. 25 % 7. 23, &c.

z ch. 28. 1.

a ver. 20.

e le. 4.2 & 11.

1. & 40. 10.11. ch. 33. 14.15 16. Dan. 9.21 Zech. 3. 8. $ 6. 12 John 1. 15. (Pa. 72. 2. 18 9. 7. & 32. 1. 18

itress.

tahtsideeru. i ch. 33. 16. 1 Cor. 1. Sa

24. 6, 8. 1 Chr. 3. 16, ch. 37. 1. d Cant. 8. 6.

B. C. lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, and have not visited them: behold, B. C. 309. about 609. Ah his glory!

I will visit upon you the evil of your 19 *He shall be buried with the doings, saith the LORD. 1 2 Chr. S6.6. burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth 3 And I will gather the remnant of och. 82. 37. 599.

beyond the gates of Jerusalem. my flock out of all countries whither

20 [ Go up to Lebanon, and cry; I have driven them, and will bring
and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and them again to their folds; and they
cry from the passages : for all thy shall be fruitful and increase.
lovers are destroyed.
4 And I will set up a shepherds over

34. 23, &c + Heb. pros- 21 I spake unto thee in thy + pros- them which shall 'feed them: and

perity ; but thou saidst, I will not they shall fear no more, nor be dis-
hear. * This hath been thy manner mayed, neither shall they be lacking,
from thy youth, that thou obeyedst saith the LORD.
not my voice.

5 Behold, the days come, saith
22 The wind shall eat up all ? thy the Lord, that I will raise unto Da-
pastors, and a thy lovers shall go into vid a righteous Branch, and a King
captivity: surely then shalt thou be shall reign and prosper, fand shall
ashamed and confounded for all thy execute judgment and justice in the
wickedness.

earth. + Heh, inhab- 23 O tinhabitant of Lebanon, that 6 . In his days Judah shall be

makest thy nest in the cedars, how saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: Deut. 83 7. !

gracious shalt thou be when pangs and this is his name whereby he 5 ch. 52. 57. b ch. 6. 24. come upon thee, the pain as of a shall be called, + THE LORD OUR + Heb Jero woman in travail !

RIGHTEOUSNESS. c See 2 Kings 24 As I live, saith the Lord, though 7 Therefore, behold, k the days come, Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king saith the Lord, that they shall no

ch. 16. 14, 15 of Judah d were the signet upon my inore say, The Lord liveth, which Hag. 2. 2. right hand, yet would I pluck thee brought up the children of Israel out thence;

of the land of Egypt;
e ch. 31. 20. 25 And I will give thee into the 8 But, The LORD liveth, which

hand of them that seek thy life, and brought up and which led the seed
into the hand of them whose face thou of the house of Israel out of the
fearest, even into the hand of Nebu- north country, "and from all coun- I 16. 43.5, 6.
chadrezzar king of Babylon, and into tries whither I had driven them;
the hand of the Chaldeans.

and they shall dwell in their own 1 2 Kings 24. 26 ' And I will cast thee out, and land.

thy mother that bare thee, into an- 9 | Mine heart within me is broken
other country, where ye were not because of the prophets; mall my See Hab. S.
born; and there shall ye die. bones shake: I am like a drunken

27 But to the land whereunto they man, and like a man whom wine
+ Heb lift up + desire to return, thither shall they hath overcome, because of the LORD,
their mind,
not return.

and because of the words of his holi28 Is this man Coniah a despised ness. broken idol? is he 5 a vessel wherein 10 Forn the land is full of adulterers; Hos. 4. 2. $. is no pleasure? wherefore are they for 'because of I swearing the land 01, estring cast out, he and his seed, and are cast mourneth ; P the pleasant places of p ch. 9. 10. & into a land which they know not? the wilderness are dried up, and their

! 29 "O earth, earth, earth, hear the course is evil, and their force is not 10r, rizlerde 34. 1. Mic. 1. word of the Lord.

right.
30 Thus saith the Lord, Write ye 11 For 9 both prophet and priest are

8. 10. Zep.. i See 1 Chr.3. this man 'childless, a man that shall profane; yea, in my house have I 19:27 . Matto not prosper in his days: for no man found their wickedness, saith the rch 7. m. $

of his seed shall prosper, & sitting Lord.
upon the throne of David, and ruling 12 Wherefore their ways shall be
any more in Judah.

unto them as slippery ways in the

darkness: they shall be driven on, CHAPTER XXIII.

and fall therein : for I 'will bring ' ch. 11. S. A xoe denounced against wicked pastors. 5 Predice evil upon them, even the year of their

tions concerning the Messiah. 9 Against false
prophets, 33 and mockers of the true prophets. visitation, saith the Lord.
TOE abe unto the pastors that 13 And I have seen "folly in the Or, nu ab-

surd thing.
destroy and scatter the sheep prophets of Samaria ; "they prophe-
of my pasture! saith the Lord. sied in Baal, and *caused my people wory

2 Therefore thus saith the Lord Israel to err.
God of Israel against the pastors that 14 I have seen also in the proph.'; ver. 2.
feed my people; Ye have scattered ets of Jerusalem la horrible thing: 'Or, Altdi.
my flock, and driven them away, ly they commit adultery, and 'walk in

ver. S.

15, 2 Chr. 36. 10.

16.

God's fearful judgments

JEREMIAH.

against false prophets.

a El. 13. 22

1., 1.9, 10.

&c. 8. 14. &

smooth their tongues.

ech. 14. 14. YT. 21.

tch. 6. 14. &

11. Ez. 13.

2

Taness, ch.

t Mal. 1. 1.

1 Mic. 3. U. 1 Or, secret

u ver. 39.

. ,15 واره لا

i I Cor. 2. 16.

+ Heb. visit upon.

1 ch.30. 21.

B.C.599. lies: they á strengthen also the hands | hath my word, let him speak my B. C. 599.

of evil doers, that none doth return word faithfully. What is the chaff

from his wickedness: they are all of to the wheat ? saith the Lord. D-ul 52. 82. them unto me as Sodom, and the 29 Is not my word like as a fire?

inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. saith the Lord; and like a hammer

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of that breaketh the rock in pieces ?
hosts concerning the prophets ; Be- 30 Therefore, behold, 'I am against Deut. 18. 20.

ch. 14. 14, 15.
hold, I will feed them with worm- the prophets, saith the Lord, that
wood, and make them drink the wa- steal my words every one from his

ter of gall: for from the prophets of neighbour. 5 i Or, hypoc Jerusalem is Il profaneness gone forth 31 Behold, I am against the prophinto all the land.

ets, saith the Lord, I that use their Or, that 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, tongues, and say, He saith. Hearken not unto the words of the 32 Behold, I am against them that prophets that prophesy unto you ; prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, they make you vain : they speak and do tell them, and cause my peoa vision of their own heart, and not ple to err by their lies, and by their • Zeph. 3. 4. out of the mouth of the LORD. lightness; yet I sent them not, nor 17 They say still unto them that commanded them: therefore they

despise me, The Lord hath said, • Ye shall not profit this people at all, in. Zech. 10. shall have peace; and they say unto saith the Lord.

every one that walketh after the 33 | And when this people, or the 1 Or, stah. l imagination of his own heart, 'No prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, evil shall come upon you.

saying, What is the burden of the
18 For who hath stood in the LORD? thou shalt then say unto
I counsel of the Lord, and hath per- them, What burden? "I will even
ceived and heard his word? who hath forsake you, saith the LORD.
marked his word, and heard it? 34 And as for the prophet, and the

19 Behold, a "whirlwind of the Lord priest, and the people, that shall say,
is gone forth in fury, even a grievous The burden of the Lord, I will even
whirlwind : it shall fall grievously punish that man and his house.
upon the head of the wicked.

35 Thus shall ye say every one to
20 The sanger of the Lord shall not his neighbour, and every one to his
return, until he have executed, and brother, What hath the Lord an-
till he have performed the thoughts swered ? and, What hath the Lord
of his heart: in the latter days ye spoken?
shall consider it perfectly.

36 And the burden of the Lord
21 'I have not sent these prophets, shall ye mention no more ; for every
yet they ran: I have not spoken to man's word shall be his burden : for
them, yet they prophesied.

ye have perverted the words of the
22 But if they had mstood in my living God, of the Lord of hosts our
counsel, and had caused my people God.
to hear my words, then they should 37 Thus shalt thou say to the proph-
have turned them from their evil et, What hath the LORD answered
way, and from the evil of their doings. thee? and, What hath the Lord spo-

23 Am I a God at hand, saith the ken ?
Lord, and not a God afar off?

38 But since ye say, The burden
24 Can any hide himself in secret of the Lord; therefore thus saith the
places that I shall not see him ? saith Lord; Because ye say this word,
the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and The burden of the Lord, and I have
earth? saith the Lord.

sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not
25 I have heard what the proph- say, The burden of the Lord;
ets said, that prophesy lies in my

39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, * will * Hos. 4. 6. name, saying, I have dreamed, I have utterly forget you, and I will forsake y ver. 33. dreamed.

you, and the city that I gave you 26 How long shall this be in the and your fathers, and cast you out heart of the prophets that prophesy of my presence : lies? yea, they are prophets of the 40 And I will bring 'an everlasting z ch. 20. 11. deceit of their own heart;

reproach upon you, and a perpetual 27 Which think to cause my people shame, which shall not be forgotten. to forget my name by their dreams,

CHAPTER XXIV. which they tell every man to his The type of good and bad fiys; 4 and the meaning 7:37.& neighbour, 9 as their fathers have for

thereof. gotten my name for Baal.

THE LORD shewed me, and, be- about 598. 28 The prophet + that hath a dream, hold, two baskets of figs were set a Am. 7, 1, 4. let him tell a dream; and he that before the temple of the Lord, after

The good and bad figs.

JEREMIAH.

The captivity of Judah.

12, &c. 2 Chr. 36. 10. c See ch, 22,

2.

11. 7, 8, 10.á. 13. 10, 11.& 16. 12. & 17. 23. & 18. 12

22. 21.

& 36. 5. & 2. 19.

e 2 Kings 17.

& 35. 15. Jogab 3 8.

+ Heb. the

29. 10.

33. 7. & 42. 10.

Deut, 30. 6.

ch. 7. 19. & 32 30.

6 ch. 30. 22. &
31. 33. & 32.
38.
h ch. 2. 13,
i ch. 29. 17.

B. C. that Nebuchadrezzar "king of Babylon 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet B.C. about 598. had carried away captive o Jeconiah spake unto all the people of Judah, about 1706.

the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusa0 2 Kings 24. and the princes of Judah, with the car- lem, saying,

b ch. 1. 2. penters and smiths, from Jerusalem, 3 • From the thirteenth year of Jo. From 60

and had brought them to Babylon. siah the son of Amon king of Judah, till 606. 24, &c. & 29.

2 One basket had very good figs, even unto this day, that is the three
even like the figs that are first ripe: and twentieth year, the word of the

and the other basket had very naughty Lord hath come unto me, and I have
+ Heb. for figs, which could not be eaten, t they spoken unto you, rising early and
badness.
were so bad.

speaking ; but ye have not heark- ch. 7. 18. & 3 Then said the LORD unto me, ened. What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I 4 And the Lord hath sent unto you said, Figs; the good figs, very good; all his servants the prophets, rising & 19. 13. * and the evil, very evil, that cannot early and sending them; but ye

have

dch. 7. 13, 23. be eaten, they are so evil.

not hearkened, nor inclined your ear
4 [ Again the word of the Lord to hear.
came unto me, saying,

5 They said, e Turn ye again now

13. ch. 18.11. 5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of every one from his evil way, and Israel ; Like these good figs, so will from the evil of your doings, and

I acknowledge + them that are carried dwell in the land that the Lord hath cuptivity.

away captive of Judah, whom I have given unto you and to your fathers
sent out of this place into the land of for ever and ever :
the Chaldeans for their good.

6 And go not after other gods to 6 For I will set mine eyes upon serve them, and to worship then, and 4 ch. 12. 15. & them for good, and I will bring them provoke me not to anger with the

again to this land: and I will build works of your hands; and I will do ech. 32. 41. &

them, and not pull them down; and you no hurt.
I will plant them, and not pluck them 7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto
up.

me, saith the Lord; that ye might 7 And I will give them a heart to provoke me to anger with the works Deut. 12. 21. Ez. 11. 19. & know me, that I am the Lord; and of your hands to your own hurt. 36. 26, 27. they shall be my people, and I will 8 | Therefore thus saith the LORD

be their God : for they shall return of hosts; Because ye have not heard
unto me h with their whole heart.

81 And as the evil ifigs, which 9 Behold, I will send and take 5 all 5 ch. 1. 15.
cannot be eaten, they are so evil; the families of the north, saith the
surely thus saith the Lord, So will Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king
I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, of Babylon, “my servant, and will b.ch. 97.6. &
and his princes, and the residue of bring them against this land, and

Jerusalem, that remain in this land, against the inhabitants thereof, and k See ch. 43, and kthem that dwell in the land of against all these nations round about, Egypt :

and will utterly destroy them, and + Heb. for re- 9 And I will deliver them t to 'be im them an astonishment, and a moving, or,

removed into all the kingdoms of the hissing, and perpetual desolations.
I Deut. 28. 25, earth for their hurt, m to be a reproach 10 Moreover + I will take from them+ Heb. I
977. 2 King and a proverb, a taunt "and a curse, the k voice of mirth, and the voice of

in all places whither I shall drive gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
them.

and the voice of the bride, 'the sound is 24. 7. ch. 10 And I will send the sword, the of the millstones, and the light of the I ch. 29. 18,

famine, and the pestilence, among candle.
them, till they be consumed from 11 And this whole land shall be a

I Eee, 12 4. off the land that I gave unto them desolation, and an astonishment; and ? Chr. i

21, 22. Ezra and to their fathers.

these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years.

† Hub, visit CHAPTER XXV.

12° And it shall come to pass, Judah's disobedience to the warnings of the prophets.

mwhen * seventy years are accom- Beginning 8 Her seventy years captivity foretsid: 12 and after plished, that I will + punish the king about 60 ::

2 Koy 24 tions made to drink the winceup of God's wrath. 34 of Babylon, and that nation, saith the The honoling of the shepherds.

Lord, for their iniquity, and the land about 533 THE about 606.

concerning all the people of Ju- perpetual desolations.
dah, a in the fourth year of Jehoiakim 13 And I will bring upon that land

1. ch. 50 S
the son of Josiah king of Judah, that all my words which I have pro-
was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar nounced against it, even all that is
king of Babylon;

written in this book, which Jeremiah

my words,

ich 18. 16.