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God's judgments on the wicked. JEREMIAH.

The calling of Jeremiah.

13 As one whom his mother comforteth, Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not so will I comfort you; and ye shall be heard my fame, neither have seen my comforted in Jerusalem. glory; and they shall declare my glory

14 And when ye see this, your heart among the Gentiles. shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish 20 And they shall bring all your brethlike an herb: and the hand of the LORD ren for an offering unto the LORD, out of shall be known toward his servants, and all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, his indignation toward his enemies. and in litters, and upon mules, and upon 15 For behold,the LORD will come with swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusafire, and with his chariots like a whirl- lem, saith the LORD, as the children of Iswind, to render his anger with fury, and rael bring an offering in a clean vessel into his rebuke with flames of fire. the house of the LORD.

21 And I will also take of them for

16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. the LORD shall be many.

22 For as the new heavens and the new

23 And it shall come to pass, that from

17 They that sanctify themselves, and earth, which I will make, shall remain purify themselves in the gardens behind before me, saith the LORD, so shall your one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, seed and your name remain. and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. one new-moon to another, and from one 18 For I know their works and their sabbath, to another, shall all flesh come to thoughts; it shall come, that I will gather worship before me, saith the LORD. all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have 19 And I will set a sign among them, transgressed against me: for their worm and I will send those that escape of them shall not die, neither shall their fire be unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and quenched; and they shall be an abhorring Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and unto all flesh.

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CHAP. I.

2 To whom the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, What came in the days of Josiah the son of seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth almond-tree.

year of his reign.

12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou

3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim hast well seen: for I will hasten my word the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the to perform it.

end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the 13 And the word of the LORD came unto son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the car-me the second time, saying, What seest rying away of Jerusalem captive in the thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot; fifth month. and the face thereof is toward the north.

4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

5 Before I formed thee in the belly, knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

15 For lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say walls thereof round about, and against all not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all the cities of Judah.

that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I 16 And I will utter my judgments against command thee thou shalt speak.

8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their 10 See, I have this day set thee over faces, lest I confound thee before them.

The expostulation of God

CHAP. II.

with the Jews. 18 For behold, I have made thee this terns, broken cisterns, that can hold no day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and water. brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the born slave? why is he spoiled? princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

CHAP. II.

14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home

15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD OREOVER the word of the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? came to me, saying, 18 And now what hast thou to do in the 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sisaying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember hor? or what hast thou to do in the way of thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? of thine espousals, when thou wentest after 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct me in the wilderness, in a land that was thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an

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not sown.

3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forand the first-fruits of his increase: all that saken the LORD thy God, and that my fear devour him shall offend; evil shall come is not in thee, saith the Lord GoD of hosts. upon them, saith the LORD. 20 ¶ For of old time I have broken thy

4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou house of Jacob, and all the families of the saidst, I will not transgress; when upon house of Israel: every high hill and under every green tree 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity thou wanderest, playing the harlot. have your fathers found in me, that they 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble are gone far from me, and have walked vine, wholly a right seed: how then art after vanity, and are become vain? thou turned into the degenerate plant of a 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD strange vine unto me? that brought us up out of the land of 22 For though thou wash thee with niEgypt, that led us through the wilderness, tre, and take thee much soap, yet thine through a land of deserts and of pits, iniquity is marked before me, saith the through a land of drought, and of the sha-Lord GoD.

dow of death, through a land that no man 23 How canst thou say, I am not polpassed through, and where no man dwelt? luted, I have not gone after Baalim? See 7 And I brought you into a plentiful thy way in the valley, know what thou country, to eat the fruit thereof and the hast done: thou art a swift dromedary goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye traversing her ways;

defiled my land, and made my heritage 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, an abomination. that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure;

8 The priests said not, Where is the in her occasion who can turn her away? LORD? and they that handle the law knew all they that seek her will not weary me not: the pastors also transgressed themselves; in her month they shall find against me, and the prophets prophesied her.

by Baal, and walked after things that do 25 Withhold thy foot from being unnot profit. shod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have you, saith the LORD, and with your chil-loved strangers, and after them will I go. dren's children will I plead. 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is

10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; and see; and send unto Kedar, and con- they, their kings, their princes, and their sider diligently, and see if there be such priests, and their prophets. a thing. 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my fa11 Hath a nation changed their gods, ther; and to a stone, Thou hast brought which are yet no gods? but my people me forth: for they have turned their back have changed their glory for that which unto me, and not their face: but in the doth not profit. time of their trouble they will say, Arise,

12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and save us. and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can 13 For my people have committed two save thee in the time of thy trouble: for evils; they have forsaken me the fountain according to the number of thy cities are of living waters, and hewed them out cis-thy gods, O Judah.

God's judgments on the wicked. JEREMIAH.

The calling of Jeremiah.

14 And when ye see this, your heart among the Gentiles. shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish 20 And they shall bring all your brethlike an herb: and the hand of the LORD ren for an offering unto the LORD, out of shall be known toward his servants, and all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, his indignation toward his enemies. and in litters, and upon mules, and upon 15 For behold, the LORD will come with swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusa fire, and with his chariots like a whirl-lem, saith the LORD, as the children of Iswind, to render his anger with fury, and rael bring an offering in a clean vessel into his rebuke with flames of fire. the house of the LORD.

16 For by fire and by his sword will the 21 And I will also take of them for LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. the LORD shall be many. 22 For as the new heavens and the new 17 They that sanctify themselves, and earth, which I will make, shall remain purify themselves in the gardens behind before me, saith the LORD, so shall your one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, seed and your name remain. and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. one new-moon to another, and from one 18 For I know their works and their sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to thoughts; it shall come, that I will gather worship before me, saith the LORD. all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory."

23 And it shall come to pass, that from

24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have 19 And I will set a sign among them, transgressed against me: for their wor and I will send those that escape of them shall not die, neither shall their fire be unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and quenched; and they shall be an abhorring Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and unto all flesh.

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The Book of the Prophet JEREMIAH.

CHAP. I.

the nations and over the kingdoms, to root HE words of Jeremiah the son of Hil-out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and kiah, of the priests that were in Ana- to throw down, to build, and to plant. thoth in the land of Benjamin: 11 T Moreover the word of the LORD 2 To whom the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, What came in the days of Josiah the son of seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth almond-tree. year of his reign.

12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thon 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim hast well seen: for I will hasten my word the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the to perform it. end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the 13 And the word of the LORD came unto son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the car-me the second time, saying, What seest rying away of Jerusalem captive in the thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot; fifth month. and the face thereof is toward the north. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon 5 Before I formed thee in the belly, I all the inhabitants of the land. knew thee; and before thou camest forth 15 For lo, I will call all the families of out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. and they shall come, and they shall set 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, every one his throne at the entering of the I cannot speak: for I am a child. gates of Jerusalem, and against all the 7 ¶ But the LORD said unto me, Say walls thereof round about, and against all not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all the cities of Judah.

4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I 16 And I will utter my judgments against command thee thou shalt speak. them touching all their wickedness, who 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am have forsaken me, and have burned in with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. cense unto other gods, and worshipped 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, the works of their own hands. and touched my mouth. And the LORD 17 ¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, said unto me, Behold, I have put my words and arise, and speak unto them all that I in thy mouth. command thee: be not dismayed at their 10 See, I have this day set thee over faces, lest I confound thee before them.

The expostulation of God

CHAP. II.

with the Jews. 18 For behold, I have made thee this terns, broken cisterns, that can hold no day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and water. brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD [OREOVER the word of the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? came to me, saying, 18 And now what hast thou to do in the

CHAP. II.

2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sisaying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember hor? or what hast thou to do in the way of thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? of thine espousals, when thou wentest after 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct me in the wilderness, in a land that was thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an

not sown.

that brought us up out of the land of 22 For though thou wash thee with niEgypt, that led us through the wilderness, tre, and take thee much soap, yet thine through a land of deserts and of pits, iniquity is marked before me, saith the through a land of drought, and of the sha-Lord GOD.

dow of death, through a land that no man 23 How canst thou say, I am not polpassed through, and where no man dwelt? luted, I have not gone after Baalim? See 7 And brought you into a plentiful thy way in the valley, know what thou country, to eat the fruit thereof and the hast done: thou art a swift dromedary goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye traversing her ways;

defiled my land, and made my heritage 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, an abomination. that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure;

12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and save us. and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

God's great mercy to Judah.

JEREMIAH. The promises of the gospel.

29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? things, Turn thou unto me. But she reye all have transgressed against me, saith turned not. And her treacherous sister the LORD. Judah saw it.

30 In vain have I smitten your chil- 8 And I saw, when for all the causes dren; they received no correction: your whereby backsliding Israel committed own sword hath devoured your prophets; adultery, I had put her away, and given her like a destroying lion. a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

10 And yet for all this,her treacherous sister Judahhath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

12 T Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to that thou hast transgressed against the LORD change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. the strangers under every green tree, and ye 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. and thy hands upon thy head: for the 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and the LORD; for I am married unto you and thou shalt not prosper in them. will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

CHAP. III.

THE HEY say, If a man put away his wife, 15 And I will give you pastors accordand she go from him, and become ing to my heart, which shall feed you another man's, shall he return unto her with knowledge and understanding. again? shall not that land be greatly pol- 16 And it shall come to pass, when ye luted? but thou hast played the harlot with be multiplied and increased in the land, in many lovers; yet return again to me, saith those days, saith the LORD, they shall say the LORD. no more, The ark of the covenant of the

2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high LORD: neither shall it come to mind: places, and see where thou hast not been neither shall they remember it; neither lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for shall they visit it; neither shall that be them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; done any more.

and thou hast polluted the land with thy 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem whoredoms, and with thy wickedness. the throne of the LORD; and all the nations 3 Therefore the showers have been shall be gathered unto it, to the name of withholden, and there hath been no latter the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, walk any more after the imagination of thou refusedst to be ashamed. their evil heart.

4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto 18 In those days the house of Judah me, My father, thou art the guide of my shall walk with the house of Israel, and youth? they shall come together out of the land of 5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? the north to the land that I have given for will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou an inheritance unto your fathers. hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

7 And I said after she had done all these

19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

20 T Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

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