The calamity of the Jews. JEREMIAH.-CHAP. VIII., IX. Their desperate estate bewailed. thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. B. C. 610. h c.32.33. i or, instruction. Mi. 1.15. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth 1 Job 1.20. is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. 29 ¶ Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast, it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsa-12 KL.23.10. ken 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 house which is called by my name, to pollute it. &c. m Pa.106.38 n upon. 19.6.11. Eze 6.5, p De 28.25. Ps. 79.2. Ho.2 11. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of 9 121.78. Hinnom, to burn their " sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came " it into my heart. r Le.26.33. Is 3.26 a Eze.37.1. b 2 Ki.23.5. e 2 Ki 9.37. 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called To- d Re.9.6. phet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, bute Jn.5.40. the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury f Ca212 in Tophet, till there be no place. 33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray 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. CHAPTER VIII. r 1 The calamity of the Jews, both deal and alive. 4 He upbraideth their foolish and shameless impenitency. 13 He showeth their grievous judgment, 18 and bewaileth their desperate estate. a AT that time, saith the LORD, they shall 118.30. bring out the bones of the kings of Ju-m 18.56.11. dah, 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 Por, in 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 worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus b 1.39.3. saith the LORD; shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid-d La33.22 den back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wicked-h Ge 37.25. ness, saying, What have I done? every one i Mat.9.11, turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. mayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them ? 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, 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 PI 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 I have given them shall pass away from them. 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 are come, and have devoured the land; and 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 you, saith the LORD. 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far 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? d 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? CHAPTER IX. 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins, 9 and for their judgment. 12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity. 17 le exhorteth to mourn for their destruction, 23 and to trust not in themselves, but in God. 25 He threater.eth both Jews and Gentiles. Он a that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! с 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be 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. h 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every Jeremiah's lamentation for the Jews. JEREMIAH.-CHAP. X. Disparity between God and idols. b 1 Co. 1.31. e Ro.28,9. : CHAPTER X. 1 The unequal comparison of God and idols. 17 The prophet exhorteth to fee from the calamity to come. 19 He lamenteth the spoil of the tabernacle by focus pas tors. 23 He maketh a humble supplication. HE [EAR ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel : 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not " the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain : for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe 4 They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, 12 Who is the wise man, that may un- 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 w w 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 fathers have known and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come : i feu of into corners, the cor- 29. 228, A. M. 3397. B. C. 607. a Le. 18.3. b statutes, nances vanity. 1.40.19, &c. d P&115.5, &c. Hab 2. 19. d 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. k 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from I Co. 12.2 Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. e Ex.15.11. f Re. 15.4. ↳ Ps.89.6. al once. J Is.41.29. k Da. 10.5. God of truth. 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.n king of 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye a women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an "everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. 11 P Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he " causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven wor, more image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ■ Job 38.34. tor, noise. u Ps. 135.7. vor, for. brutish 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the car- than to x Ps. 92.6. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them God's covenant proclaimed. JEREMIAH.-CHAP. XI., XII. B. C. 607. made with their fathers. Great evils threatened. for he is the former of all things; and Israel M. of Judah have broken my covenant which I is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. z De 32.9. PE.74.2. 17 ¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, Oa Is.47.4. binhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19 Wo is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear e it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 23 TO LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 240 LORD,Correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. CHAPTER XI. k Jeremiah proclaimeth God's covenant, 8 rebuketh the Jews' disobeying thereof, 11 prophesied evils to come upon them, 18 and upon the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill Jeremiah. THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: с A. M. 3404. B. C. 600. b inhabitTess. c 1825.29 a Eze.6.10. e Mi.7.9. f c.28. Eze.34.2.. 10. Zec. 10.3. g Pr.16.1. 20.24. h Pa. 6.1. c.30.11. i diminish me. 15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou▾ rejoicest. 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 17 For the LORD of hosts, that * planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more rep Ex.32.10. membered. n c.2.28. o shame. c.3.2. Ho.9.10 c.7.16. q evil. r is to my beloved in 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let my house? me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. s Mat.22.11. t Hag.2.12.. 14. u or, thy evil is. v Pr.2.14. w Ro. 11.17. x c 2.21. 5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, ' So be it, y Am.3.7. O LORD. f z Eze.8.6, &c. a c.18.18. bu20.10. 15. 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of Lu. 19.44. their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not. 9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. &c. е 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. CHAPTER XII. 1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prosperity, by faith seeth their ruin. 5 God admonisheth him of his brethren's treachery against him, 7 and lamenteth his heritage. 14 He promiseth to the penitent return from captivity. RIGHT C IGHTEOUS art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have e Job 21.7, taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. Pa. 73.3, &c. d go on. Prosperity of the wicked lamented JEREMIAH.-CHAP. XIII. e or, stub 14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil a Le.25.19. neighbours, that touch the inheritance which | b c.16.12 I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and bornness pluck out the house of Judah from among them.d Is.3.24. 15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have e Ex 19.5. plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear a 151.17,21 63.6. c 25.15,27 g Pa2.9. ha man against his The type of a linen girdle. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD Commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar a the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. d 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. 12 T Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? e 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness. 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. 15 ¶ Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 18 Say unto the king " and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your prinby my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught from de- cipalities shall come down, even the crown of my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. с stroying them. J Jos.7.19. 17 But if they will not obey, I will utterlyk Am.8.9. pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the 1 18.59.9. LORD. CHAPTER XIII. 1 In the type of a linen girdle, hidden at Euphrates, God prefigureth the destruction of his people. 12 Under the parable of the bottles filled with wine,he foretelleth their drunkenness in misery. 15 fle exhorteth to prevent their future judgmeats. 22 He showeth their abominations are the cause thereof. m Ps. 119. 136. c. 9.1. n 2Ki.24.12. Jo.3.6. c. 22.6. o or, head tires. THUS saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy P 225.2. loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of the LORD came unto me he second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, id hide it there in a hole of the rock. q c.6.22.24. r visit upon 8 c. 16.10,11. Ho 12.8. 21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail ? 22 And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore • come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discover or, shall ed, and thy heels made bare. tor, A grievous famine. JEREMIAH.-CHAP. XIV., XV. Judgments on the Jews. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stub-|AM 305 | shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem ble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. B. C. 599. v Pa. 1.4. Ho. 13.3. w la. 28. 15. x Ho.210. a after when yet. b Ho.8.5. A. M. 3399. B. C. 605. a words b 18.3.26. c Da.9.9. d c.17.13. e Ps. 46.1. r because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go forth "into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine yea, both the prophet and the priest I go about into a land that they know not. Y W 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedh thy nameness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we y have sinned against thee. is called upon us. Da.9.18, 19. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their 225. vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the ploughmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. J Ho.9.9. 1.28.2,&c. m peace of nc.27.10,15. truth. o La. 2.14. p Is.30.10. q P&.79.3. r c.4.18. 5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high. places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. & L.1.16. 7 TO LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way-faring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and called by thy name; leave us not. we are 10 T Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember } their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 1 13¶ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you m assured peace in this place. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies " in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit P of their heart. 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee for thou hast made all these things. HEN said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such d as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. e 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O JeEze 52,12 rusalem ? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? Zec.11.9. e Le. 26.16. Eze. 14.21. families. 8 give them for a re- h De.29.25. k of thy peace. 1 Mat.3.12. m or, what soever is 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of m children, I will destroy my people, since they return not n from their ways. 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon-day: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while Pit was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies saith the LORD. |