Before CHRIST 595. u ver. 58. ≈ ver. 6, ch. 50. 8. Rev. 18. 4. ! Or, let not. y 2 Kin. 19. 7. 2 ver. 52. ch. 50 2. + Heb. visit upon. a Is. 44. 23. & 49. 13. Rev. 18. 20. b ch. 50. 3, 41. Or, Both Babylon is to fail, O ye slain of Israel, and with Babylon, &c. Or, the country. c ch. 44. 28. d Ps. 44, 15, 16. & 79.4. e ver. 47. fch. 49. 16. Amos 9. 2. Obad. 4. 9 ch. 50. 22. h ver. 24. Ps. 94. 1. ch. 50. 29. i ver. 39. & 48. 15. that which he hath swallowed up: 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will 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 all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 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 d 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 height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto 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 spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do 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 is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. 57 And I will make drunk her kch. 46. 18. princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep,, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. Or, I ver. 44. m Hab, 2 13. 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; Before CHRIST 595. Or, on the behalf of. I Or, prince of Menucha, or, chief chamberlain. n ver. 29. ch. 50, 3, 39. + Heb. desolations. 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that "none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, "that thou shalt bind a stone too See it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: Rev. 18. 21. 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: Pand they shall be weary. Thus p ver. 58. far are the words of Jeremiah, years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter reigned. of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the 62 Kin. 25. tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the 590. 1-27. ch. 39. 1. Zech. 8. 19. 588. Before CHRIST 588. c ch. 32. 4. d Ezek. 12. 13. + Heb. blinded. Or, fetters. + Heb. house of the wards. e Zech. 7. 5. & 8. 19. Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 10 d And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of NebuSee ver. 29. chadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, g ch. 39. 9. 1 Or, chief marshal. ↑ Heb. chief of the execu tioners, or, slaughter men. And so ver. 14, &c. + Heb. 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain stood before. of the guard, brake down all the h ch. 39. 9. i ch. 27. 19. k See 1 Kin. 7. 15, 23, 27, 50. 1 Ex. 27. 3. 2 Kin. 25. 14, 15, 16. I Or, instruments to remove the ashes. Or, censers. walls of Jerusalem round about. 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basons, and the firei Or, basons. pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away. m 1 Kin. 7. ↑ Heb. 2 Kin. 25. 2 Chr. 3. 15. 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: mithe brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21 And concerning the "pillars, the ↑ Heb. thread. 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and allo See 1 Kin. the pomegranates upon the network 7. 20. were an hundred round about. 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the kings person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore 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 carried away captive out of his own land. 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the cap- 2 Kin. 25. tivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, 27, 28, 29, 30. 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 y Gen. 40. up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, Before CHRIST cir. 588. a Is. 47. 7, 8, THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH. CHAPTER 1. 1 The miserable estate of Jerusalem by reason of her sin. 12 She complaineth of her grief, 18 and confesseth God's judgment to be righteous. TOW doth the city sit solitary, Ho that was full of people! "how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations, and 6 Ezra 4. 20. princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! c Jer. 13. 17. d Job 7. 3. Ps. 6. 6. e ver. 19. Jer. 4. 30. & 30. 14. 2 She weepeth sore 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 enemies. f ver. 9, 16, 3 Judah is gone into captivity 17, 21. g Jer. 52. 27. because of affliction, and because † Heb. of great servitude: she dwelleth for the among the heathen, she findeth no greatness of rest: all her persecutors overtook servitude. her between the straits. h Deu. 23. 64, 65. ch. 2. 9. i Deu. 28. 43, 41. k Jer. 30. 14, 15. Dan. 9. 7, 16. 1 Jer. 52. 28. 1 Or, desirable, ver. 10. m 1 Kin. 8. 46. ↑ Heb. 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is 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 pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinis become a ned; therefore she is removed: removing, or, wander all that honoured her despise her, because "they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. ing. n Jer. 13. 22, 26. Ezek. 16. 37. & 23. 29. Hos. 2. 10. o Deu. 32. 29. Is. 47. 7. p ver. 2 17, 21. ? ver. 7. 1 Or, desirable. r Jer. 51. 51. 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: Pshe had no comforter. LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that 8 Deu. 28. 3. they should not enter into thy congregation. Neh. 13. 1. 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. Before CHRIST cir. 588. t Jer. 38. 9. & 52. 6. ch. 2. 12. & 4. 4. 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my Or, sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. to make the soul to come again. I Or, It is nothing. Heb. pass by the way? u Dan. 9. 12. x Ezek. 12. 13. & 17. 20. y Deu. 28. 48. 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries shoulde Jer. 4. 31. be round about him: Jerusalem is as d ver. 2, 9. a menstruous woman among them. 18 The LORD is righteous; fore Neh. 9. 33. I have frebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: kabroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. Before CHRIST cir. 588. n Ps. 109. 15. o ch. 5 17. a Matt. 11. 23. ¿ 2 Sam. 1. 19. e 1 Chr. 28. Ps. 99. 5. d ver. 17, 21. ch. 3. 43. Heb. made to touch. e Ps. 89. 89. f Ps. 74. 11. g Ps. 89. 46. h ver. 5. Is. 63. 10. ↑ Heb. all the desirable of the eye. i Ezek. 24. 25. k ver. 4. Jer. 30. 14. 12 Kin. 25. 9. Jer. 52. 13. m Ps. 80. 12. & 89. 40. Is. 5. 5. i Or, hedge. " Is. 1. 8. 6 ch. 1. 4. Zeph. 3. 18. † Heb. shut up. p Ps. 74. 4. 72 Kin. 21. 13. Is. 34. 11. + Heb. swallowing up. r Jer. 51. 30. 8 Deu. 28. 2 Kin. 24. 22 "Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. CHAPTER 2. 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem. 20 He complaineth thereof to God. HOW TOW hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, dand hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: fhe hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew tiall that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. 5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, 'he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, "as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from 'destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: Ezek. 7. 26. the law is no more; her "prophets also find no vision from the LORD. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion *sit upon the ground, and keep silence: t 2 Chr. 15. 3. u Ps. 74. 9. x Job 2. 13. Is. 3. 23. ch. 3. 28. 13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I e ch. 1. 12. liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? 14 Thy prophets have seen vain Jer. 2. 8. and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away, thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, "We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have 9, 10. seen it. 17 The LORD hath done that which he had Pdevised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: 9he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to "rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. a Job 16. 8. b Ps. 51, 8. Is. 28. 13. Jer. 50. 17. e Ps. 88, 5, 6. & 143. 3. d Job 3, 23. & 19. 8. Hos. 2. 6. e Job 30, 20. Ps. 22. 2. f Job 10. 16. Is. 38. 13. Hos. 5. 14. & 13. 7, 8. g Hos. 6. 1. h Job 7. 20. & 16. 12. Ps. 38. 2. i Job 6. 4. + Heb. sons. k Jer. 20. 7. Z ver. 63. Job 30. 9. Ps. 69. 12. CHAPTER 3. 1 The faithful bewail their calamities. 22 I AM 2 He hath led me, and brought 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travel. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7dHe hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and hset me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 15 m He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken m Jer. 9. 15. With wormwood. Heb. 16 He hath also broken my teeth bitternesses." with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes." n Pro. 20. 17. I Or, rolled me in the ashes. + Heb. good. o Ps. 31. 22. * Or, Remember. p Jer. 9. 15. ↑ Heb. bowed. + Heb. make to return to my heart. g Mal. 8. 6. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, "that our prayer should m ver. 8. not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the "off-n 1 Cor. 4. scouring and refuse in the midst of 13. the people. 46 All our enemies have opened ch. 2. 16. their mouths against us. Jer. 48. 43. 7 Is. 51. 19. Jer. 4. 19. 47 P Fear and a snare is come up-p Is. 24. 17. on us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the LORD tlook down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart & 9. 1. Ps. 77. 2. ch. 1. 16. Is. 63. 15. + Heb. my soul. |