17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day: neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days shall be ended.

The office of ministers. clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth her. self with her jewels.

11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. CHAP. LXII.

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The fervent desire of the prophet to confirm the church in God's promises. 5 The office of the ministers (unto which they are incited) in preaching the gospel, 10 and preparing the people thereto..

Zion's will I not hold my

they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a sinall one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

CHAP. LXI.

1 The office of Christ. 4 The forwardness, 7 and
blessings of the faithful.

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preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath
sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the
LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn;

HE Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me;
because the LORD hath anointed me to

until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy

3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,God rejoice over thee.
to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness; that they might be
called Trees of righteousness, The planting
of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vine-dressers.

6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast your selves.

7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt-offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath

6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

il Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

CHAP. LXIII.

1 Christ sheweth who he is, 2what his victory over his enemies, 7 and what his mercy toward his church. 10 In his just wrath he re

Christ sheweth who he is. CHAP. LXIII, LXIV, LXV. The prayer of the church.

membercth his free mercy. 15 The church in their prayer, 17 and complaint, profess their faith.

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HO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?

3I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

17 TO LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. CHAP LXIV.

1 The church prayeth for the illustration of God's power. 5 Celebrating God's mercy, it maketh confession of their natural corrup tions. 9 It complaineth of their affliction.

that thou wouldst come down, that the H that thou wouldest rend the heavens, mountains might flow down at thy presence, causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; known to thine adversaries, that the nations and I wondered that there was none to up- 3 When thou didst terrible things which we may tremble at thy presence! hold: therefore mine own arm brought sal-looked not for, thou camest down, the mounvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. tains flowed down at thy presence. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. 7¶I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their

Saviour.

9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, 4 For since the beginning of the world men neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

worketh righteousness, those that remember 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance,

and we shall be saved.

all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and
like the wind, have taken us away.
we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,

7 And there is none that calleth upon thy
name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of
thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our Father;
hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
we are the clay, and thou our potter;
all are the work of thy hand.

and we

10 But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he¶Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neithat brought them up out of the sea with the ther remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, shepherd of his flock? where is he that put we beseech thee, we are all thy people. his Holy Spirit within him? 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where fire: and all our pleasant things are laid our fathers praised thee, is burned up with

12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting

name?

is

waste.

13 That led them through the deep as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and af 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things,

stumble?

14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thy-1 self a glorious name.

15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

flict us very sore?

CHAP. LXV.

The calling of the Gentiles. 2 The Jews, for their incredulity, idolatry, and hypocrisy, are rejected. 8A remnant shall be saved. 11 Judg ments on the wicked, and blessings on the god ly. 17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem.

AM sought of them that asked not for me, I am found of them that sought me not I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

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3 Ile that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Be-off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblahold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

The calling of Jeremiah. 18 For I know their works and their thoughts, it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pui, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles

11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abun-afar off, that have not heard my fame, neidance of her glory.

12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you and ye shall be comfort

ed in Jerusalem.

14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

¶ The Book of the CHAP. I. 1 The time, 3 and the calling of Jeremiah. 11 His prophetical visions of an almond rod, and a seething-pot. 15 His heavy message against Judah. 17 God encourageth him with his promise of assistance.

THE words of Jeremiah son of Hil

Tkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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

5 Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I 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

ther have seen my glory; and they shall de-
clare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren
for an offering unto the LORD, out of all na
tions, upon horses, and in chariots, and in
litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the
LORD, as the children of Israel bring an
offering in a clean vessel into the house of
the LORD.

21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new-moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

24 And they shall go forth, and look upon. the carcasses of the men that have trans gressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Prophet JEREMIAH.

me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. 11 ¶ Moreover word of unto me, saying, Jeremiah, What seest thou?

came

And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot; 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 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 walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

16 And I will utter my judgments against 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 com

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with the Jews. mand thee: be not dismayed at their faces, | yelled, and they made his land waste: his lest I confound thee before them. 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 thy God, when he led thee by the way?

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and thee in the time of thy trouble: for accordsee; and send unto Kedar, and consider dili-ing to the number of thy cities are thy gods, gently, and see if there be such a thing