20. + Heb. evil. b Chap. II. 13. & 9.13. 23.29, &c. 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou haft brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will fay, Arife, and fave us. 28 But where are thy gods that thou haft made thee? let them arife if they & can fave thee in the time of thy trouble: for h according to the number of thy cities, are thy gods, Ŏ Judah. ye 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? all have tranfgreffed against me, faith the LORD. The promises of the gospel. circa and fee where thou haft not been lien with: in Before 14. Ezek. 16. 3 Therefore the d fhowers have been with- 24, 25. holden, and there hath been no latter rain, and d Deut. thou hadft a whores forehead, thou refusedit Chap.9. to be ashamed. 28.24. 12. • Chap. 6. [2. Ezek. 3.7. 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, 15. & 8. My father, thou art the guide of my youth. f 58 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will Zeph. 3. 5. he keep it to the end? Behold, thou haft fpoken Pro and done evil things as thou couldest. Prov. & Pfal. Ifai. 57. Verf. 12. circa b Verf. 10% i Chap. 2. 6 The LORD faid alfo unto me in the days 103.9. of Jofiah the king, h Haft thou seen that which 16. 30 In vain have I fmitten your children, backfliding Ifrael hath done? she is i gone up Ifai. 15. they received no correction: your own fword upon every high mountain, and under every 612. Chap. 3.3. hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying green tree, and there hath played the harlot. k Match. lion. 7 And I faid after she had done all these things, 20. Turn thou unto me; but fhe returned not: and her treacherous fifter Judah faw it. 8 And I faw, when for all the causes whereby 23.2, 4 backfliding Ifrael committed adultery, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous fifter Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot alfo. 31O generation, fee ye the word of the LORD have I been a wilderness unto Ifrael? a land of darkness? wherefore fay 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 feek love? therefore haft thou alfo taught the wicked ones thy ways. 34 Alfo in thy skirts is found the blood of the fouls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by fecret search, but upon all these. 35 Yet thou fayft, Because I am innocent, furely his anger fhall turn from me: behold, I will plead with thee, because thou fayest, I have not finned. 36 m Why gaddeft thou about fo much to change thy way? thou alfo fhalt be afhamed of Egypt, as thou waft afhamed of Affyria. 37 Yea, thou fhalt go forth from him, and P thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD 22. Sam. hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not profper in them. CHA P. III. 13.19. 1 Gods great mercy in Judabs vile whoredom. 6 Fudab is worse than Ifrael 12 The promises of the ofpel to the penitent. 20 Ifrael reproved and called by God, maketh a folemn confeffion of their fins. +ingb. Hey fay, If a man put away his wife, and go from him, and become another mans, a fhall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted ? but thou haft Chap. played the harlot with many lovers; byet return again to me, faith the LORD. 14 Turn, O back fliding children, faith the LORD, ° for I am married unto you: and I will Chap take you one of a city, and two of a family, and 31. 32. will bring you to Zion. I 16 And it fhall come to pass when be mul- Ifrael and Judah Jeremiah. Before ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall Christ it † come to mind, neither fhall they remember it, neither shall they vifit it, neither shall that be done any more. circa + Heb. come upon the heart. Or, nified. ▾ Chap. 11.8. 17 At that time they fhall call Jerufalem the throne of the LORD, and all the nations fhall it be mag be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, Ifai.60.9. to Jerufalem: neither fhall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 18 In those days the house of Judah fhall Aubborn walk with the house of Ifrael, and they fhall ness. See Ifai. come together out of the land of the north, to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. Or, 11. 13. Ezek. 37. 16, 22. Hof. 1. 11. Or, to. Or, S 19 But I faid, How fhall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hofts of nations? and I faid, Thou shalt call me, My father, and fhalt not turn away from me. 20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband: fo have you dealt & 11.6. treacheroufly with me, O houfe of Ifrael, faith the LORD. 41.45. + Heb. Land of defire. + Heb. 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and fupplications of the children of Ifan heritage rael: for they have perverted their way, and of glory, or, they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 Return, ye backfliding children, and from after will heal your backflidings: behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the LORD our God. beauty. + Heb. me. + Heb. friend. v Chap. 5.11. X I 23 y Truly in vain is falvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: Hof. 14. z truly in the LORD our God is the falvation of Ifrael. Pfal. 121. I, 2. z Pfal.3. a For fhame hath devoured the labour of 24 our fathers from our youth; their flocks and Chap. their herds, their fons and their daughters. 11. 13. Chap. 3.1, 22. 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confufion covereth us: for we have finned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. CHA P. IV. 1 God calleth Ifrael by his promife: He exhorteth Judah to repentance by fearful judgments. 19 A grievous lamentation for the miferies of Judah. I' F thou wilt return, O Ifrael, faith the LORD, a return unto me: and if thou wilt put away Ifai. 65. thine abominations out of my fight, then fhalt Joel 2. 12. 16. See Chap. 5.2. Zech. 8.8. thou not remove. C b And thou shalt fwear, The LORD liveth, Ifai.48.1. in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; # Pfal. d and the nations fhall blefs themselves in him, 2 Cor. and in him fhall they glory. 72.17. 10. 17. e 3 For thus faith the LORD to the men of Judah, and Jerufalem, f Break up your fallow13.7,22. ground, and 6 fow not among thorns, f Hof. 10. g Matth. 12. called to repentance. Chrift cirea 4 h Circumcife your felves to the LORD, and Before take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerufalem: left my 612. fury come forth like fire, and burn that none Deut. can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 10.16.& 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jeru- col 2.11. falem, and fay, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and fay, Affem- Chap. 8. ble your felves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 14 O Jerufalem, wash thine heart from Ifai. 1. wickedness, that thou mayeft be faved: how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? I For a voice declareth from Dan, and Chap. publifheth affliction from mount Ephraim. 16 Make ye mention to the nations, behold, publish againft Jerufalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field are they againft her round about; because fhe hath been rebellious againft me, faith the LORD. e Ifaiah. 5. 25. Ezek. 38. 20. 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wife to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. a 23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was without form and void: and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the LORD faid, The whole Chap. land fhall be defolate; yet will I not make a full end. 5. 10, 18. & 30.11. & 46, 28. 28 For this fhall the earth mourn, and the Ifaiah 5. heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 30. & 50. 3. f Ezek. 23.40. + Heb. dyes. 29 The whole city fhall flee, for the noife of the horsemen and bowmen, they fhall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city fhall be forfaken, and not a man dwell therein. 30 And when thou art fpoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clotheft thy felf with crimfon, though thou deckeft thee with ornaments of gold, though thou renteft thy face with painting, in vain fhalt thou make thy felf fair, thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguifh as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion that bewaileth her felf, that spreadeth her hands, faying, Wo is me now, for my foul is wearied because of murderers. : circa Gods judgments upon the Jews. Rye to and fro through the streets of Je- Before rufalem, and fee now and know, and feek Chrift in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a 612. man, bif there be any that executeth judgment, a Ezek. that feeketh the truth, and I will pardon it. 2 And though they fay, The LORD liveth, 23, &c. furely they fwear falfly. C 22.30. b Gen. 18 Pfal. 12, 1. c 4.2. 1.5.& 9. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the Chap truth? thou haft dftricken them, but they have d Ifaiah not grieved; thou haft confumed them, but 13. they have refused to receive correction: they Chap. 2. have made their faces harder than a rock, they Zeph. 3. have refused to return. e 32. 2. 4 Therefore I faid, Surely thefe are poor, they are foolish: for f they know not the way off Chap. the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 8.7. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will fpeak unto them; for they have known thes Mic. 3. way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether a broken the Pfal. 2, yoke, and burft the bonds." 3. 4.7. Hab. 1.3. / Hofea 6 Wherefore a lion out of the foreft fhalli Chap. flay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall Piat. fpoil them, a leopard fhall watch over their 104.20. cities: every one that goeth out thence fhall be or, torn in pieces: because their tranfgreffions are deferes. many, and their backflidings are increased. 13.7. 7 How fhall I pardon thee for this? thy t Heb. children have forfaken me, and m fworn by them m Joh. that are no gods: when I had fed them to the 23.7. full, they then committed adultery, and affembled themselves by troops in the harlots houses. 13 And the prophets fhall become wind, and Ifaiah the word is not in them: thus fhall it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore thus faith the LORD God of V hofts, Because ye fpeak this word, behold, I Chap. will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this 19: people wood, and it shall devour them. * Deut. 28.49. Ifaiah 5. 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you. from far, O houfe of Ifrael, faith the LORD: it Chap. 1. is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a na Q94 tion 15.& 6. 22. Jeremiah. priests bear rule by their means, and my people Before love to have it fo: and what will ye do in the Chrift end thereof? Their enemies encouraged. 16 Their quiver is as an open fepulchre, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and Deut. 28. thy bread, which thy fons and thy daughters fhould eat: they fhall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they fhall eat up thy vines and thy figtrees they fhall impoverifh thy fenced cities wherein thou truftedft, with the fword. 18 Nevertheless in those days, faith the LORD, z Chap. 4. I will not make a full end with you. 27. 16.10. 19 And it fhall come to pafs when ye fhall Chap. fay, Wherefore doth the LORD our God all 13.22.& these things unto us? then fhalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forfaken me, and ferved ftrange gods in your land; fo fhall ye ferve ftrangers in a land that is not yours. Maiah. 6.9. Ezek. 12. 2. Matth. 13. 14. John 12. As 28. 40. 26. Rom. II. + Heb. heart. Job 38. 10, II. Pfal. 104. да Deut. 21.14. Or, they pry as 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, faying, 21 Hear now this, Ob foolish people, and without understanding, which have eyes and fee not, which have ears and hear not : 22 Fear ye not me? faith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the fand for the bound of the fea, by a perpetual decree that it cannot pafs it; and though the waves thereof tofs themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they rore, yet can they not pafs over it? 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart: they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither fay they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God that giveth rain, both the former and the latter in his feafon: he referveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 25 Your iniquities have turned away these fowlers lie things, and your fins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait as he that fetteth fnares, they fet a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, fo are their houfes full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen ffat, they fhine: yea, they overpals the deeds of the wicked: they judge not & the cause, the cause of the fatherlefs, yet they profper: and the right of the needy Verf. 9. do they not judge. CHAP. VI. circa 612. Or, their hands. 1 The enemies fent against Judah, 4 encourage them- take into Jelves, 6 God fetteth them on work because of their fins. 9 The prophet lamenteth the judgments of God because of their fins: 18 He proclaimeth Gods wrath: 26 He calleth the people to mourn for the judgment on their fins. Ye children of Benjamin, gather you fel and blow the trumpet in Tekoa: and fet up a fign of fire in Beth-haccerem: a for evil appear- Chapi eth out of the north, and great deftruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion, to a comely and delicate woman. 10 To whom fhall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is un-e Chap circumcifed, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach: they have no delight in it. in Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD: I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the affembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife fhall be taken, the aged with bim that is full of days. Allo I fet a watchmen over you, Saying, 17 Hearken to the found of the trumpet: but they faid, We will not hearken. 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, Ezek. 3. O congregation, what is among them. I 7. Hab. 2. I. TE 1. 2. Prov. I. 7,8,9. n 19 Hear, O earth, behold I will bring Ifa... evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkned unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. Pfal. 40. 20 P To what purpose cometh there to me 6.& 5o. incenfe 9 from Sheba ? and the fweet cane from ffa.1.11, a far country? your burnt-offerings are not ac& 66.3. ceptable, nor your facrifices fweet unto me. Amos 5. 21 Therefore thus faith the LORD, Behold, Mic. 6.6. I will lay ftumbling-blocks before this people, Ifaiah and the fathers and the fons together fhall fall upon them: the neighbour and his friends fhall perifh. 21. &c. 60. 6. 22 Thus faith the LORD, Behold a people 7 Chap. 1. Cometh from the north-country, and a great 15.85. nation fhall be raised from the fides of the 15. & 10. 22.& earth. 50. Christ circa 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking 612. with flanders: they are a brafs and iron, they are Chap. all corrupters. 9.4. a Ezek. 29 The bellows are burnt, the lead is con- 22.18. fumed of the fire, the founder melteth in vain, Ifaiah r. for the wicked are not plucked away. 22. refuse-fil 30 b Reprobate filver fhall men call them, Or, because the LORD hath rejected them. CHAP. VII. 1 Jeremiah is fent to call for true repentance, to prevent the Jews captivity: He rejecteth their vain confidence, 12 by the example of Shiloh: 17 He threatneth them for their idolatry: 21 He rejecteth the facrifices of the difobedient: 29 He exhorteth to mourn for their abominations in Tophet, 32 and the judgments for the fame. LORD, faying, 2 Stand in the gate of the LORDS house, and proclaim there this word, and fay, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. 3 Thus faith the LORD of hosts the God of Ifrael, a Amend your ways, and your doings, a Chaps and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 18.11.8 26.13. IL. 4b Truft ye not in lying words, faying, The Mic. 3. temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are thefe. 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways, and your doings; if you throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye opprefs not the stranger, the fatherlefs, and the widow, and fhed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods, to your hurt: 7 Then will I caufe you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold, ye truft in lying words, that . 4. cannot profit. di King 1.8.21. Zeph. 5 + Heb. where upon called. • Ifaiah 9 Will ye fteal, murder, and commit adultery, and fwear falfly, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know my name is not; ro And come and stand before me in this 56.7. houfe, which is called by his name, and fay, Matth. We are delivered to do all these abominations? Mark. 1... 11 Is this house, which is called by my Luke 19. name, become af den of robbers in your eyes? 46: behold, even I have feen it, faith the LORD. 18.1. 12 But go ye now unto my place which Judg. 18%. was in Shiloh, where I fet my name at the firit, Sam. and fee what I did to it, for the wickedness of 4. 10.11. my people I:rael. Pfal. 78.. 60.. 13 And now because ye have done all thefe Chap. 26. Q9 5 works, 6. |