18 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?

20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

the sins of the Jews. 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 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my peo-known and I will send a sword after them, ple am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath till I have consumed them. 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? CHAP. IX.

1 The Jews lamented for their manifold síns, 9 and judgments. 12 Disobedience is the cause of their calamity.

H 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!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodg ing-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them for they be all adulterers, an assembly of trea

cherous men.

3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth apon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for overy brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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 :

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 ts 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.

20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye 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.

22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the bandful after the barvest-man, and none shall gather them.

23 T Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

24 But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me, that 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of de-am the LORD which exercise loving-kindness, ceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for saith the LORD. in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

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8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the

25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uDcircumcised in the heart.

CHAP. X.

1 The unequal comparison of God and idols. 19 The spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastors.

wilderness a lamentation, because they are HEAR ye the word which the LORD speak

burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the eattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

eth 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 12 Who is the wise man that may unwork of the hands of the workman, with derstand this? and who is he to whoin the the axe. mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he 4 They deck it with silver and with gold: may declare it, for what the land perisheth they fasten it with nails and with hammers, and is burned up like a wilderness, that none that it move not. passeth through?

5 They are upright as the palm-tree, but 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have speak not: they must needs be borne, because forsaken my law which I set before them, they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for and have not obeyed my voice, neither walk-they cannot do evil, neither also is if in them ed therein; to do good.

14 But have walked after the Imagination' 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto

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thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and great in might. consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. CHAP. XI.

1 Jeremiah proclaimeth God's covenant, 8 rebuketh the disobedient Jews: 11 he prophesieth evils to come upon them.

8 But they are altogether brutish and fool-THE word that came to Jeremiah from the

10 But the Loan is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the na-day that I brought them forth out of the land tions shall not be able to abide his indignation.

5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he flowing with milk and honey, as it is this bath established the world by his wisdom, and day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

6 Then the JORD said unto me, Proclaim all 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a these words in he cities of Judah, and in the multitude of waters in the heavens, and he streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends words of this covenant, and do them. of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, 7 For I earnestly protested unto your faand bringeth forth the wind out of his trea-thers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

The wicked's prosperity.

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God's promises to the penilent. noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire up-come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, on it, and the branches of it are broken.

come to devour.

17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vinehath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil yard, they have trodden my portion under of the house of Israel and of the house of Ju-foot, they have made my pleasant portion a dah, which they have done against themselves, desolate wilderness.

to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to

18 And the LORD hath given me know ledge of it, and know it: then thou shew-heart. edst me their doings.

12 The spoilers are come upon all high pla19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is ces through the wilderness: for the sword of brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that the LORD shall devour from the one end of the they had devised devices against me, say-land even to the other end of the land: no flesh ing, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit shall have peace. thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit; and they shall be ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

14 T Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men which I have caused my people Israel to inof Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Pro-herit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their phesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou land, and pluck out the house of Judah from die not by our hand: among them.

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.

CHAP. XII.

15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have 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 by my name, The LORD liveth; as 1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's pros-they taught my people to swear by Baal; perity, by faith seeth their ruin. 14 God's then shall they be built in the midst of my promise to the penitent. people. RIGHTEOUS art thou, O LORD, when 1 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 taken root: they grow; yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. CHAP. XIII.

1 By the type of a linen girdle, the people's destruction is prefigured. 12 By the bottles filled with wine, their drunkenness in misery foretold.

3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast THUS saith the LORD unto me, Go and get

seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, hea how wilt thou do in the swelling of

Jordan?

thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy 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 the second time, saying,

4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

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

6 For even thy brethren, and the house of commanded thee to hide there. thy father, even they have dealt treacherously 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, with thee; yea, they have called a multitude and took the girdle from the place where I had after thee; believe them not, though they hid it; and behold, the girdle was marred, it speak fair words unto thee. was profitable for nothing.

7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

9 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore Dave I listed it.

9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled M-), the birds round about are against her

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

9 Thus saith the Loan, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

10 This evil people, which refuse to bear 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 quan, 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.

Agrievous famine,

HE word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

2 Judab mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little 12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them ones to the waters: they came to the pits, this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Is-and found no water; they returned with their rael, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: vessels empty; they were ashamed and conand they shall say unto thee, Do we not cer-founded, and covered their heads. tainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

13 Then shalt thou say unto them. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the 5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and inhabitants of this land, even the kings that forsook it, because there was no grass, sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jeru-places, they snuffed up the wind like drasalem, with drunkenness. gons; their eyes did fail, because there was

14 And I will dash them one against ano-no grass. ther, 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.

7 O 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 15 Give glory to the LORD your God, be-in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as fore he cause darkness, and before your feet a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while that turneth aside to tarry for a night? ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Loa's flock is carried away captive.

18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

10 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,

19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, 12 When they fast, I will not hear their and none shall open them: Judab shall be car-cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and ried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly an oblation, 1 will not accept them: but I carried away captive. will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

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 ?

13 Then said I, Ah, Lord Gov! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you 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 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Where- spake unto them: they prophesy unto you fore come these things upon me? For the a false vision and divination, and a thing of greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts dis-nought, and the deceit of their heart. covered, and thy heels made bare.

23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Jeopard his spots! then may ye also do good,

that are accustomed to do evil.

21 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in false

hood.

26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Wo unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once bc? CHAP. XIV.

The grievous fumine, 7 causch Jeremiah to!

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 shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daug!ters: 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 bit ken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

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Jeremiah's complaint

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and prayer. the slain with the sword! and if I enter in-with thy remnant; verily I will cause the to the city, then behold them that are sick enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil with famine! yea, both the prophet and the and in the time of affliction. priest go about into a land that they know

not.

12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13 Tay substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

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 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine time of healing, and behold trouble! enemies into a land which thou knowest not: 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wicked-for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall ness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we burn upon you. have sinned against thee.

15 TO LORD, thou knowest: remember 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, dome, and visit me, and revenge me of my not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remem- persecutors; take me not away in thy longber, break not thy covenant with us. suffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the beavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. CHAP. XV.

16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone, because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

1 The utter rejection, and manifold judgments of the Jews. 10 Jeremiah, complaining, 19 receiveth a gracious promise. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my THEN said the LORD unto me. Though wound incurable, which refuseth to be healMoses and Samuel stood before me, ed? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a yet my mind could not be toward this peo- liar, and as waters that fail? ple: cast them out of my sight, and let them 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, I 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 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.

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the ungs 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.

thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

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20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the band of the terrible.

CHAP. XVI.

1 The uller ruin of the Jews foreshewn: 14 their return from captivity stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.

5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Je THE Word of the LORD came also unto me,

rusalem or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lond, thou art gone backward: therefore will 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 children. I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

saying,

2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.

3 For thus saith the LORD, concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their. fathers that begat them in this land;

4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they 8 Their widows are increased to me above shall not be lamented; neither shall they be the sand of the seas: I have brought upon buried; but they shall be as dung upon the 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 born seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it 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.

10 Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; get every one of them doth curse me.

11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well

face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

5 For thus saith the LORD; Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.

6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup