Judgments of Kedar and of Elam. JEREMIAH, L 1 lift up. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turn- c.51.44. eth herself to flee, and fear hath seized 2 melted. on her: anguish and sorrows have taken 3 or, as on. her as a woman in travail. d Ro.11.1,&c. 25 How is the city of praise e not left, e Is.1.26. the city of my joy! 26 Therefore f her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war scall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. c.33.9. Ac.11.23. 28 Concerning Kedar, n and concerning i Hos.3.5. the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebu-k Ps.84.7. chadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD, Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their tents q and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 5 n Is.21.13-17. p c.3.6,23. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, 0 ye inhabitants ot Hazor, saith the LORD; q Ps. 120.5. for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath 4 place to lie taken counsel against you, and hath con- down in, ceived a purpose against you. Ps.23.2. G 31 Arise, get you up unto the 6 wealthy r Ca. 1.7,8. u Da.9.6. c.51.6, 15. 32 And their camels shall be a booty, v Ps.90.1. and the multitude of their cattle a spoil;5 flit greatly. and I will scatter into all winds them w Ps.22.4. that are 8 in the utmost corners; and 1x Is.48.20. will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD. 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, a and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, b in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 35 Thus saith the LoaD of hosts, Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. z at ease. 9 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four big, or, winds from the four quarters of heaven, corpulent. and will scatter them towards all those a Mal.1.3. winds; and there shall be no nation 1 or, neigh as whither the outcasts of Elam shall not steeds. come. b Is.22.6. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismay. c.25.25. ed before their enemies, and before them c Zec.1.15. that seek their life; and I will bring evild c.25.12. upon them, even my fierce anger, saithe ICh.29.24. the LORD; and I will send the sword after ƒ Is.63.4. them, till I have consumed them: g Re. 18.6. 35 And I will set my throne in Elam, or, scythe. and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD. 39 But hit shall come to pass in the h ver.6. THE word that the LORD spake against &c. Is.13,& 21, & 47. 3 by the hand The Judgment of Babylon. publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel c is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. 4 In d those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, g going and weeping: h they shall go, and seek i the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion k with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join I ourselves to the LORD ia a perpetual m covenant that shall not be forgotten. 6 My people have been lost o sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have p gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place. r 7 All that found them have devoured them: & and their adversaries said, We offend t not, because u they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation v of justice; even the LORD, the hope w of their fathers. 8 Remove x out of the midst of Babylon, & go forth out of the land of the, Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks. 9 For, lo, I will raise, and cause to come up against Babylon, an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their ar rows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 7 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage; because ye are grown 9 fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; 12 Your mother shall be sore confound ed; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and desert. 13 Because of the wrath c of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly d desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she hath sinned against the Lord. 15 Shout against her round about; she hath given e her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance fof the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as g she hath done, do unto her." 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the 2 sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall dee every one to his own land. 17 Israel is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away; first i the king of Assyria hath devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel, Behold, I will punish 503 The Redemption of Israel. JEREMIAH, LI. the king of Babylon and his land, as I B. C. 595. have a punished the king of Assyria. 19 And c I will bring Israel again to his a Is.37.36-38. habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel e bc.25.20,24. and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied Eze.30.5. upon mount Ephraim and f Gilead. c Is.65.9,10. 20 In those days, and in that time, saith c.33.12. the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be Eze.34.13-15 sought h for,& i there shall be none; and the d c.51.30. sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: e Mi.7.14,18. for I will pardon them whom I k reserve. ƒ Ca.6.5. 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, g Is.44.27. even against it, and against the inhabitants Re. 16.12. of 2 Pekod: waste and utterly destroy h Ro.8.33,34. after them, saith the LORD, and do accord-i Ps. 103.12. ing to all n that I have commanded thee. Ro.5.16. 22 A sound p of battle is in the land, k 13.6.13. and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer q of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Pabylon become a desolation among the nations! 2Pe.3.15. 1or,the rebels. 1 Eze.23.23. 24 I have laid a snares for thee, and thou m I.13.20. art also taken, O Babylon, and u thou wast c.25.12. not aware: thou art found, and also caught, n c.48.10. because thou hast strivenagainst the LORD. o Ge.19.24,25 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, p c.51.54. and hath brought forth the weapons to of q Is.14.6. his indignation: for this is the work of c.51.20. the Lord GoD of hosts in the land of the r c.6.22. Chaldeans. 26 Come against her from the 3 utmost border, open her storehouses; 4 cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Ec.9.12. 27 Slay all her bullocks; y let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their 3 end. visitation. 4 or, tread, 5 or, convent The Judgment of Broylon. upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled b people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword as upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried g up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert, with the wild beasts of the islands, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever: m neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 40 As God overthrew o Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof. saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, r and a great nation, and many t kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel, v and will not shew Inercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble; anguish x took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong; but I will make them suddenly run away from her and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who z is that shepherd that will stand before me? 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Babylon, and his purposes c that he hath purposed 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance a of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. b 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, campe Job 41.10. against it round about: let none thereof a c.51.10,11.against the land of the Chaldeans; Surely escape: recompense d her according to b La.1.10. her work; according to all that she hath 2.6.7. done do unto her: for she hath been proud c Is.14.24,27. against the LORD, against the Holy One d ver.15. of Israel. e Re.18.9,15. 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall 6 pride. be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. heart. 31 Behold, I am against thee, O 6 thou f 2Ki.19.7. most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: c.4.11,12. for thy day is come, the time that I will g c.15.7. visit thee. Mat.3.12. 32 And 6 the most proud shall h stumble h Pr.16.18. and fall, and none shall raise him up: 18.12. and I will kindle a fire i in his cities, and i Re.18.8. it shall devour all round about him." k Is.47.4. 33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The 1 c.49.26. children of Israel and the children of m Is.51.22. Judah were oppressed together; and all n Hos.1.10. that took them captives held them fast; o Is.44.21. they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; k the LORD of hosts is his name; he shall throughly plead m their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise s men. 49.14,15. p Zec.2.12. 12.6-8. q c.31.37. Mi.7.18-20. r Ge.19.16,17. c.50.8,&c. s Is.47.13. bars, or chief stays. 36 A sword is upon the 8 liars; t and t Is.44.25. they shall dote: ua sword is upon her u 2Th.2.11. mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. v c.25.14,16. A sword is upon their horses, and w Re.17.4. 8 the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard e among the nations. CHAP. LI. THUS saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying ƒ wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon g fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through 1 in her streets. 5 For Israel n hath not been o forsaken, nor Judah p of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though q their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee r out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. v 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup w in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth God's Judgments on Babylon, JEREMIAH, LI. drunken the nations have drunken a of B. C. 595. ner wine; therefore the nations are b mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly c fallen and de a Re. 14.8. stroyed howld for her; take balm for 18.3,&c. her pain, if so be she may be healed. b c.25.16. 9 We would have healed Babylon, but c Da.5.24-31. she is not ƒ healed: forsake her, and let d Is. 13.6,7. us go every one into his own country; e c.50.40,41. for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. 10 The LORD hath brought forth g our righteousness: come, and let us declare in i Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Make 2 bright k the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because m it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. everlasting 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong; set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: 3 for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 0 thou that dwellest upon many wa-o c.50.36. ters, p abundant in treasures, thine end is La.2.9. come, and the measure of thy q covet ousness. n Is. 19.16. Am.1.5. 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn 4 by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillars; r and they shall 5ift up a shout against thee. 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the worlds by his wisdom, and hath stretched t out the heaven by his understanding. u t Job 9.8. 16 When v he uttereth his voice, there Ps. 104.2. is a multitude of waters in the heavens, Is.40.22. and he y causeth the vapours to ascend u Pr.3.19. from the ends of the earth: he maketh 6 or, in the lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man 8 is brutish by his know ledge; b every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath c in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. time that he 19 The Portion e of Jacob is not likely Ps. 135.7. them; for he is the former of all things; z c.50.17. and Israel is the rod f of his inheritance. a La.1.1. The LORD of hosts is his name. 8 or, is more 20 Thou art my battle-axe and wea- brutish than pons of war: for 3 with thee will I break to know. in pieces g the nations; and with theeb Ro.1.22. will I destroy kingdoms; 9 My. der. 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse & his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces d Fs.137.8,9. man and woman; and with thee will 12 inhabitress. break in pieces old and young; and with e Ps.16 5. thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 73.26. La.3.24. 23 I will also break in pieces with thee f De.32.9. The shepherd and his flock; and with thee Ps.74.2. will I break in pieces the husband man 3or, in, or, by and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will g Is.41.15,16. I break in pieces captains and rulers. Mi.4.13. 24 And I will render unto Babylon, or, shake and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all themselves. their evi! that they have done in Zion h ver.57. in your sight, saith the LORD. i Da.5.4,5,&c. 25 Behold, I am against thee, O de-k Is.8.7. stroying mountain, m saith the LORD, c.50.15.29. which destroyest all the earth; and I will m Is.13.2. stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll Zec.4.7. nee down n from the rocks, and will n Re:6.8. 43 in Revenge of Israel. make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for fourdations; but e thou shalt be 1 desolate for ever, saith the LORD. 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations. prepare the nations against her, call toge ther against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a cap tain against her; cause her horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. h 28 Prepare against her the nations, with the kings of the Medes, 1 the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall trembie nd sor row: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 80 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became n as women: they have burnt their dwelling-places; her bars o are broken. 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, The daughter of Baby lon 18 like a threshing-floor, 6 it is time to thresh w her yet a little while, and the time of her harvest a shall come. 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath z crushed me, he hath made me an empty a vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my deli cates, he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my 1 flesh, be upon Babylon, d shall the inhabitant 2 of Zion say; and. My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Be. hold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, h that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth i surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42 The sea k is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no inan dwelleth, neither doth any so of man pass thereby. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth tha which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more Y 505 JEREMIAH, LII. Prophecy sent to the Captives. unto him; yea, the wall a of Babylon shall fall. B. C. 595. 45 My people, go ye out b of the midst 9 desolations. of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. 46 And 1 lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour d 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. a ver.58. b c.50.8. Re. 18.4. c Re. 18.21. or, let not, Pr.3.25,26. d Mar. 13.7. e Ps.76.12. 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, ver.58. that I will do judgment upon the graven 2 visit. images of Babylon: and her whole land f 2Ki.24.18. shall be confounded, and all her slain 3 reigned. shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing g for Baby-g Re.18.20. lon: for the spoilers shall come unto her h c.50.3,41. from the north, h saith the LORD. 49 As 4 Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall slain of all the 5 earth. 50 Ye that have escaped i the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem k come into your mind. 4 or, both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel, & with Babylon. or, country. i c.44.28. 51 We are confounded, because we have k Ps. 122.6. 137.5,6. heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces; for strangers m are come into the 72Ki.25.1,&c. c.39.1,&c. sanctuaries of the LORD's house. 5 Is.14.13. c.49.16. Am.9.2. Ob.4. 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, m La.1.10. saith the LORD, that I will do judgment n ver.47. "pon her graven images: n and through o Is.13.15,16. Da.5.30,31. all her land the wounded o shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount p upp Ps.139.8-10. 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 q of a cry cometh from Baby-q c.50.22,29. lon, and great destruction from the land r 1Sa.2.4. of the Chaldeans: $ c.32.4,5. 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Ba-t Ps.94.1. bylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great u c.25.27. Hab.2.16. waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56 Because the spoiler is come upon v c.46.18. 48.15. her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken; every one of their r bows w Eze.12.13. is broken: for the LORD God of recom-6 blinded. pences shall surely requite. t 57 And I will make drunk u her 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 v whose name is The LORD of hosts. 9 137.8. or, walls of broad Babylon. or, fetters. or, made naked. 8.19. 1 house of 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The the wards. broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly x Hab.2.13. proken, 9 and her high gates shall be y Zec.7.5. burnt with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, x and the folk in the fire, z ver.29. and they shall be weary. 2 chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen; or, chief marshal; and so v.14,&c. and Da.2.14. 3 stood before. 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went 4 with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a 5 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; 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither or, on the behalf of. or, prince of Menucha,or, chief chamberlain. The Babylonish Captwity. man nor beast, but that it shall be 9 de solate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone c to it, and cast it intc the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Baby lon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her, and they shall be weary.e Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. CHAP. LII. ZEDEKIAH f was one and twenty years old when he 3 began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusa lem: his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiachim 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 lit came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad rezzar 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 Chaldeans were by the city round about ;) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pur sued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Thens 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 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 w he 6 put out the eyes of Ze dekiah: and the king of Babylon bound him in 8 chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in 1 prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the fifth y month, in the tenth day of the month, (which was the nineteenth 2 year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan, 2 captain of the guard, which 3 served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burnt lie with fire. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the 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 The Babylonish Captivity. LAMENTATIONS, I 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. 18 The c caldrons also, and the 3 shovels, and the snuffers, and the 4 bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass, wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basons, and the 5 fire-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. face of the ments to remove the 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve 21 And concerning the pillars, the &c. 22 And a chapiterg of brass was upon g 2Ch.3.15. 24 And the captain of the guard took 29.25. Kindness shewed to Jehoiachin. war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the 2 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 d of his own land. 28 Thise is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand Jews and three and twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 6 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan the cap tain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thou sand and six hundred. 31 And fit came to pass, in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Je hoiachin king of Judah, 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 up the head h of Jehoiachin king of Judah,and brought him forth out of prison, 32 And spake 9 kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed i his prison-garments; and he did continually eat bread h before him all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, 2 every day n a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life. 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and e Je.52.8,11. 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princese 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 h at her sabbaths. 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore i she is 3 removed: all that 3 become a re-honoured her, despise her, because they moving, or, have seen jher nakedness; yea, she wandering.sigheth, and turneth backward." Eze. 16.37. Hos.2.9,10. k De.32.29. 5 Her adversaries are the chief, 1 her Ro.6.21. enemies prosper; for the LORD hath 1 De.28.43,44, 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. j 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she re membereth not her last end; k therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself. |