The sinking of Babylon. BEFORE CHRIST 595. .b Ps. 94. 1. ch. 50. 29. ver. 24. i ver. 39. JEREMIAH, LII. 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 princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men and they shall sleep a perkch. 46. 18. petual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 48. 15. 2 Or, 1 ver. 44. m Hab. 2.13. 595. 3 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 21 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 Ishall 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 5 Or, prince Seraiah was a quiet prince. 4 Or, on the behalf of. of Menucha, or, chief chamberlain. 5 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, ch.50.3,39. to cut it off, that "none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. ver. 29. • Heb. desolations. • See Rev. 18.21. p ver. 58. 599. a 2 Kings 24. 18. 7 Heb. reigned. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates : 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 far are the words of Jeremiah. CHAPTER LII. 1 Zedekiah rebelleth. 4 Jerusalem is besieged the captives. 31 Evil-merodach advanceth Jehoiachin. ZEDEKIAH was one and twenty Jerusalem is taken. Jerusalem. And his mother's name 2 And he did that which was evil 3 For through the anger of the 5 So the city was besieged unto 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 pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho ; and all his army was scattered from him. The people are BEFORE CHRIST 588. h ch. 39. 9. 1 ch. 27. 19. k See 1 Kings 7. 15, 23, 27, 50. 1 Ex. 27. 3. 2 Kings 25. 14, 15, 16. 2 Or, JEREMIAH, LII. deans, 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 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. 3 18 The caldrons also, and the 2 shovels, and the snuffers, and the instruments bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. to remove the ashes. 3 Or,basons. 4 Or, censers. m 1 Kings 7. 47. 19 And the basons, and the firepans, 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. 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: m 5 the brass of all these vessels was 5 Heb. their without weight. brass. ☐ 1 Kings 7. 15. 2 Kings 25. 17. 21 And concerning the "pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a 'fillet of twelve cubits Chr. 3.15. did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. 6 Heb. thread. carried away captive. and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the 2door: 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 king's 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. 4 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. r BEFORE CHRIST 588. q ch. 21. 1. threshold. & 29. 25. 3 Heb. Heb. savo the face of Or, scribe of the caphost. the king. tain of the 24. 2. 28 This is the people whom Ne-2 Kings buchadrezzar carried away captive: 600. in the seventh year 'three thousand Jews and three and twenty: See 2 Kings 24. 12. 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the cap- 25. 27, 23, tivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head Gen. 40. 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, g Jer. 52. 27. 2 Heb. for the greatness of servitude. h Deut. 28. 64, 65. ch. 2. 9. i Deut. 28. 43, 44. 3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and 2 because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. 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 1are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD Jer. 30.14, hath afflicted her for the multitude 15. Dan. 9. 7, of her transgressions: her 1children 16. are gone into captivity before the enemy. 1 Jer. 52. 28. 8 Or, desirable. ver. 10. m 1 Kings 8. 46. 4 Heb. is become a removing, or, wandering. ■ Jer. 18. 22, 26. Ezek.16.87. & 23. 29. Hos. 2. 10. 6 Ånd 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 m Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backWard. n 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: Pshe had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. the 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that "they should not enter into thy congregation. t 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. 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see u if there be any sorrow like unto my 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 Ezek. 12. 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. 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: z the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. 13. & 17. 20. y Deut. 28. 48. z Is. 63. 3. Rev. 14. 19, 20. & 19. 15. 6 Or, the winepress of the virgin, &c. & 14. 17. bver. 2, 9. a Jer. 13. 17. ch. 2. 18. 16 For these things I weep; "mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, be-Heb. cause the enemy prevailed. bring back. • Jer. 4. 31. 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: & ver. 2, 9. the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should Jeremiah lamenteth BEFORE CHRIST cir. 588. e Neh. 9. 33. Dan. 9. 7, 14. f 1 Sam. 12. 14, 15. 2 Heb. mouth. g ver. 2. Jer. 30. 14. h ver.11. Is. 16. 11. LAMENTATIONS, II. be round about him: Jerusalem is as 18 ¶ The LORD is righteous; for 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 Job 30. 27. distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. Jer. 4. 19. Hos. 11. 8. 1 ver. 2. 21 They have heard that I sigh: 1there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: m Is. 13, &c. thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like Jer. 46, &c. 3 Or, proclaimed. a Ps. 109.15. o ch. 6. 17. a Matt. 11. 23. 19. c 1 Chr. 28. 2. Ps. 99. 5. & 132.7. unto me. 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 II. 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem. the misery of Jerusalem. increased in the daughter of Judah m BEFORE CHRIST cir. 588. m Ps. 80.12. & 89. 40. 18.5.5. 2 Or, hedge. n Is. 1. 8. 6 And he hath violently taken away his 2 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 Zeph. 3. 18. hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 3 o cho 1. 4. up. 7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the 3 Heb.shut enemy the walls of her palaces; Pthey 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: a 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. HOW hath the Lord covered the Jerusalem hang down their heads to in his anger, ch. 3. 43. 4 Heb. made to touch. Ps. 74, 11. 8 Ps. 89. 46. b Is. 63.10. ver. 5. 6 Heb. all the desirable of the eye. 1 Ezek. 24. 25. k ver. 4. Jer. 30. 14. 12 Kings 25.9. Jer. 52. 13. 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: 'he 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 all 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 28. Job 2. 12. z Is. 15. 3. Ezek. 7. 18. & 27.31. Ps. 6. 7. ch. 3. 48, &c. • Job 16. 13. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the de-bch. 1. 20. struction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 5 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. 13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I 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 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. Ps. 22. 14. ch. 4. 4. The faithful bewail BEFORE CHRIST cir. 588. 1 Ps. 48. 2. & 50. 2. 10. PB. 22. 13. ch. 3. 46. n Ps. 56. 2. LAMENTATIONS, III. salem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? n 16m All thine enemies have openm Job 16., ed 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 o Ps. 35. 21. for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he Ps. 38. 16. hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. p Lev. 28. 16, &c. Deut. 28. 15, &c. q ver. 2. & 89. 42. s ver. 8. t Jer. 14.17 ch. 1. 16. u Ps. 119. 147. x Ps. 62.8. y ver. 11. 8 r 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. 19 Arise," cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches x pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for z Is. 51. 20. hunger in the top of every street. 20 T Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. a Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall Ezek. 5.,10. the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? their calamities. 17 And thou hast removed my ashes. soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 6 Heb. good. o Ps. 31. 22. 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 19 Remembering mine affliction Or, and my misery, Pthe wormwood and 6 the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is 'humbled in me. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 ¶ It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new 'every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that t wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should balvation of the quiet! both hope and quietly wait for the 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; so be there may be hope. 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. Remember. P Jer. 9. 15. |