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12 And they hall call them, And the Gentiles fhall fee The holy people, the redeemed righteoufnefs, and all kings of the LORD: and thou shalt be By: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, a city not ed by a new name, which forfaken. mouth of the LORD hall

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CHAP. LXII.
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Theory in the band of the garments from Bozrah? this th D, and a royal disdem in is glorious in his apparel, trahand of thy God. velling in the greatness of his Shame Thou halt no more be frength? I thit fpeak in righte red, Forfiken; neither thall oufnels mighty to fave. dand any more be termed, flate: but thou shalt be callHephzi-bab, and thy land, lah: for the LORD delightin thee, and tay land hall married.

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

3 I have troden the wine prefs For a young man marrieth was none with me: for 1 will alone, and of the people there Virgin, fo thell tny fons merry tread them in mine anger, and and as the bridegroom re- trample them in my fury, and yeeth over the bride, fo fhall their blood fhall be forinkled My God rejoyce over thee. 6 I have fet warchmen up pon my garments, and I will walis, O Jerufalem, which 4 For the day of vengeance never hold their peace, day in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

or night: ye that make mention
f the LORD keep not filence:
7 And give him no reft,till he
iblih, and till he make J.ru
alem a praife in the earth.

8 The LORD bath (worn by is right band, and by the arm of his ftrength, Surely, I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and the fons of the ftrsager fhall not drink thy wine, for the which thou bat laboured:

9 But they that have gathered It, fhall eat it, and praife the LORD, and they that have brought it together, fhall drink it la the courts of my noliness.

10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare you the way of the people, caft up, caft up the highway, gather out the ftones, lift up a standard for the people.

ftain all my rabment.

Behold, the LORD hath

none to help; and I wondred 5 And I looked, and there was that there was none to uphold: falvation unto me, and my fury therefore mine own armbrought it upheld me.

6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury will bring down their strength and I to the earth.

kindneffes of the LORD, and the 7.I will mention the loving praifes of the LORD, according to all that the LORD bath be flowed on us, and the great Ifrael, which he hath beltowed goodness towards the houfe of on them, according to his mer cies, and according to the mul titude of his loving kindneffer.

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thall be faved. 6 But we are all as anash 15 Look down from heating, and all our righteouebe ven, and b.hold from the babi-areas tilthy tags, and we tation of thy holiness, and of fade as a leaf, and our inco thy glory: where is thy z::lkies, like the wind, bave and thy ftrength, the founding AWAY:

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rant of us, and Ifrael acknow- of our iniquities.

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10 Thy holy cities are a wil have poffeffed it but a little rufalem a defolation.. 18 The people of the holinefs dernek, Zion is a wildernes 11 Our holy, and our berh ful boufe, where our fab bareft rule over them, they were fire: and all our plealant colo 19 We are thine, thou never praised thee, is burnt up wi

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119 But ye are they that for CHA P. LXV. fake the LORD, that forget my fought of them that asked table for that troop, and that holy mountain, that prepare a at for me: I am found of furnish the drink-offering unto that fought me not: I faid, that number. ed me, behold me, unto a that was not called by

ame.

12 Therefore will I number you to the fword, and ye shall all bow down to the flsughter:

I have (pread cut my hands becaufe when I called, ye did
he day unto a rebellious pro-
which walseth in a way
not good, after their
thoughts:

not answer, when I fpike ye did
not hear, but did evil before
mine eyes, and did choose that
wherein I delighted not.

A people that provoketh 13 Therefore thus faith the to anger continually to my Lord GOD, Behold my fervants that facrificeth in gardens, thall eat, but ye fhall be hun kebarneth incenfe upon altars gry: bebold, my fervants fall

drink, but ye thall be thirty: behold, my fervants fhall re oyce, but ye thall be athamed:

brick: Which remain among the es, and lodge in the monu, which eat fwines flech, broth of abominable things fing for joy of heart, but ye fhall 14 Behold, my fervants thall their veffels : cry for forrow of heart, and thail Which fat, Stend by thy howl for vexation of fpirit. come not near to me: for 15 And ye shall leave your bolfer than thou: thefe are name for arcurfe unto my cho. moke in my nofe, a fire that fen: for the Lord GOD (hall neth all the day. flay thee, and call his fervante SA Behold, it is written before by another name: I will not keep filence, but All recompenfe, even recomnfe into their bofeme,

felf in the earth, fhall bless hims 16 That he who blefleth him felf in the God of truth, and he that (weareth do the earth fhall (wear by the God of truth, ber caufe the former: troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

17 For behold, I create new

7 Your iniquities, and the inilties of your fathers together faith the LORD) which have ent incenfe upon the moun ths, and blafphemed me upon he hills: therefore will 1 mesare their former work into their heavens, and a new earth: and the former fhall not be remem Thus faith the LORD,As bred, nor come into mind. he new wine is found in the lufter, and one faith; Deftroy it ot,for a blefling is in it: fo will I do for my fervants fake, that I may not deftroy them all.

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9 And I will bring forth s feed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an Inheritour of my moun tales: and mine ele&t thall in berit it, and my fervants hall dwell there.

10 And Sharon (hall be a fold of docks, and the valley of A. chor a place for the herds to

joyce for ever in that which I 18 But be you glad and recreare: for behold, I create Je rufalem a rejoycing, and her people a joy.

falem, and joy in my people, and 19 And I will rejoyce in Jeru the voice of weeping thall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

thence in infant of days, nor an 20 There fhall be no more old man that hath not filled hle days: for the child thall die an

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their bands.

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man-child. fwer, and whiles they are yet & Who bath beard fach fpeaking, I will bear.

who bath feen fuch this tongues, 29 The wolf and the lamb fhall fhall the earth be made to fet feed together, and the lion hail forth in one day, or full hd w est fraw like the bullock: and tion be born at once? for duft fhall be the ferpents meat. as Zion travailed, the b They fhall not hurt, nor deftroy forth her children In all my holy mountain, faith

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things bave been faith the stisfied with the breathe of LORD: but to this men will I confolations: that ye may m Jook, even to him that is poor out, and be delighted with d and of a contrite fpirit, and trem- abundance of her glory. 12 For thus faith the Lost blech at my word. He that klieth an ox, is as Behold, I will estend pea if he flew a man: he that facri- ber like a river,and the glory ficeth a lamb, as if he cut off a the Gentiles like a down dogs neck: he that rffereth an Rream: then thall ye uchite blood: he thst burneth incenfe, be dandied upon berk oblation, as if he offered wines thall be born upon her fides, and as if he bleffed an Idol: yea,

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Chap. j.

Jeremiah called. my glory among the G.niles. 20 And they fhall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD, out of all nati ons, upon horfes and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon fwift beats to my holy mountain Jerufalem, faith the LORD, as the children of Ifrael bring an offering in a clean veffel, into the house of the LORD.

be known towards his fer and is indignation to his enemies. For behold, the LORD will with fire, and with his ots like a whirlwind, to er his anger with fury, and tbuke with flunce of fire. For by fire, and by his d, will the LORD plead all Beth: and the flain of LORD thall be many. They that fan&ifie them s, and purifie themfelves le gardens, behind orte tree e midft, eating fwines flath, the abomination, and the fe, fhall be canfumed togefaith the LORD. For I know their works and thoughts: it fhall come, I will gather all nations tongues, and they fhall e and fee my glory. 9 And I will fet a figa among n, and I will fend the telcape of them, unto the lons, to Tarthith, Pul and that draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, to the ifles off, that have not heard fame, neither have feen glory, and they fhall declare

21 And I will alfo take of them for pricfts, and for Levites, faith the LORD.

aa For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make, thill remain before me, faith the LORD, fo fhall your feed and your name remain.

23 And it fhall come to país, that from one new moon to an other, and from one fabbath to another, fhall all feth come to worthip before me, faith the LORD.

24 And they fhall go forth,and look upon the carcafes of the men that have tranfgreffed againft me: for their worm fhall not die, neither fhall their firebe quench cd, and they fhall be an abhor ring unto all ch.

The Book of the Prophet JEREMIAH.

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CHAP. I.
He words of Jeremiah
the fon of Hilkish, of
the priefts that were
in Anathoth in the

ind of Benjamin:

2 To whom the word of the CORD came in the days of Joah the fon of Amon king of adah, in the thirteenth year f his reign.

thou cameft forth out of the womb, I fan&tified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

6 Then faid I, Ah, Lord GOD, behold, I cannot freak, for I am a child.

79 But the LORD faid unto me, Say nct I am a child for thou halt go to all that I fhall fend thee, and whatfoever I 3 It came alfo in the days of command thee thou fhalt fpeak. choiakim the fon of Jofiah king f Judah, unto the end of the for I am with thee so deliver Be not afraid of their faces: leventh year of Zedekish thefen thee, faith the LORD. f Jofish king of Judah, unto the artying away of Jerufaltin ca tive in the fifth month. 4 Tacn the word of the LORD ame unto me, faying,

5. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before

bis hand, and touched my 9 Then the LORD put forth mouth, and the LORD faid un to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

over the nation, and over the 10 See, I bave this day fet thee

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