19° My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my Lam. 1, 8. very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me: I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. ach 91. p Ps. 42, 7. 20 Destruction Pupon destruction is cried: for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do Rom. 8,6,7. good they have no knowledge. r 2 Sam. 13,3. s ch. 9, 9. 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form Amos 3, 10. and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. t Gen. 1, 2. Isa. 24, 23. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, Ish. 5, 30. and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at * Nah. 1,5. the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land Z a sa 19. shall be desolate; will I not make a full end. ch. 50, 10, 11. Ezek. 11, 13. Hab. 3, 2 yet Judgments on the Jews. Before cir. 612 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shali spoil them, CHRIST a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings n Hos. 13 are increased. m Zeph. 3, 7. 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no o Gal. 4, 8. gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then p. Deut. 32, committed adultery, and assembled themselves by Hosea 4,7. troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shalt it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Lam. 3, 14. Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make and it shall devour them. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn { my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, d ch. 1, 8 it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou (Deut 10, 30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Lam. 1,2. ch. 22, 20. will seek thy life. g Isa. 13, 8. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Wo is me now! for my soul is wearied be12 Chr. 36, cause of murderers. h Lam. 1; 17. 17. a Ezek. 22, 30. CHAPTER V. 16. 17 And they shall & eat up thy harvest, and thy g Lev. 26, bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: Deut. 28,51. eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees: they shall impov- 18 Nevertheless, in those days, saith the LORD, I 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, h Wherefore doeth the LORDOur God all these things h ch. 13,22 unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye & 16, 10. have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your i Dent. 25, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is 47, 43. The judgments of God upon the Jews for their perverseness. lem, and 2,17. Lam. 5, 8. see now, know, and seek the not yours. Mic. 7, 1,2. broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish a b Gen. 18, be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh theit in Judah, saying, 2,15. Gal. 3, 1. Heb. heart, Hosea 7,11 1 Mat. 13, 14. 30 LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? 22 Fear ye not me ? saith the LORD: will ye not Johu 13,40 Acts 28, 26, € 2 Chr. 16, thou hast 'stricken them, but they have not grieved; tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand Rom. 11, 8. thou hast consumed them, but they have & refused to for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, m Rev. 15, receive correction: they have made their faces har-that it cannot pass it; and though the waves thereof r Gen. 8,23 e ch. 21, 10. 1 Isa. & 8, 12. Rom. 1, 32. Phil. 3, 19. z Acts 17, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find brest for your 1 Thess. 5, souls. But they said, "We will not walk therein. 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Heark- Luke 19,18. en to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. a Isa. 8, 20. Jolin 5, 39. b Mat. 11, 29. 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O con- cch. 44,17 gregation, what is among them. d Ezek. 2, 19 'Hear, O earth; Behold, I will bring evil upon 17. this people, even the & fruit of their thoughts, because e Isa. 58, 1. they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my f Isa. 1, 2. law, but rejected it. g Pr. 1, 31 21 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense h Isa. 1, 11 from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Amos 5, your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your i Ps. 50, 3. sacrifices sweet unto me. chap. 7, 21 2,-11. 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the 2 Thess. fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; 12 Chr. 36, the neighbour and his friend shall perish. 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people com 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 51, 17. up 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go gch. 9, 20. her palaces. h Deut. 20, 19. 6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: Kings this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppres 21, 16. k Ps. 55, 9. ch. 20, 8. sion in the midst of her. 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she Ezek. 24,5. casteth out her wickedness: 1 violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. † Heb. corrected, be raised from the sides of the earth. 17 23 They shall lay hold on bow and m spear; they m Josh. 8, are cruel, and have no mercy: their voice roareth 18. like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array L as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain as of a woman in travail. 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. n Lam. 5, o ch. 50, 43. p ch.8, 14. 26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sack-q Zech. 12, cloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee 10. mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamenta- r Isa. 53, 1 8 Be thou † instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul)tion: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. Hab. 2, 1. Ps. 94, 12. depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. 24, 16. & 25, 4. n Acts 7, 51. 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall tho- 10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their " ear is uncircumcised, Col. 3, 12, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 13. o Amos 7,5. 2 Tim. 4,8 p ch. 20, 9. η Rev. 16, 1. r Ezek. 9,6. • Deut. 28, 5. Micah 3,11. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am P weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife taken, the aged with him that is full of days. 12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 29 The a y Isa. 1, 21. z 2 Cor. 2, e bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the i wicked are not plucked away. b 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. a Isa. 49, 4. b Ezek. 24, 12, 13. c Ps. 15, 4. cir. 600. a ch. 1, 2, 3 b ch. 26, 2. 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of verse 4. the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these 13 For from the least of them even unto the great-gates to worship the LORD: 13. 56,11. est of them, every one is given to covetousness; 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of IsLuke 20, 47. and from the prophet even unto the priest, every onerael, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will 2 Pet. 2,2 dealeth falsely. 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even p Isa. 56,7. I have seen it, saith the LORD. q Mat. 21, 15. r Deut. 12, 11. Josh. 18, 1. 10. 15. Idolatry threatened. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early, and sending them : Before CHRIST cir. 600 o 2 Chr. 56, 15. 6,5. Zech. 1, 6. 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined a their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. p. Ex. 32, 9 Neh. 9, 17, 29 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou 9 ch. 9, 3. shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer Ezek. 2, 5, thee. r 7 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut sch. 6, 8 off from their mouth. t Ps. 11, 2. 29 Cut off thy" hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it ch. 9,2,3. away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for u Job 1, 16. the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abomi- 31 King nations in the house which is called by my name, 2 Chr. 36, 21, 4, 7. 14. 12 But go ye now unto my place, which was into pollute it. Shiloh, where I set my 'name' at the first, and 'see 31 And they have built the high places of To- verses 14 what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. {phet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to z2 Kings 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which 23, 10. 1 Sam. 4, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, " rising up early { I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. a Isa. 30, 33. and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, 2 Chr. 36, but ye answered not; x Pr. 1, 24. y 1 Sam. 4, 0. chap. 26, 6. * 2 Kings 17, 23. a Ex. 32, 10. 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. Z 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make interces bh. 15, 1. sion to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem ? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the † queen of heaven, and tod pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?. 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this (Zeph. 2, 3. place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. AT that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the 132 bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be b 2 Kings gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for 'dung 20hr. 38.5. upon the face of the earth. 3. And death shall be chosen rather than life by & Hos. 8, 13. Israel; Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifi-all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, ces, and eat flesh. 11 Sam 15 22. Psal. 50, 5. Hosea 6, 6. which remain in all the places whither I have driven 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor com-them, saith the LORD of hosts. manded them in the day that I brought them out of 4 Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sa-the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise ? shall he crifices: k ch. 11, 4. 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, 118in. 15, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in "all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, 19. 29, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went back ward, and not forward. turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetuad backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 61 hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 23.5. Ezek. 8, 16. c Ps. 83,10 d 1 Kings Lam. 3, 9. Rev. 9, 6. 19,4. & 14, 13. e ch. 5, 5. f Ps. 36, R chap. 4, 6. 22 verse 24. m Ps. 119,6. Ps. 81, 12. g Ps. 12, 2 h Job 39 21 The Jews' estate bewailed. Before 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her ap-earth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they CHRIST pointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming: but my Pr. 6, 6, 8. Isaiah','s. people know not the judgment of the LORD. Job 39, 26. m 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Ps. 104, 19. the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he Song 2, 12 1-Luke 13, 42. it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed in Rom. 2, and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? 17. n 1 Cor. 1, 26. o ch. 6, 15. p Rom. 2, 25. q Ps. 19, 7. Isaiah 8, 20. 30. 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through 1 ch. 13, 23. 11 For they have 'healed the hurt of the daughter Deut. 22, of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace; when Phil. 2, 21. there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed tch. 6, 14. abomination ? nay, they were not at all ashamed, u Lam. 2, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall Ezek. 13,10. among them that fall: in the time of their visitation 13. x ch. 3, 3. Hos. 29. Joel 1, 7. Hag. 1, 17. Luke 13, 6. z Ps. 39, 9. they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. 13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and 11 And I will make Jerusalem "heaps, anda den Lam. 3, 28. silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because a Deut. 32, we have sinned against the Lord. 33. b ch. 14,19. *ch. 4, 15. d ch. 47, 3. e Isa. 59, 5. chap. 4, 29. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they (Ps. 58,4,5. shall bite you, saith the LORD. 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD Hosea 14,9 hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the z Isa. 21,6 land perisheth and is burnt up like a wilderness, that none passeth through ? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have for- ch. 2. 57. saken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein ; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their b ch. 7, 24 own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers 1 Peter 1, taught them: 18. 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 d ch. 8, 14 gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, Lev. 26, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and Deut. 28, 64. I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. f 2 Chr. 35, 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 : Amos 5, 16. 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our & eyes may run down with tears, and 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no phy-our eyelids gush out with waters. sician there? why then is not the health of the daugh- 0 CHAPTER IX. Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins. night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place { neighbour lamentation: of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and 5,7,8. go from them! for they be all adulterers, an dassema Hos. 6,9 bly of treacherous men. • Ps. 120, 2. 3 And they bend their tongue like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the 18. Before as the handful after the harvest-man, and none shall CHRIST cir. 600. q Eccl. 9, 11. 1 Cor. 1, $1. gather them. 23 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 Judah's desolation bewailed. Before CHRIST cir. 600. a Lam. S 16 The Portion of Jacob is not like them: for he Psal. 91, understandeth and 'knoweth me, that I am the LORD 10. Psal. 25, eousness, in the earth: for in these things I'delight, saith the LORD. t Micah 6, 8. & 7, 18. 25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that и Коль 2, 8, I will punish all them which are "circumcised with 10. 7. the uncircumcised; Rom. 8, 10 b Pr. 16 4. c Col. 1,12. d chap. 4, 5, 6. e Mat. 24. Luke 17,81 19 Wo is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they is are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any g Ezek. 6, 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children & more, and to set up my curtains. of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost Ezek 44 nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of b Lev. 18, S. 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of • Isaiah 47, the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 12, 13 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one 10,20. dcutteth a tree out of the forest (the work of the hands of the workman) with the axe: & 44, 12. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm-tree, but speak not; P. 115,7. they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Isa. 45, 20. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, nei g Ps. 86, 8. i Rev. 15, 4. ther also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O h Ps. 145,3. LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear thee, * O King of nations? for to thee 'doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. k Dan. 7, 14. Rev. 11, 15. 11 Chr. 29, 8 But they are altogether "brutish and foolish; the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of cunning men. 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able Tim., 16. to abide his indignation. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13 When he "uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. Rom. 1, 22. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his P115,7 molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God; 5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flow- 12 ing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then 10. answered I, and said, 'So be it, O LORD. 9 And the LORD said unto me, * A conspiracy is 22,22 found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities I of Ezek. 20, their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; m 2 Chron and they went after other gods to serve them: the 33,24 |