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The Jews' estate bewailed.

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7 Yea, the 'stork in the heaven knoweth her ap-earth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and theyBefore pointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the know not me, saith the LORD. swallow, observe the time of their coming: but my Isaiah 1,3. people know not the judgment of the LORD.

i Pr. 6, 6, 8,

Job 39, 26.

8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Ps. 101, 12, the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the "scribes is in vain.

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9 The wise men are ashamed,they are dismayed in Rom. 2 and taken: lo, they have P rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one, from the least even unto the greatest, is Rom. 2, given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.

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11 For they have 'healed the hurt of the daughter r Deut. 28, of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: os, there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the Hag. 1,17 fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

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10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burnt up, so that none s Ps. 125, 1. can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle: both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem "heaps, anda den u Isa. 25, 2. of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah des- x ch. 10, 22 olate, without an inhabitant.

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12 Who is the wise man, that may understand Ps. 107, 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?

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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;

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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:

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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.

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16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, s whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and Deut. 28, 64. I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

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17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come: 25 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 verse 1. our eyelids gush out with waters.

Amos 5, 16. Mat. 9, 29. g ch. 14, 17. Lam. 2, 15.

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19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, h Lam. 1,1 How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20 LORD, O women, & H a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and Amos 5, 16. Lam.2, 11. night for the slain of the daughter of my people! teach your daughters wailing, and every one herm b Isa. 24, Ezek. 21, 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place neighbour lamentation: of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and ech 5,7,8. go from them! for they be all adulterers, an "assemaltos. 6,9 bly of treacherous men.

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21 For death is come up into our windows, and is n Lam. 2,5 entered into our " palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Ezek. 9,5,6. 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases p1 Sam. S of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and chap. 2, 2

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CHAPTER X....XI. Judah's desolation bewailed. as the handful after the harvest-man, and none shall 16 The Portion of Jacob is not like them: for he cir. 600. gather them. is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod cir. 600. of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. d 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress:

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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 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, 'I will sling understandeth and 'knoweth me, that I am the LORD out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will Col. 1,12. Hosea 4,6 which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and right-distress them, that they may find it so. Psal. 25, eousness, in the earth: for in these things I ' delight, saith the Lord.

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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 x Ezek 44, nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

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CHAPTER X.

The unequal comparison of God and idols.

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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 are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their ficcks shall be scattered.

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22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct s his steps.

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24 O LORD, "correct me, but with "judgment; m Ps. 6, 1. not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. n 2 Cor. 10, 25 °Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know o Job 12, thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy 21. name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and P devoured Psal. 79, 6. him, and consumed him, and have made his habita- &, 16. tion desolate.

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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. Jeremiah proclaimeth God's covenant, and rebuketh the Jews. 11.45, 20. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, nei-THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, ther also is it in them to do good.

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4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day Heb. that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the " iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and e do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;

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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 i answered I, and said, 'So be it, O LORD.

6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

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7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protest- & 5, 15. ing, saying, Obey my voice.

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8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil ich. 3, 17 heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.

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9 And the LORD said unto me,. A conspiracy Is Ezek. 22,2%. found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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10 They are turned back to the iniquities of Ezek. 20, their forefathers, which refused to hear my words ; and they went after other gods to serve them: the 33, 2, 5.

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12 Then shall the cities of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom 12 Kings they offer encense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

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God's promise to the penitent dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; Before because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have i Psal. 50, wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with 21. horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou k Prov. 24, trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do John 21, 18. in the swelling of Jordan?

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6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy Heb. 12, 4. father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; m ch. 9, 4. yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe n Ps. 78, 10. them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. 7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my heri- 25. 23. tage; I have given the dearly-beloved of my soul pchap. 10. into the hand of her enemies.

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13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that sch. 2, 24. shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither 8 My heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; q Mat. 23, lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.} 9 My heritage is unto me as a speckled bird; the 15 What hath my beloved "to do in my house, birds round about are against her; come ye, assemch 7,7, & seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and ble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. Ezek, 16, the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, evil, then thou" rejoicest. they have trodden my "portion under foot, they have 16 The LORD called thy name, 'A green olive-made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. tree, fair, and of goodly fruit; with the noise of a 11They have made it desolate, and being deso- x Isai. 5, 5, great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the late it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made Isai. 5, 19. branches of it are broken. desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

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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

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14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil Prov. 3, 4. neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I d Obadiah have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I ver. 11, 14. will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

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.

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21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of 16 And it shall come to pass if they will diligently Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: The LORD liveth; (as they taught my people to i Zech. 10, 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Be-swear by Baal;) then shall they be built in the midst Eb. 2, 18. hold, I will punish them; the young men shall die of my people. by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

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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?

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2 Thou hast planted them; yea, they have taken e Tit. 1, 16. root: they grow; yea, they bring forth fruit: thou d Psal 139, art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. 3 But thou, O LORD, "knowest me; thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out James 5, like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the Pr. 3, 5. second time, saying,

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4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon Heb. 11, 24thy loins, and arise, go to "Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

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A grievous famine. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took & me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, cir. 602. the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, and trusted in falsehood. behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for Ezek. 15, 3. nothing.

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8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and h ch. 9, 13. h 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 man, 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.

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12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with "wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly "know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants ceb. 25, 15 of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

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15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Mal. 1, 13. LORD hath spoken.

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16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he Hosea 3,7 cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon 1 Isa. 8, 22. the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he Lam. 2.1. turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

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

22 And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine Hosea 29. iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels Nal. 3, 5. made bare.

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26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. 27 I have seenthine adulteries, and thy neighings, g 2 Chr. 15, 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 hch. 4, 14. it once be?

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

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3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; b ch. 2, 13 they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 2 Sam. 15, 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no d Lev. 26, rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they 19 covered their heads.

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5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and for-Joel 2, 11 sook it, because there was no grass.

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6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes gch 2, 24 did fail, because there was no grass.

70 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.

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8 O the Hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in 1 ch. 17, 13 time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?"

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9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as n Ps. 115,8. a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, o Isa. 59, 1. art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy p Zech. 2,5. name: leave us not.

10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained 9 ch. 2, 23. their feet; therefore the LORD doth not accept them: he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their rs. 50, 21. {sins.

Hosea 8, 13.

i1 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this sch. 11, 14. people for their good.

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12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and I. 1, 15. when they offer burnt-offering and an oblation, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 13 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! behold, "the c. 5, 31 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.

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14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: 2Thes. 2 they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leop-not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in ard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets Hos. 13. 3. accustomed to do evil. be consumed.

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18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and 12 Chr. 36, there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, ch. 15, 18. and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to ' entreat s ch. 39, 17 thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction. t ch. 40, 4. 12 Shall "iron break the northern iron and the steel? u ch. 23,29 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give, Pr. 11, 4 to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

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15 O LORD, a thou knowest: remember me, and a ch. 11, 18. visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take 2 Tim. 4, me not away in thy long-suffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

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22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gen-God of hosts. tiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? thereAmos 4,7. fore we will wait upon thee; for thou hast made 12 Chr. 20, all these things.

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The utter rejection and manifold judgments of the Jews. HEN said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of my sight, and let them 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.

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18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound in- i Mark 3,5. curable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be k ch. 1, 17. altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

1 verse 18

mi Ezek. 19, 19, 23.

19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If 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 20. "unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

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20 And I will make thee unto this people Pa fenced p Ezek. 3,
brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but
they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with 2 ch. 10,11
thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saithwicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of
the LORD; the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, the terrible.
and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the

earth, to devour and destroy.

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CHAPTER XVI.

The prophet foresheweth the utter ruin of the Jews.
HE word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

Luke 21,15

4 And I will cause them to be removed into all 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither a Gen. 19,

kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the
son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he
did in Jerusalem.

5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O JerusaJob 19, lem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thon doest?

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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 la9 She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hathment for them, nor "cut themselves, nor make themAmos 8,9. given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while i selves bald for them: was yet day; she hath been ashamed and confound- 7 Neither shall men † tear themselves for them in 17

47, 5.

Heb. deal

unto them,

that is,

bread,
Deut. 26,14
Ezek.

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