54.

Deut. 32, ch. 50, 21.

Jam. 2, 13.

1 Or, left in widowhood,

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.

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Babylon, in revenge of Israel. maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his i molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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19 The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance; The LORD of hosts is his name. 20 Thou art my 'battle-axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

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Before CHRIST 595.

e chap. 10,

f chap. 48, 7. & 50, 2.

22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces 'old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces 12 Chr. 38, the young man and the maid;

17.

Ezek. 9, 6,

7.

m chap. 50,

23 I will also break in pieces with thee "the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces 16. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chal- the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee deans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 5 For Israel hath not been || forsaken, nor Judah{ Lam. 1, 1. of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee 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 recompense.

24 And I will render unto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. n chap. 50, 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying 'moun{tain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

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p Rev. 13,
14. & 17, S

4,5.
q Isaiuk. 14

13, 15.
r Rev. 17,

chap. 6, 4

27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trum- 16 pet among the nations, prepare the nations against Ezra 4, 3. her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, 2 Cor. 6, 14 9° We would have healed Babylon, but she is Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; Isa. 15, 5. Rev. 18,9. not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. Rev. 18, into his own country; for her judgment reacheth 28 Prepare against her the nations, with the kings unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers Isa 13, 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteous-thereof, and all the land of his dominion. Isaiah 13, ness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of 29 And the " land shall tremble and sorrow: for 17. the LORD our God. every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against y 1 Sam. 14, Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation " without an inhabitant.

11 Make bright the arrows, gather the shields: Rev. 15,3. the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon, to 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to a Psal. 107, destroy it; because it is the "vengeance of the LORD, fight, they have remained in their holds: their 'might 18.& 147, the vengeance of his temple. hath failed; they became as women: they have burn- b 1 Sam. 4 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Baby-ed her dwelling-places; her bars are broken. lon, make the watch strong; set up the watchmen, 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one 13. prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Baby- c Ps. 114, 8. devised and done that which he spake against the lon that his city is taken at one end, inhabitants of Babylon.

33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, say- Israel, The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing, Nahum 3, ing, Surely I will fill thee with men as with cater-floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and pillars; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. the time of her harvest shall come. 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

e Dan. 2,55

Joel 3, 14.
f Isa. 63, 6.

Micah 4, 13.
Rev. 14

15.

h chap. 50,

17.

i Hab. 1, 13

k Job 15,

Rev. 17, 6,

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like 20, 23. 16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multi-a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, tude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the he hath cast me out. vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he

Pa. 195, 7, d

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be verer 10

1 Judg. a 24. Obadiah,

Babylon's vain confidence.

Before CHRIST

595.

m Rev. 6,

10.

34.

m

CHRIST

595.

CHAPTER LII. Zedekiah rebelleth. upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, { 57 And I will make 'drunk her princes, and her Before My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty Jerusalem say. men and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is The LORD of 16. hosts.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, "I will chap. 50, plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

o Rev. 16, 13.

p Isaiah 13, 22.

q chap. 43,

37 And Babylon shall become "heaps, a dwelling-of place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall verse 14. yell as lions' whelps.

33.

39 In their heat will make their feasts, and I will Dan. 5, 2, make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. 40 f will bring them down like lambs to the 1 Ps. 49, 14. slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

* 1 Sam. 25,

37.

u Rev. 18, 10.

x Isa. 8, 8.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the "praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea 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 chap. 50, wilderness, a land wherein no man' dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon; and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath 'swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

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46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: a rumour Bev. 14, shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

d Dan. 5, 30, 31. Rev. 12, 7,

47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will 12.& 16, 14 do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

r chap. 25,

Hab. 2, 13

58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The 'broad walls ch. 5, 10. Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. 59 I The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with "Zedekiah the king of uch. 29, 3 Judah into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

1 Zedekiah rebelleth....4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken. EDEKIAH was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven 24, 18. years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. chap. 25, 1. 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of b2Sam. 11, the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 2 Kings 20, 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them 3,37 out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled a Psal. 81, against the king of Babylon.

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4 And it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar 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 b Zech. 8, the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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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.

i Psal. 107, 11, 12.

chap. 38, a Ps. 127,2

ch. 39, 2, 3 Ich. 49, 4

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after
the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of m PL SQ,
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of
Hamath; where he f 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.

21, 22. -Amos 2, 14

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with him judgment,

chap 4, 12

& 39, 5. n ch. 39, & verse 41

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Jerusalem spoiled.

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p Ezek. 17,

LAMENTATIONS.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and of brass: the second pillar also and the pomegranates Before Evil-merodach's kindness to Jehoiachin. the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and car-were like unto these. ried him to Babylon, and put him in prison P till the day of his death.

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12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, (which was the nineteenth year of NebuZech. 7,3 chadrezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

& 8, 19.

2 Kings

25 8.

chap. 25, 1

ch. 25, 1.

t chap. 7, 9,

13.

13 And burned the "house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire. 14 And all the army of the Chaideans, that were Chap. 41, 1. With the captain of the guard, brake down all the x Neb. 1, 3. Walls of Jerusalem round about.

u 2 Kings 25, 19

y 2 Kings chap. 40,7.

24, 14.

z 2 Kings 25, 13.

X

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 vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house ch. 27, 19, 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.

22.

a Ex. 27, 3.

45.

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18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the Kings 7, snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass, wherewith they ministered, took they away.

29xod. 25, Num. 4,7 ing

7, 15, 25. verse 17.

19 And the basons, and the 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.

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen Chr. 22,3. bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

had the charge of the men of war; and seven men 23,4
25 He took also out of the city a eunuch which
of them that † were near the king's person, which 12 & 23, 4
were found in the city; and the principal scribe of chap. 20,1.
the host, who mustered the people of the land; and 23, Kings
threescore men of the people of the land, that were
found in the midst of the city.

them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to
26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took
Riblah.

מן

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put
Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus
28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar car-
sand Jews and three and twenty:
ried away captive: In the " seventh year, three thou-
carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he
thirty and two persons:

m1 Kings

15, 25, 28. 2 Kings 24,

12.

chap. 25, 1.

verse 29. 590.

n 2 Kings

chadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard chap. 6, 2.
30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebu- 24, 16.
carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred thous.
sand and six hundred.
forty and five persons: all the persons were four thou- Exod. 1,5.

Geu. 12, 5.

chap. 43, t

585.

562.

year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in
31 And it came to pass, in the seven and thirtieth 。 ch. 41, 2.
the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the
first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin
month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the pchap. 25,
king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 25, 27.
32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne
Babylon,
above the throne of the kings that were with him in

¶ The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH.
CHAPTER I.

a

her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is k chap. 4, in bitterness.

18.

1 The miserable estate of Jerusalem by her sin....12 Her complaint, 18 and confession of God's righteous judgments. TCW doth the city sit solitary that was full of per; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the "mul5 Her adversaries are the 'chief, her enemies pros- 1 Deut. 28, people! how is she become as a widow! she{titude of her transgressions: her children are gone 14. Ezra 4, that was great among the nations, and princess into captivity before the enemy. among the provinces, how is she become tributary!}

c Deut. 28,

13.

d Jer. 9, 1.

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears is departed her princes are become like harts that 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty nJer. 52,13 are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath find no pasture; and they are gone without strength o Amos &, none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treach-before the pursuer. erously with her; they are become her enemies. Obadiah,

413, 17.

3 Judah is gone into captivity, because of affliction, and of her miseries, all her pleasant things p ch. 2,4 tion, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth that she had in the days of old, when her people fell ch. 29. among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her per-into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: secutors overtook her between the straits. 4'The ways of Zion do mourn, because none the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sab- 157,3. come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate⚫

Jer. 52, 8. Micah 3,

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Ps.

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Her misery lamented, is removed all that honoured her despise her, be- and remembered not his footstool in the day of his Before cause they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sigh-{anger! eth, and turneth backward. 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habita9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she "remember- tions of Jacob, and hath not pitied he hath thrown & 152 Ezek. 24, eth not her last end; therefore she came down won-down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter & Micah J, derfully she had no comforter. O LORD, behold of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: Deut. 32, my affliction, for the enemy hath magnified himself. he hath 'polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. e Luke 2, 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn Deut. 32, all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the of Israel: he hath "drawn back his right hand from heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like Drut. 23), didst command that they should not enter into thy a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. z Acts 21, congregation.

7.

23.

27.

12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see 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, Rom. 1, 18. and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread e Ezek. 12, net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath 15. & 17, 20. made me desolate and faint all the day.

44.

f Isa. 29, 22.

24.

b Ps. 44, 3. i Job 15,

4 He hath bent his bow like 'an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that 24 were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the k Isn. 63, daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. 10. 5 The LORD was as an enemy; he hath swal- 1P. 79, 6 lowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath so. increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and Jer. 30, 11. lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away his taber- Jer. 9, 21. anacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed o Ps. 80, 13 his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised, in the indignation of his anger, the P king and the priest.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by Mat. 11, 30. his hand; they are wreathed, and come up upon Pr. 5, 22. my neck; he hath made my strength to fall; the Eccl. 4, 12. LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

h2 Kings

24, 14.

i flos. 9, 13.

Zeph. 1,

8.

k Rev. 14,

19, 20.

1 Jer. 13,

17.

2 Cor. 1, 3.

& 4, 16.

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: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press.

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p 1 Sam. 12

25.

Jer 52, 9. ler. 7, 22.

ch. 4, 16. Isa. 1, 11.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the P. 74, 3. day of a solemn feast.

r

Isa. 5, 5

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall Jer. 5, 10. of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a 12 Kings line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroy- 34, 11. 16 For these things I weep: 'mine eye, mine eyeing: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to larunneth down with water, because the "comforter ment; they languished together. that should relieve my soul is far from me; my chil- 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath dem Isa. 40.1. dren are desolate, because the enemy "prevailed.stroyed and broken her bars; her king and her " Kings 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; n Est. 3, 15. none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon o Jer. 4, 31. round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up p 1 Sam. 2, Woman among them. dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled with sackcloth; the virgins of Jerusalem hang against his commandinent: hear, 1 pray you, all down their heads to the ground. people, and behold my sorrow; my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 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 distress; my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword Deut. 32, bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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 b Isa. 5, 1 thee false burdens, and causes of banishment.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they i chap. 1, & hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfec-k Ps. 48, 2 tion of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say,

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, IPs. 35,7 {'without cause.