observation of the sabbath.

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 601.

4 Ex. 20.8. & 23. 12. & 31. 13. Ezek.20.12.

1 ch.7.24,26. & 11. 10.

k ch. 22.4.

1 ch. 82. 44. & 33. 13.

m Zech.7.7.

Zech.7.7.

o Pa. 107. 22.

& 116. 17.

cir. 605.

■ Is. 45. 9. Rom. 9. 20, 21.

b Is. 64. 8.

your

22 Neither carry forth a burden out of houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

23 'But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from 'the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from m the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.

27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

CHAPTER XVIII.

11

1 Under the type of a potter is shewed God's absolute power in disposing of nations. Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt. 18 Jeremiah prayeth against his conspirators.

THE

HE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the "wheels.

4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

b

6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Judah is threatened.

7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a devicé against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

12 And they said, & There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

14 Will a man leave 2 the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken ?

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 605.

• ch. 1. 10.

a Ezek. 18. &8. 11.

21.

The desolation of the

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 605.

y Ps. 109. 9, 10,

2 Heb. pour them out.

I ver. 20.

8 Heb.for death.

a Ps. 35. 4. & 109. 14. ch. LL. 20. & 15. 15.

cir. 605.

. Josh. 15.8. 2 Kings 23. 10. ch. 7.31.

4 Heb. the sun gate.

b ch. 17. 20.

2

for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid my feet.

snares for

23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: • forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

CHAPTER XIX. Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel is foreshewed the desolation of the Jews for their

sins.

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HUS saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, elSam.3.11. his ears shall • tingle.

2 Kings 21. 12.

d Deut. 28. 20.

Is. 65.11. ch. 2. 13, 17, 19. & 15. 6. & 17. 13.

me,

4 Because they have forsaken and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place 2 Kings 21. with the blood of innocents;

16.

ch. 2. 34.

& 32. 35.

5 They have built also the high fch.7.31,32. places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

gLev.18.21.

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this Lev.28.17. place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will

Deut.28.25.

Ps. 79. 2. ch. 7.89. & 16. 4. & 34. 20.

Jews is foreshewn.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 605.

1 ch. 18. 16.

I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city 'desolate, and an hissing; every one that& 49. 18. passeth thereby shall be astonished & 50. 13. and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

9 And I will cause them to eat the m flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

BEFORE said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but 2 Magor-missabib.

cir. 605.

? That is, Fear round about, Ps. 81. 13. ver. 10. ch. 6. 25. & 46. 5. & 49. 29.

b2Kings 20. 17. & 24. 12 -16. & 25. 13, &c. ch. 3. 24.

ech. 14. 13, 14. & 28. 15. & 29. 21.

80r,enticed.

d ch. 1. 6,7.

Lam.3.14.

fch. 6.7.

19.

4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

:

6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast * prophesied lies.

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7 TO LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

8 For since I spake, I cried out, 'I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in Job 82. 18, mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Ps. 39. 3.
h Job 82. 18.
Acts 18. 5.
IPs. 81. 18.

4 Heb. Every man

of my peace. Job 19. 19.

Ps. 41. & 55. 13, 14. Luke 11. 58, 54.

1 ch. 1. 8, 19.

m

11 But 'the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they ch. 15. 20. shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their "everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

& 17.18.

a ch. 23. 40.

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the PPs. 54.7.& reins and the heart, Plet me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye &109.80, 81. the LORD: for he hath delivered

qP8.35.9.10.

Exhortation to repentance.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 589.

& Deut. 28. 50.

and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor

2 Chr.36.17. have mercy.

h Deut. 30. 19.

I ch. 88. 2, 17, 18.

8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

h

9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall keh. 89. 18. live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

& 45. 5.

1 Ley. 17.10. ch. 44. 11. Amos 9. 4. m ch. 38. 3.

k

10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babyach.34.2,22. lon, and he shall n burn it with fire.

& 37. 10. & 38. 18, 23. & 52. 13.

cir. 609. och. 22.3. Zech. 7.9. 2 Heb. Judge. P Ps. 101.8.

q Ezek. 18.

8.

8 Heb. inhabitress.

rch. 49. 4.

4 Heb. visit upon.

Prov. 1.31. Is. 3. 10, 11.

t 2 Chr. 36. 19.

ch. 52. 13.

cir. 609.

a ch. 17.20.

b ch.21.12.

11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; °2 Execute judgment Pin the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

CHAPTER XXII.

1 He exhorteth to repentance, with promises 13 of Jehoiakim, 20 und of Coniah.

and threats. 10 The judgment of Shallum,

3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand See ver.17. of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

d ch. 17. 25. 6 Heb. for David upon his throne.

4 For if ye do this thing indeed, a then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon

5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Heb. 6. 13, LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them 18.87.24. into the fire.

12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. 13 ¶ Woe unto him that build-02 Kings eth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; P that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out 3 windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

ver. 18. Lev. 19.13.

Deut.24. 14, 15.

Mic. 8. 10.

Hab. 2.9. Jam. 5. 4.

15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? 4 did not thy 2 Kings father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

? Ps. 128. 2. Is. 3. 10.

17. But thine eyes and thine heart Ezek. 19.6. are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. incursion.

4 Or,

Jehoiakim, and Coniah.

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 609.

t

of

Christ is promised.

a Seel Kings 13. 30.

Fulfilled 599.

2 Chr. 36. 6.

ch, 86. 30.

19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

20 T Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

21 I spake unto thee in thy 2 prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

22 The wind shall eat up all z thy pastors, and a thy lovers shall go into captivity surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

23 0 inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail !

d

b

24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah & were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

e

25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 And I will cast thee out, and Chr.38.10. thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born'; and there shall ye die.

4 Heb. lift up their mind.

ch. 44. 14.

8 Ps. 31. 12. ch. 48.38. Hos. 8.8.

à Deut.32.1. Is. 1. 2. & 34.1. Micah 1.2.

1 See 1 Chr. 3. 16, 17. Matt. L. 12. k ch. 36. 80.

27 But to the land whereunto they 'desire to return, thither shall they

BEFORE CHRIST 599.

a ch. 10. 21.

& 22, 22. Ezek. 34. 2.

destroy and scatter the sheep my pasture! saith the LORD. 2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I Ex.32.34. will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

b

3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds ; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

d

4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

ch. 32. 37.

Ezek. 34.18,

&c.

6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called, "THE LORD OUR RIGH-ch. 32. 37. TEOUSNESS.

7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

1 ch. 33. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 30.

2 Heb.

Jehovahtsidkenu.

ch. 16. 14,

15.

8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whi- | 1 Is. 43. 5, 6. ther I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

ver. 3.

m See Hab.

9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; mall my bones shake; I am like a drunken 8.16. man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

10 For "the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; Pthe pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, 'in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.