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r Ezek. 2. 11.

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s ch. 13, 2

r 2 Sam. 13, 3.

A lamentation for Judah.

CHAPTER V.

Judgments on the Jews. 18 Thy way and thy doings have “procured these s 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay Before cic.612. things unto thee: this is thy wickedness, because it them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, cir. 61

is "bitter, because it reacheth unto thy heart. a "leopard shall waich over their cities : every one

19° My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because 9.
. Lam. 1, 8. very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me: I cannot their transgressions are many, and their backslidings . Hos. 13

hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, are increased.
the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war,

7 How shall I pardon thee for this ? thy children
20 Destruction Pupon destruction is cried: for the have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no Gal. d, 8
whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, gods: when I had P fed them to the full

, they then p Deut. 32 and my curtains in a moment.

committed "adultery, and assembled themselves by Hosea 4, 7 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear troops in the harlots' houses. the sound of the trumpet ?

8 They were as "fed horses in the morning: 9. Rom. I,

22 Formy people is a foolish, they have not known every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
me; they are sottish children, and they have none 9 Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the

understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such Rom. 8,6,7. good they have s no knowledge.

a nation as this? 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form 10 Go ye up upon her " walls, and destroy ; but u Ps 127, 2. and void ; and the heavens, and they had “no light. make not a full end : take away her battlements;

24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they * trembled, for they are not the LORD's. and all the hills moved lightly.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the have y dealt very treacherously against me, saith the y Isa. 21,10 y birds of the heavens were fled.

LORD. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilder- 12 They have belied the LORD, and said, " It is z1 John 5,

ness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at not he, neither shall evil come upon us, neither shall • Nah.1, 5. the è presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. we see sword nor famine; 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the . Zech. I,

b 152. shall be desolate ; yet will I not make a a-full end. word is not in them: thus shalı it be done unto them. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavb

14 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, iam. 3, 14. ens above be black : because I have spoken it, I have Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make

purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, d ch. 1, & bHos. 1,3. back from it.

and it shall devour them. 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O Deut

. 9R 42 Chr.ss, horsemen and bowmen ; they shall go into thick- house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, Amos 1, 2 ets, and climb up upon the rocks : every city shall it isan'ancient nation, a nation whose language thou (Deut 19 be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

knowest not, neither understandest what they say. 30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are

Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though all mighty men, • 2 Kings thou edeckest thee with ornaments of gold, though 17 And they shall beat up thy harvest, and thy Lev. 2s, Rev. 17, 4. thou rendest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou z bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat : Deut. 28,91.

Lam. 1, 2. make thyself fair ; thy 'lovers will despise thec, they they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall ch. 22, 20. will seek thy life.

Seat up thy vines and thy fig-trees : they shall impov31 For I have heard a voice as 8 of a woman in {erish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth the sword.

her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion, 18 Nevertheless, in those days, saith the Lord, I Lam. 1; that bewaileth herself, that "spreadeth her hands, will not make a full end with you.

saying, Wo is me now! for my soul is wearied be- 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, 12 Chr. 36, cause of murderers.

Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things heb. 15,22 CHAPTER V.

unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye %16,10 The judgments of God upon the Jews for their perverseness. Į have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your

UN ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusa- } land; so shall ye serve ' strangers in a land that is 47,4%.

lem, and see now, and know, and seek in 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 publishers .

be

any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the it in Judah, saying,
truth; and I will pardon it.
;
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and with heart

,

k 2 And though they say, The Lord liveth, surely out funderstanding; which have 'eyes, and see not; Titus 1,16. they swear " falsely.

which have ears and hear not: 3 0 LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? 22" Fear ye not me? saith the LORD : will ye not lohu 13.4 2 Chr. 16, thou hast 'stricken them, but they have not grieved; tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand Rom. 11, R.

thou hast consumed them, but they have & refused to for the "bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree,

receive correction: they have made their faces har- that it cannot pass it; and though the waves thereof umos 4, 6, der than a rock ; they have refused to return. toss themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though 10.4.2%

4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor ; they they roar, yet can they not pass over it? are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebell- och. 14. 22 nor the judgment of their God.

ious heart; they are revolted and gone. 5 I will get me unto the "great men, and will 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now ! Deu. Il lic . 3,1. speak unto them: for they have known the way of fear the Lord our God that giveth orain, both the

the Lord. and the judgment of their God: but'these former and the latter, in his season : he reser- 12,17 p 6, 13* have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds, veth unto us the 'appointed weeks of the harvest.

Belore

u

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CHRIST cir. 612

* Isa. 59, 1, 2

. 4, 4.

u

X

u Rev. 18,2

» Micah 6, 10.

& 8, 12
kom. 1, 32
Phil. 3, 19.

y Deut. 32, 15.

z Acts 17,
1 Thess. 5,
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a Hab. 1, 3, 4.

a . 20.

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Judah's enemies encourage themselves.

JEREMIAH.

God's judgments proclurmedl 25 *Your iniquities have turned away these things, 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter chefore cir. 612" and your sins have withholden good things from you. of my people " slightly, saying, * Peace, peace;

26 For among my people are found wicked men : when there is no peace.

they lay wait as he that setteth snares: they set a 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed Ezek. 18. 4. 1 Hosea 5,1. trap, they catch men.

abomination ? nay, they were not at all ashamed, xch. 4, 4. 27 As a "cage is full of birds, so are their shou-neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall 2 Pet. 2 19. ses full of deceit . therefore they are become great, among them that fall: at the time that I visit them ches, and waxen rich.

they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
28 They are ' waxen fat, they shine ; yea, they, 16 Thus saith the Lord, ? Stand ye in the ways,

? overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good . 1. Cor.5, the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they apros- way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your

per; and the right of the needy do they not judge. souls. But they said, "We will not walk therein.

29 Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Heark- Luke 19,18

LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a na-en to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We bch. 23, 14. tion as this?

will not hearken. 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O con- cca. 44,17 in the land :

gregation, what is among them. 31 The prophets prophesy "falsely,and the priests 19 'Hear, O earth ; Behold, I will bring evil upon iz.

; bear rule by their means; and my people love to this people, even the & fruit of their thoughts, because e Isa. 58, 1. have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof? they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to nly Isa. 1, 2. CHAPTER VI.

law, but rejected it. The enemies sent against Judah encourage themselves. 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense h Isa. 1,11 YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country ? Amos 5, 21

a O

to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow your i burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your i Ps.50, 2 the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in sacrifices sweet unto me. Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will and great destruction.

lay " stumbling-blocks before this people, and the 2 Thess. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely 'fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them ; ch. 4.6. and delicate woman.

the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
3 The e shepherds with their flocks shall come 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people com-
unto her ; they shall pitch their tents against hereth from the north country, and a great nation shall
round about ; they shall feed every one in his place. be raised from the sides of the earth.

4 Prepare ye war against her ; arise, and let us go 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they m Josh S, 1 Isa. 51, 17. up ' at noon. Wo unto us! for the day goeth away, { are "cruel, and have no mercy: their voice roareth

for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. like the sea'; and they ride upon horses, set in array alam. 5,

5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. g ch. 9, 20. her palaces.

24 We have heard the fame thereof; our hands 6 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, "Hew wax feeble : anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain

ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem : as of a woman in travail. 12. Kings this is the city to be visited ; she is ' wholly oppres- 25 P Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the sion in the midst of her.

way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she side. Ezek. 21,5. casteth out her wickedness : 'violence and spoil is 26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sack- Zech

. 12, heard in her; before me continually is grief and cloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee wounds.

mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamenta- r Isa. 23, 1 8 Be thou f instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul}tion: for the spoiler "shall suddenly come upon us. s Hab. 2, 1. P's. 91, 12. depart from theę; lest I make thee desolate, a land 27 I have setthee for a tower and a fortress among Pr. 27, 23. not inhabited.

my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. u Hosea 10, 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall tho- 28 They are all “grievous revolters, walking with 15. 2,3 km roughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn slanders: they are v brass and iron ; they are all sch. 18, 18,

У back thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. {corrupters.

10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that 29 The a bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed , 2 Cur. 2,

they may bear? Behold, their "ear is uncircumcised, of the fire; the founder melteth in vain : for the disa, 48, 4 Col. 3,12, and they cannot hearken: behold,the word of the LORD wicked are not plucked away.

is anto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because 12, 13.

11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I{the LORD hath rejected them.
p ch.20, 9. am weary with holding in: I will 9 pour it out upon
р

CHAPTER VII.
the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young 1 Jeremiah is sent to call for true repentance.... God rejecteth
men together; for even the husband with the wife

their vain confidence.
i bet
. 29 shall ve taken the aged with him that is full of days. T

THE a word that came to Jeremiah from the cir. 600. 12

LORD, saying, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of verse 4. the LORD.

the Lorn, 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 : 182. 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 cch. 18, 11 dealeth falsely.

cause you to dwell in this place.

Before CHRIST cir. 600.

Before CHRIST cir. 001

e

O2 Chr. So, 15.

Zech. 1, a

p Ex. $2,9

r 2 Kings

25, 21.

b Isa. 59, 7.

& 26.

k Rom. 6, 21.

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1, 2.
2 Tim. 3, 5.

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Mul. 3, 5.
p Isa. 56, 7.
4 Mat. 21,

21, 4, 7

14.

13.

Juduh's vain confidence rejected
CHAPTER VIII.

Idolatry threatened. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out temple of the LORD, The temple of the Lord, The of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have even sent temple of the LORD, are 'these.

unio you all my servants the prophets, daily rising d Micah 3,

5 For if yes thoroughly amend your ways and up early, and sending them : • 1 Sam... your doings ; if ye thoroughly execute judgment 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined Lesca y between a man and his neighbour ;

their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and than their fathers.

the widow, and shed not" innocent blood in this place, 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words 6 ch 22,4 neither waik after other gods to your hurt:

unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou 9 ch. 9, 3. 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this placo, inshalt also call unto them ; but they will not answer ; Ezek. 2, 5, Deute 4,40. the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. thee.

8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation profit.

that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor 9 Will ye 'steal, murder, and commit adultery, receiveth correction : ' truth is perished, and is cut s ch. 8, 8 and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and off from their mouth.

walk after other gods whom ye · know not ; 29 Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast-it ch. 3, 3'5. m Ex. 20, 3.

10 And come and stand before me in this house, away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for u Job I, 16. n Isa . 45,10

. which is called by my name, and say, We are de- the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation livered to do all these abominations?

of his wrath. 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my. become a "den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even sight, saith the LORD: they have * set their abomi- king I have seen it, saith the LORD.

nations in the house which is called ' by my name, 2Chr. 36, 12 But go ye now unto my place, which was in to pollute it. Deut. 12, Shiloh, where I set my' name at the first, and see 31 And they have built the high places of To- I. Nerses in

? what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. phet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to #Josh. 18,1. 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," risingup early I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart, a Isa. 80, 38

and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the 2 Chr.36, but ye answered not ;

LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor, 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of I Pr. 1, 24.

called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the Slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet till there

place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as 1 } be no place. 71 Sam. 4, have done to Shiloh.

33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat c Deut. 28, 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the chap. 25,6.

cast out all your ? brethren, even the whole seed of earth; and none shall fray them away.
Ephraim.

34 Then will "I cause to cease from the cities of
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice ock, 2013

lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make interces- of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the Rev. 18, 23 bub. 15, 1. sion to me: for I will not hear thee.

bridegroom, and the voice of the bride ; for the land
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of shall be desolate.
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem ?

CHAPTER VIII.
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers 1 The calamity of the Jews....4 Their impenitency upbraided.
kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to AT that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring a Kings
make ,

out of kings the ont drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and orkiman provoke me to anger.

the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhab19 Do they ® provoke me to anger? saith the Lord:{itants of Jerusalem, out of their graves :

do they not proroke themselves, to the confusion of 2 And they shall spread them before the sun and & Ps. 16, 4 their own faces ?.

the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, have loved, and whom they have served, and after

mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, Zeph. 2, 3. place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be 1, 2 Kings

of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for o dung
shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

upon the face of the earth.
21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by
b Hos. 2. 13. Israel; "Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifi- all the residue of them that remain of this evil family,
ces, and eat flesh.

which remain in all the places whither I have driven 11 Sam 15 22 For li spake not unto your fathers, nor com-them, saith the Lord of hosts. Paal 50, 5. manded them in the day that I brought them out of 4 Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith & 11,18. liosea sy as the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sa- the Lord; Shail they fall, and not arise ? shall be crifices:

turn away, and not return?
I ch. 11, 4. 23 But " this thing commanded I them, saying, 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden
!! Sun.15, 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall { back by a perpetual backsliding? 'they liold fast

be my people ; and walk ye in all the ways that I deceit, they refuse to return.
have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 6 I hearkened and heart, but they spake 5 not

21 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their car, aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, say

but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of ing, What have I done every one turned to his Rs. B1, 12 their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

26.
I's. 72,3, 3.

Before CHRIST

CHRIST cir. 600.

i Pr. 6, 6, &

(2 Tim. 3,

Job 39, 26.

g Hos. 41.

Song

h Micah 7,

D

I Luke 13,

36.

in Rom. 17.

k Ezek. 9.

n1 Cor. 1, 28.

I ch. 13,3

och. 6, 15.

m Ps. 10m 2

r Rom. 2

n Isa. 1, 24. Mal. 3, s.

The Jews' estate bewurled.

JEREMIAH.

Drsobedience the cause of calamity. 7 Yea, the 'stork in the heaven knoweth her ap- {earth : for they proceed from evil to evil, and they Before H.26.0.1 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 4- Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and Isalala's, people 'know not the judgment of the LORD.

trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will is 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of utterly ' supplant, and every neighbour will walk Ps. 104, 12 the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he with * slanders. it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, 5, 6.
9 The wise men are o ashamed, they are dismayed and will not speak the truth: they have taught their : Gen. 27,
and taken: lo, they have P rejected the word of the tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to com-
LORD; and 'what wisdom is in them?

mit iniquity.
10 Therefore will I give 'their wives unto others, 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through
and their fields to them that shall inherit them : form deceit'they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
every one, from the least even unto the greatest, is 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto}I will melt them, and try them; for ° how shall

1
the priest, every one dealeth falsely.

do for the daughter of my people ? 11 For they have 'healed the hurt of the daughter 8 Their Ptongue is as an arrow shot out; it speak- : ? Chr

. 36, Deut. 28, ' of my people slightly, saying, 'Peace, peace; when eth deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neigh- Isa. 5, 4, & there is no peace. bour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. p. Ps. 64

, 5. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed 9 Shall I not 'visit them for these things ? saith 'rov so, 1* ich 6, 14. abomination ? nay, they were not at all ashamed, the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a g 2 Sam. 20

neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall nation as this? . Ezek. 13,10. among them that fall : in the time of their visitation 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping Ich. 3,3. they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness 13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD : {a lamentation, because they are burnt up, so that none 208. 3.9. there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs

on the can pass through them ; neither can men hear the y 11 ag17 fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that voice of the cattle : both the fowl of the heavens

I have given them shall pass away from them. and the beast are fled; they are gone.

14 Why do we sit still ? assemble yourselves, and 11 And I will make Jerusalem "heaps, and 'a den u Isa. 25, 2. let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah des- ich. 50, 22

silent there ; for the Lord our God hath put us to olate, without an inhabitant. Lam. 8, 28. silence, and given us a water of gall to drink, because 12 y Who is the wise man, that may understand s. 107, a Deut. 52, we have sinped against the Lord.

this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD Hosea 14,9 15 We looked for peace, but no good came ; and hath spoken, that he may ? declare it, for what the 1 Ise. 21,6 v ch. 14, 19. for a time of health, and behold trouble! a

land perisheth and is burnt up like a wilderness, that 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from none passeth through ? ech. 4, 15. Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the 13 And the LORD saith, · Because they have for- 1 ch. 2 57. d ch. 47, 3. neighing of his strong ones; for they are coine, and saken my law which I set before them, and have not

have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, obeyed my voice, neither walked therein ;
and those that dwell therein.

14 But have walked after the bimagination of their b ch. 7, 24 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, @cockatrices, own heart, and after Baalim, which their o fathers i Peter i,

among you, which will not be charmed, and they taught them : (Ps. 58, 4,5. shall bite you, saith the LORD.

15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, God of Israel ; Behold, I will feed them, even this my heart is faint "in me.

people, with wormwood, and give them water of a ch. 8, 14 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of} gall to drink.

my people, because of them that dwell in a far coun- 16 I will e scatter them also among the heathen, slev. 26, i llosea 10, try. Is not the Lord in Zion ? iis not her King in her? whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and Deut. 28, 64.

why have they provoked me to anger with their I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed
graven images, and with strange vanities? them.

20 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and 17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and
we are not saved.

call for the mourning women, that they may come: 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am and send for cunning women, that they may come : Amos 5,26. Ps. 35, 13. I hurt; I am "black; astonishment hath taken hold 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing

for us, that our 5 eyes may run down with tears, and sehe 1, 17. 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- 19 for "a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, Lam. 1, 1

ha
ter of my people P recovered ?

How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded,
CHAPTER IX.

because we have forsaken the land, because our
Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins.

dwellings have cast us out. O H that my head were waters, and mine eyes a} 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O yek women, 2013

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 her m Isu 24, 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place neighbour lamentation :

Ezrt.21,14 of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is n Lam. 25 c ch 5, 7, 8. go from them! for they be all adulterers, an "assem- entered into our " palaces, to cut off the children à llos. 6,9 lily of treacherous men.

from without, and the young men from the streets. Ezek. 9,5,6. 3 And they e bend their tongue like their bow for 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases p1 Sam.si lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the of men shall fall ' as dung upon the open field, and chap. 6, 2

Refore

Before CHRIST

a Lam. 3

11.
1 Cor. 1, 31.

Rom. 8, 10

b Pr. 16 4.

d chap. 4, 5, 6.

10.

e Mat. 24

Luke 17,31

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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 CHRIST cir. 600. gather them.

is the former of all things; and Israel is the orod cir. too. 23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the ? wise man of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name. 9 Eccl. 9,

glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, o in- 24 in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: habitant of the fortress :

24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, 'I will sling Psal. 91, 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, & which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and right-s distress them, that they may find it so. Psal. 25, eousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, 19 Wo is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous : saith the LORD.

but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must" bear it. 1. 25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are I will punish all them which are "circumcised with broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they ishap. 18, the uncircumcised;

are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any 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 21 For the pastors are become i brutish, and have

corners, that dwell in the wilderness : for all these not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not pros- Lan. 2. 18. Ezek 44 nations are *uncircumcised, and all the bouse of} per, and all their ficcks shall be scattered. Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a jsa.59,

, CHAPTER X.

great commotion out of the north country, to make Ezek. 13, 3. The unequal comparison of God and idols.

the cities

of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. HEAR ye the word which the Lord speaketh 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man "is unto youO of Israel :

in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct 5. 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of his steps. e Ialah 47, the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of 24 O LORD, "correct me, but with judgment;

heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one 25 °Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know 19, 10,20. dcutteth a tree out of the forest (the work of the hands thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy 21. of the workman) with the axe:

name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and P devoured Psal. 79, 6. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they him, and consumed him, and have made his habita-16. fasten it with nails and with hammers,chat it move not. tion desolate. 5 They are upright as the palm-tree, but speak not;

CHAPTER XI. ! Pa 115,7. they must 'needs be borne, because they cannot go. Jeremiah proclaimeth God's covenant, and rebuketh the Jews. lue *s * Benot afraid of them for they cannot do evil, nei- THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,

; ther also is it in

6 Forasmuch as there is 5 none like unto thee, O 2. Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak iDeut. 33, 'n Ps. 145, 8. LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of

7 Who would not fear thee, *0 King of nations?} Jerusalem; for to thee 'dotb it appertain: forasmuch as among 3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord all the wise men of the nations, and in all their king-Gon of Israel, Cursed be the man that f obeyeth Deut

. 27, doms, there is none like unto thee.

not the words of this covenant, 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish; the 4. Which I commanded your fathers in the day Heb. stock is a doctrine of vanities.

that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, s. 61, n 9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and echap. 2 n 2 Kings and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and do them, according to all which I command you :

of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;
clothing; they are all the work of cunning men. 5 That I may perform the oath which I have

10 But the Lord is the true God, he is the living sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flow- 12 Mat . 16, God, and an everlasting King; at his wrath the ing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then 10.

earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able answered I, and said, 'So be it, O LORD. 3 160.9 ... to abide his indignation.

6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these 26. 11 Thus shall'ye say unto them. The gods that words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of

have not made the heavens and the earth, even they Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this cove1 Zeph.2, shall 'perish from the earth, and from under these nant, and 6 do them. heavens.

7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers, in & 2, 12. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath the day that I brought them up out of the land of * Ps. 98, 1. 'established the world by his wisdom, and hath Egypt, cren unto this day, rising early and protest- & 35, 1.3. 1 Ps. 104, 2 stretched out the heavens by his discretion. ing, saying, Obey my voice. Job 57,2 13 When he "uttereth his voice, there is a multi- 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but

tude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the walked every one in the imagination of their evil ich. 9,17
vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words
maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the of this covenant which I commanded them to do: but
wind out of his treasures.

they did them not.
14 Every man is' brutish in his knowledge; every 9 And the Lord said unto me," A conspiracy is Elek. 2,22

., founder is confounded by the graven image: for his found among the men of Judah, and among the inH215.? molten image is falsehood, and there is no ’ breath habitants of Jerusalem. in them.

10 They are turned back to the iniquities of !Ezek. 20, 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors : in their forefathers, which refused to hear my words ; the time of their visitation they shall perish. and they went after other gods to serve them : the 38, 25.