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LAMENTATIONS. Evil-merodach's kindness to Jehoirchin. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah ; and { of brass: the second pillar also and the pomegranates chekist the king of Babylon bound him oin chains, and car- were like unto these. ried him to Babylon, and put him in prison P till the 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates day of his death.

on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the net12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of work were a hundred round about.

the month, (which was the nineteenth year of Nebu- 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah 52 Kirgs 22ch. 7. 8. chadrezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adanthe chief priest, and i Zephaniah the * second priest, - 2 Kings captain of the guard, which served the king of Baby- and the three keepers of the door: lon, into Jerusalem,

25 He took also out of the city a eunuch which 13 And burned the house of the LORD), and the had the charge of the men of war; and 'seven men 23, 4 king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalenı, and of them that t were near the king's person, which 12 293,72 all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire. were found in the city; and the principal scribe of chap. 211, .

14 And all the army of the Chaideans, that were the host, who mustered the people of the land ; and 23 Kings chap 41, 1. with the captain of the guard, * brake down all the threescore men of the people of the land, that were Neb 1,3. walls of Jerusalem round about.

found in the midst of the city. 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took 2 Kings 18, y 2 Kings carried away captive certain of the poor of the peo-them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to this, ciap.:10,7. ple, and the residue of the people that remained in Riblah.

the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put
of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude,

them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus
16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
left certain of the poor of the land, for vine-dressers 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar car-
and for husbandmen.

ried away captive: In the seventh year, three thou- m Kinga 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house sand Jews and three and twenty: Ch. 21, 19, of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he chap. 25, 1.

was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, carried away captive " from Jerusalem eight hundred
and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. thirty and two f persons:

18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebu- 21, 16. kings 7, snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the chadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard chap. 6, 8.

vessels of brass, wherewith they ministered, took carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred the secondo
they away.
forty and five persons: all the persons were fourthou- Exol

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19 And the basons, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, sand and six hundred.
and the caldrons, and the candlesticks,and the spoons, 31 I And it came to pass, in the seven and thirtieth och. 41,2.
and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in

; , 15, 9 that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the the guard away.

month, that "Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the p chap. 25, 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen first year of his reign, 9 lifted up the head of Jehoiachin Chr. 22,3. bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, A.

had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne e 1 Kings these vessels was without weight.

above the throne of the kings that were with him in 21 And concerning the e pillars, the height of one Babylon, pillar was eighteen cubits, and ''a fillet of twelve 33 And changed his prison-garments; and he did 1 Gen. 41, cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof} continually eat bread before him all the days of his was four fingers : it was hollow.

life. 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet 12

height ofone chapiter was 5 five cubits, with net-work given him of the king of Babylon, every day a por- banal ikings 25, and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all í tion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life. 3, s.

I The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH.
CHAPTER I.

her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is kechap. 4, 1 The miserable estate of Jerusalem by her sin....12 Her com

in bitterness. plaint, 18 and confession of God's righteous judgments. 5 Her adversaries are the 'chief, her enemies pros- Deut

. 28, HOW LTCW doth the city sit solitary that was full of per; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the mul

people! how is she become as a widow! shetitude of her transgressions : her children are gone 11 » Ezra 4, that was great among the nations, and princess into captivity before the enemy.

among the provinces, how is she become tributary! 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty nJer. 52,13

2 She "weepeth sore in the night, and her tears } is departed : her princes are become like harts that d Jer. 91. are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hathfind ono pasture; and they are gone without strength o Amon en none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treach- before the

pursuer. OMICZ5 erously with her; they are become her enemies. 7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her afflic

3 Judah 'is gone into captivity, because of affliction, and of her miseries, all her P pleasant things p ch. 2 4 s Deut. 28, tion, and because of great servitude ; she s dwelleth that she had in the days of old, when her people fell

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.

the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sab- insan
4. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none baths.
come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: 8 Jerusalem hath'grievously sinned; therefore she & 46

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Jerusalem bemvaneth her afflictions :

CHAPTER II.

Her misery lamented. Before is removed : all that honoured her despise her, be- and remembered not his footstool in the day of his

cause they have seen her ø nakedness; yea, she sigh- anger! meth, 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 & 132*** e Ezek. 24, eth not her last end; therefore she came down won-down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter a Micah ,

derfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: 4. Deut. s., my affliction, for the enemy hath *magnified himself he hath'polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 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

y heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like he deut. 23,

didst command that they should ’not enter into thy a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. 1. Acts 21, congregation.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: khe stood 11 All her people sigh, they seek a bread; they with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that 24. a. Jer. 38, have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the Isa. 63,

the soul : see, O Lord, and consider; for I am be- daughter of Zion : 'he poured out his fury like fire. 10. v Ps. 12, 8. come vile.

5 The LORD was " as an enemy; he hath swal- 4Ps. 79,6

"1 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by ? be- lowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palahold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my ces; he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath $0. sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and Jer. 20,14. Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. lamentation.

13 From • above hath he sent fire into my bones, 6 And he hath violently taken away his taber- Jer. 3, 21. kom. 1, 18. and it prevaileth against them : he hath spread anacle, as if it were of a garden ; he hath destroyed • Ps. 80,13 e Ezek. 12, net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused 15. & 17, 20. made me desolate and faint all the day.

the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by Zion, and hath despised, in the indignation of his Mat. 11, 30. his hand; they are & wreathed, and come up upon anger, the king and the priest. E Pr. 5, 22. my neck; he hath made my strength to fall; the 7 The Lord hath cast off his 9 altar, he hath ab- Jer 53.

Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom horred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the nand
I am not able to rise up.

of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have Jer. , 22 15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my made "a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the 3 Kings mighty men in the midst of me; he hath called an day of a solemn feast.

assembly against me to 'crush my young men: the 8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the 5 wall Jer. 5, 10. Zeph . 1, 7, Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Ju- of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out ' a 12 Kit:gs dah, as k in a wire-press. line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroy- 1.2.31

, 11. 16 For these things I weep: 'mine eye, mine eye ing: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to larunneth down with water, hecause 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 deim Isa. 40,1. dren are desolate, because the enemy a prevailed. .

stroyed and broken her bars; "her king and her 2 Kings 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; 2Chr.is 1 ESC., 15. none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded her " prophets also find no visjon from the LORD.

concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon

round about him: Jerusalem is Pas a menstruous the 'ground, and keep silence: they have cast up 27,6% f 1 Sam. 2, woman among them.

dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves
18 The LORD P is righteous; for I have rebelled with sackcloth; the virgins of Jerusalem · hang si

against his "commandinent : hear, I pray you, all down their heads to the ground. 7,Ps.119, people, and behold my sorrow; my 'virgins

and

my 11 Minerves do fail with tears,my bowels are trou-
young men are gone into captivity.

bled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruc-
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me;}tion of the daughter of my people ; because the chil-
my" priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the dren and the sucklings'swoon in the streets ofthe city. Isa. 57,
city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn

20 Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress ; my and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in 1,Isa. 16, bowels are * troubled: my heart is turned within me; the streets of the city, when their soul was poured

for I have grievously .rebelled : ' abroad the sword out into their mothers' bosom. 2. Deut. 82, bereaveth, at home there is as death.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee ! 21 They have heard that I sigh ; there is none to what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughteref Jeru

comfort me : all mine enemies have heard of my salem ? what shall I e equal to thee, that I may coni
? Ps. 137, 7. trouble ; they ? are glad that thou hast done it: thou fort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion ? for thy breach
Ps. 37, 13. wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they is great like 'the sea ; & who can heal thee?
shall be like unto me.

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things
22° Let all their wickedness come before thee; for thee; and they have not discovered thine inima. IĄ

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and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all quity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for b 149. 34,
my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my thee false burdens, and causes of banishment.
heart is faint.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they i chap. 1, a
CHAPTER II.

hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem. saying, Is this the city that men call The perfec- * Ps. 88 2
OW
OW hath the Lord a covered the daughter of} tion of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth
Sam. 4, from heaven unto the carth the beauty of Israel, s against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say,

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Jeremiah's complıint to God :

LAMENTATIONS.

His humble confession of sins. We have 'swallowed her up : certainly this is theş 18 And " I said, My strength and my hope is cir.588. day that we looked for; we have found, we have perished from the LORD : seen it.

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, 17 The Lord hath done that which he had de-the Sworn wood and the gall. vised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had com- 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and manded in the days of old : he hath thrown down, is humbled in me. and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have? I hope. ia to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of 22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not 1 Hab. 2 I. thine adversarics.

consumed, because his compassions fail not. 18 Their heart Pcried unto the LORD, O wall 23 They are new every morning : great is thy b sz. 53, 2

D of the daughter of Zion, let'tears run down like a { faithfulness. 32 Kings river day and night; give thyself no rest ; let not the 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul : c Pt. 16, 5 apple of thine eye cease,

therefore will I hope in him.
19 Arise, cry out in the night ; in the beginning
s

25 The Lord is good unto them that " wait for d Ps. 40, 1. of the watches pour out thy heart like water before him, to the soul that seeketh him.

the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him 26 It is •good that a man should both hope and i verse 12 for the life of thy young children, that faint for e quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. hunger in the top of every street.

27 It is good for a man that'he bear the yoke in 18. 94, 12 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thouš his youth. Lev. 26, hast done this. Shall the woinen *eat their fruit, 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because 2 Kingsf, and children of a span long ? shall the priest and he hath borne it upon him.

the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD? 29" He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be h Job 40, 4

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the there may be hope. streets : my virgins and my young men are fallen by 30 He giveth his 'cheek to him that smiteth bim : i Isa. 50, 6.

the sword, thou hast slain them in the day of thine he is filled full with reproach.
Chapis,'13
. anger; thou hast " killed, and not pitied.

31 For the LORD will k not cast off for ever:
22 Thou hast called, ' as in a solemn day, my 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have

terrors round about; so that in the day of the Lord's 'compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Ps. 31, 13. anger none escaped nor remained : those that I have 33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve 1,1

m Jer. 6, 25. swaddled and brought up hath mine benemy con- the children of men. b Husea 9, sumed.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of n Zec. 1,15. CHAPTER III.

the earth, 1 The prophet bewaileth his own calamities : 37 His humble 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the • Pr. 18, s. confession of sins.

face of the Most Iligh, I

AM the man that hath seen affliction by the 36 To subyert a man in his cause, the LORD Pap- pillab. I, brod of his wrath.

proveth not.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into dark- 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, 7. oh.
ness, but not into light.

when the Lord commandeth it not?
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth
hand against me all the day.

not 'evil and good ?
4 My flesh and iny skin hath he made old; he 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man
d Isa.58, hath broken my bones.
'

for the punishment of his sins ? 5 lle hath builded against me, and compassed 40 Let us " search and try our ways, and turn me with gall and travail. again to the Lord.

u Zeph. 2 6 He liath set me in dark places, as they that be 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands 'unto i Ps. 88, 6. f dead of old.

God in the heavens. 7 He hath 5 hedged me about, that I cannot get 42 We have transgressed, and have rebelled : y Isa. 1, 2 out: he hath made my chain heavy.

thou hast not pardoned. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out 43 Thou hast ? covered with anger, and persecu- ? Ps. 88, 7. my prayer.

ted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 9 He hath 'enclosed my ways with hewn stone; 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that Lev. 26, he hath made my paths * crooked.

our prayer should not pass through. 10 He was unto me as a 'bear lying in wait, and 45 Thou hast made us as the boffscouring and ! Cor. Ang llosea 5, 14. as a lion in secret places.

refuse in the midst of the people.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths
me in pieces : he hath made ine desolate.

against us.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark 47 Fear and ' a snare is come upon us,

desolation
for the arrow.

and destruction.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water
enter into iny reins.

for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
14 I was Pa derision to all my reuple, and their 49 'Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not,
song all the day.

without any intermission,
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath 50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from is
made me a drunken with wormwood.
9

heaven.
16 He hath also 'broken my teeth with gravel- 51 Mine eye affecteth my heart, because of all the
y Micah 6, stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

daughters of my city. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, iPa 35, 1 Bulb 1,20. peace: I forgat prosperity.

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Zion's desolation bewailed :

CHAPTER IV....V.

She confesscth her sins. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniqui- Brfare CHRIST cast ka stone upon me.

ties of her priests, that have shed the 'blood of the cir. 348. 54 ' Waters flowed over my head ; then I said, I just in the midst of her, am cut off.

14 They have wandered 'as blind men in the & 19, 14. 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, r kev. 17. mo low dungeon.

so that men could not touch their garments. 56 Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is un- Isaiah Sung at ny breathing, at my cry.

clean ; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled Jer. 2, 34. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called away and wandered, they said among the heathen, 4 Isaiah Sa, upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

They shall no more sojourn there. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he %6. soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

will no more regard them : they * respected not the Micah S, ti Ser. 51, SC 59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. Kings Ps. ?, 4. my 'cause.

17 As for iis, our eyes as yet y failed for our yain 2 bhr. Skin 60 Thou hast seen all their 'vengeance, and allí help: in our ? watching we have watched for a nation 5. Rett is their imaginations against me.

that could not save us.

y Jer. 4, 11 61 Thou hast heard their 'reproach, O LORD, and 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our , all their imaginations against me;

streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for Ps. 57, 7. 62 The 'lips of those that rose up against me, and our end is come. their device against me all the day.

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of b Erek. 9, 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, up; I am their music.

they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 64 * Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of a 2 Kings Ser: 5, 29, according to the work of their hands.

the Lord, was taken in their € pits, of whom we 24, 12, 13. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. said, Under his shadow we shall live among the e Jer. :)

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from heathen. Deut. 25, y under the heavens of the Lord.

21 1 'Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, "ps. 60, 8. CHAPTER IV.

that dwellest in the land of Uz: the 6 cup also shall pr. 2. 1 Zion's pitiful estate bewailed....13 She confesseth her sins. pass through unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and HOW

OW is the gold become dim! how is the most shalt make thyself naked.

fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accom- + Isa. 40, 2 1 Jer. 89, 8. are poured out in the top of every street.

plished, 0 danghter of Zion; he will no more carry i Ezek. 59, 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine thee away intocaptivity: he will kvisit thine iniquity, gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. the work of the hands of the potter!

CHAPTER V. 3 Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they A pitiful complaint of Zion, in prayer unto God. Deut. 23, to their of my es 2 people is become cruel, like the Ostriches in the REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us:

19,2 , wil- consider, and behold our « reproach. Rom. , 31.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the houses to aliens. « leb. 1, 11. roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children "ask 3 We are 'orphans and fatherless, our mothers are ellos. 11, 3 13,5%, 'i, bread, and no man breaketh it unto them,

as widows.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the 4 We have drunken our water for money; our

streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace wood is sold unto us. Job 24, 8. dunghills.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we'labour, 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daugh- and have no rest. Luke 12 ter of my people is greater than the punishment 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and g Isa. 37, 9 Jolan 9, 11. of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a to the Assyrians, to be 6 satisfied with bread. moment, and no hands stayed on her.

7Our fathers have sinned, 'and are not; and we 3. Vah. 2, 2,

7 Her 5 Nazarites were purer than snow, they have " borne their iniquities. were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that 6,6.

body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: doth deliver us out of their hand.
h Ps. 102, 4. 8 Their visage is "blacker than a coal; they are 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives,

not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their because of the sword of the wilderness.
bones; it is withered, it is lecome like a stick. 10 "Our skin was black like an oven, because of

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than the terrible famine.

they that be slain with humger: for these 'pine away, 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the en Paal. 109, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.maids in the cities of Judah.

10 The hands of the 'pitiful women have sod- 12 P Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces id. 2. Kings : den their own children: they were their meat in the of elders were not honoured. Isai. 49, 15. destruction of the danghter of my people.

13 They took the young men 4 to grind, and the io. m 2 Kings 11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath children féll under the wood.

9 Judg. 16 cluap. 2, 2). "poured out his fierce anger and hath kindled a fire 14 The elders have ceased from the 'gate, the Jer. 10, in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. young men from their music.

12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants 15 The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is .Jer. 1, 11 of the world, would not have believed that the adver-turned into mourning. sary and the enemy should have Pentered into the 16 The crown is fallen from our head: "wo unto 3. gates of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30,

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EZEKIEL

cherubims, and four wheels. 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and Before

CARIST eyes are dim.

forsake us so long time?
18 Because of the Y mountain of Zion, which is 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall
desolate, the 2 foxes walk upon it.

be turned ; rene:y our days as of old.
19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thythrone 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art
from generation to generation.

e very wroth against us.

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1 The Book of the Prophet EZEKIEL. CHAPTER I.

18 As for their rings, they were so high, that they k Rom. 11, 1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar; 4 his vision. were dreadful; and their rings were 'full of eyes TOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the round about them four.

fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels

I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, went " by them; and when the living creatures were m Isal 65, a Mat. , 16. that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions lifted up from the earth, the "wheels were lifted 3

up. of God.

20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, 26,24. 2 In the fifth day of the month, (which was the thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,)

lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living 3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto creature was in the wheels.

Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of 21 When those went, these went; and when those Eph. 1, 11 d 2 Tim. 2, the “Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; and the e land stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from of the LORD was there upon him.

the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them:
4 And I 'looked, and, behold, 6 a whirlwind came for P the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. p Rom. 2, 2
out of " the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding

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22 And the likeness of the ' firmament upon the

i Cor. 3,5. itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the heads of the living creature was as the colour of Eph. 1,

20 « Nah. 1,3. midst thereof, as the colour of amber, out of the 'the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads Phil

. 2, 9. , h Hab. 1, 8, midst of the fire :

above.
5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness 23 And under the firmament were their wings
of 'four living creatures. And this was their appear-straight, the one toward the other: every one had
ance; they had the likeness of a man.

two which covered on this side, and every one had $ Ps. 80, 7.
6 And every one had four faces, and everyone had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
four wings.

24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their 7 And their feet were " straight feet; and the sole wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice : Ps. 46, 8 of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of Rev. 1, 15. they sparkled like the colour of P burnished brass. a host : when they stood, they let down their wings. MicabeS.

8 And they had the hands of a màn "under their 25 And there was 'a voice from the firmament that ; 2 Pet. 1,

wings, on their four sides ; and they four had their was over their heads, when they stood, and had let ke p Rev. 1, 15 faces and their wings.

down their wings. 9 'I'heir wings were joined one to another; they 26 And above the firmament that was over their 5. turned not when they went; they went every one heads was the likeness of a 'throne, as the appear- z Mat. 2s, straight forward.

ance of a sapphire-stone: and upon the likeness of Rile 10 As for the like.css of their faces, they four had the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a 1 Cor. 1, 10. the face of 'a inan, and the face of Y a lion on the man above * upon it.,

a 1 Luke 3, right side; and they four had the face of an 'ox on the 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appear

left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. ance of fire round about within it; from the appear- b Ps.50, a

11 Thus wcre their faces : and their wings were ance of his loins even upward, and from the appear1 Luke 15, stretched upward; two wings of every one were ance of his loins eren downward, I saw as it were Mar. 17,2

joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round

12 And they went every one straight forward : about. 1 Psal. 103, whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the & S8, 13 turned not when they went.

cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of Daniel e, 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their the brightness round about. This was the appear- Rev. 1, 17.

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bZech. 4, 6. appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like ance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And

the appearance of lamps: 'it went up and down when I saw it,'I fell upon my face, and I heard a
among the living creatures ; and the fire was bright, voice of one that spake.
and out of the fire went forth lightning.

CHAPTER II.
14 And the living creatures eran and returned as 1 Ezekiel's coinmission ; 6 his instruction ; 9 his prophecy.
Daniei 3, the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now, as I beheld the living creatures, behold, And he said unto me, "Son of man, "stand upon

thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. Mat. 18, 10. & one wheel upon the "earth by the living creatures, 2 And the spirit Centered into me when he spake g chap. 10, with his four faces.

unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work that spake unto me. like unto the colour of a beryl ; and they four 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, 'I send thee Gorim

, had one likeness: and theirappearance and their work to the children of Israel, to a rebellious fnation that kev. 2,4.. Anos ? 21. was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have chap. Zug

is 17 When they went, they went upon their four transgressed against me, even unto this very day. sides; and they turned not when they went. s

4 For they are impudent children, and stiff-hearted: ...

Rev. 1, 10. y 2 Cor. $

9 Eccl. 9, 10.

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rJudges 13,
17.
Psal. 115, 1.

Rev. S, 21.