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Isaiah Page 430 flocks; {32:15} Until the spirit be poured upon us from on our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful king; he will save us. {33:23} Thy tacklings are loosed; field be counted for a forest. {32:16} Then judgment shall they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the fruitful field. {32:17} And the work of righteousness shall lame take the prey. {33:24} And the inhabitant shall not be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] assurance for ever. {32:18} And my people shall dwell in a forgiven [their] iniquity. peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; {32:19} When it shall hail, coming down on {34:1} Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. {32:20} people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth and all things that come forth of it. {34:2} For the [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass. indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, {33:1} Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not he hath delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal blood. {34:4} And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all {33:2} O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree. {34:5} For my the time of trouble. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to scattered. {33:4} And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the judgment. {34:6} The sword of the LORD is filled with gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of locusts shall he run upon them. {33:5} The LORD is lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in judgment and righteousness. {33:6} And wisdom and the land of Idumea. {34:7} And the unicorns shall come knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure. {33:7} land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the with fatness. {34:8} For [it is] the day of the LORD’S ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. {33:8} The vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath controversy of Zion. {34:9} And the streams thereof shall broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and regardeth no man. {33:9} The earth mourneth [and] the land thereof shall become burning pitch. {34:10} It shall languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; fruits. ]{33:10} Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I none shall pass through it for ever and ever. {34:11} But the be exalted; now will I lift up myself. {33:11} Ye shall cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it [as] fire, shall devour you. {33:12} And the people shall be the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. {34:12} as the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none burned in the fire. [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing. {34:13} And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles {33:13} Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might. {33:14} The habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls. {34:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place {33:15} He that walketh righteously, and speaketh of rest. {34:15} There shall the great owl make her nest, and uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; {33:16} He shall dwell on high: his place of {34:16} Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread shall be no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my given him; his waters [shall be] sure. {33:17} Thine eyes mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land them. {34:17} And he hath cast the lot for them, and his that is very far off. {33:18} Thine heart shall meditate hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell [is] he that counted the towers? {33:19} Thou shalt not see therein. a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not {35:1} The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad understand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet rose. {35:2} It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see shall any of the cords thereof be broken. {33:21} But there the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God. the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither {35:3} Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the shall gallant ship pass thereby. {33:22} For the LORD [is] feeble knees. {35:4} Say to them [that are] of a fearful www.holybooks.com

Page 431 Isaiah heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come {36:16} Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come and save you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the blind shall come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his {35:6} Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the own cistern; {36:17} Until I come and take you away to a tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of break out, and streams in the desert. {35:7} And the bread and vineyards. {36:18} [Beware] lest Hezekiah parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} And an of the king of Assyria? {36:19} Where [are] the gods of highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20} [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have not err [therein. ]{35:9} No lion shall be there, nor [any] delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? {36:21} But they held there; but the redeemed shall walk [there: ]{35:10} And the their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with commandment was, saying, Answer him not. songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. {36:22} Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, {36:1} Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. {36:2} And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from {37:1} And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. [it,] that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. {37:2} highway of the fuller’s field. {36:3} Then came forth unto And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder. sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {37:3} And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] {36:4} And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? {36:5} I say, bring forth. {37:4} It may be the LORD thy God will hear [sayest thou,] (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will that thou rebellest against me? {36:6} Lo, thou trustest in reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left. lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh {37:5} So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. king of Egypt to all that trust in him. {36:7} But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose {37:6} And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the altar? {36:8} Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my king of Assyria have blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold, I will master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the upon them. {36:9} How then wilt thou turn away the face of sword in his own land. one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} And {37:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of am I now come up without the LORD against this land to Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, was departed from Lachish. {37:9} And he heard say and destroy it. concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it,] he sent {36:11} Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto messengers to Hezekiah, saying, {37:10} Thus shall ye Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, Syrian language; for we understand [it:] and speak not to us in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that [are] on not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:11} the wall. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou {36:12} But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to be delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations thy master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? {36:13} which [were] in Telassar? {37:13} Where [is] the king of Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? king, the king of Assyria. {36:14} Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver {37:14} And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand you. {36:15} Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 432 {37:16} O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons [between] the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. heaven and earth. {37:17} Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the {38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said living God. {37:18} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, {37:19} for thou shalt die, and not live. {38:2} Then Hezekiah And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: {38:3} And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} Now therefore, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, Hezekiah wept sore. [even] thou only. {38:4} Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, {37:21} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, {38:5} Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy {37:22} This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken days fifteen years. {38:6} And I will deliver thee and this concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of this city. {38:7} And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. {37:23} Whom hast the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast spoken; {38:8} Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten [even] against the Holy One of Israel. {37:24} By thy degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By which degrees it was gone down. the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down {38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: {38:10} I I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of his Carmel. {37:25} I have digged, and drunk water; and the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. {38:11} with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the besieged places. {37:26} Hast thou not heard long ago, land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have inhabitants of the world. {38:12} Mine age is departed, and formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps. {37:27} a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the {38:13} I reckoned till morning, [that,] as a lion, so will he field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up. an end of me. {38:14} Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I {37:28} But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] coming in, and thy rage against me. {37:29} Because thy upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, {38:15} What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in himself hath done [it:] I shall go softly all my years in the thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou bitterness of my soul. {38:16} O Lord, by these [things camest. {37:30} And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the second wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. {38:17} Behold, year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast thereof. {37:31} And the remnant that is escaped of the cast all my sins behind thy back. {38:18} For the grave house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that fruit upward: {37:32} For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. {38:19} The remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the the LORD of hosts shall do this. {37:33} Therefore thus father to the children shall make known thy truth. {38:20} saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there nor come my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. {37:34} By in the house of the LORD. {38:21} For Isaiah had said, Let the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the not come into this city, saith the LORD. {37:35} For I will boil, and he shall recover. {38:22} Hezekiah also had said, defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the servant David’s sake. {37:36} Then the angel of the LORD LORD? went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they {39:1} At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to corpses. Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. {39:2} And Hezekiah was glad of them, and {37:37} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {37:38} And it and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his www.holybooks.com

Page 433 Isaiah treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his vanity. dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. {40:18} To whom then will ye liken God? or what {39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, likeness will ye compare unto him? {40:19} The workman and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come with gold, and casteth silver chains. {40:20} He that [is] so from a far country unto me, [even] from Babylon. {39:4} impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in mine house have they prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved. {40:21} seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been shewed them. {39:5} Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the word of the LORD of hosts: {39:6} Behold, the days the foundations of the earth? {40:22} [It is] he that sitteth come, that all that [is] in thine house, and [that] which thy upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. {39:7} And and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: {40:23} That of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the earth as vanity. {40:24} Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, palace of the king of Babylon. {39:8} Then said Hezekiah they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. truth in my days. {40:25} To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. {40:26} Lift up your eyes on high, and {40:1} Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your behold who hath created these [things,] that bringeth out God. {40:2} Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand one faileth. {40:27} Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and double for all her sins. speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? {40:3} The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert {40:28} Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] a highway for our God. {40:4} Every valley shall be the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places searching of his understanding. {40:29} He giveth power to plain: {40:5} And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the strength. {40:30} Even the youths shall faint and be weary, LORD hath spoken [it. ]{40:6} The voice said, Cry. And he and the young men shall utterly fall: {40:31} But they that said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field: {40:7} The mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint. LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass. {40:8} The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our {41:1} Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the God shall stand for ever. people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. {41:2} {40:9} O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! {40:10} Behold, [and] as driven stubble to his bow. {41:3} He pursued them, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand,] and his arm [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his gone with his feet. {41:4} Who hath wrought and done [it,] work before him. {40:11} He shall feed his flock like a calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry first, and with the last; I [am] he. {41:5} The isles saw [it,] [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and with young. came. {41:6} They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7} {40:12} Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? nails, [that] it should not be moved. {41:8} But thou, Israel, {40:13} Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of [being] his counsellor hath taught him? {40:14} With whom Abraham my friend. {41:9} [Thou] whom I have taken took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou [art] my servant; I shewed to him the way of understanding? {40:15} Behold, have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles {41:10} Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not as a very little thing. {40:16} And Lebanon [is] not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of burnt offering. {40:17} All nations before him [are] as my righteousness. {41:11} Behold, all they that were nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 434 they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison perish. {41:12} Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find house. {42:8} I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. images. {42:9} Behold, the former things are come to pass, {41:13} For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. {41:14} Fear you of them. {42:10} Sing unto the LORD a new song, not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help [and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the Israel. {41:15} Behold, I will make thee a new sharp inhabitants thereof. {42:11} Let the wilderness and the threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the cities thereof lift up [their voice,] the villages [that] Kedar mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them as chaff. {41:16} Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall shout from the top of the mountains. {42:12} Let them give carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy {42:13} The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall One of Israel. {41:17} [When] the poor and needy seek stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for shall prevail against his enemies. {42:14} I have long time thirst, I the LORD will hear them, [I[ the God of Israel will holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: not forsake them. {41:18} I will open rivers in high places, [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the devour at once. {42:15} I will make waste mountains and wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers water. {41:19} I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the islands, and I will dry up the pools. {42:16} And I will shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together: them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make {41:20} That they may see, and know, and consider, and darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. {41:21} Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your {42:17} They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly strong [reasons,] saith the King of Jacob. {41:22} Let them ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them images, Ye [are] our gods. {42:18} Hear, ye deaf; and look, shew the former things, what they [be,] that we may ye blind, that ye may see. {42:19} Who [is] blind, but my consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is] us things for to come. {41:23} Shew the things that are to blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD’S come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, servant? {42:20} Seeing many things, but thou observest do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. {42:21} The [it] together. {41:24} Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you. magnify the law, and make [it] honourable. {42:22} But this {41:25} I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, as the potter treadeth clay. {41:26} Who hath declared from Restore. {42:23} Who among you will give ear to this? the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we [who] will hearken and hear for the time to come? {42:24} may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is] not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they none that heareth your words. {41:27} The first [shall say] would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem his law. {42:25} Therefore he hath poured upon him the one that bringeth good tidings. {41:28} For I beheld, and fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a yet he laid [it] not to heart. word. {41:29} Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. {43:1} But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have {42:1} Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: mine. {43:2} When thou passest through the waters, I [will he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. {42:2} He be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou the street. {42:3} A bruised reed shall he not break, and the shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth thee. {43:3} For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of judgment unto truth. {42:4} He shall not fail nor be Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the and Seba for thee. {43:4} Since thou wast precious in my isles shall wait for his law. sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. {42:5} Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the {43:5} Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the from the east, and gather thee from the west; {43:6} I will earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of {42:6} I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and the earth; {43:7} [Even] every one that is called by my will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; {42:7} him; yea, I have made him. 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Page 435 Isaiah {43:8} Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the last; and beside me [there is] no God. {44:7} And who, the deaf that have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations be as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. {44:8} them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth. {43:10} Ye [are] my time, and have declared [it?] ye [are] even my witnesses. Is witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand [any. that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. {43:11} I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; ]{44:9} They that make a graven image [are] all of them and beside me [there is] no saviour. {43:12} I have vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my may be ashamed. {44:10} Who hath formed a god, or witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God. {43:13} Yea, molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing? before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they {43:14} Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy shall be ashamed together. {44:12} The smith with the One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, whose cry [is] in the ships. {43:15} I [am] the LORD, your he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. {43:16} Thus and is faint. {44:13} The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he in the mighty waters; {43:17} Which bringeth forth the marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are may remain in the house. {44:14} He heweth him down quenched as tow. cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he {43:18} Remember ye not the former things, neither planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it. ]{44:15} Then consider the things of old. {43:19} Behold, I will do a new shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will warm himself; yea, he kindleth [it,] and baketh bread; yea, even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it;] he maketh it a desert. {43:20} The beast of the field shall honour me, the graven image, and falleth down thereto. {44:16} He burneth dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself,] people, my chosen. {43:21} This people have I formed for and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: {44:17} myself; they shall shew forth my praise. And the residue thereof he maketh a god, [even] his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it,] and {43:22} But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god. thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. {43:23} Thou hast not {44:18} They have not known nor understood: for he hath brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused they cannot understand. {44:19} And none considereth in thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to incense. {43:24} Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, and eaten [it:] and shall I make the residue thereof an thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. {43:25} I, [even] abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own {44:20} He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned sake, and will not remember thy sins. {43:26} Put me in him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou not a lie in my right hand? mayest be justified. {43:27} Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28} {44:21} Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and [art] my servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant: have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. {44:22} I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a {44:1} Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. whom I have chosen: {44:2} Thus saith the LORD that {44:23} Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done [it:] made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [which] will shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the whom I have chosen. {44:3} For I will pour water upon him LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour {44:24} Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh offspring: {44:4} And they shall spring up as among the all [things;] that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that grass, as willows by the water courses. {44:5} One shall spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; {44:25} That say, I [am] the LORD’S; and another shall call [himself] by frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of knowledge foolish; {44:26} That confirmeth the word of his Israel. {44:6} Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 436 of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and places thereof: {44:27} That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I pray unto a god [that] cannot save. {45:21} Tell ye, and will dry up thy rivers: {44:28} That saith of Cyrus, [He is] bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no Thy foundation shall be laid. God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me. {45:22} Look unto me, and be ye saved, all {45:1} Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before else. {45:23} I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; {45:2} unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: {45:24} Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; the bars of iron: {45:3} And I will give thee the treasures of and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou {45:25} In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy and shall glory. name, [am] the God of Israel. {45:4} For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee {46:1} Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] known me. heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast. ]{46:2} They stoop, they bow down together; they could {45:5} I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not captivity. {46:3} Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and known me: {45:6} That they may know from the rising of all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb: [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else. {45:7} I form the {46:4} And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I hoar hairs will I carry [you:] I have made, and I will bear; the LORD do all these [things. ]{45:8} Drop down, ye even I will carry, and will deliver [you. heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth ]{46:5} To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the and compare me, that we may be like? {46:6} They lavish LORD have created it. {45:9} Woe unto him that striveth gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that yea, they worship. {46:7} They bear him upon the shoulder, fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; hands? {45:10} Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. brought forth? {45:11} Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One {46:8} Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come again to mind, O ye transgressors. {46:9} Remember the concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none command ye me. {45:12} I have made the earth, and else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me, {46:10} created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. {45:13} I times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: {46:11} ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken {45:14} Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and [it,] I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it,] I will merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, also do it. shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they {46:12} Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness; thee, [saying,] Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I else, [there is] no God. {45:15} Verily thou [art] a God that will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory. hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. {45:16} They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they {47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols. of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O {45:17} [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the millstones, and grind confounded world without end. {45:18} For thus saith the meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed thigh, pass over the rivers. {47:3} Thy nakedness shall be the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man. {47:4} [As and [there is] none else. {45:19} I have not spoken in secret, for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Holy One of Israel. {47:5} Sit thou silent, and get thee into Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no I declare things that are right. more be called, The lady of kingdoms. {45:20} Assemble yourselves and come; draw near {47:6} I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew www.holybooks.com

Page 437 Isaiah them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my thy yoke. glory unto another. {47:7} And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that {48:12} Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst I [am] he; I [am] the first, I also [am] the last. {48:13} Mine remember the latter end of it. {47:8} Therefore hear now hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto them, carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am,] and none else they stand up together. {48:14} All ye, assemble beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared the loss of children: {47:9} But these two [things] shall these [things?] The LORD hath loved him: he will do his come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their Chaldeans. {48:15} I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way great abundance of thine enchantments. prosperous. {47:10} For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast {48:16} Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am,] was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, and none else beside me. hath sent me. {48:17} Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God which {47:11} Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that] not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thou shouldest go. {48:18} O that thou hadst hearkened to thee; thou shalt not be able to put if off: and desolation shall my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know. thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} Thy seed {47:12} Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou off nor destroyed from before me. mayest prevail. {47:13} Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the {48:20} Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter [these things] that shall come upon thee. {47:14} Behold, it [even] to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} And they thirsted not not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it. waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock {47:15} Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast also, and the waters gushed out. {48:22} [There is] no laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. {49:1} Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, {48:1} Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make name. {49:2} And he hath made my mouth like a sharp mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made righteousness. {48:2} For they call themselves of the holy me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; {49:3} city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The And said unto me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom LORD of hosts [is] his name. {48:3} I have declared the I will be glorified. {49:4} Then I said, I have laboured in former things from the beginning; and they went forth out vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did [them] suddenly, surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that thou my God. [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {48:5} I have even from the beginning declared [it] {49:5} And now, saith the LORD that formed me from to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. {48:6} Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare {49:6} And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be [it?] I have shewed thee new things from this time, even my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the hidden things, and thou didst not know them. {48:7} They preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the are created now, and not from the beginning; even before Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest the earth. {49:7} Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of say, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} Yea, thou heardest not; Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thine ear him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and womb. he shall choose thee. {49:8} Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation {48:9} For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause {48:10} Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I to inherit the desolate heritages; {49:9} That thou mayest have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. {48:11} For say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness, mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it:] for Shew yourselves. 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Isaiah Page 438 pastures [shall be] in all high places. {49:10} They shall not make sackcloth their covering. {50:4} The Lord GOD hath hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he springs of water shall he guide them. {49:11} And I will wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be hear as the learned. exalted. {49:12} Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the {50:5} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was land of Sinim. not rebellious, neither turned away back. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off {49:13} Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his {50:7} For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I afflicted. {49:14} But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. {49:15} Can a woman and I know that I shall not be ashamed. {50:8} [He is] near forget her sucking child, that she should not have that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me. yet will I not forget thee. {49:16} Behold, I have graven {50:9} Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a continually before me. {49:17} Thy children shall make garment; the moth shall eat them up. haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. {50:10} Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, {49:18} Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I and stay upon his God. {50:11} Behold, all ye that kindle a live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee,] as a the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have bride [doeth. ]{49:19} For thy waste and thy desolate kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be in sorrow. too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. {49:20} The children {51:1} Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged. place to me that I may dwell. {49:21} Then shalt thou say in {51:2} Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to increased him. {51:3} For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her alone; these, where [had] they [been? ]{49:22} Thus saith wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders. {49:23} And kings shall {51:4} Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou {51:5} My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall ashamed that wait for me. wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. {51:6} Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth {49:24} Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and lawful captive delivered? {49:25} But thus saith the LORD, the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. {49:26} And I will feed them that oppress thee {51:7} Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. {51:8} For I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm One of Jacob. shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. {50:1} Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of {51:9} Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the transgressions is your mother put away. {50:2} Wherefore, dragon? {51:10} [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? {51:11} cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow thirst. {50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I and mourning shall flee away. {51:12} I, [even] I, [am] he www.holybooks.com

Page 439 Isaiah that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made as grass; {51:13} And forgettest the {52:11} Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and touch no unclean [thing;] go ye out of the midst of her; be laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. {52:12} For ye every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor? will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your {51:14} The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, rereward. and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. {51:15} But I [am] the LORD thy God, that {52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts be exalted and extolled, and be very high. {52:14} As many [is] his name. {51:16} And I have put my words in thy were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, any man, and his form more than the sons of men: {52:15} that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their earth, and say unto Zion, Thou [art] my people. mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they {51:17} Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which consider. hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] {53:1} Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the wrung [them] out. {51:18} [There is] none to guide her arm of the LORD revealed? {53:2} For he shall grow up among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall [that] she hath brought up. {51:19} These two [things] are see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and {53:3} He is despised and rejected of men; a man of destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were comfort thee? {51:20} Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of him not. the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. {53:4} Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our {51:21} Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, drunken, but not with wine: {51:22} Thus saith thy Lord the and afflicted. {53:5} But he [was] wounded for our LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more stripes we are healed. {53:6} All we like sheep have gone drink it again: {51:23} But I will put it into the hand of astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {53:7} He down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his {52:1} Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on mouth. {53:8} He was taken from prison and from thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was henceforth there shall no more come into thee the cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of uncircumcised and the unclean. {52:2} Shake thyself from my people was he stricken. {53:9} And he made his grave the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth. {52:3} For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. {53:10} Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath {52:4} For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, oppressed them without cause. {52:5} Now therefore, what and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away {53:11} He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. {53:12} blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people shall know my Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] he he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath that doth speak: behold, [it is] I. poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made {52:7} How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of intercession for the transgressors. him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that {54:1} Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! {52:8} Thy watchmen forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. {54:2} bring again Zion. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, {52:9} Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places and strengthen thy stakes; {54:3} For thou shalt break forth of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit hath redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} The LORD hath made the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the {54:4} Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 440 thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for {55:10} For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. {54:5} maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is] sower, and bread to the eater: {55:11} So shall my word be his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me God of the whole earth shall he be called. {54:6} For the void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. {55:12} For ye shall spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains God. {54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and with great mercies will I gather thee. {54:8} In a little wrath all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands. {55:13} I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Redeemer. {54:9} For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no cut off. more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. {54:10} For the {56:1} Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the righteousness to be revealed. {56:2} Blessed [is] the man covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; hath mercy on thee. that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. {54:11} O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and {56:3} Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined lay thy foundations with sapphires. {54:12} And I will himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. {54:13} And all thy Behold, I [am] a dry tree. {56:4} For thus saith the LORD children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall be] unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the the peace of thy children. {54:14} In righteousness shalt things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant; thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for {56:5} Even unto them will I give in mine house and within thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of near thee. {54:15} Behold, they shall surely gather together, daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall [but] not by me: whosoever shall gather together against not be cut off. {56:6} Also the sons of the stranger, that join thee shall fall for thy sake. {54:16} Behold, I have created themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; waster to destroy. {56:7} Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt {54:17} No weapon that is formed against thee shall offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon mine prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the all people. {56:8} The Lord GOD which gathereth the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, saith the LORD. beside those that are gathered unto him. {55:1} Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, {56:9} All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea,] and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, all ye beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen [are] come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they {55:2} Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? {56:11} Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: and let your soul delight itself in fatness. {55:3} Incline they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; his quarter. {56:12} Come ye, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow the sure mercies of David. {55:4} Behold, I have given him shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant. [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. {55:5} Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou {57:1} The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come. Israel; for he hath glorified thee. ]{57:2} He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness. {55:6} Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: {55:7} Let the wicked forsake {57:3} But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him seed of the adulterer and the whore. {57:4} Against whom return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, {57:5} Enflaming {55:8} For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. {55:9} For [as] children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? {57:6} the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a www.holybooks.com

Page 441 Isaiah drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I flesh? receive comfort in these? {57:7} Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up {58:8} Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, to offer sacrifice. {57:8} Behind the doors also and the and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; shall be thy rereward. {58:9} Then shalt thou call, and the thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it. ]{57:9} [am.] If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; {58:10} increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell. {57:10} Thou the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, thy darkness [be] as the noonday: {58:11} And the LORD There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, therefore thou wast not grieved. {57:11} And of whom hast and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held {58:12} And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? {57:12} I waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the not profit thee. breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. {57:13} When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; {58:13} If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the [them:] but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; {57:14} And shall shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: stumblingblock out of the way of my people. {57:15} For {58:14} Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place,] feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it. revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. {57:16} For I will not contend for ever, ]{59:1} Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: before me, and the souls [which] I have made. {57:17} For {59:2} But your iniquities have separated between you and the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in he will not hear. {59:3} For your hands are defiled with the way of his heart. {57:18} I have seen his ways, and will blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. {59:4} None him and to his mourners. {57:19} I create the fruit of the calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. {57:20} But the forth iniquity. {59:5} They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. {57:21} [There is] no and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. {59:6} peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works {58:1} Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the {59:7} Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed house of Jacob their sins. {58:2} Yet they seek me daily, innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did wasting and destruction [are] in their paths. {59:8} The way righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever approaching to God. goeth therein shall not know peace. {58:3} Wherefore have we fasted, [say they,] and thou {59:9} Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness. {59:10} We pleasure, and exact all your labours. {58:4} Behold, ye fast grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make are] in desolate places as dead [men. ]{59:11} We roar all your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is it such a fast that I like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth from us. {59:12} For our transgressions are multiplied and ashes [under him?] wilt thou call this a fast, and an before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our acceptable day to the LORD? {58:6} [Is] not this the fast transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to know them; {59:13} In transgressing and lying against the undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking and that ye break every yoke? {58:7} [Is it] not to deal thy oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are heart words of falsehood. {59:14} And judgment is turned cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. {59:15} Yea, www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 442 truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh [thee,] I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it,] and it displeased generations. {60:16} Thou shalt also suck the milk of the him that [there was] no judgment. Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, {59:16} And he saw that [there was] no man, and the mighty One of Jacob. {60:17} For brass I will bring wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and sustained him. {59:17} For he put on righteousness as a thine exactors righteousness. {60:18} Violence shall no breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy clad with zeal as a cloke. {59:18} According to [their] gates Praise. {60:19} The sun shall be no more thy light by deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, recompence. {59:19} So shall they fear the name of the and thy God thy glory. {60:20} Thy sun shall no more go LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. mourning shall be ended. {60:21} Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the {59:20} And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. glorified. {60:22} A little one shall become a thousand, and {59:21} As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words time. which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the {61:1} The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the and for ever. meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the {60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of prison to [them that are] bound; {61:2} To proclaim the the LORD is risen upon thee. {60:2} For, behold, the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the our God; to comfort all that mourn; {61:3} To appoint unto people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for shall be seen upon thee. {60:3} And the Gentiles shall come ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {60:4} the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come glorified. from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side. {60:5} Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine {61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. {61:5} Gentiles shall come unto thee. {60:6} The multitude of And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring {61:6} But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the LORD. {60:7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto yourselves. thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. {60:8} Who [are] these {61:7} For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for] [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in {60:9} Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and be unto them. {61:8} For I the LORD love judgment, I hate their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. thee. {60:10} And the sons of strangers shall build up thy {61:9} And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the thee. {60:11} Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; LORD hath blessed. {61:10} I will greatly rejoice in the they shall not be shut day nor night; that [men] may bring LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and [that] their kings clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered [may be] brought. {60:12} For the nation and kingdom that me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] utterly wasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall come with her jewels. {61:11} For as the earth bringeth forth her unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness place of my feet glorious. {60:14} The sons also of them and praise to spring forth before all the nations. that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of {62:1} For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {60:15} Whereas thou hast thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through lamp [that] burneth. {62:2} And the Gentiles shall see thy www.holybooks.com

Page 443 Isaiah righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit within him? called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall {63:12} That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his name. {62:3} Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy himself an everlasting name? {63:13} That led them God. {62:4} Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, [that] they neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou should not stumble? {63:14} As a beast goeth down into the shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. {62:5} For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall {63:15} Look down from heaven, and behold from the thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee. {62:6} I have zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall mercies toward me? are they restrained? {63:16} Doubtless never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and of the LORD, keep not silence, {62:7} And give him no Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting. the earth. {62:8} The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give {63:17} O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy thy corn [to be] meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. {63:18} laboured: {62:9} But they that have gathered it shall eat it, The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. {63:19} We are [thine:] thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. {62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out {64:1} Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou the stones; lift up a standard for the people. {62:11} Behold, wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say at thy presence, {64:2} As [when] the melting fire burneth, ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him. to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy {62:12} And they shall call them, The holy people, The presence! {64:3} When thou didst terrible things [which] redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed out, A city not forsaken. down at thy presence. {64:4} For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, {63:1} Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. {64:5} Thou travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those righteousness, mighty to save. {63:2} Wherefore [art thou] that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be in the winefat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress alone; saved. {64:6} But we are all as an unclean [thing,] and all and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain away. {64:7} And [there is] none that calleth upon thy all my raiment. {63:4} For the day of vengeance [is] in name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. {63:5} hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered our iniquities. {64:8} But now, O LORD, thou [art] our that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. [are] the work of thy hand. {63:6} And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their {64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither strength to the earth. remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people. {64:10} Thy holy cities are a {63:7} I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the {64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house, where our LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them pleasant things are laid waste. {64:12} Wilt thou refrain according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of thyself for these [things,] O LORD? wilt thou hold thy his lovingkindnesses. {63:8} For he said, Surely they [are] peace, and afflict us very sore? my people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour. {63:9} In all their affliction he was afflicted, and {65:1} I am sought of [them that] asked not [for me;] I am the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his found of [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them behold me, unto a nation [that] was not called by my name. all the days of old. {65:2} I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not {63:10} But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: good, after their own thoughts; {65:3} A people that therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that against them. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old, sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of Moses, [and] his people, [saying,] Where [is] he that brick; {65:4} Which remain among the graves, and lodge in brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of www.holybooks.com

Isaiah Page 444 abominable [things is in] their vessels; {65:5} Which say, build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest? {66:2} Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those thou. [These] are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I the day. {65:6} Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into trembleth at my word. {66:3} He that killeth an ox [is as if] their bosom, {65:7} Your iniquities, and the iniquities of he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul bosom. delighteth in their abominations. {66:4} I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; {65:8} Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is] did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not [that] in which I delighted not. destroy them all. {65:9} And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and {66:5} Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my {65:10} And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. {66:6} A that have sought me. voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his {65:11} But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that enemies. {66:7} Before she travailed, she brought forth; forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. {66:8} Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such {65:12} Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did travailed, she brought forth her children. {66:9} Shall I evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the delighted not. {65:13} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb?] Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: saith thy God. {66:10} Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: all ye that mourn for her: {66:11} That ye may suck, and be {65:14} Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. of spirit. {65:15} And ye shall leave your name for a curse {66:12} For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a his servants by another name: {65:16} That he who blesseth flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees. {66:13} As and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And when because they are hid from mine eyes. ye see [this,] your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be {65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come enemies. {66:15} For, behold, the LORD will come with into mind. {65:18} But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. {66:16} rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I will rejoice For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. {66:17} weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the crying. {65:20} There shall be no more thence an infant of gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] together, saith the LORD. {66:18} For I [know] their works an hundred years old shall be accursed. {65:21} And they and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all shall build houses, and inhabit [them;] and they shall plant nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not {66:19} And I will set a sign among them, and I will send build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. {65:23} the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their Gentiles. {66:20} And they shall bring all your brethren offspring with them. {65:24} And it shall come to pass, that [for] an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and speaking, I will hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean and dust [shall be] the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt vessel into the house of the LORD. {66:21} And I will also nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD. {66:22} For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I {66:1} Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye your seed and your name remain. {66:23} And it shall come www.holybooks.com

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Page 447 Jeremiah The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah {2:5} Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and {1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the have walked after vanity, and are become vain? {2:6} priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up {1:2} To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of of his reign. {1:3} It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh man passed through, and where no man dwelt? {2:7} And I year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. {1:4} and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {1:5} my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. {2:8} Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. {1:6} Then said I, against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child. walked after [things that] do not profit. {1:7} But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: {2:9} Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead. I command thee thou shalt speak. {1:8} Be not afraid of {2:10} For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith the unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such LORD. {1:9} Then the LORD put forth his hand, and a thing. {2:11} Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory have put my words in thy mouth. {1:10} See, I have this for [that which] doth not profit. {2:12} Be astonished, O ye day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to saith the LORD. {2:13} For my people have committed two build, and to plant. evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. {1:11} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, {2:14} [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave?] saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of why is he spoiled? {2:15} The young lions roared upon an almond tree. {1:12} Then said the LORD unto me, Thou him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. are burned without inhabitant. {2:16} Also the children of {1:13} And the word of the LORD came unto me the Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a {2:17} Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou seething pot; and the face thereof [is] toward the north. hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the {1:14} Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an way? {2:18} And now what hast thou to do in the way of evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do {1:15} For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they {2:19} Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the against all the cities of Judah. {1:16} And I will utter my LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who Lord GOD of hosts. have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. {2:20} For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon {1:17} Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed playing the harlot. {2:21} Yet I had planted thee a noble at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. {1:18} For, vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? {2:22} For iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord priests thereof, and against the people of the land. {1:19} GOD. {2:23} How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her deliver thee. ways; {2:24} A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who {2:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary saying, {2:2} Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, themselves; in her month they shall find her. {2:25} Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown. {2:3} strangers, and after them will I go. {2:26} As the thief is Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, come upon them, saith the LORD. {2:4} Hear ye the word and their prophets, {2:27} Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they house of Israel: have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 448 {2:28} But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. {3:14} let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two gods, O Judah. {2:29} Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: {3:15} And I will all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. {2:30} In give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed vain have I smitten your children; they received no you with knowledge and understanding. {3:16} And it shall correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the like a destroying lion. land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come {2:31} O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? visit [it;] neither shall [that] be done any more. {3:17} At wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; more unto thee? {2:32} Can a maid forget her ornaments, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more days without number. {2:33} Why trimmest thou thy way to after the imagination of their evil heart. {3:18} In those seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, thy ways. {2:34} Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the and they shall come together out of the land of the north to souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your search, but upon all these. {2:35} Yet thou sayest, Because I fathers. {3:19} But I said, How shall I put thee among the am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My {2:36} Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy father; and shalt not turn away from me. way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. {2:37} Yea, thou shalt go forth from {3:20} Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. of Israel, saith the LORD. {3:21} A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children {3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto forgotten the LORD their God. {3:22} Return, ye her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our me, saith the LORD. {3:2} Lift up thine eyes unto the high God. {3:23} Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel. {3:24} For wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our whoredoms and with thy wickedness. {3:3} Therefore the youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter daughters. {3:25} We lie down in our shame, and our rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the ashamed. {3:4} Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even My father, thou art the guide of my youth? {3:5} Will he unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? our God. Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. {4:1} If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out {3:6} The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. {4:2} And thou the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. {3:7} and in him shall they glory. And I said after she had done all these [things,] Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister {4:3} For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Judah saw [it. ]{3:8} And I saw, when for all the causes Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her among thorns. {4:4} Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like {3:9} And it came to pass through the lightness of her fire, and burn that none can quench [it,] because of the evil whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed of your doings. {4:5} Declare ye in Judah, and publish in adultery with stones and with stocks. {3:10} And yet for all Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. {3:11} into the defenced cities. {4:6} Set up the standard toward And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, justified herself more than treacherous Judah. and a great destruction. {4:7} The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is {3:12} Go and proclaim these words toward the north, gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. {4:8} [and] I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. {4:9} for ever. {3:13} Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets www.holybooks.com

Page 449 Jeremiah shall wonder. {4:10} Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, they have refused to return. {5:4} Therefore I said, Surely saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way unto the soul. {4:11} At that time shall it be said to this of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God. {5:5} I will people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment nor to cleanse, {4:12} [Even ]a full wind from those [places of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, ]shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against [and] burst the bonds. {5:6} Wherefore a lion out of the them. {4:13} Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. {4:14} O that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge increased. within thee? {4:15} For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. {4:16} Make ye {5:7} How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and voice against the cities of Judah. {4:17} As keepers of a assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. field, are they against her round about; because she hath {5:8} They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. {4:18} Thy neighed after his neighbour’s wife. {5:9} Shall I not visit way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; for these [things?] saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it avenged on such a nation as this? reacheth unto thine heart. {5:10} Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make {4:19} My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my the LORD’S. {5:11} For the house of Israel and the house peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the trump, the alarm of war. {4:20} Destruction upon LORD. {5:12} They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment. {4:21} sword nor famine: {5:13} And the prophets shall become How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done the trumpet? {4:22} For my people [is] foolish, they have unto them. {5:14} Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall good they have no knowledge. {4:23} I beheld the earth, devour them. {5:15} Lo, I will bring a nation upon you and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty and they [had] no light. {4:24} I beheld the mountains, and, nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. {4:25} I thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the {5:16} Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all heavens were fled. {4:26} I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful mighty men. {5:17} And they shall eat up thine harvest, and place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up fierce anger. {4:27} For thus hath the LORD said, The thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. {5:18} {4:28} For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make above be black: because I have spoken [it,] I have purposed a full end with you. [it,] and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. {4:29} The whole city shall flee for the noise of the {5:19} And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken not a man dwell therein. {4:30} And [when] thou [art] me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself strangers in a land [that is] not yours. {5:20} Declare this in with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, {5:21} gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear they will seek thy life. {4:31} For I have heard a voice as of not: {5:22} Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying,] Woe pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? {5:23} But this people hath a revolting and a {5:1} Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. {5:24} Neither and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. {5:2} he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 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Jeremiah Page 450 lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of men. {5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen words, nor to my law, but rejected it. {6:20} To what rich. {5:28} They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. {6:21} the needy do they not judge. {5:29} Shall I not visit for Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay these [things?] saith the LORD: shall not my soul be stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the avenged on such a nation as this? sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. {6:22} Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a {5:30} A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the people cometh from the north country, and a great nation land; {5:31} The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests shall be raised from the sides of the earth. {6:23} They shall bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no and what will ye do in the end thereof? mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter {6:1} O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee of Zion. {6:24} We have heard the fame thereof: our hands out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil a woman in travail. {6:25} Go not forth into the field, nor appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. {6:2} I walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate on every side. [woman. ]{6:3} The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round {6:26} O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with about; they shall feed every one in his place. {6:4} Prepare sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. {6:27} I have set are stretched out. {6:5} Arise, and let us go by night, and let thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that us destroy her palaces. thou mayest know and try their way. {6:28} They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass {6:6} For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye and iron; they [are] all corrupters. {6:29} The bellows are down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. {6:30} her. {6:7} As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in hath rejected them. her; before me continually is grief and wounds. {6:8} Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; {7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. saying, {7:2} Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the {6:9} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand worship the LORD. {7:3} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, as a grapegatherer into the baskets. {6:10} To whom shall I the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their will cause you to dwell in this place. {7:4} Trust ye not in ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these. {7:5} delight in it. {6:11} Therefore I am full of the fury of the For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon throughly execute judgment between a man and his the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men neighbour; {7:6} [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in the aged with [him that is] full of days. {6:12} And their this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: {7:7} houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. {6:13} For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one {7:8} Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto {7:9} Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and the priest every one dealeth falsely. {6:14} They have swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, other gods whom ye know not; {7:10} And come and stand saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. {6:15} Were before me in this house, which is called by my name, and they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? {7:11} they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it,] saith the [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. LORD. {7:12} But go ye now unto my place which [was] in {6:16} Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. {7:13} And therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, now, because ye have done all these works, saith the We will not walk [therein. ]{6:17} Also I set watchmen LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, over you, [saying,] Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; they said, We will not hearken. {7:14} Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I {6:18} Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. congregation, what [is] among them. {6:19} Hear, O earth: {7:15} And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast www.holybooks.com

Page 451 Jeremiah out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim. sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they {7:16} Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom for I will not hear thee. they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. {7:17} Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah {8:3} And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the and in the streets of Jerusalem? {7:18} The children gather residue of them that remain of this evil family, which wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to LORD of hosts. pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger? {8:4} Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, confusion of their own faces? {7:20} Therefore thus saith and not return? {8:5} Why [then] is this people of the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. {8:6} I hearkened and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. {8:7} Yea, {7:21} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of {7:22} For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, LORD. {8:8} How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: {7:23} But this the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it;] thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will the pen of the scribes [is] in vain. {8:9} The wise [men] are be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in unto you. {7:24} But they hearkened not, nor inclined their them? {8:10} Therefore will I give their wives unto others, ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them:] for every their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. one from the least even unto the greatest is given to {7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my one dealeth falsely. {8:11} For they have healed the hurt of servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; [them: ]{7:26} Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor when [there is] no peace. {8:12} Were they ashamed when inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all than their fathers. {7:27} Therefore thou shalt speak all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. shall be cast down, saith the LORD. {7:28} But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth {8:13} I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have {7:29} Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem,] and cast [it] given them shall pass away from them. {8:14} Why do we away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our wrath. {7:30} For the children of Judah have done evil in God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. {8:15} in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of {7:31} And they have built the high places of Tophet, health, and behold trouble! {8:16} The snorting of his which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, [them] not, neither came it into my heart. and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. {8:17} For, behold, I will send {7:32} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. {7:33} And the {8:18} [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the my heart [is] faint in me. {8:19} Behold the voice of the cry heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in [them] away. {7:34} Then will I cause to cease from the a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the graven images, [and] with strange vanities? {8:20} The bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. desolate. {8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. {8:22} [Is {8:1} At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his then is not the health of the daughter of my people princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the recovered? prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: {8:2} And they shall spread them before the {9:1} Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 452 fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches: {9:24} slain of the daughter of my people! {9:2} Oh that I had in But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. {9:3} And they for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD. bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed {9:25} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. punish all [them which are] circumcised with the {9:4} Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye uncircumcised; {9:26} Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the and every neighbour will walk with slanders. {9:5} And utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, uncircumcised in the heart. [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. {9:6} Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they {10:1} Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto refuse to know me, saith the LORD. {9:7} Therefore thus you, O house of Israel: {10:2} Thus saith the LORD, Learn saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. {10:3} For {9:8} Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {9:9} Shall I not visit them for these [things?] saith the {10:5} They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not this? {9:10} For the mountains will I take up a weeping and afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a them to do good. {10:6} Forasmuch as [there is] none like lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name is great pass through [them;] neither can [men] hear the voice of the in might. {10:7} Who would not fear thee, O King of cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among they are gone. {9:11} And I will make Jerusalem heaps, all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah [there is] none like unto thee. {10:8} But they are altogether desolate, without an inhabitant. brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. {10:9} Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, {9:12} Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [are] all the work of cunning [men. ]{10:10} But the LORD [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting through? {9:13} And the LORD saith, Because they have king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not shall not be able to abide his indignation. {10:11} Thus obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; {9:14} But have shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the Baalim, which their fathers taught them: {9:15} Therefore earth, and from under these heavens. {10:12} He hath made thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his give them water of gall to drink. {9:16} I will scatter them discretion. {10:13} When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh consumed them. lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. {10:14} Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: {9:17} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send molten image is falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. for cunning [women,] that they may come: {9:18} And let {10:15} They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes time of their visitation they shall perish. {10:16} The may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of waters. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, all [things;] and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because LORD of hosts [is] his name. we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. {9:20} Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye {10:17} Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and of the fortress. {10:18} For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and lamentation. {9:21} For death is come up into our windows, will distress them, that they may find [it] so. [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets. {9:22} {10:19} Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. {10:20} shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them. children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my ]{9:23} Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] curtains. {10:21} For the pastors are become brutish, and glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, www.holybooks.com

Page 453 Jeremiah and all their flocks shall be scattered. {10:22} Behold, the {11:18} And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it,] noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the and I know [it:] then thou shewedst me their doings. north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a {11:19} But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought den of dragons. to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the {10:23} O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps. living, that his name may be no more remembered. {11:20} {10:24} O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the for unto thee have I revealed my cause. {11:21} Therefore families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that made his habitation desolate. thou die not by our hand: {11:22} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men {11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall saying, {11:2} Hear ye the words of this covenant, and die by famine: {11:23} And there shall be no remnant of speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] Jerusalem; {11:3} And say thou unto them, Thus saith the the year of their visitation. LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, {11:4} Which I commanded {12:1} Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {12:2} so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: {11:5} Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as mouth, and far from their reins. {12:3} But thou, O LORD, [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward LORD. {11:6} Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of them for the day of slaughter. {12:4} How long shall the Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the do them. {11:7} For I earnestly protested unto your fathers wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, our last end. {12:5} If thou hast run with the footmen, and Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of trustedst, [they wearied thee,] then how wilt thou do in the this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they swelling of Jordan? {12:6} For even thy brethren, and the did [them] not. {11:9} And the LORD said unto me, A house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned back them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the {12:7} I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the covenant which I made with their fathers. hand of her enemies. {12:8} Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I {11:11} Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will hated it. {12:9} Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. {12:10} hearken unto them. {11:12} Then shall the cities of Judah Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They have made it in the time of their trouble. {11:13} For [according to] the desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me; the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to to] the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up heart. {12:12} The spoilers are come upon all high places altars to [that] shameful thing, [even] altars to burn incense through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall unto Baal. {11:14} Therefore pray not thou for this people, devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. {12:13} They [them] in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put {11:15} What hath my beloved to do in mine house, themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou LORD. rejoicest. {11:16} The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a {12:14} Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused of it are broken. {11:17} For the LORD of hosts, that my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they them. {12:15} And it shall come to pass, after that I have have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on offering incense unto Baal. them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 454 and every man to his land. {12:16} And it shall come to these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to thy skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare. {13:23} swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. of my people. {12:17} But if they will not obey, I will {13:24} Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the {13:1} Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon water. {13:2} So I got a girdle according to the word of the thy face, that thy shame may appear. {13:27} I have seen LORD, and put [it] on my loins. {13:3} And the word of the thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy LORD came unto me the second time, saying, {13:4} Take whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. clean? when [shall it] once [be? {13:5} So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. {13:6} And it came to pass after many ]{14:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, concerning the dearth. {14:2} Judah mourneth, and the and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and hide there. {13:7} Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. {14:3} And their nobles and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels {13:8} Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered {13:9} Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar their heads. {14:4} Because the ground is chapt, for there the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they {13:10} This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, covered their heads. {14:5} Yea, the hind also calved in the which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after field, and forsook [it,] because there was no grass. {14:6} other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. {13:11} For as up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to was] no grass. cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me {14:7} O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a do thou [it] for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are glory: but they would not hear. many; we have sinned against thee. {14:8} O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest {13:12} Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night? {14:9} Why filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man [that] certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and {13:13} Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the we are called by thy name; leave us not. LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, {14:10} Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, drunkenness. {13:14} And I will dash them one against therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. {14:11} Then LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] destroy them. good. {14:12} When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not {13:15} Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by LORD hath spoken. {13:16} Give glory to the LORD your the famine, and by the pestilence. God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he {14:13} Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye darkness. {13:17} But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall {14:14} Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I flock is carried away captive. {13:18} Say unto the king and commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your nought, and the deceit of their heart. {14:15} Therefore thus glory. {13:19} The cities of the south shall be shut up, and saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in none shall open [them:] Judah shall be carried away captive my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. {13:20} famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the those prophets be consumed. {14:16} And the people to north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of beautiful flock? {13:21} What wilt thou say when he shall Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness woman in travail? upon them. {13:22} And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come {14:17} Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let www.holybooks.com

Page 455 Jeremiah mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them rebuke. {15:16} Thy words were found, and I did eat them; not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. {14:18} If I heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! {15:17} I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about me with indignation. {15:18} Why is my pain perpetual, into a land that they know not. {14:19} Hast thou utterly and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for [that] fail? peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! {14:20} We acknowledge, O LORD, {15:19} Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before have sinned against thee. {14:21} Do not abhor [us,] for thy me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return remember, break not thy covenant with us. {14:22} Are not thou unto them. {15:20} And I will make thee unto this there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I [am] with LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. hast made all these [things. {15:21} And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the ]{15:1} Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and terrible. Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them {16:1} The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, go forth. {15:2} And it shall come to pass, if they say unto {16:2} Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, have sons or daughters in this place. {16:3} For thus saith Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that captivity, to the captivity. {15:3} And I will appoint over begat them in this land; {16:4} They shall die of grievous them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the the earth, to devour and destroy. {15:4} And I will cause earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. {16:5} For thus saith which he did in Jerusalem. {15:5} For who shall have pity the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my shall go aside to ask how thou doest? {15:6} Thou hast peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: lovingkindness and mercies. {16:6} Both the great and the therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. {15:7} And I will shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave themselves bald for them: {16:7} Neither shall [men] tear [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the return not from their ways. {15:8} Their widows are dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought to drink for their father or for their mother. {16:8} Thou upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and to eat and to drink. {16:9} For thus saith the LORD of terrors upon the city. {15:9} She that hath borne seven hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the the voice of the bride. sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. {16:10} And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew {15:10} Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me. {15:11} The that we have committed against the LORD our God? LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily {16:11} Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked evil and in the time of affliction. {15:12} Shall iron break after other gods, and have served them, and have the northern iron and the steel? {15:13} Thy substance and worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and [that] my law; {16:12} And ye have done worse than your fathers; for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. {15:14} And I will for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land [which] evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: {16:13} thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye [which] shall burn upon you. know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you {15:15} O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit favour. me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered {16:14} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 456 LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that {17:15} Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; the LORD? let it come now. {17:16} As for me, I have not {16:15} But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into of my lips was [right] before thee. {17:17} Be not a terror their land that I gave unto their fathers. unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be {16:16} Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every them with double destruction. mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. {16:17} For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they {17:19} Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of mine eyes. {16:18} And first I will recompense their Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my gates of Jerusalem; {17:20} And say unto them, Hear ye the land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all their detestable and abominable things. {16:19} O LORD, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of {17:21} Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited the gates of Jerusalem; {17:22} Neither carry forth a burden lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit. out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any {16:20} Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your no gods? {16:21} Therefore, behold, I will this once cause fathers. {17:23} But they obeyed not, neither inclined their them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD. receive instruction. {17:24} And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no {17:1} The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; {17:25} table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and {17:2} Whilst their children remember their altars and their princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots groves by the green trees upon the high hills. {17:3} O my and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, ever. {17:26} And they shall come from the cities of Judah, throughout all thy borders. {17:4} And thou, even thyself, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of [which] shall burn for ever. praise, unto the house of the LORD. {17:27} But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to {17:5} Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, departeth from the LORD. {17:6} For he shall be like the and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but be quenched. shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited. {17:7} Blessed [is] the man that {18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. {17:8} LORD, saying, {18:2} Arise, and go down to the potter’s For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. {18:3} spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be wrought a work on the wheels. {18:4} And the vessel that careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he yielding fruit. made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it. ]{18:5} Then the word of the LORD came to {17:9} The heart [is] deceitful above all [things,] and me, saying, {18:6} O house of Israel, cannot I do with you desperately wicked: who can know it? {17:10} I the LORD as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in search the heart, [I[ try the reins, even to give every man the potter’s hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his Israel. {18:7} [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a doings. {17:11} As the partridge sitteth [on eggs,] and nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by down, and to destroy [it; ]{18:8} If that nation, against right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent end shall be a fool. of the evil that I thought to do unto them. {18:9} And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and {17:12} A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it; ]{18:10} If the place of our sanctuary. {17:13} O LORD, the hope of it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. {18:11} Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, {17:14} Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise. 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Page 457 Jeremiah way, and make your ways and your doings good. {18:12} shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of lives, shall straiten them. {19:10} Then shalt thou break the his evil heart. {18:13} Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, {19:11} And ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. {18:14} will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury. that come from another place be forsaken? {18:15} Because {19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways Tophet: {19:13} And the houses of Jerusalem, and the [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of cast up; {18:16} To make their land desolate, [and] a Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have astonished, and wag his head. {18:17} I will scatter them as poured out drink offerings unto other gods. {19:14} Then with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’S house; and said to all the people, {19:15} Thus saith the {18:18} Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the pronounced against it, because they have hardened their prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let necks, that they might not hear my words. us not give heed to any of his words. {18:19} Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend {20:1} Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who with me. {18:20} Shall evil be recompensed for good? for [was] also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood that Jeremiah prophesied these things. {20:2} Then Pashur before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that wrath from them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the house of the LORD. {20:3} And it came to pass on the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle. called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. {20:4} For {18:22} Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. {18:23} sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it:] and Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, slay [me:] forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; them with the sword. {20:5} Moreover I will deliver all the deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger. strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of {19:1} Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. of the ancients of the priests; {19:2} And go forth unto the {20:6} And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all {19:3} And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon {20:7} O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am tingle. {19:4} Because they have forsaken me, and have in derision daily, every one mocketh me. {20:8} For since I estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the derision, daily. {20:9} Then I said, I will not make mention blood of innocents; {19:5} They have built also the high of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it,] was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay. neither came [it] into my mind: {19:6} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no ]{20:10} For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of side. Report, [say they,] and we will report it. All my Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. {19:7} And I will familiars watched for my halting, [saying,] Peradventure he make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their shall take our revenge on him. {20:11} But the LORD [is] enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. {19:8} And I will greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. {20:12} But, passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the the plagues thereof. {19:9} And I will cause them to eat the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they unto thee have I opened my cause. {20:13} Sing unto the www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 458 LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy of the poor from the hand of evildoers. people that enter in by these gates: {22:3} Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver {20:14} Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {20:15} wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. {22:4} saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the glad. {20:16} And let that man be as the cities which the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; {20:17} his people. {22:5} But if ye will not hear these words, I Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always become a desolation. {22:6} For thus saith the LORD unto great [with me. ]{20:18} Wherefore came I forth out of the the king’s house of Judah; Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a consumed with shame? wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited. {22:7} And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with {21:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son cast [them] into the fire. {22:8} And many nations shall of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his saying, {21:2} Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if great city? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Because they so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and wondrous works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then worshipped other gods, and served them. said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will {22:10} Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return wherewith ye fight [against] the king of Babylon, and no more, nor see his native country. {22:11} For thus saith against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. {21:5} Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and more: {22:12} But he shall die in the place whither they in great wrath. {21:6} And I will smite the inhabitants of have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. {21:7} And afterward, saith the LORD, I will {22:13} Woe unto him that buildeth his house by deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of for his work; {22:14} That saith, I will build me a wide Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not {22:15} Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him? {22:16} He {21:8} And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD. way of death. {21:9} He that abideth in this city shall die by {22:17} But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, oppression, and for violence, to do [it. ]{22:18} Therefore he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of {21:10} For I have set my face against this city for evil, and Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand [saying,] Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. for him, [saying,] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! {22:19} He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast {21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Hear ye the word of the LORD; {21:12} O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and {22:20} Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand of the in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none destroyed. {22:21} I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] can quench [it,] because of the evil of your doings. {21:13} thou saidst, I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. {22:22} rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go come down against us? or who shall enter into our into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and habitations? {21:14} But I will punish you according to the confounded for all thy wickedness. {22:23} O inhabitant of fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a about it. woman in travail! {22:24} [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the {22:1} Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; king of Judah, and speak there this word, {22:2} And say, {22:25} And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, www.holybooks.com

Page 459 Jeremiah even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto into the hand of the Chaldeans. {22:26} And I will cast thee every one that walketh after the imagination of his own out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, heart, No evil shall come upon you. {23:18} For who hath where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. {22:27} But stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it? not return. {22:28} [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken ]{23:19} Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land upon the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger of the which they know not? {22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he the word of the LORD. {22:30} Thus saith the LORD, have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days Write ye this man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in ye shall consider it perfectly. {23:21} I have not sent these his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they {23:1} Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter should have turned them from their evil way, and from the the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. {23:2} Therefore evil of their doings. {23:23} [Am] I a God at hand, saith the thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that LORD, and not a God afar off? {23:24} Can any hide feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. {23:3} {23:25} I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them {23:26} How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of {23:4} And I will set up shepherds over them which shall their own heart; {23:27} Which think to cause my people to feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. {23:28} The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell {23:5} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the {23:29} [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; earth. {23:6} In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces? shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall {23:30} Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. {23:7} saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they neighbour. {23:31} Behold, I [am] against the prophets, shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {23:8} But, The {23:32} Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not their own land. profit this people at all, saith the LORD. {23:9} Mine heart within me is broken because of the {23:33} And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. {23:10} forsake you, saith the LORD. {23:34} And [as for] the For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not house. {23:35} Thus shall ye say every one to his right. {23:11} For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? {23:12} Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery {23:36} And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have therein: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts their visitation, saith the LORD. {23:13} And I have seen our God. {23:37} Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD and caused my people Israel to err. {23:14} I have seen also spoken? {23:38} But since ye say, The burden of the in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; {23:39} are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I thereof as Gomorrah. {23:15} Therefore thus saith the will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence: {23:40} And I them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone shame, which shall not be forgotten. forth into all the land. {23:16} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that {24:1} The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD. Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive {23:17} They say still unto them that despise me, The Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 460 princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One king of Babylon seventy years. basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, {25:12} And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Then accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. {25:13} And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this {24:4} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the saying, {24:5} Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; nations. {25:14} For many nations and great kings shall Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this according to their deeds, and according to the works of their place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good. {24:6} own hands. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not {25:15} For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the [them] up. {24:7} And I will give them an heart to know nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. {25:16} And they me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their sword that I will send among them. {25:17} Then took I the whole heart. cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: {25:18} [To wit,] {24:8} And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day; of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell {25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his in the land of Egypt: {24:9} And I will deliver them to be princes, and all his people; {25:20} And all the mingled removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and places whither I shall drive them. {24:10} And I will send Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, {25:21} Edom, and the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till Moab, and the children of Ammon, {25:22} And all the they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of and to their fathers. the isles which are beyond the sea, {25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, {25:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the {25:24} And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of mingled people that dwell in the desert, {25:25} And all the Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; {25:2} The which of the Medes, {25:26} And all the kings of the north, far Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, {25:3} From the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, of Sheshach shall drink after them. {25:27} Therefore thou even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among hearkened. {25:4} And the LORD hath sent unto you all his you. {25:28} And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them;] but thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. {25:5} saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. {25:29} They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the and ever: {25:6} And go not after other gods to serve them, inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. {25:30} and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. {25:7} Yet say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread your own hurt. [the grapes,] against all the inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the {25:8} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead ye have not heard my words, {25:9} Behold, I will send and with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and sword, saith the LORD. {25:32} Thus saith the LORD of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will earth. {25:33} And the slain of the LORD shall be at that utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of an hissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:10} Moreover I the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the {25:34} Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow candle. {25:11} And this whole land shall be a desolation, yourselves [in the ashes,] ye principal of the flock: for the www.holybooks.com

Page 461 Jeremiah days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain {25:35} And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor of the house as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did the principal of the flock to escape. {25:36} A voice of the Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, flock, [shall be heard:] for the LORD hath spoiled their and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pasture. {25:37} And the peaceable habitations are cut pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. {25:38} He against our souls. {26:20} And there was also a man that hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this because of his fierce anger. city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: {26:21} And when Jehoiakim the king, with all {26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, saying, {26:2} Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; {26:22} And the LORD’S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely,] Elnathan which come to worship in the LORD’S house, all the words the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt. that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a {26:23} And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and word: {26:3} If so be they will hearken, and turn every man brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. common people. {26:24} Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam {26:4} And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. have set before you, {26:5} To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up {27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son early, and sending [them,] but ye have not hearkened; of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from {26:6} Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will the LORD, saying, {27:2} Thus saith the LORD to me; make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. {26:7} Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard {27:3} And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the {26:8} Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to Judah; {27:4} And command them to say unto their speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Thus shall ye say unto your masters; {27:5} I have made the {26:9} Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the ground, by saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. {27:6} And gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the {26:10} When the princes of Judah heard these things, beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of {27:7} And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then LORD’S [house. ]{26:11} Then spake the priests and the many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This {27:8} And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and man [is] worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the city, as ye have heard with your ears. king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith {26:12} Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. against this house and against this city all the words that ye {27:9} Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to have heard. {26:13} Therefore now amend your ways and your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath shall not serve the king of Babylon: {27:10} For they pronounced against you. {26:14} As for me, behold, I [am] prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. you. {26:15} But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to {27:11} But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these shall till it, and dwell therein. words in your ears. {27:12} I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according {26:16} Then said the princes and all the people unto the to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God. live. {27:13} Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the {26:17} Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, {26:18} hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah Babylon? {27:14} Therefore hearken not unto the words of king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 462 the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet {27:15} For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they Jeremiah went his way. prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto {28:12} Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah you. {27:16} Also I spake to the priests and to all this [the prophet,] after that Hananiah the prophet had broken people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, {28:13} Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Behold, the vessels of the LORD’S house shall now shortly LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto make for them yokes of iron. {28:14} For thus saith the you. {27:17} Hearken not unto them; serve the king of LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste? upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve {27:18} But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the and I have given him the beasts of the field also. LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at {28:15} Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. {28:16} {27:19} For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. city, {27:20} Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took {28:17} So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of seventh month. Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; {27:21} Yea, thus saith {29:1} Now these [are] the words of the letter that the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD, and [in] the of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; {27:22} They priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them to Babylon; {29:2} (After that Jeconiah the king, and the up, and restore them to this place. queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from {28:1} And it came to pass the same year, in the Jerusalem;) {29:3} By the hand of Elasah the son of beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, {29:4} Thus in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are of all the people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaketh the LORD carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; {29:5} Build ye of the king of Babylon. {28:3} Within two full years will I houses, and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat the bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD’S fruit of them; {29:6} Take ye wives, and beget sons and house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your from this place, and carried them to Babylon: {28:4} And I daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into diminished. {29:7} And seek the peace of the city whither I Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto king of Babylon. the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. {28:5} Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet {29:8} For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD, the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your {28:6} Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. {29:9} For they do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’S saith the LORD. house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. {28:7} Nevertheless hear thou now this {29:10} For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform people; {28:8} The prophets that have been before me and my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, place. {29:11} For I know the thoughts that I think toward and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to pestilence. {28:9} The prophet which prophesieth of peace, give you an expected end. {29:12} Then shall ye call upon when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent unto you. {29:13} And ye shall seek me, and find [me,] him. when ye shall search for me with all your heart. {29:14} And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn {28:10} Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it. {28:11} And nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 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Page 463 Jeremiah {29:15} Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us {30:4} And these [are] the words that the LORD spake up prophets in Babylon; {29:16} [Know] that thus saith the concerning Israel and concerning Judah. {30:5} For thus LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of of all the people that dwelleth in this city, [and] of your fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask ye now, and see whether brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man {29:17} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and faces are turned into paleness? {30:7} Alas! for that day [is] will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob’s so evil. {29:18} And I will persecute them with the sword, trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. {30:8} For it shall with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: among all the nations whither I have driven them: {29:19} {30:9} But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the their king, whom I will raise up unto them. LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them;] but ye would not hear, {30:10} Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD. saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their {29:20} Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid. {30:11} For I [am] Babylon: {29:21} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; {30:12} For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, {29:22} And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the [and] thy wound [is] grievous. {30:13} [There is] none to captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the healing medicines. {30:14} All thy lovers have forgotten king of Babylon roasted in the fire; {29:23} Because they thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the have committed villany in Israel, and have committed wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were lying words in my name, which I have not commanded increased. {30:15} Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD. sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things {29:24} [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the unto thee. {30:16} Therefore all they that devour thee shall Nehelamite, saying, {29:25} Thus speaketh the LORD of be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, {30:17} For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal and to all the priests, saying, {29:26} The LORD hath made thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should thee an Outcast, [saying,] This [is] Zion, whom no man be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that seeketh after. is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. {29:27} Now therefore {30:18} Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his maketh himself a prophet to you? {29:28} For therefore he dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity is] long: heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. build ye houses, and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and {30:19} And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the eat the fruit of them. {29:29} And Zephaniah the priest read voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. {30:20} Their children also shall be as {29:30} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before saying, {29:31} Send to all them of the captivity, saying, me, and I will punish all that oppress them. {30:21} And Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: {29:32} draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a LORD. {30:22} And ye shall be my people, and I will be man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the your God. {30:23} Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall he hath taught rebellion against the LORD. with pain upon the head of the wicked. {30:24} The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done [it,] {30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the saying, {30:2} Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, latter days ye shall consider it. saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. {30:3} For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, {31:1} At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to people. {31:2} Thus saith the LORD, The people [which the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 464 Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3} The LORD earth, A woman shall compass a man. {31:23} Thus saith hath appeared of old unto me, [saying,] Yea, I have loved the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, have I drawn thee. {31:4} Again I will build thee, and thou when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned thee, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of holiness. with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them {31:24} And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the that make merry. {31:5} Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat with flocks. {31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and [them] as common things. {31:6} For there shall be a day, I have replenished every sorrowful soul. {31:26} Upon this [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. {31:7} For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for {31:27} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant seed of man, and with the seed of beast. {31:28} And it of Israel. {31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the north shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall and to plant, saith the LORD. {31:29} In those days they return thither. {31:9} They shall come with weeping, and shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to the children’s teeth are set on edge. {31:30} But every one walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. [is] my firstborn. {31:31} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I {31:10} Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered the house of Judah: {31:32} Not according to the covenant Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them his flock. {31:11} For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto he. {31:12} Therefore they shall come and sing in the them, saith the LORD: {31:33} But this [shall be] the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. God, and they shall be my people. {31:34} And they shall {31:13} Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith from their sorrow. {31:14} And I will satiate the soul of the the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with remember their sin no more. my goodness, saith the LORD. {31:35} Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a {31:15} Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the for her children refused to be comforted for her children, waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: because they [were] not. {31:16} Thus saith the LORD; {31:36} If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they a nation before me for ever. {31:37} Thus saith the LORD; shall come again from the land of the enemy. {31:17} And If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the shall come again to their own border. seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. {31:18} I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {31:38} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the [thus;] Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke:] turn thou me, and I unto the gate of the corner. {31:39} And the measuring line shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God. {31:19} shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I shall compass about to Goath. {31:40} And the whole was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate my youth. {31:20} [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. {32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD {31:21} Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. {32:2} For then the thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah these thy cities. the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of Judah’s house. {32:3} For Zedekiah {31:22} How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will www.holybooks.com

Page 465 Jeremiah give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, shall take it; {32:4} And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not behold, thou seest [it. ]{32:25} And thou hast said unto me, escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold Chaldeans. his eyes; {32:5} And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: {32:26} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? saying, {32:27} Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? {32:28} Therefore {32:6} And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the unto me, saying, {32:7} Behold, Hanameel the son of hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee king of Babylon, and he shall take it: {32:29} And the my field that [is] in Anathoth: for the right of redemption Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set [is] thine to buy [it. ]{32:8} So Hanameel mine uncle’s son fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose came to me in the court of the prison according to the word roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: {32:30} For the children of Israel and the children of Judah for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] have only done evil before me from their youth: for the thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the word of the LORD. {32:9} And I bought the field of work of their hands, saith the LORD. {32:31} For this city Hanameel my uncle’s son, that [was] in Anathoth, and hath been to me [as] a provocation of mine anger and of my weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver. fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I {32:10} And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it,] and should remove it from before my face, {32:32} Because of took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of balances. {32:11} So I took the evidence of the purchase, Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, custom, and that which was open: {32:12} And I gave the and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the {32:33} And they have turned unto me the back, and not the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [son,] and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed [them,] yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the {32:34} But they set their abominations in the house, which court of the prison. is called by my name, to defile it. {32:35} And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in the valley of the son {32:13} And I charged Baruch before them, saying, of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass {32:14} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put abomination, to cause Judah to sin. them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. {32:15} For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of {32:36} And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be again in this land. delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; {32:37} Behold, I {32:16} Now when I had delivered the evidence of the will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and LORD, saying, {32:17} Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and them to dwell safely: {32:38} And they shall be my people, stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing too hard for thee: and I will be their God: {32:39} And I will give them one {32:18} Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of good of them, and of their children after them: {32:40} And their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will LORD of hosts, [is] his name, {32:19} Great in counsel, not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his {32:41} Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: {32:20} I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and with my whole soul. {32:42} For thus saith the LORD; [even] unto this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so and hast made thee a name, as at this day; {32:21} And hast will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with them. {32:43} And fields shall be bought in this land, signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a whereof ye say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is stretched out arm, and with great terror; {32:22} And hast given into the hand of the Chaldeans. {32:44} Men shall given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; {32:23} [them,] and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity caused all this evil to come upon them: {32:24} Behold the to return, saith the LORD. mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, {33:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 466 court of the prison, saying, {33:2} Thus saith the LORD the the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. LORD [is] his name; {33:3} Call unto me, and I will {33:23} Moreover the word of the LORD came to answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which Jeremiah, saying, {33:24} Considerest thou not what this thou knowest not. {33:4} For thus saith the LORD, the God people have spoken, saying, The two families which the of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by have despised my people, that they should be no more a the mounts, and by the sword; {33:5} They come to fight nation before them. {33:25} Thus saith the LORD; If my with the Chaldeans, but [it is] fill them with the dead bodies covenant be not with day and night, [and if] I have not of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; {33:26} Then and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so city. {33:6} Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their peace and truth. {33:7} And I will cause the captivity of captivity to return, and have mercy on them. Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. {33:8} And I will cleanse them from all {34:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and whereby they have transgressed against me. and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, {34:2} Thus saith the LORD, the {33:9} And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I with fire: {34:3} And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, procure unto it. {33:10} Thus saith the LORD; Again there but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and shall be heard in this place, which ye say [shall be] desolate thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without to Babylon. {34:4} Yet hear the word of the LORD, O man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, {33:11} Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the shalt not die by the sword: {34:5} [But] thou shalt die in bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] which were before thee, so shall they burn [odours] for thee; good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that and they will lament thee, [saying,] Ah lord! for I have shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the pronounced the word, saith the LORD. {34:6} Then LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah at the first, saith the LORD. {33:12} Thus saith the LORD king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} When the king of of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down. against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the {33:13} In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the cities of Judah. vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the {34:8} [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a of him that telleth [them,] saith the LORD. {33:14} Behold, covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that proclaim liberty unto them; {34:9} That every man should good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] and to the house of Judah. an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, [to wit,] of a Jew his brother. {34:10} Now {33:15} In those days, and at that time, will I cause the when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he into the covenant, heard that every one should let his shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that {33:16} In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem none should serve themselves of them any more, then they shall dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she obeyed, and let [them] go. {34:11} But afterward they shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into {33:17} For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want subjection for servants and for handmaids. a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me {34:12} Therefore the word of the LORD came to to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {34:13} Thus saith the do sacrifice continually. LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of {33:19} And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, {34:14} At the saying, {33:20} Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath there should not be day and night in their season; {33:21} served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his their ear. {34:15} And ye were now turned, and had done throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his {33:22} As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the www.holybooks.com

Page 467 Jeremiah house which is called by my name: {34:16} But ye turned wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, hearkened not unto me. {35:15} I have sent also unto you to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto [them,] saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the nor hearkened unto me. {35:16} Because the sons of kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} And I will give the men that Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed commandment of their father, which he commanded them; the words of the covenant which they had made before me, but this people hath not hearkened unto me: {35:17} when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of parts thereof, {34:19} The princes of Judah, and the princes Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf; against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they {34:20} I will even give them into the hand of their have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and not answered. their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. {34:21} And {35:18} And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done which are gone up from you. {34:22} Behold, I will according unto all that he hath commanded you: {35:19} command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation before me for ever. without an inhabitant. {36:1} And it came to pass in the fourth year of {35:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {36:2} Take Judah, saying, {35:2} Go unto the house of the Rechabites, thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from drink. {35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the the days of Josiah, even into this day. {36:3} It may be that son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to the whole house of the Rechabites; {35:4} And I brought do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. {36:4} sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a door: {35:5} And I set before the sons of the house of the book. {36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: Drink ye wine. {35:6} But they said, We will drink no {36:6} Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither] ye, nor your ears of the people in the LORD’S house upon the fasting sons for ever: {35:7} Neither shall ye build house, nor sow day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have [any:] but all your days that come out of their cities. {36:7} It may be they will ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the present their supplication before the LORD, and will return land where ye [be] strangers. {35:8} Thus have we obeyed every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our {36:8} And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all wives, our sons, nor our daughters; {35:9} Nor to build that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor book the words of the LORD in the LORD’S house. {36:9} field, nor seed: {35:10} But we have dwelt in tents, and And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they father commanded us. {35:11} But it came to pass, when proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the Judah unto Jerusalem. {36:10} Then read Baruch in the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S {35:12} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, house, in the ears of all the people. saying, {35:13} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of {36:11} When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the words? saith the LORD. {35:14} The words of Jonadab the LORD, {36:12} Then he went down into the king’s house, son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 468 [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of were added besides unto them many like words. Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and {37:1} And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned all the princes. {36:13} Then Michaiah declared unto them instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of in the ears of the people. {36:14} Therefore all the princes Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, nor the sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet and came unto them. {36:15} And they said unto him, Sit Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us. down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in {37:4} Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the their ears. {36:16} Now it came to pass, when they had people: for they had not put him into prison. {37:5} Then heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, these words. {36:17} And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell they departed from Jerusalem. us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all {37:6} Then came the word of the LORD unto the these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7} Thus saith the LORD, the with ink in the book. {36:19} Then said the princes unto God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army, know where ye be. which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. {37:8} And the Chaldeans shall come again, {36:20} And they went in to the king into the court, but and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, {37:9} Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, and told all the words in the ears of the king. {36:21} So the saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of shall not depart. {37:10} For though ye had smitten the Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] stood beside the king. {36:22} Now the king sat in the should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on with fire. the hearth burning before him. {36:23} And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it {37:11} And it came to pass, that when the army of the with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] Pharaoh’s army, {37:12} Then Jeremiah went forth out of on the hearth. {36:24} Yet they were not afraid, nor rent Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants himself thence in the midst of the people. {37:13} And that heard all these words. {36:25} Nevertheless Elnathan when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, them. {36:26} But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. {37:14} Then of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them. brought him to the princes. {37:15} Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in {36:27} Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which made that the prison. Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28} Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former {37:16} When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many of Judah hath burned. {36:29} And thou shalt say to days; {37:17} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him Jehoiakim the king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man of the king of Babylon. {37:18} Moreover Jeremiah said and beast? {36:30} Therefore thus saith the LORD of unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the me in prison? {37:19} Where [are] now your prophets day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. {36:31} And I which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon will punish him and his seed and his servants for their shall not come against you, nor against this land? {37:20} iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou evil that I have pronounced against them; but they cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, hearkened not. lest I die there. {37:21} Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the {36:32} Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein piece of bread out of the bakers street, until all the bread in from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there the prison. www.holybooks.com

Page 469 Jeremiah {38:1} Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah shall live. {38:21} But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and word that the LORD hath shewed me: {38:22} And, behold, Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house had spoken unto all the people, saying, {38:2} Thus saith [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his mire, [and] they are turned away back. {38:23} So they life for a prey, and shall live. {38:3} Thus saith the LORD, shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but Babylon’s army, which shall take it. {38:4} Therefore the shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be shalt cause this city to be burned with fire. put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, {38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not know of these words, and thou shalt not die. {38:25} But if the welfare of this people, but the hurt. {38:5} Then the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you. {38:6} hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee: {38:26} Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in before the king, that he would not cause me to return to the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah Jonathan’s house, to die there. {38:27} Then came all the sunk in the mire. princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. {38:7} Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had perceived. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode in the court of the put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was gate of Benjamin; {38:8} Ebed-melech went forth out of the [there] when Jerusalem was taken. king’s house, and spake to the king, saying, {38:9} My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done {39:1} In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. {39:2} he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city. {38:10} Then [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up. {39:3} Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. {38:11} So in the middle gate, [even] Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Ebed- melech took the men with him, and went into the Sarsechim, Rab- saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} And Ebed-melech {39:4} And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the And Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So they drew up Jeremiah king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and went out the way of the plain. {39:5} But the Chaldeans’ Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they {38:14} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will him. {39:6} Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. {38:15} Then Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. {39:7} Moreover he thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to wilt thou not hearken unto me? {38:16} So Zedekiah the carry him to Babylon. king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, {39:8} And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the thy life. {38:17} Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus walls of Jerusalem. {39:9} Then Nebuzar-adan the captain saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: {38:18} But remained. {39:10} But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out same time. of their hand. {38:19} And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the {39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver the guard, saying, {39:12} Take him, and look well to him, [thee.] Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul unto thee. {39:13} So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 470 guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal- Ahikam the son of Shaphan; {40:12} Even all the Jews sharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes; returned out of all places whither they were driven, and {39:14} Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of gathered wine and summer fruits very much. Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. {40:13} Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to {39:15} Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, Gedaliah to Mizpah, {40:14} And said unto him, Dost thou while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying, certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath {39:16} Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. {40:15} Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will before thee. {39:17} But I will deliver thee in that day, saith slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the [it:] wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which men of whom thou [art] afraid. {39:18} For I will surely are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life in Judah perish? {40:16} But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this in me, saith the LORD. thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael. {40:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, {41:1} Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with chains among all that were carried away captive of him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. {41:2} Then Babylon. {40:2} And the captain of the guard took arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the pronounced this evil upon this place. {40:3} Now the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the LORD hath brought [it,] and done according as he hath king of Babylon had made governor over the land. {41:3} said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were {40:4} And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the found there, [and] the men of war. {41:4} And it came to chains which [were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look knew [it, ]{41:5} That there came certain from Shechem, well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee: having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their thither go. {40:5} Now while he was not yet gone back, [he hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD. {41:6} said,] Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee the son of Ahikam. {41:7} And it was [so,] when they came to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah reward, and let him go. {40:6} Then went Jeremiah unto slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him the men that [were] with him. {41:8} But ten men were among the people that were left in the land. found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and {40:7} Now when all the captains of the forces which of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that among their brethren. {41:9} Now the pit wherein Ishmael the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and because of Gedaliah, [was] it which Asa the king had made women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of that were not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} Then Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain. {41:10} they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king’s daughters, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar- the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the they and their men. {40:9} And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, them away captive, and departed to go over to the saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, Ammonites. and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. {40:10} As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve {41:11} But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye captains of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, {41:12} vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. {40:11} Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and among the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the [are] in Gibeon. {41:13} Now it came to pass, [that] when countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant all the people which [were] with Ishmael saw Johanan the of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [were] www.holybooks.com

Page 471 Jeremiah with him, then they were glad. {41:14} So all the people {42:17} So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall Kareah. {41:15} But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. {42:18} For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of {41:16} Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth captains of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: {41:17} And they departed, {42:19} The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, {41:18} Because of I have admonished you this day. {42:20} For ye dissembled the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto land. us, and we will do [it. ]{42:21} And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the {42:1} Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan LORD your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath sent the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all me unto you. {42:22} Now therefore know certainly that ye the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, {42:2} And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn. thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant; (for {43:1} And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had we are left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of {42:3} That the LORD thy God may shew us the way the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. {42:4} sent him to them, [even] all these words, {43:2} Then spake Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of [you;] behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou according to your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: {43:3} But Baruch [it] unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. {42:5} the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. {43:4} So all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the to us. {42:6} Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah. {43:5} But Johanan send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all voice of the LORD our God. the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; {42:7} And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of {43:6} [Even] men, and women, and children, and the the LORD came unto Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called he king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of which [were] with him, and all the people from the least Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and even to the greatest, {42:9} And said unto them, Thus saith Baruch the son of Neriah. {43:7} So they came into the land the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus present your supplication before him; {42:10} If ye will still came they [even] to Tahpanhes. abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I {43:8} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. {42:11} Be in Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9} Take great stones in thine not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which [is] not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of save you, and to deliver you from his hand. {42:12} And I the men of Judah; {43:10} And say unto them, Thus saith will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send you, and cause you to return to your own land. and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and {42:13} But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. {43:11} And neither obey the voice of the LORD your God, {42:14} when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: {42:15} And now the sword. {43:12} And I will kindle a fire in the houses of therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go there; {42:16} Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, forth from thence in peace. {43:13} He shall break also the which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of images of Beth-shemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. fire. www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 472 {44:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the the sword and by the famine. {44:19} And when we burned Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; {44:20} Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the and, behold, this day they [are] a desolation, and no man men, and to the women, and to all the people which had dwelleth therein, {44:3} Because of their wickedness which given him [that] answer, saying, {44:21} The incense that they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom they Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers. {44:4} princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising remember them, and came it [not] into his mind? {44:22} early and sending [them,] saying, Oh, do not this So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil abominable thing that I hate. {44:5} But they hearkened of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an burn no incense unto other gods. {44:6} Wherefore my fury astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the day. {44:23} Because ye have burned incense, and because cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the wasted [and] desolate, as at this day. {44:7} Therefore now voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your souls, to happened unto you, as at this day. {44:24} Moreover cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Judah, to leave you none to remain; {44:8} In that ye Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the land provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, of Egypt: {44:25} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn the nations of the earth? {44:9} Have ye forgotten the incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own and surely perform your vows. {44:26} Therefore hear ye wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Jerusalem? {44:10} They are not humbled [even] unto this LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. Lord GOD liveth. {44:27} Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are {44:11} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and the famine, until there be an end of them. {44:28} Yet a to cut off all Judah. {44:12} And I will take the remnant of small number that escape the sword shall return out of the Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword [and] by the famine: and {44:29} And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may curse, and a reproach. {44:13} For I will punish them that know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by {44:30} Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh- the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: {44:14} So hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they his enemy, and that sought his life. have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape. {45:1} The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words {44:15} Then all the men which knew that their wives had in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, {45:2} stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, Baruch; {45:3} Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the {44:16} [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. sighing, and I find no rest. {44:17} But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen {45:4} Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we thus; Behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for whole land. {45:5} And seekest thou great things for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon evil. {44:18} But since we left off to burn incense to the all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, for a prey in all places whither thou goest. we have wanted all [things,] and have been consumed by www.holybooks.com

Page 473 Jeremiah {46:1} The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their the prophet against the Gentiles; {46:2} Against Egypt, lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. {46:3} Order ye {46:27} But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make the brigandines. {46:5} Wherefore have I seen them [him] afraid. {46:28} Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD. {46:6} Let not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. {46:7} Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, {47:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the whose waters are moved as the rivers? {46:8} Egypt riseth prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; Gaza. {47:2} Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. {46:9} Come shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the inhabitants of the land shall howl. {47:3} At the noise of the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow. stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses,] at the rushing {46:10} For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be of hands; {47:4} Because of the day that cometh to spoil all satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Euphrates. {46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. {47:5} virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured. {46:12} The remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the {47:6} O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be [and] they are fallen both together. still. {47:7} How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea {46:13} The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the shore? there hath he appointed it. prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt. {46:14} Declare ye in Egypt, {48:1} Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and sword shall devour round about thee. {46:15} Why are thy dismayed. {48:2} [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let LORD did drive them. {46:16} He made many to fall, yea, us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. {48:3} A again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great from the oppressing sword. {46:17} They did cry there, destruction. {48:4} Moab is destroyed; her little ones have Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For in the going up of time appointed. {46:18} [As] I live, saith the King, whose Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come. {48:6} Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the {46:19} O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself wilderness. to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt [is like] a very fair {48:7} For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall {46:21} Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled together. {48:8} And the spoiler shall come upon every city, away together: they did not stand, because the day of their and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken. {48:9} visitation. {46:22} The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for for they shall march with an army, and come against her the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell with axes, as hewers of wood. {46:23} They shall cut down therein. {48:10} Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] sword from blood. innumerable. {46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the {48:11} Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he people of the north. {46:25} The LORD of hosts, the God hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: {46:26} And changed. {48:12} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 474 the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall about him. {48:40} For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. their bottles. {48:13} And Moab shall be ashamed of {48:41} Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as their confidence. the heart of a woman in her pangs. {48:42} And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath {48:14} How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for magnified [himself] against the LORD. {48:43} Fear, and the war? {48:15} Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the Moab, saith the LORD. {48:44} He that fleeth from the fear slaughter, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit hosts. {48:16} The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, [even] his affliction hasteth fast. {48:17} All ye that are about him, upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the {48:45} They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod! {48:18} Thou because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds. {48:19} tumultuous ones. {48:46} Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done? captives, and thy daughters captives. {48:47} Yet will I {48:20} Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the and cry; and tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab. {48:21} And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, {49:1} Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; {48:22} And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth- Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their diblathaim, {48:23} And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth- king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? {49:2} gamul, and upon Beth-meon, {48:24} And upon Kerioth, Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Moab, far or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab is cut off, and Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her his arm is broken, saith the LORD. daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. {49:3} {48:26} Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro and he also shall be in derision. {48:27} For was not Israel a by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since his priests and his princes together. {49:4} Wherefore thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. {48:28} O ye gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying,] and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of Who shall come unto me? {49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear the hole’s mouth. {48:29} We have heard the pride of upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. {49:6} {48:30} I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it. ]{48:31} Therefore children of Ammon, saith the LORD. will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kir- heres. {48:32} O {49:7} Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? {49:8} Flee ye, turn the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring and upon thy vintage. {48:33} And joy and gladness is the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will visit taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; him. {49:9} If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will shall tread with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no destroy till they have enough. {49:10} But I have made shouting. {48:34} From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, have they uttered their not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his voice, from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. {49:11} Leave three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let desolate. {48:35} Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, thy widows trust in me. {49:12} For thus saith the LORD; saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup him that burneth incense to his gods. {48:36} Therefore have assuredly drunken; and [art] thou he [that] shall mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the thou shalt surely drink [of it. ]{49:13} For I have sworn by riches [that] he hath gotten are perished. {48:37} For every myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. {49:14} I have {48:38} [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have unto the heathen, [saying,] Gather ye together, and come broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith against her, and rise up to the battle. {49:15} For, lo, I will the LORD. {48:39} They shall howl, [saying,] How is it make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised among broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! men. {49:16} Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the www.holybooks.com

Page 475 Jeremiah rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou upon them [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: thee down from thence, saith the LORD. {49:17} Also {49:38} And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD. be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. {49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and {49:39} But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. {49:19} Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of {50:1} The word that the LORD spake against Babylon Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a prophet. {50:2} Declare ye among the nations, and publish, chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in shepherd that will stand before me? {49:20} Therefore hear pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; pieces. {50:3} For out of the north there cometh up a nation and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations both man and beast. desolate with them. {49:21} The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the {50:4} In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, Red sea. {49:22} Behold, he shall come up and fly as the the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of the LORD their God. {50:5} They shall ask the way to Zion a woman in her pangs. with their faces thitherward, [saying,] Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall {49:23} Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, not be forgotten. {50:6} My people hath been lost sheep: and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from {49:24} Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. flee, and fear hath seized on [her:] anguish and sorrows {50:7} All that found them have devoured them: and their have taken her, as a woman in travail. {49:25} How is the adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned city of praise not left, the city of my joy! {49:26} Therefore against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of LORD, the hope of their fathers. {50:8} Remove out of the war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the {49:27} And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. {50:9} For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against {49:28} Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of spoil the men of the east. {49:29} Their tents and their a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. {50:10} And flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and saith the LORD. {50:11} Because ye were glad, because ye they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on every side. rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; {49:30} Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants {50:12} Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. a purpose against you. {49:31} Arise, get you up unto the {50:13} Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone. goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her {49:32} And their camels shall be a booty, and the plagues. {50:14} Put yourselves in array against Babylon multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no winds them [that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. {50:15} their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD. Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her {49:33} And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as [any] son of man dwell in it. she hath done, do unto her. {50:16} Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of {49:34} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, {49:35} Thus saith the own land. LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. {49:36} And upon Elam will I bring {50:17} Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. {49:37} his bones. {50:18} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 476 {50:19} And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. {50:20} In those the earth. {50:42} They shall hold the bow and the lance: days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel they [are] cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [every Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them one] put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O whom I reserve. daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: {50:21} Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and travail. {50:44} Behold, he shall come up like a lion from utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but according to all that I have commanded thee. {50:22} A I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction. a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the that shepherd that will stand before me? {50:45} Therefore nations! {50:24} I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall LORD. {50:25} The LORD hath opened his armoury, and draw them out: surely he shall make [their] habitation hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this desolate with them. {50:46} At the noise of the taking of [is] the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the Chaldeans. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost nations. border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. {50:27} Slay {51:1} Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; {51:2} And {50:28} The voice of them that flee and escape out of the will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. {50:29} Call against her round about. {51:3} Against [him that] bendeth together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young recompense her according to her work; according to all that men; destroy ye utterly all her host. {51:4} Thus the slain she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30} thrust through in her streets. {51:5} For Israel [hath] not Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy {50:31} Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, One of Israel. {51:6} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for [that] I will visit thee. {50:32} And the most proud shall this [is] the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will unto her a recompence. {51:7} Babylon [hath been] a kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth him. drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and {50:33} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so she Israel and the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: may be healed. {51:9} We would have healed Babylon, but and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into to let them go. {50:34} Their Redeemer [is] strong; the his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, LORD of hosts [is] his name: he shall throughly plead their and is lifted up [even] to the skies. {51:10} The LORD hath cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in inhabitants of Babylon. Zion the work of the LORD our God. {51:11} Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the {50:35} A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the princes, and upon her wise [men. ]{50:36} A sword [is] LORD, the vengeance of his temple. {51:12} Set up the upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. {50:37} A sword set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all hath both devised and done that which he spake against the the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they inhabitants of Babylon. {51:13} O thou that dwellest upon shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, [and] and they shall be robbed. {50:38} A drought [is] upon her the measure of thy covetousness. {51:14} The LORD of waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying,] Surely I will fill thee graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols. {50:39} with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts against thee. {51:15} He hath made the earth by his power, of the islands shall dwell [there,] and the owls shall dwell he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither stretched out the heaven by his understanding. {51:16} shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. {50:40} When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. {50:41} bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. {51:17} Every www.holybooks.com

Page 477 Jeremiah man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. {51:43} confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. {51:18} They land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their man pass thereby. {51:44} And I will punish Bel in visitation they shall perish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall his name. {51:20} Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons fall. {51:45} My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the with thee will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} And with thee LORD. {51:46} And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; {51:22} With both come [one] year, and after that in [another] year [shall thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will ruler. {51:47} Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; {51:23} I do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman in the midst of her. {51:48} Then the heaven and the earth, and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces and all that [is] therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the captains and rulers. {51:24} And I will render unto Babylon spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they LORD. {51:49} As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. {51:25} Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith earth. {51:50} Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, Jerusalem come into your mind. {51:51} We are and will make thee a burnt mountain. {51:26} And they confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for covered our faces: for strangers are come into the foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house. {51:52} Wherefore, LORD. {51:27} Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and the wounded shall groan. {51:53} Though Babylon should Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the to come up as the rough caterpillers. {51:28} Prepare height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the unto her, saith the LORD. {51:54} A sound of a cry captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of his dominion. {51:29} And the land shall tremble and of the Chaldeans: {51:55} Because the LORD hath spoiled sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is without an inhabitant. {51:30} The mighty men of Babylon uttered: {51:56} Because the spoiler is come upon her, have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: [even] upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every their might hath failed; they became as women: they have one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. {51:31} recompences shall surely requite. {51:57} And I will make One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to drunk her princes, and her wise [men,] her captains, and her meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual taken at [one] end, {51:32} And that the passages are sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the LORD of hosts. {51:58} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The men of war are affrighted. {51:33} For thus saith the LORD broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. while, and the time of her harvest shall come. {51:34} Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he {51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophet hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon my delicates, he hath cast me out. {51:35} The violence in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah was a done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the quiet prince. {51:60} So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36} Therefore thus that are written against Babylon. {51:61} And Jeremiah said saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her and shalt read all these words; {51:62} Then shalt thou say, springs dry. {51:37} And Babylon shall become heaps, a O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it without an inhabitant. {51:38} They shall roar together like shall be desolate for ever. {51:63} And it shall be, when lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps. {51:39} In their heat I thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, {51:64} And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and saith the LORD. {51:40} I will bring them down like lambs shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. {51:41} How is they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah. Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among {52:1} Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he the nations! {51:42} The sea is come up upon Babylon: she began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. www.holybooks.com

Jeremiah Page 478 And his mother’s name [was] Hamutal the daughter of The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like Jeremiah of Libnah. {52:2} And he did [that which was] unto these. {52:23} And there were ninety and six evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon Jehoiakim had done. {52:3} For through the anger of the the network [were] an hundred round about. LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled {52:24} And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the against the king of Babylon. chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: {52:25} He took also out of the city an {52:4} And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, [that] men of them that were near the king’s person, which were Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the against it round about. {52:5} So the city was besieged unto people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {52:6} And in the {52:26} So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the {52:27} And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them people of the land. {52:7} Then the city was broken up, and to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by carried away captive out of his own land. {52:28} This is night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in [was] by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans [were] by the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. {52:29} In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two {52:8} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the persons: {52:30} In the three and twentieth year of king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar- adan the captain of the guard his army was scattered from him. {52:9} Then they took the carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. hundred. {52:10} And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in {52:31} And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth Riblah. {52:11} Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. [that] Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and {52:12} Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the brought him forth out of prison, {52:32} And spake kindly month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, that [were] with him in Babylon, {52:33} And changed his [which] served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before {52:13} And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s him all the days of his life. {52:34} And [for] his diet, there house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, the great [men,] burned he with fire: {52:14} And all the every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of the his life. guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. {52:15} 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. {52:16} But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. {52:17} Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. {52:18} The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. {52:19} And the basons, and the firepans, 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. {52:20} The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen 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. {52:21} And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow. {52:22} And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. www.holybooks.com

Page 479 Lamentations The Lamentations of Jeremiah captivity. {1:19} I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the {1:1} How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. people [how] is she become as a widow she [that was] great {1:20} Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have [how] is she become tributary {1:2} She weepeth sore in the grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her [there is] as death. {1:21} They have heard that I sigh: lovers she hath none to comfort [her:] all her friends have [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it:] thou {1:3} Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, like unto me. {1:22} Let all their wickedness come before she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all the straits. {1:4} The ways of Zion do mourn, because none my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her [is] faint. priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness. {1:5} Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies {2:1} How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his before the enemy. {1:6} And from the daughter of Zion all footstool in the day of his anger! {2:2} The Lord hath her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of before the pursuer. {1:7} Jerusalem remembered in the days the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the thereof. {2:3} He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from saw her, [and] did mock at her sabbaths. {1:8} Jerusalem before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that flaming fire, [which] devoureth round about. {2:4} He hath honoured her despise her, because they have seen her bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. {1:9} an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no fury like fire. {2:5} The Lord was as an enemy: he hath comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: hath magnified [himself. ]{1:10} The adversary hath spread he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. {2:6} And he [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a didst command [that] they should not enter into thy garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the congregation. {1:11} All her people sigh, they seek bread; LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. his anger the king and the priest. {2:7} The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given {1:12} [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in of a solemn feast. {2:8} The LORD hath purposed to the day of his fierce anger. {1:13} From above hath he sent destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they made me desolate [and] faint all the day. {1:14} The yoke languished together. {2:9} Her gates are sunk into the of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more;] strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. {2:10} hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up. {1:15} The The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. {2:11} daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress. {1:16} For these Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is daughter of my people; because the children and the far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. {2:12} They say prevailed. {1:17} Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] round their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. {2:13} about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall them. I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? {1:18} The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold {2:14} Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. {2:15} All that pass by clap [their] www.holybooks.com