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CHAP. LXVI.

The humble comforted. Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of fore they call, I will answer; and while my mountains and mine elect shall in- they are yet speaking, I will hear. herit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed to10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, gether, and the lion shall eat straw like the and the valley of Achor a place for the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's herds to lie down in, for my people that meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in have sought me. all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. 11 T But ye are they that forsake the CHAP. LXVI. LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that HUS saith the LORD, The heaven is a throne, and the earth is my foot

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nish the drink-offering unto that number. stool where is the house that ye build 12 Therefore will I number you to the unto me? and where is the place of my rest? sword, and ye shall all bow down to the 2 For all those things hath mine hand slaughter: because when I called, ye did made, and all those things have been, saith not answer; when I spake, ye did not the LORD: but to this man will I look, even hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and to him that is poor and of a' contrite spirit, did choose that wherein I delighted not. and trembleth at my word. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he be hungry: behold, my servants shall cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be he that burneth incense, as if he blessed ashamed: an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for ways, and their soul delighteth in their joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of abominations.

heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 4 I also will choose their delusions, and 15 And ye shall leave your name for a will bring their fears upon them; because curse unto my chosen for the Lord GOD when I called, none did answer; when I shall slay thee, and call his servants by spake, they did not hear: but they did evil another name : before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth, shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are bid from mine eyes.

17 ¶ For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die a hundred years old: but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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21 And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glori fied: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. .

8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

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10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: 22 They shall not build, and another 11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied inhabit; they shall not plant, and another with the breasts of her consolations; that eat: for as the days of a tree are the days ye may milk out, and be delighted with of my people, and mine elect shall long the abundance of her glory. enjoy the work of their hands.

12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor will extend peace to her like a river, and bring forth for trouble; for they are the the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be offspring with them. borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon 24 And it shall come to pass, that be- her knees.

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God's judgments on the wicked. JEREMIAH.

The calling of Jeremiah.

13 As one whom his mother comforteth, Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not so will I comfort you; and ye shall be heard my fame, neither have seen my comforted in Jerusalem. glory; and they shall declare my glory

14 And when ye see this, your heart among the Gentiles. shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish 20 And they shall bring all your brethlike an herb: and the hand of the LORD ren for an offering unto the LORD, out of shall be known toward his servants, and all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, his indignation toward his enemies. and in litters, and upon mules, and upon 15 For behold, the LORD will come with swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusafire, and with his chariots like a whirl- lem, saith the LORD, as the children of Iswind, to render his anger with fury, and rael bring an offering in a clean vessel into his rebuke with flames of fire. the house of the LORD.

21 And I will also take of them for

16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. the LORD shall be many.

22 For as the new heavens and the new

23 And it shall come to pass, that from

17 They that sanctify themselves, and earth, which I will make, shall remain purify themselves in the gardens behind before me, saith the LORD, so shall your one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, seed and your name remain. and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. one new-moon to another, and from one 18 For I know their works and their sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to thoughts; it shall come, that I will gather worship before me, saith the LORD. all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have 19 And I will set a sign among them, transgressed against me: for their worm and I will send those that escape of them shall not die, neither shall their fire be unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and quenched; and they shall be an abhorring Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and unto all flesh.

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¶ The Book of the Prophet JEREMIAH.

CHAP. I.

the nations and over the kingdoms, to root HE words of Jeremiah the son of Hil-out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and kiah, of the priests that were in Ana- to throw down, to build, and to plant. thoth in the land of Benjamin: 11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD

2 To whom the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, What came in the days of Josiah the son of seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth almond-tree.

year of his reign.

12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim hast well seen: for I will hasten my word the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the to perform it.

end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the 13 And the word of the LORD came unto son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the car-me the second time, saying, What seest rying away of Jerusalem captive in the thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot; fifth month.

4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

and the face thereof is toward the north. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth 15 For lo, I will call all the families of out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. and they shall come, and they shall set 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Gon! behold, every one his throne at the entering of the I cannot speak: for I am a child. gates of Jerusalem, and against all the 7¶ But the LORD said unto me, Say walls thereof round about, and against all not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all the cities of Judah.

that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I 16 And I will utter my judgments against command thee thou shalt speak. them touching all their wickedness, who

8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am have forsaken me, and have burned inwith thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. cense unto other gods, and worshipped 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, the works of their own hands. and touched my mouth. And the LORD 17 T Thou therefore gird up thy loins, said unto me, Behold, I have put my words and arise, and speak unto them all that I in thy mouth. command thee: be not dismayed at their 10 See, I have this day set thee over faces, lest I confound thee before them,

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The expostulation of God

CHAP. II.

with the dews.

18 For behold, I have made thee this terns, broken cisterns, that can hold no day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and water. brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

CHAP. II.

14 ¶ Is Israel a servant? is he a home born slave? why is he spoiled?

15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD

MOREOVER the word of the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

came to me, saying,

18 And now what hast thou to do in the

2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sisaying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember hor? or what hast thou to do in the way of thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? of thine espousals, when thou wentest after 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct me in the wilderness, in a land that was thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove not sown. thee: know therefore and see that it is an

3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forand the first-fruits of his increase: all that saken the LORD thy God, and that my fear devour him shall offend; evil shall come is not in thee, saith the Lord GoD of hosts. upon them, saith the LORD. 20 ¶ For of old time I have broken thy 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, Oyoke, and burst thy bands; and thou house of Jacob, and all the families of the saidst, I will not transgress; when upon house of Israel: every high hill and under every green tree 5 T Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity thou wanderest, playing the harlot. have your fathers found in me, that they 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble are gone far from me, and have walked vine, wholly a right seed: how then art after vanity, and are become vain? thou turned into the degenerate plant of a 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD strange vine unto me?

that brought us up out of the land of 22 For though thou wash thee with niEgypt, that led us through the wilderness, tre, and take thee much soap, yet thine through a land of deserts and of pits, iniquity is marked before me, saith the through a land of drought, and of the sha- Lord GOD.

dow of death; through a land that no man 23 How canst thou say, I am not polpassed through, and where no man dwelt? luted, I have not gone after Baalim? See

7 And I brought you into a plentiful thy way in the valley, know what thou country, to eat the fruit thereof and the hast done: thou art a swift dromedary goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye traversing her ways;

defiled my land, and made mine heritage 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, an abomination. that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure;

8 The priests said not, Where is the in her occasion who can turn her away LORD? and they that handle the law knew all they that seek her will not weary me not: the pastors also transgressed themselves; in her month they shall find against me, and the prophets prophesied her. by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou 9 ¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have you, saith the LORD, and with your chil-loved strangers, and after them will I go. dren's children will I plead. 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is

10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; and see; and send unto Kedar, and con- they, their kings, their princes, and their sider diligently, and see if there be such priests, and their prophets, a thing. 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my fa11 Hath a nation changed their gods, ther; and to a stone, Thou hast brought which are yet no gods? but my people me forth: for they have turned their back have changed their glory for that which unto me, and not their face: but in the doth not profit. time of their trouble they will say, Arise,

12 Be astonished, Oye heavens, at this, and save us. and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can 13 For my people have committed two save thee in the time of thy trouble: for evils; they have forsaken me the fountain according to the number of thy cities are of living waters, and hewed them out cis-thy gods, O Judah.

God's great mercy to Judah.

JEREMIAH. The promises of the gospel.

29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? things, Turn thou unto me. But she reye all have transgressed against me, saith turned not. And her treacherous sister the LORD. Judah saw it.

30 In vain have I smitten your chil- 8 And I saw, when for all the causes dren; they received no correction: your whereby backsliding Israel committed own sword hath devoured your prophets, adultery, I had put her away, and given her like a destroying lion. a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous 31 O generation, see ye the word sister Judah feared not, but went and playof the LORD. Have I been a wilderness ed the harlot also. unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood more than treacherous Judah. of the souls of the poor innocents: I have 12 Go and proclaim these words tonot found it by secret search, but upon all ward the north, and say, Return, thou these. backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am inno- will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: cent, surely his anger shall turn from me. for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I Behold, I will plead with thee, because will not keep anger for ever. thou sayest, I have not sinned.

13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity,

36 Why gaddest thou about so much to that thou hast transgressed against the LORD change thy way thou also shalt be ashamed thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. the strangers under every green tree, and ye 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. and thine hands upon thine head for the : LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

CHAP. III.

14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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THEY say, If a man put away his wife, 15 And I will give you pastors accordand she go from him, and become ing to mine heart, which shall feed you another man's, shall he return unto her with knowledge and understanding. again? shall not that land be greatly pol- 16 And it shall come to pass, when ye luted? but thou hast played the harlot with be multiplied and increased in the land, in many lovers; yet return again to me, saith those days, saith the LORD, they shall say the LORD. no more, The ark of the covenant of the

2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high LORD: neither shall it come to mind: places, and see where thou hast not been neither shall they remember it; neither lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for shall they visit it; neither shall that be them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; done any more.

and thou hast polluted the land with thy 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem whoredoms, and with thy wickedness. the throne of the LORD; and all the nations 3 Therefore the showers have been shall be gathered unto it, to the name of withholden, and there hath been no latter the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, walk any more after the imagination of thou refusedst to be ashamed. their evil heart.

4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto 18 In those days the house of Judah me, My father, thou art the guide of my shall walk with the house of Israel, and youth? they shall come together out of the land of 5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? the north to the land that I have given for will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou an inheritance unto your fathers. hast spoken and done evil things as thou 19 But I said, How shall I put thee couldest. among the children, and give thee a plea6 The LORD said also unto me in the sant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, that which backsliding Israel hath done? My father; and shalt not turn away from me. she is gone up upon every high mountain, 20 T Surely as a wife treacherously deand under every green tree, and there hath parteth from her husband, so have ye dealt played the harlot. treacherously with me, O house of Israel,

And I said after she had done all these saith the LORD,

Israel called to repentance.

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21 A voice was heard upon the high whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. places, weeping and supplications of the 11 At that time shall it be said to this children of Israel for they have pervert- people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of ed their way, and they have forgotten the the high places in the wilderness toward LORD their God. the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and to cleanse, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, 12 Even a full wind from those places we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD shall come unto me: now also will I give our God. sentence against them.

23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, from the hills, and from the multitude of and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: *mountains: truly in the LORD our God is his horses are swifter than eagles. Wo the salvation of Israel. unto us! for we are spoiled.

24 For shame hath devoured the labour 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from of our fathers from our youth; their flocks wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. and their herds, their sons and their How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge daughters. within thee?

25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. CHAP. IV.

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[F thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy 2 And thou shalt swear,TheLORD liveth, wickedness, because it is bitter, because in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; it reacheth unto thine heart.

and the nations shall bless themselves in 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am him, and in him shall they glory. pained at my very heart; my heart maketh 3 For thus saith the LORD to the men a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your because thou hast heard, O my soul, the fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, 20 Destruction upon destruction is and take away the foreskins of your heart, cried; for the whole land is spoiled: sudye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jeru- denly are my tents spoiled, and my cursalem; lest my fury come forth like fire, tains in a moment. and burn that none can quench it, because 21 How long shall I see the standard, of the evil of your doings. and hear the sound of the trumpet? 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in 22 For my people is foolish, they have Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet not known me; they are sottish children, in the land: cry, Gather together, and say, and they have none understanding: they Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

defenced cities.

6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

23 I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

7 The lion is come up from his thicket, 24 I beheld the mountains, and lo,they and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. way; he is gone forth from his place to 25 I beheld, and lo, there was no man, make thy land desolate; and thy cities and all the birds of the heavens were fled. shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. 26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof lament and howl: for the fierce anger of were broken down at the presence of the the LORD is not turned back from us. LORD, and by his fierce anger.

9 And it shall come to pass at that day, 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The saith the LORD, that the heart of the king whole land shall be desolate; yet will I shall perish, and the heart of the princes; not make a full end.

and the priests shall be astonished, and the 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and prophets shall wonder. the heavens above be black: because I 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely have spoken it, I have purposed it, and thou hast greatly deceived this people and will not repent, neither will I turn back Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace ; from it.

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