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Judah's hypocrisy reproved. CHAP. XLIII, XLIV. Conquest of Egypt foretold.

land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, the captains of the forces, and all the peo nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have ple, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to hunger of bread: and there will we dwell: dwell in the land of Judah.

15 And now therefore hear the word of 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus all the captains of the forces, took all the saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; remnant of Judah, that were returned from If ye wholly set your faces to enter into all nations, whither they had been driven, Egypt, and go to sojourn there; to dwell in the land of Judah;

16 Then it shall come to pass, that the 6 Even men, and women, and children, sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you and the king's daughters, and every perthere in the land of Egypt, and the famine, son that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close guard had left with Gedaliah the son of after you there in Egypt; and there ye Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah shall die. the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. 7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain nor escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 Take great stones in thine hand, and 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in hath been poured forth upon the inhabit-Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; ants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the poured forth upon you, when ye shall en- LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, ter into Egypt: and ye shall be an exe-I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the cration, and an astonishment, and a curse, king of Babylon, my servant, and will set and a reproach; and ye shall see this place his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion

no more.

19 The LORD hath said concerning over them. you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not 11 And when he cometh, he shall smite into Egypt: know certainly that I have the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are admonished you this day. for death to death; and such as are for

20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, captivity to captivity; and such as are for when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, the sword to the sword.

Baying, Pray for us unto the LORD our 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses God; and according unto all that the LORD of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn our God shall say, so declare unto us, and them, and carry them away captives: and we will do it. he shall array himself with the land of 21 And now I have this day declared it Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garto you; but ye have not obeyed the voice ment; and he shall go forth from thence in of the LORD your God, nor any thing for peace. the which he hath sent me unto you.

13 He shall break also the images of 22 Now therefore know certainly that Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians and by the pestilence, in the place shall he burn with fire. whither ye desire to go and to sojourn. CHAP. XLIII.

CHAP. XLIV.

A cerning all the Jews which dwell in miah had made an end of speaking the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, unto all the people all the words of the LORD and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in their God, for which the LORD their God the country of Pathros, saying, had sent him to them, even all these words, 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God 2 Then spake Azariah the son of Ho- of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I shaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, the cities of Judah; and behold, this day Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth hath not sent thee to say, Go not into therein; Egypt to sojourn there:

ND it came to pass, that when Jere- THE word that came to Jeremiah con

3 Because of their wickedness which 3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth they have committed to provoke me to anthee on against us, for to deliver us into ger, in that they went to burn incense, and the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might to serve other gods, whom they knew not, put us to death, and carry us away captives neither they, ye, nor your fathers. into Babylon. 4 Howbeit, I sent unto you all my ser 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all vants the prophets, rising early and send.

The desolation of Judah.

JEREMIAH.

ing them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

The Jews are threatened 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined not hearken unto thee. their ear to turn from their wickedness, to 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever burn no incense unto other gods. thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to

6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger burn incense unto the queen of heaven, was poured forth, and was kindled in the and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusa- as we have done, we, and our fathers, our lem; and they are wasted and desolate, kings, and our princes, in the cities of Juas at this day. dah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for 7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, then had we plenty of victuals, and were the God of hosts, the God of Israel; well, and saw no evil.

Wherefore commit ye this great evil against 18 But since we left off to burn incense your souls, to cut off from you man and to the queen of heaven, and to pour out woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted to leave you none to remain; all things, and have been consumed by the. sword and by the famine.

8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense 19 And when we burned incense to the unto other gods in the land of Egypt, queen of heaven, and poured out drinkwhither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might offerings unto her, did we make her cakes cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a to worship her, and pour out drink-offercurse and a reproach among all the nations ings unto her, without our men?

of the earth?

20 T Then Jeremiah said unto all the

9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of people, to the men, and to the women, your fathers, and the wickedness of the and to all the people which had given him kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their that answer, saying,

wives, and your own wickedness, and the 21 The incense that ye burned in the wickedness of your wives, which they cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jehave committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

rusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

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22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of and because of the abominations which ye hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will have committed; therefore is your land set my face against you for evil, and to cut desolation, and an astonishment, and a off all Judah. curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. 12 And I will take the remnant of Ju- 23 Because ye have burned incense, and dah, that have set their faces to go into the because ye have sinned against the LORD, land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they and have not obeyed the voice of the shall all be consumed, and fall in the land LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore the sword and by the famine: they shall this evil is happened unto you, as at this die, from the least even unto the greatest, day. by the sword and by the famine and they : 24 Moreover, Jeremiah said unto all the shall be an execration, and an astonish- people, and to all the women, Hear the ment, and a curse, and a reproach. word of the LORD, all Judah that are in

13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt: the land of Egypt, as I have punished Je- 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the rusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives by the pestilence: have both spoken with your mouths, and 14 So that none of the remnant of Ju- fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will dah, which are gone into the land of Egypt surely perform our vows that we have to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, vowed, to burn incense to the queen of that they should return into the land of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings Judah, to the which they have a desire to unto her: ye will surely accomplish your return to dwell there: for none shall return vows, and surely perform your vows. but such as shall escape. 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the 15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of their wives had burned incense unto other Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great gods, and all the women that stood by, a name, saith the LORD, that my name shall great multitude, even all the people that no more be named in the mouth of any dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah, saying, Isaying, The Lord God liveth.

Baruch is comforted.

CHAP. XLV, XLVI.

The conquest of Egypt.

27 Behold, I will watch over them for 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the evil, and not for good: and all the men of mighty man escape; they shall stumble, Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall and fall toward the north by the river be consumed by the sword and by the fa- Euphrates. mine, until there be an end of them.

Who is this that cometh up as a flood,

28 Yet a small number that escape the whose waters are moved as the rivers? sword shall return out of the land of Egypt 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his into the land of Judah; and all the remnant waters are moved like the rivers; and he of Judah, that are gone into the land of saith, I will go up, and will cover the Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose earth; I will destroy the city and the inword shall stand, mine, or theirs. habitants thereof.

29 ¶ And this shall be a sign unto you, 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye saith the LORD, that I will punish you in chariots; and let the mighty men come this place, that ye may know that my forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, words shall surely stand against you forevil: that handle the shield; and the Lydians, 30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will that handle and bend the bow. give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may of them that seek his life; as I gave Ze-avenge him of his adversaries: and the dekiah king of Judah into the hand of sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his and made drunk with their blood: for the enemy, and that sought his life. CHAP. XLV.

Lord GoD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the
north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm,

THE
HE word that Jeremiah the prophet
spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain
when he had written these words in a book shalt thou use many medicines; for thou

at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth shalt not be cured.
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, saying,

12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the

2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Is-mighty man hath stumbled against the rael, unto thee, O Baruch ; mighty, and they are fallen both together. 3 Thou didst say, Wo is me now! for 13 The word that the LORD spake to the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; Jeremiah the prophet, how NebuchadrezI fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. zar king of Babylon should come and 4 T Thus shalt thou say unto him, The smite the land of Egypt. LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round

5 And seekest thou great things for thy-about thee. self? seek them not: for behold, I will 15 Why are thy valiant men swept bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: away? they stood not, because the LORD but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey did drive them. in all places whither thou goest.

CHAP. XLVI.

16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and HE word of the LORD which came to let us go again to our own people, and to

Gentiles;

ing sword.

2.Against Egypt, against the army of 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, time appointed.

which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the is The LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is son of Josiah king of Judah. among the mountains, and as Carmel by

3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and the sea, so shall he come. draw near to battle. 19 0 thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye furnish thyself to go into captivity for horsemen, and stand forth with your hel-Noph shall be waste and desolate without mets; furbish the spears, and put on the an inhabitant.

brigandines.

20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismay-destruction cometh; it cometh out of the ed and turned away back? and their north.

mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled 21 Also her hired men are in the midst apace, and look not back: for fear was of her like fatted bullocks; for they also round about, saith the LORD. are turned back, and are fled away toge

Destruction of the Philistines.

JEREMIAH.

The judgment of Moab ther: they did not stand, because the day will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself of their calamity was come upon them, into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. and the time of their visitation. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD 22 The voice thereof shall go like a ser- hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, pent; for they shall march with an army, and against the sea shore? there hath he and come against her with axes, as hewers appointed it. of wood.

CHAP. XLVIII.

23 They shall cut down her forest, saith AGAINST Moab thus saith the LORD

the LORD, though it cannot be searched; of the God of Israel; Wo unto because they are more than the grasshop-Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is pers, and are innumerable. confounded and taken: Misgab is con

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be con- founded and dismayed. founded; she shall be delivered into the 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: hand of the people of the north. in Heshbon they have devised evil against 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Is-it; come, and let us cut it off from being rael, saith; Behold, I will punish the mul- a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down,Ŏ titude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for Dehold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

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CHAP. XLVII.

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3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

7¶ For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

HE word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Gaza.

2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters 11 T Moab hath been at ease from his rise up out of the north, and shall be an youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and overflowing flood, and shall overflow the hath not been emptied from vessel to vesland, and all that is therein; the city, and sel, neither hath he gone into captivity: them that dwell therein: then the men therefore his taste remained in him, and shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the his scent is not changed.

land shall howl.

12 Therefore, behold, the days come,

3 At the noise of the stamping of the saith the LORD, that I will send unto him hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of wanderers that shall cause him to wander, his chariots, and at the rumbling of his and shall empty his vessels, and break wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their bottles. their children for feebleness of hands;

13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

14 ¶ How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of Caphtor. her cities, and his chosen young men are 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashke- gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, lon is cut off with the remnant of their val-whose name is TheLORD of hosts. ley how long wilt thou cut thyself? 16 The calamity of Moab is near to

60 thou sword of the LORD, how long come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

for her several corruptions.

CHAP. XLIX. The restoration of Moab.

17 All ye that are about him bemoan Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in him; and all ye that know his name, say, the high places, and him that burneth inHow is the strong staff broken, and the cense to his gods.

beautiful rod!

36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall because the riches that he hath gotten are come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy perished. strong holds.

37 For every head shall be bald, and 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the every beard clipped: upon all the hands way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackher that escapeth, and say, What is done? cloth.

20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken 38 There shall be lamentation generally down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, upon all the house-tops of Moab, and in the that Moab is spoiled, streets thereof: for I have broken Moab

21 And judgment is come upon the plain like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, the LORD.

and upon Mephaath,

39 They shall howl, saying, How is it

22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, broken down! how hath Moab turned the and upon Beth-diblathaim,

23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,

back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him. 40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, 24 Ånd upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, his wings over Moab. far or near.

25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith

27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst the LORD. for joy.

44 He that fleeth from the fear, shall 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the dove that maketh her nest in the sides I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the of the hole's mouth. year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

29 We have heard the pride of Moab, 45 They that fled stood under the sha(he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and dow of Heshbon because of the force: but his arrogancy, and his pride, and the a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and haughtiness of his heart. a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; devour the corner of Moab, and the crown but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so of the head of the tumultuous ones. effect it. 46 Wo be unto thee, O Moab! the peo31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and ple of Chemosh perisheth for thy sons I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart are taken captives, and thy daughters shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. captives.

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32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for 47 ¶ Yet will I bring again the captivity thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. are gone over the sea, they reach even to Thus far is the judgment of Moab. the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon CHAP. XLIX. YONCERNING the Ammonites, thus

thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.th the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of hath he no heir? why then doth their king Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his the wine-presses: none shall tread with cities?

shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. 2 Therefore behold, the days come, 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they ut-of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Amtered their voice, from Zoar even unto Ho-monites; and it shall be a desolate heap, ronaim, as a heifer of three years old: for and her daughters shall be burned with the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them 135 Moreover I will cause to cease in that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

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