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be cut off in that day, faith the LORD. will appoint me the time? and, Who is

31 Behold, I am against thee, Orbeu moft proud,faith the Lord GoD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time bar I will vist thee. 32 And the most proud fhall ftumble and fall, and none hall raife him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it fhall devour all round about him.

33 Thus faith the LORD of hosts, The children of Ifrael and the children of Judah were oppreffed together and all that took them captives held them faft; they refused to let them go.

34 Their redeemer is ftrong; the LORD of hofts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their caufe, that he may give reft to the land, and difquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

35 A fword is upon the Chaldeans, faith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wife men.

36 A fword is upon the liars: and they fhall dote a fword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

37 A fword is upon their horfes, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they thall become as women: a fword is upon her treasures: and they fhall be robbed.

38 A drought is upon her waters; and they fhall be dried up for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

that thepherd that will ftand before me? 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he hath purpofed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the leaft of the flock hall draw them out furely he fhall make their habitation defolate with them.

46 At the noife of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. CHAP. LI.

God's fevere judgments against Babylon in revenge of Ifrael.

THUS faith the LORD, Behold, I will raife up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rife up against me, a destroying wind;

2 And will fend unto Babylon fanners, that thall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they fhall be against her round about.

3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and fpare ye not her young men; deftroy ye utterly all her host.

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4 Thus the flain fhall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

5 For Ifrael bath not been forfaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hofts; though their land was filled with fin against the Holy One of Ifrael.

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his foul; be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompenfe.

$9 Therefore the wild beasts of the defert with the wild beafts of the islands thall dwell there, and the owls thall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither hall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 7 Babylon bath been a golden cup in 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Go-the LORD's hand, that made all the earth morrah and the neighbour cities thereof, drunken; the nations have drunken of faith the LORD; Jo fhall no man abide her wine, therefore the nations are mad. there, neither thall any fon of man dwell 8 Babylon is fuddenly fallen and detherein. ftroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if fo be the may be healed.

41 Behold, a people fhall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings fhall be railed up from the coafts of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not thew mercy: their voice shall roar like the fea, and they thall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but he is not healed: forfake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the ikies.

10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORDOur God.

48 The king of Babylon hath heard the 11 Make bright the arrows; gather report of them, and his hands waxed fec-the fhields; the LORD hath raised up the ble: anguith took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

44 Behoid, he fhall come up like a lion from the fwelling of Jordan unto the hab. itation of the ftrong: but I will make them fuddenly run away from her : and, Who is a chofen man, that I may appoint over her? for, Who is like me? and, Who

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fpirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is againit Babylon to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

12 Set up the ftandard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, fet up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done

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that which he spake against the inhabit-gether again her the kingdoms of Araants of Babylon. rat, Minni, and Afhchenaz: appoint a captain against her; caufe the horíes to come up as the rough caterpillars.

13 O thou that dwelleft upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetoufnels.

14 The LORD of hosts hath fworn by himself, faying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they fhall lift up a fhout against thee.

15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wifdom, and hath ftretched out the heaven by his understanding.

the wind out of his treafures.

28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

29 And the land thall tremble and forrow: for every purpofe of the LORD fhail be performed againit Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a defolation without an inhabitant.

30 The mighty men of Babylon have 16 When he uttereth bis voice there is forborne to fight, they have remained in a multitude of waters in the heavens; their holds: their might hath failed; they and he caufeth the vapours to afcend became as women: they have burned her from the ends of the earth; he maketh dwelling places; her bars are broken. lightnings with rain. and bringeth forth 31 One poft hall run to meet another, and one meffenger to meet another, to 17 Every man is brutish by bis knowl-hew the king of Babylon that his city is edge; every founder is confounded by taken at one end, the graven image for his molten image is falfehood and ibere is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of errors in the time of their vifitation they fhall perith

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Ifael is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hofts is his name.

20 Thou art may battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I deftroy kingdoms;

21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

22 With thee alfo will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid ;

28 I will alfo break in pieces with thee the thepherd and his flock; and with thee will break in pieces the hufbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers,

24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your fight, faith the LORD.

32 And that the paffages are ftopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

53 For thus faith the LORD of hosts, the God of Ifrael. The daughter of Bab ylon is like a threfbing floor, it is time to thresh her yet a little while, and the time of her harveft shall come.

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34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty veffel, he bath fwallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies, he hath caft me out."

85 The violence done to me and to my fleth be upon Babylon, fhall the inhabitant of Zion fay; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, fall Jerufalem fay.

26 Therefore thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her fea, and make her fprings dry.

57 And Babylon hall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an altonithment, and an hilling, without an in habitant.

58 They fhall roar together like lions: they fhayell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feafts, and I will make them drunken, that they 25 Behold, I am again thee, O de-may rejoice, and fleep a perpetual fleep, ftroying mountain, faith the LORD,which (and not wake, faith the LORD. destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch | 40 I will bring them down like lambs out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee to the flaughter, like rams with he goats. down from the rocks, and will make thee 41 How is Shethach taken! and how a burnt mountain. is the praife of the whole earth furprised! how is Babylon become an aftonishment Jamong the nations !

26 And they shall not take of thee a ftone for a corner, nor a stone for foun dations; but thou shalt be defolate for ever, faith the LORD.

27 Set ye up a fandard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call to

42 The fea is come up upon Babylon: he is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

45 Her cities are a defolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no

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Zedekiah rebelletb. 635 man dwelleth, neither doth any fon of burned with fire; and the people fhall man país thereby. labour in vain, and the folk in the fire,

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and they shall be weary and I will bring forth out of his mouth 59 The word which Jeremiah the that which he hath fwallowed up and prophet commanded Seraiah the fon of the nations shall not flow together any Neriah, the fon of Maafeiah, when he went more unto him: yea, the wall of Baby-with Zedekiah the king of Judah into lon fhall fall. Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

45 My people, go ye out of the midft of her, and deliver ye every man his foul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that thould come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written againft Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah faid to Seraiah, When thou comeft to Babylon, and shalt fee, and thalt read all thefe words;

46 And left your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour thall both come one year, and after that in another year ball come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47 Therefore, behold, the days come,fpoken againt this place, to cut it off, that that I will do judgment upon the graven none thall remain in it, neither man nor images of Babylon: and her whole land beaft, but that i fhall be defolate for ever. fall be confounded, and all her flain fhall fall in the midft of her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, fhall fing for Babylon: for the fpoilers fhall come unto her from the north, faith the LORD.

49 As Babylon bath caufed the flain of Ifrael to fall, fo at Babylon fhall fall the fain of all the earth.

50 Ye that have efcaped the fword, go away, ftand not fill remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerufalem come into your mind.

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63 And it fhall be, when thou haft made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and caft it into the midst of Euphrates:

64 And thou thalt fay, Thus fhall Babylon fink, and fhall not rife from the evil that I will bring upon her and they fhall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. CHAP. LII.

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Zedekiab rebellerb. Jerufalem is beneged and taken 8 Zedekiah's fons killed and bis own eyes put our. ZEDEKIAH was one and twenty

51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: fhame hath cover-years old when he began to reign, and he ed our faces. for ftrangers are come into reigned eleven years in Jerufalem. And the fanctuaries of the LORD's houfe. his mother's name was Hamutal the 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. faith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded hall groan.

2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

55 Though Babylon thould mount upto 3 For through the anger of the LORD heaven, and though the thould fortify the it came to pats in Jerufalem and Judan, height of her strength, yet from me thall till he had caft them out from his preffpoilers come unto her, faith the LORD.ence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the 54 A found of a cry cometh from king of Babylon.

Babylon, and great deftruction from 4 And it came to pafs in the ninth the land of the Chaldeans: year of his reign, in the tenth month, 55 Becaufe the LORD hath fpoiled Bab-in the tenth day of the month, that Nebylon, and deftroyed out of her the great uchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he voice; when her waves do roar like great and all his army, against Jerufaleni, and waters, a noile of their voice is uttered: pitched againft it, and built forts against 56 Becaule the fpoiler is come upon it round about her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenfes fhail furely requite.

57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wife men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty inen: and they hali fleep a perpetual fleep, and not wake faith the king, whofe name is The LORD of hosts.

58 Thus faith the LORD of hosts. The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates fhall be

So the city was befieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was fore in the city, fo that there was no bread for the people of the land.

7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the. king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about ;) and they went by the way of the plain.

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636 Zedekiab's fons flain, and the JEREMIAH. people carried captives to Babylon.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans it; and the thicknefs thereof was four purfied after the king, and overtook Zed-fingers: it was hollow.

ekiah in the plains of Jericho ; and all 22 Anda chapiter of brass was upon it: his army was fcattered from him. and the height of one chapiter was five

9 Then they took the king, and carri-cubits, with network and pomegranates ed him up unto the king of Babylon to upon the chapiters round about, all of Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he brais. The fecond pillar alfo and the gave judgment upon him. pomegranates were like unto these.

10 And the king of Babylon flew the fons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he flew alfo all the princes of Judah in

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23 And there were ninety and fix ponegranates on a fide; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hun

dred round about.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zede- 24 And the captain of the guard took kiah; and the king of Babylon bound Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah him in chains, and carried him to Baby-the fecond prieft, and the three keepers Jon, and put him in prifon till the day of of the door:

his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which ferved the king of Babylon, into Jerufalem,

13 And burned the houfe of the LORD, and the king's houfe; and all the houfes of Jerufalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

25 He took alfo out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and feven men of them that were near the king's perfon, which were found in the city and the principal fcribe of the hoft, who mustered the people of the land; and threefcore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans,the king of Babylon to Kiblah. that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerufalem round about.

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27 And the king of Babylon fmote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

23 This is the people whom Nebuchad rezzar carried away captive: in the feventh year, three thoufand Jews and three and twenty.

15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the refidue of the people that remained in the city, and thofe that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebu16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of chadrezzar he carried away captive from the guard left certain of the poor of the Jerufalem eight hundred thirty and two and for vinedreffers and for husband-perfons:

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30 In the three and twentieth year of

17 Alfo the pillars of brafs that were Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the capin the houfe of the LORD, and the bafes, tain of the guard carried away captive of and the brafen fea that was in the houfe the Jews feven hundred forty and five of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and perfons: all the perfons were four thoucarried all the brafs of them to Baby-fand and fix hundred. lon.

18 The caldrons alfo, and the shovels, and the fnuffers, and the bowls, and the fpoons, and all the veffels of brafs wherewith they miniftered, took they away.

19 And the bafons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the fpoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of filver in filver, took the captain of the guard away.

20 The two pillars,one fea, and twelve braten bulls that were under the bafes, which king Solo ron had made in the houfe of the LORD: the brafs of all thefe veffels was without weight.

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a fillet of twelve cubits did compafs

31 And it came to pafs in the feven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the f year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prifon,

32 And fpake kindly unto him, and fet his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

33 And changed his prifon garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. THE

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THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH.

CHAP. 1. 1 Jerufalem's mifery for her fins: 12 Her complaint, 18 and confeffion of God's righteous judgments.

forrow like unto my forrow,which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afficted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he fent fire into HOW doth the city fit folitary, that my bones, and it prevaileth against them: was full of people! how is the become he hath fpread a net for my feet, he hath as a widow ! the that was great among turned me back: he hath made me defothe nations, and princefs among the late and faint all the day. provinces, bow is the become tributary! 2 She weepeth fore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers the hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously With her, they are become her enemies. 3 Judah is gone into captivity because 15 The LORD hath trodden under foot of affiction, and because of great fervi-all my mighty men in the midft of me: tude: the dwelleth among the heathen, he hath called an affembly against me to the findeth no reft: all her perfecutors crush my young men: the LORD hath overtook her between the ftraits. trodden the virgin, the daughter of Ju

14 The yoke of my tranfgreffions is bound by his hand; they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my ftrength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rife up.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, be-dah, as in a wine prefs. caufe none come to the folemn feafts: 16 For thefe things I weep; mine eye, all her gates are defolate her priests mine eye runneth down with water, betigh, her virgins are afflicted, and he is caufe the comforter that should relieve in bitterness. my foul is far from me : my children are defolate, because the enemy prevailed.

5 Her adverfaries are the chief, her enemies profper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her tranfgreffions: her children are gone into capfivity before the enemy.

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without ftrength before the puriuer.

Jerufalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miferies all her pleatant things that he had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her the adverfaries faw her, and did mock at her fabbaths.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands. and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adverfaries bould be round about him: Jerufalem is as a menftruous woman among them.

18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my forrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they fought their meat to relieve their fouls.

20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in dif8 Jerufalem hath grievously finned trefs: my bowels are troubled; mine therefore the is removed: all that hon-heart is turned within me; for I have oured her defpife her, becaufe they have grievously rebelled: abroad the fword feen her nakedness: yea, the figheth, bereaveth, at home there is as death. and turneth backward.

9 Her filthine's is in her fkirts; the remembereth not her laft end therefore the came down wonderfully fhe had no comforter.O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

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10 The adverfary hath preadout hishand upon all her pleafant things: for the hath feen that the heathen entered into her fanctuary,whom thoudidftcommand that they hould not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people figh, they feek bread: they have given their plealant things for meat to relieve the foul: fee, O LORD, and connder; for I am become vile.

12 is nothing to you, all ye that pafs by Behold, and fee if there be any

21 They have heard that I figh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou haft done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou haft called, and they hall be like unto me.

22 Let all their wickednefs come before thee; and do unto them as thou haft done unto me for all my tranfgrefions: for my fighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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