❧ Jeremy the Prophet/ translated into english: by George joy: some time fellow of Peter College in Camebridge. ❧ ❧ ❧  
¶ The song of Moses is added in the end/ to magnif ye our Lord for the fall of our Pharaoh/ the Bishop of Rome.  
¶ Anno. M.D. and xxxiiii in the month of may. ❧ ❀ ❧ ☞ ❧ ☜   

❧ The Preface.  
THe Prophet's/ as they were all taught/ steredup/ and thrusted forth of one spirit to preach and write the word of the Lord: so folowd they all one thread and line tending unto one end/ even our saviour Jesus Christ the parfait some & full conclusion of all the law & Prophets. So that whoso in reading the law & Prophet's/ direct his inward eye to behold & know our heavenly father for the one very 
Johan xvii.  God alone with his son Jesus christ sent us from him/ believing perfectly to be justified and saved by the grace of God the father through the merits only of Cristis death very God & man/ he readeth a right with great fruit/ he reacheth & resteth graciously upon the same mark that all the Prophets did shoot at/ even upon him that said. 
Johan xiiii.  I am the way/ the truth/ and life. Upon this glorious and saving sign to be again said (as Simcon told Mary the virgin his mother Luke two.) the two testamentis also looked with contrary aspectis/ the old beholding him to come/ the new looking upon him paste and comen: no nother wise than the two Cherubyms standing upon the ark of the covenant did figure: 
Exodi. ●xv.  both looking contrary ways/ the one beholding the t'other/ & yet did they both two set their eyes looking into the propitiatory/ even upon christ our seat of mercy/ and mercy stole. 
Matth. xvii.  And hither looked also those two sufficient witnesses Moses & Helyas/ the one representing the law and the other the Prophetis/ when christ transfigured himself/ both concluding & consenting with Cryst/ in that they talked together with him expressing his end which he should make & finesshe at Jerusalem. 
●uk. ix.  For whom else after that glorious sight and communication did his disciples there see but only Jesus left alone? What so ever therefore christ did/ or suffered/ as touching the benefit & form of our redemption/ the law and Prophetis told it all before. So that the talking together of Moses & Helias with christ declared the law & Prophets to consent & agree both upon christ the very health life & perfection of all that believe in him. Which thing to confirm/ the voice of the father was there heard out of the cloud saying. This is my dear beloved son/ for whose sake I am peased & set at one with man: him therefore/ se that ye hear. Observe diligently (good Cristen reder) the vehemence & pieth of this pronoun Ipsum/ when the father commanded us saying: Ipsum audite: him see that ye hear. And beware of them that would obtrude & thrust yn to the church of Go● any unwritten verities strange doctrine/ even the doctrine of lying men. Hear them not which would command and compel us to believe & hear any other teacher than christ/ & siche as their doctrine be consonant with Crystis word/ apere they never so holy/ and well learned. 
Jere. v & xxii  Let sich false Prophets (as Jeremy whissheth and threateneth) go and be ruled of the wind/ which preach us to worship images or to seek any other help/ salvation/ intercessors and means between us and our father then christ Jesus alone sufficient/ ever heard and praying for us incessantly. 
Johan iiii.   
christ therefore to show himself that lively fountain of perpetual waters plenteously springingforth into life everlasting unto all that drink/ that is to say/ believe in him/ sit him down once full weary to rest himself upon the well bring which Jacob long before had digged: evermore seeking an occasion to insinuate and offer himself a sufficient refrigery & saviour for sinners/ what time he opened himself unto that sinful Samaritane woman telling her: that who so drink of the water which I shall give him/ he shall nevermore thirst etc. That is/ who so believe in christ/ shall never desire any other mean/ saviour/ counforter & refressher: but shall find & feel God the father one alone for all sufficient through the grace and merits of his son our saviour Criste: In him only to glory & rejoice as this Prophet commandeth us. 
Jere. ix.  Which glory who so once taste & feel/ he will not only give it to no nother as in isaiah is showed: 
Isa. 41.  but he will tremble and quake to hear this grievous complaint and heavy manasshing of God almighty by the mouth of Jeremy saying: 
Jere. two.  My people have cast me away which am their glory/ they have changed their glory for that an Idol that cannot help them. As here now the Prophet entered into the argument and matter of all his sermons & of this hole book/ and breaking forth into a great fearful exclamation/ calleth in 
isaiah. i.  heaven and earth (as did isaiah in the beginning of his sermons) to testify/ and detest our abominable idolatry/ crying out thus: Oh heavens/ be ye a ston/ be ye a frayed and marvelously amazed saith the Lord. For two offencis have my people committed. They have forsaken me/ even the very lively fountain of perpetual waters: and digged themselves up pittis' all to trodden and broken which may hold no waters. The heavens to be a ston and to detest this bakfalling from christ our glory unto any other creature/ is as much to say as oh heavens with draw your help & comfort from us: give us nether rain nor any ceasonable wether/ nor yet wholesome air/ but according as it was threatened us in the law/ be ye as hard 
duty. xxviii.  as yern that the earth might be as hard as steel: 
Jeremi xiiii.  for rain to give us drought & heat/ to bake our land in baraynes/ for pleasant wether to give us thunder & terrible lighteningis: corrupt ye the air/ that pestilence might take away man & beast. And yet as▪ though all this were to little/ sword and famine be threatened us to▪ ye and at last to be casten out from christ our glory in heaven unto perpetual payn● in he●/ For forsaking christ our glory & digging us up these poisoned pittis' of our own invention/ pits alto trodden/ troubles/ & broken/ evin the traditions/ laws/ & decrees with all the devellisshe doctrine drawn forth of these damnable deluers' the bishops of Rome and their faction delving and digging us up their muddy & myery stinking dykes all for to feed their own carnal affectis/ to maintain their glitering glory/ and to increase their filthy lucre/ and stalbeshe their falsely usurped power: whereby they have hitherto & so long deluded and seduced many a simple soul/ & trapped & held captive even emperors and kings: And how they theirselues daily trouble and break their own dry pits with dispensations relaxations permissions gloss &ce. they know & feel it that have paid for drinking of their golden cup/ which that abominable whore of 
●poc. 13.  Babylon as Johan describeth her sitting in purple/ scarlet/ & gold decked with precious stones holdeth yet in her hand full of abominations & the filthenes of her own-luste. But as for her pestilent pits/ they may hold none of those lively refreshing waters which Criste offered unto the Samaritane woman/ & daily offereth these unto us to call us from these popish puddelle/ unto himself the very perpetual springe of everlasting life. 
Isa. 30.   
These dirty delvers the Prophet isaiah calleth also web weavers against the mind of the lord/ detesting & abhorring their laws & traditions: threatening them for their digging up of such unsavoury pits/ woe & everlasting damnation: isaiah ten saying woe be to you that make ungodly laws & set statutes to hard to keep to oppress the poor in judgement/ & utterly to beggar my sorry simple people with strife & law/ that the destituted all help and counsel might be a proye for you & so to rob the fatherless. &ce.  
Wherefore now at last/ it hath pleased almighty God to call forth Jerermy his Prophet/ to send & to set him as a brazen 
Jere. 1, &. 15.  wall & pillar of iron to preach in english against this heavy monster of Rome & all his draff. 
Jere. 1.  He hath showed Zeremy the rod of the waking watcher/ & the seething pot boyillinge forth as it were from the north este/ altogether threatening the heavy burdens & present vengeannce of God shortly to be powered forth upon this Babylonik beast. So that who so read the. xlviii.xlix.l. & li chapters of this prophet/ he shall see there clearly the present face of the sudden miserable fall of the Pope & his kingdom now at hand so lively set forth/ under the names of proud 〈◊〉/ his brother Ammon/ & Babylon/ that no Ap●elles could have painted it more presently. Now therefore (good Cristen brethren) let us be warned intime/ & hear the exhortation of jeremy crying upon us saying. 
●ere. 51.  flee from out of the mids of Babylon & let every man save himself/ let noman dissemble nor hold his tongue at her wickedness. For verily Babylon which is Rome is as wicked & sinful as it is reported & describe/ as all her ungodly living & deceaitful dediss openly testify & declare her.  
But to speak of the iestis and press of jeremy/ ye shall know that these his sermons declare of how high a spirit & fervent faith he was: but his chance (as be the chances of all true preachers before the world) was most miserable and hard/ as one of those that preached the word of the Lord God both prudently & constantly unto his death/ nothing abashed at the threateningis of the ungodly kings and priests that reigned in his later days. Which constancy/ most commendable in any preacher could not come but of a perfait and firm faith in God. Which faith being present/ a none the heart of the preacher is endwed and strengthened with all vertwe & goodness. 
●ebr. 11.  For faith will have the victory and overcome all perils. But yet was his life troublous/ for that the plagues/ burdens/ and that miserable captivity/ which hte Prophetis all threatened before to come/ it was his chance to see them/ and to be partaker of the perilous pains/ & heavy destruction which he also prophesied unto them himself/ and not only suffered this grievous temptation/ but 
Jere. 4●  was also violently carried captive of his enemies into Egypte/ after that Juda and Jerusalem were all destroyed & carried captives into Babylon/ yet was his doctrine & sermons all this troublous time both godly/ loving/ faithful and prudent/ For he exhorted them sweetly and lovingly/ he rebuked sharply and earnestly/ & preached evermore as faithfully & constantly. So that if we behold his faithfulness/ he is fervent. If we consider his erudition and doctrine/ he shineth. If we look upon his prudence/ it is right savoury & well ceasoned. If we behold his godliness/ he exceedeth. And as for his constancy/ it is invincible & beareth a way all the victory.  
With how deep sighiss sorrowed he the bakfallinge of the people from their God? What lamentations made he for that he had so long with so great peril preached to them all in vain/ & also for the captivity of the people & miserable destruction of Jerusalem? what goodly comparisons & sensible similitudes brought he in/ when he preached to persuade & call the people to repentance? As when he preached the destruction of the city in Tophet/ where to lay the thing more manifest and present at their eyes/ he smote the two earthen pitsherdis to 
●ere. 19  gither breaking them all to pieses before his audience/ saying. Thus saith the Lord of powers. Even thus shall I alto break and destroy this people and cite like as a potter breaketh a vessel which may never more be restored. This did he to fere and to move them to repentance. For that orator and preacher persuadeth most vehemently which helpeth his oration with convenient gestures/ apt similitudes & most present affectis. So that in the Prophetis sermons there is no such hardness & difficulty as some men complaineth of/ except the sloughisshe & sleapye reder nothing excercysing himself in reading diligently & reverently the holy scriptures bring it with him/ and so himself be the very cause why he bringeth away so little fruit in reading them. The Prophetis be the expowners' & declarers of the law & not the obscurers and derkeners there of: 
Pet. 1.  they be as Peter saith the light set up in a dark place unto which he exhorteth us diligently to attend. What argument so ever they take in hand to declare & prove/ they never leave it until they have so often/ so many ways and with so many sensible similitudes & apt comparisons set it forth that every hearer be he never so simple & rude may see & understand it clearly. How compasseth Jeremy about with so many words comparing the bakslyding of us from god/ to adultery calling us unshame faced her lettuce & our images whom we seek our lovers &ce. and all to bring us again unto Crist our spouse from our fornication committed (as he often saith) with stocks & stores? 
Anatho● was a l●●tel tow●ne in th● tribe of Beniam●n. iii mile n● the we●● from J●rusalem wherein Jeremy was bo●●ne.  Nether could the unkind dealing of his own folk of Anathot/ nor yet the false behaviour of the rulers against him once turn his mind from them. There could no king for all their threatening/ prisonment & punisshing make him to sherink or cease from his office that god called him unto. But evermore after any fall (he was a man) he rose again more fervent/ more constant and earnest then ever he was before. Whom lo/ now (Cristen reder) thou hast in thy hands preaching unto the in english the same sermons which he preached unto the people of Juda & Jerusalem corrupted with the same sins wherein we now labour and be as grievously infected: whom no less grievous plagues afflictions and burdens abide/ if we repent us not and turn not to our spouse Jesus Crist him with the father and the holy ghost one God to whorship & serve only. Which give us grace so to read and hear this his Prophet that he mought preach unto us with more fruit thou he preached to the Iwes: Amen.  
But first ere we begin to read him. Let us hear the state and brief succession of those four kings/ in whose days/ and how long/ Jeremy preached.  
Jolias'/ the last good king of Juda/ reigned xxxi year. He had these iii wicked sons/ Joachas/ Joakim/ and Zedechias. The story beginneth the xxii chapter of the fowerth book of the kings and continweth unto the end of the book. Jeremy began to preach in the xiii year of Josias/ so continuing under him xviii year. after Josias/ reigned Joachas/ & that but iii months/ and then was he led captive into Egypt. Then reigned his brother Joakim xi year/ and then was led captive unto Babylon. after him reigned this Joakims son called Joachin or Jeconias iii months and ten days/ and was led also captive unto Babylon. Then last of all was Zedechias the third son of Josias choson of 
* Othe●●wyse ca●led Na●buchod●●zar.  N●buchadrezar king of Babylon/ to be king of Juda. Which Zedechias after xi year/ Jerusalem taken and destroyed/ was led also captive to Babylon/ his eyen put forth/ but his own children first slain before his eyes/ that so grievous & painful a last sight might be printed and ever present in his mind into then creasing of his perpetual pain & sorrow while he lived. The time therefore while Jeremy preached/ unto the captivity came/ was xli year vi months/ and ten days. Here may we see in how troublous a time this Prophet preached. For doubtless these iiii. kings were not led a way thus captived out of their own land with out great calamity/ battle/ and blodesheding.   

¶ The fawtes escaped in the printing.  

In the first leaf/ the vii line of the first chapi. Rede thus. And I said/ Ah lord etc. In the xiiii lef/ second side/ second line/ Rede Ephraim.  
The xxiiii lef/ second side xvi line/ read whom they worshipped.  
In the beginning of the ix chapter/ the .v. line read give.  
The xxxii lef ii side vii line of the chap. read which he there faynede.  
The xu lef in the mergent/ Rede exodi. nineteen.  
The xxxiii lef/ second side xvi line/ read/ requited.  
The xxxvi lef. nineteen. lxne/ Rede knight.  
Fo. xlvii ix line/ read/ as here ye have herd.  
Foe lxvi xvi line/ read ever.  
Foe lxix xiii line/ read not/ son of Jeachim twice.    

❧ These are the acts and sermons of Jeremy the son of Helchie Priest/ one of those that dwelled in Anathot/ the region of Benjamin. Unto whom the word of the lord was showed. first in the days of Josias/ son of Amon king of Juda/ the xiii 
iiii. book of kings. capi. xxii  year of his reign/ and so during thorough the time of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda/ until xi years of Zedechias the son of Josias king of Juda were ended/ when Jerusalem was taken even in the fift month.  
The word of the Lord was sent unto me/ speaking thus.  

¶ The first Chapter.  
BEfore I fashioned the in thy mother's womb/ I knew thee: and before thou were borne/ I sanctified thee: and ordained the to be a Prophet for the people. Ah lord God/ thou know'st how rude I am of speech: for full young & simple am I. And the Lord answered me. Think not so: for thou shalt go preach unto all that I shall send thee: & thou shalt speak what so ever I shall command thee: Fear not their faces/ for I wil●● with the to dilyver thee/ saith the lord. And even forth withal/ the Lord stretched forth his hand/ and touched my mo●the: saying again unto me. Behold I s●t my words fast in thy mouth/ so Jorden the this day to be an o●erseer to viset both the people & their kings/ to pl●cup by th● roots and to cast down/ to destroy and to scatter/ and that thou shouldst also edify and plant. Eft sone after this/ the Lord spoke to me on this manner/ saying: Jeremy/ what fi●st thou? And I said/ I see the rod of a waking watcher. Well (said the lord to me) thou seist right well: for even I shall watch and wait upon my purpose to finesshe it. Over this the lord spoke unto me the second time saying: What siest thou? A seething pot quoth I/ do I see: & that even from the north as it were hitherwards looking. And the lord said to me: Even from the north shall there be powered forth an heavy hea● of plagues upon all th'inhabitors of this land. For lo/ I shall calup all the kinredis of the northest regions saith the Lord/ and they shall come: & each of them shall sit & judge openly even in these fore gates of Jerusalem/ & in all the walls round about it/ and thoroute all the cities also of Juda/ by whom I shall declare my vengeance upon the great and manifold wickedness of these men which have forsaken me/ offering their gifts unto strange God's and worshipinge the works of their own handis. Thou therefore gi●d up thy reins/ arise and go preach unto them all things that I command thee: Fear not their faces/ lest for thy f●inte faith and fere/ I make them to prevail. For lo/ this day do I set the a strong defensed city/ a piler of iron/ and a brazen wall against all this land/ against the kings of Juda and her rulers/ against the priests and people of the land: wherefore they shall fight against thee: but it shall not lie in their power to overcome thee: for I shallbe with thee (saith the lord) to deliver the.   

¶ The second Chapter.  
THen was the word of the lord showed unto me/ commanding me thus. Go and cry into the ears of Jerusalem/ saying. Thus saith the lord. I cannot forget thee/ especially when I remember my merciful covenant with thee/ and again the goodness of thy youth. I cannot forget thy true love in marriage/ whereby thou followed s●me thorough the desert/ a land unlaboured & unsowne. Thou waste once an holy Israel before the lord/ even the first fruits of his field: so that whoso had devoured the they had displeased him: & mischief should have fallen upon them/ said the lord. Hear ye therefore the word of the lord/ both you that be of the house of Jacob and all the family of the house of Israel. Thus saith the lord unto you: What fault or fraud found your fathers in me/ to go so far back from/ and to be made so vain as to follow lies? neither yet once to think/ where have we left the lord/ that led us out of the land of Egypt/ that brought us thorough that desert/ through a wild land harbourless/ a terrible baron land where we saw but death/ thorough a land which no man passed by/ and in the which noman dwelled. And when I had brought you unto that fat land of Carmelus to take your pleasure of her fruits & commodities: you went your ways and defiled my land/ & made mine heritage abominable. And even the priests/ they do not once remember me saying: where is the lord? The learned in the law/ they know me not. And as for the pastors/ they sin against me. The prophets they preach all for Baal his profit/ and are gone after idols which cannot help them. Wherefore I am utterly constrained to contend in judgement both with you & your children saith the lord. For go your ways unto the eylandis of Cethim/ & behold: send into Cedar and consider diligently whither there be any such thing done? ye/ look wh●ther the gentiles have castou●e their God's? albeit in very deed/ they be no God's. But my people hath castawaye their glory for an Idol that cannot help them. For this thing therefore: Oh heavens/ be ye astouned/ be ye a frayed and marvelously amazed saith the lord. For two great offences hath my people committed. They have forsaken me/ even the very lively fountain of perpetual waters: and digged them up pittis' all to trodden & broken which may hold no waters. Is Israel a bond slave/ or rather the good man's son of the house? And wherefore then is he gone into a proie? Wherefore roar they upon him like lions? They have brought their land into a wilderness: Their cities are so throne down & brent/ that no man may inhabit them. For theffeminate children of Memphes & Thanneos have polluted thee/ even up unto thy nek. Happened it not thus unto the for that thou forsookest the lord thy god even then when he would have directed the in the way? And now: what hast thou to do in the way to Egypte? To drink troubled waters? Or what makest thou in the way to Assyrye? to drink the waters of the flood? Thy noun malice shall reprove thee: and thy noun bakslydinge from God shall condemn thee: that thou mayst know and understand how pernicious & perilous a thing it is that thou hast forsaken the lord thy God/ dreading him nothing at all saith the lord God of powers: when even from the beginning I broke of thy yoke and thy bonds/ for that thou complaynedst and praydst me to make an end of thy bondage. But for all this/ yet thou stoodest forth offering thy body to be abused upon every high hill and under every broad branched tree/ Oh harlot: ye & that even while I went about to plant thee/ that thou mightist have been altogether of that noble vine stock and of that faithful seed. How art thou this alienated fro me into so strange and barren a vineyard out of kind? In somiche as wash thou thyself never so clean with 
* Fuller's earth.  Nitro. And powder thyself never somiche with 
* O ●rias.  Borith. yet art thou spotted with thy noun wickedness in my sight saith the lord God. Nether cannest thou say: I am not so polluted/ neither have I gon● after God's: For look upon thy noun ways in wodis & valeis/ oh swift Camel/ & thou shalt see what thou hast done. Thou hast run unto these places like a sw●fte ast●ling dromedary & with as fi●●ce a desire as the wild asse●● wont in wilderness for his pleasure to brea●h himself. Who could refrain thee? who soever seek the out shall find the evermore in thy menstrwe. When we forbade the these ungodly peins taking/ saying: Go no more bore foot to these Idol/ keep thy throat from thirst. Thou answerdst us saing/ we will not/ we care not for these pains: for our love is set upon strange God's/ and even them will we follow. But as the thief is a shamed when he is espied: even so be ye confounded oh house of Israel. Both the people/ yea their kings & rulers/ Prestis and prophetis all be ye ashamed and confounded. For they say their Pater noster unto a stock/ and to a stone they say: Thou art my mother: they have turned me their back & not their face. But in time of their trouble when they shall say: Arise and help us: I shall answer: Where are thy God's whom thou madest thee? Let them rise & save the in time of thy affliction. For look how many cities thou hast (oh Juda) so many God's haste thou. Wherefore contend ye with me sith ye be all sinners against me saith the lord? I smite your children/ but all in vain: for they receive not my discipline. your sword devoureth your prophetis like a devouring ●●om. ye are the people of the lord: look therefore upon his word. Am I become a wilderness or a dark land to Israel? Wherefore than saith my people/ let us fall from him and come no more at him? Do the maid forget her chief ornament or the wife her goodly girdle? And doth my people forget me so long? Wherefore settest thou forth & commendest thy noun ways to be so good as to find favour for them: when even thyself haste stained thy noun ways with sin? For under thy wings is there found the blood of poor innocent souls: & that not in corners and holes only: but openly in all these places. And yet darest thou say: I am an innocent: wherefore his indignation may not light upon me. But behold: I will contend with the in judgement/ because thou thinkest saying: I am no sinner. But how filthy a sinner shalt thou apere/ when it shallbe declared openly/ how oft thou hast returned & repeated thy noun ways? For thou shalt be ashamed as well of egypt as of ●ssyrye. For thou shalt go hence with thy handis coupled over thy head. For the lord shall frustrate thy hope & confidence and f●l little prosperity and comfort shalt thou find in them.   

¶ The third Chapter.  
IT is thought commonly/ that (if a man put away his wife/ & she now go an mary herself to another) it will be asked: shall he any more take her again? For is not this field now defiled? But thou hast played the harlot with many an herdeman: nevertheless turn again to me saith the lord. Lift up thy eyes & look up unto all these quarters about thee/ & se whither any place be undefiled. Thou sattest down by the ways waiting for them in the desert like a thief/ insomiche that th'earth was polluted with thy sins & whoredom. Hereof ceased the small rains & ceasonable showers. Thou hast gotten the an h●rsets forehead and cannest not be ashamed. O●els/ even now thou wouldst have called unto me/ saying: Oh my father/ thou art the goyde of my youth/ and wilt thou be turned fro me for ever? wilt thou hold thyself from all ways? But lo/ thou both speakest and dost evil more and more. Also the Lord said unto me in the time of Josias the king: Seist thou not what Israel that bakslyder from God hath done? Which went her ways upon every high hill and under every thick tree and their played the harlot? nevertheless when she had committed all this/ yet I said/ turn the again to me: and yet she turned not. And even thissame ens●mole hath her faithless sister Juda seen. That is to weet: When I had perfaitly beholden all thadultery of Israel that bakfaller/ & had forsaken her/ giving her a bill of divorce: yet would not Juda her unfaithful sister fear me/ but went away to/ and played the harlot: so that the fame of her fornication is flone thorough all this land and hath stained it: for she hath committed adultery with stones & stocks. Nether is this her faithless sister Juda after all these warningis returned unto me with all her heart/ but feignedly and falsely/ saith the lord. And yet again said the Lord to me. Israel that bakfaller fro me/ is more just than is yet this unfaithful Juda. Go thy way therefore and preach this sermone towered the north/ saying. Be converted thou bakslyder Israel saith the lord: for I shall not turn my face from you: for I am merciful saith the lord/ neither will I abhor the for ever/ but receive the again on this condition that thou wilt acknowledge thy sin committed against the lord thy god/ and that thou hast divided and offered thyself here and there running after strange God's under every thick tree: but my voice thou wolost not hear saith the lord. Be converted you rebel bakslyden children saith the lord: and I will join in marriage with you. For I will take one of you of the city/ and two of the kindred and lead you into Zion. And I shall give you herdsmen after my noun mind which shall feed you with doctrine and wisdom. And when you shall be increased and multiplied in the land: than (saith the lord) the ark of the lords covenant shall no more be spoken of nor minded/ no mention more shallbe made thereof: for it shall no more be visited nor honoured with oblation. Then shall they call Jerusalem the seat of the lord/ & all the gentiles shallbe gathered unto it for the name of the lord which shallbe given to Jerusalem. Nether shall they follow anymore the counsels of their own shrewd hearts. Than shall they that are of the house of Juda go to the house of Israel/ & come both together from the north region unto the land which I gave your fathers. I showed the how I purchased the in to the nowmbre of my children/ and gave the that desyerde land so pleasant a possession & also that noble host of the gentiles: commanding the to calm father and not to fall back from to any other gods. But as the woman breaketh her promise to her husband/ so hast thou broken promise with me/ Oh house of Israel saith the Lord. Wherefore the noise of the children of Israel shallbe herd all about wailing & weeping because they have defiled his ways/ and forgotten the lord their god. Be converted you baksliden children/ and I shall heal your bakslydinges. say/ lo we are thine/ for thou art the lord our god. Very liars are the hill toppis with the pomp of the mountains: nevertheless in the lord our god/ very health cometh to Israel. But shameful dediss devoured both the labours of our fathers even from their cradles and also their flocks/ herds/ sons & daughthers. We shall sleep therefore in our own confusion/ and our igno●●●ye shall cover us. Forboth we & our fathers be sinners against our lord god even from our cradles unto this day/ in that we obay● not the voice of our lord god.   

¶ The fourth Chapter.  
But Israel/ if thou wilt turn to me/ if thou wilt turn to me saith the lord/ and remove all thy abominations out of my sight/ & be no more a runagate after false geddis: but swear. The Lord reigneth/ ye & that in truth/ in judgement & ●ightwisnes/ saying: The gentylis mought be blessed in him/ and praise and thank him: than thus saith the Lord unto all Juda & Jerusalem: you shall break up & till your land/ and sow it not for thorns. Be circumcised in the lord and take away the uncircuncision of your hearts all ye citizens of Juda and Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire & be kindled noman to quench it for your malicious counsels. Tell forth in Juda and Jerusalem/ preach it saying: Blow forth trompettis into the land/ fill it all with your noise saying: Get ye together and go into your strong defensed cities. Lifteup a sign in Zion. Haste ye and tarry not/ for I shall bringeforth a plague & great destruction from the north. For the heathen destroyer is let slip and cometh forth of his place like a lion from his den/ to bring thy land into a desert/ to smite down thy cities that noman may inhabit them. Wherefore cloth yourselves with sack/ moorn & howl. For the hot indignation of the lord shall not be slaked from you. In this day saith the Lord/ the heart of the king and hearts of the rulers shall faint and fall. The priests shallbe a ston & the Prophetis all amazed. And I said: Ah lord god/ haste thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem/ saying: ye shall have peace and now the sword pierceth their lives? In that time it shallbe said unto this people and to Jerusalem. There cometh an hot wind from the sowth plague by the way of my people/ neither to winnow them nor to cleanse them. after this/ my vehement strong wind shall come: and then shall I teach these men my judgments. For lo/ he shall ascend like a cloud/ & his chariets shallbe like a stormy temreste/ ye and his horsemen swifter than angel's. Woe be unto us/ for we are utterly destroyed. Wash thy heart from evil o Jerusalem/ that thou mayst be saved. How long shall thy deadly and pe●●ciouse thoughts tarry with thee? For from Dan and from the mount Ephraim there is haide a noise that pronos●●kth and preacheth death. Lo even the gentiles give warning and tell Jerusalem that there come destroyers from a far land. They tell it also the cities of Juda/ warning them round about as do the watch men of the feldis: for they have angered me saith the lord. Thy counsels and thoughts hare brought the these things. This is thy noun malice and rebellion which hath posseded thy heart. Then shalt thou cry/ My belly my belly ●keth/ my life in my breast sorowth/ my heart within me is tr●wbled: I cannot be stil. For my soul hath herd the voice of the trumpet/ and even the dolorous peal to death and destruction is now rung/ even now all the land perisheth. Suddenly shall my tabernacles be destroyed/ & my cortayns in the twinkling of an eye.  
How long shall I see these cruel tokens and hear the voice of the trumpet?  
These therefore shall come/ because my people hath despised me and are besides their wits. My children are fools & without understanding. They are witty to do evil but to do good they are all witless. I beheld the earth/ and lo it is vain and void. I looked upon the heavens: and lo they have not their light/ I lifted up my eyes to the mountains/ and lo they reeled likely to fall/ and all the hills shaken. I looked about/ and lo there was noman left. Also all the fowls of the air were flone away. I behold/ and lo Carmelus was become a desert/ all her cities throndowne of the lord & of the fury of his wrath. For thus sp●●●e the lord. All this land shallbe desolate. But yet shall I not utterly make an end of it. Wherefore wail earth & mourn heaven above: for of this thing which I have thought and decreed/ it shalnot re●ent me/ neither will I go from it. Every cite shall i'll at the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall run into caves and woods and climb into rocks. Every city shallbe left a lone noman to inhabit them. When thou art thus destroyed/ what shalt thou do? If thou clothest thyself with purple/ and deckest the with golden ornamentis/ if thou payntest thy eye brews with starch/ yet shalt thou garneshe thyself in vain. For they that loved the hitherto/ shall loath the and go about to quench thy life. For me thinketh I hear a voice as it were of a woman traveling/ of child/ or of one labouring in the travel of her first child: that is to say the voice of the daughter of Zion morning and complaining in herself casting her arms abroad saying: Ah lass for sorrow/ for my life faileth in me for the slain.   

¶ The fift Chapter.  
GO look upon Jerusalem with out: & consider it also within: & seek thorowt every street/ whither ye can find any one man that either doth right or studieth for faith & troth: & I shall spare them saith the Lord. For albeit they say. The lord lyneth/ yet is this their oath to deceyne/ when thy eyes (o lord) look for nothing so much as for faith. For thou smittest them & yet they repented not. Thou correctedst to amend them: but they would not receive thy discipline. They hardened their faces more than any stone/ & refused to turn to a better mind. Whereupon I considered with myself thus/ peradventure they are so poor that they cannot know the way of the lord & judgments of our god. I shall get me therefore unto the great estates & talk with them/ if peradventure yet these men may have the knowledge of the way of the lord & the judgments of their god. But these men even like all other have broken the yoke & plucked insunder their bridle reins. Wherefore the lion shall come from the wood and devour them. The wolf at thevening shall destroy them. The leopard shall lie await by their cities to tear in pieces as many as come out frothence. For they have heaped sin upon sin/ and their bakslydingis are right grievous. Tell me then what thing hast thou where fore I should be merciful unto thee? Thy children have forsaken me/ and swear by them that are no God's/ when even I myself had bound them to me by an oath: and yet are they adulterers haunting harlettis houses. They are be come as fierce in prodigious libidinous lust as fat stallaundes/ every man neiathe at his neighbour's wife. Shall I not be avenged upon these things/ saith the lord? And should not I take vengeance of what nation so ever it be that is like unto this? Climb up to her walls and throw them down/ tarry not. Cut of her branches and battlements for they belong not to the lord. For the house of Israel and Juda hath cast me away unfaithfully/ saith the Lord/ saying: It is not he that is God. Nether shall there come such affliction upon us. Sword and hunger we shall not se. Wherefore these Prophetis shall go their ways into the wind. And he that should preach shall not come among them. Even thus shall it be dealt with them. Wherefore thus speaketh the lord god of powers. Sith ye speak this word: Lo I shall turn my words which thou speakest with thy mouth into fire/ and this people into wood/ that it may devour them. Behold I shall bring upon you a nation from a far (o house of Israel saith the lord) a strong boystiouse nation an old nation whose tongue thou shalt not know nor understand what they say. Their quivers shallbe thy present grave: for all they are full mighty. This nation shall eatup thy corn & food: they shall eat thy sons and daughters: they shall devour thy flocks & droves. They shall eatup thy vyneyardis & figs. And beat down thy defensed cities with sword in whom thou trustedst most chiefly: and yet thus than will I not cease nor make an end with you saith the lord. And when they shall say: wherefore shall our lord God do all this unto us?  
Thou shalt answer them. Because that like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your own land: even so shall ye serve strange gods still in a strange land. Show this to the house of Jacob/ and preach it in Juda saying: Hear (I pray thee) this thing thou folesshe and hertlesse people. ye have eyes but yese not/ and ears but ye hear not. Will ye not dread me saith the lord? Will ye not fear my face/ which have pinnedyn the sea with sands: ye & that with this law to/ that she shall never pass over them? She maketh a face with great vehemence/ but yet she may not: She swelleth up into her high waves/ but yet she breaketh not her law. But this people hath a faithless & rebellious heart. They are fallen back and gone their ways so far/ that they think not once in their hearts. Let us yet fear the lord our God which giveth us rain in time/ and ceasonable showers for our profit/ preserving us our corn according to the duwe order of the year. your own wikednesses have turned these things from you. And your sins have deprived you this great commodity. For in my people there are found the ungodly which bend snares privily/ & wait to destroy men and to take them. And as the net is full of birds/ so are their houses full of goodis gotten with dissaight. And hereof rise their stoutness & riches: hereof are they magnified/ made so fat and full of treasure. Also they have offended me with the most grievous crimes. They minister not the law. The cause of the fatherless they expede it not. The poor man's wrong/ in judgement they deliver not. Shall I not be avenged of these things saith the lord? And should I not take veneaunce of what so ever like unto this? Thingis to be wondered at and greatly to be feared are now done in this land. The Prophetis preach lies/ and the priests obey and rejoice in them. And my people have great pleasure in these things. But what shall come of this at the last? Verily/ even this.   

¶ The sixth Chapter.  
GEt ye forth of Jerusalem/ ye strong sons of Benjamin. And blowup trumpets ye men of Thecua: and let there be a token lifted up unto Bethacherem: for there cometh a plague and great destruction from the north. I shall make the daugther Zion like a fair tender one/ that the pastors with their flocks might come to her to pitch their tentis rowndaboute behind her/ each one to feed upon men yildedup into their handis. But shall I be plain? Bend ye earnestly to battle against Jerusalem Arise/ and let us go up while it is yet midday. But alas the day declineth and the dark evening drawth fast upon: nevertheless arise/ and let us go up even in the night/ and throdowne her goodly strong defences. For thus commandeth the lord of powers. Cutdowne her trees and rearup a bulwark against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be visited: for it is full of violence and unjust vexation. As the cistern keepeth & increaseth her cold waters/ even so nouresheth this city her malice. Theft and injury are hard in her. Sorrow & wounds are ever in my sight. Be thou rather nourtred and amend o Jerusalem/ lest I withdraw my heart from thee/ and leave the desolate/ no man to inhabit thy region. For thus saith the Lord of powers. The reammant of Israel shallbe plucked away as men were wont to pike of the grapes left after the grape gathering. Turn thou thy hand therefore into the mand like the grape gatherer. But unto whom shall I speak and testify myself that he would once hear? Their ears are so uncircumcised that they may not receive my word. For lo/ the word of the lord is put of them in the place of obprobrye and shame/ they set nought by it but revile it.  
But Lord I am so repleynesshed and laden with thy fury that I labour in great sufferance. Have done at once therefore and power it forth upon the children in the stretis and also upon the company of the youngmen. For the man with his wife/ and tholdemanoldman with the bederede shallbe taken/ and their houses shallbe translated unto other/ as well their fields as wives. For I shall strechforth my hand unto the dwellers of this land saith the lord: because that from the least of them unto the greatest every man is given to covetousness/ and from Prophet to priest every one doth dissaightfully and lyingly. But yet in the mean season/ to put my people out of fear: they go about to heal their breach and destruction with this lie/ preaching peace peace/ when there is no peace at al. Wherefore/ they shallbe ashamed because they have committed abomination: what said I? Ashamed? When they are passed all shame & with out all fear. Wherefore they shall fall among the slain/ & in th'article of my visitation they shall come down altogether saith the Lord Thus saith the Lord. Comeforth unto the ways. Consider and serchout the path everlasting: that yet if this way be good and right/ ye mought walk therein & find rest for yoursouls. But they say/ we will not walk therein. yet said the Lord. And I shall set overseers over you: give heed therefore/ especially unto the voice of the trumpet. But they say/ we will not give heed. Wherefore/ hear ye gentiles/ and see ye folk gathrede together what I have ordained for them. And thou earth hear also/ I shall bring a grievous plague upon this people/ even the fruit of their own counsels. For they obeyed not my words nor my law/ but abhorred them and casted them away. For what intent bring ye incense fro Gaba? and this good fragrant spice from so far countries? your offringis displease me/ and your sacrifices delight me nothing at al. Wherefore thus saith the Lord. Behold I shall send a ruin among this people/ and thershal fall the fathers with their sons/ neighbour's together one with another shall perish. Also thus saith the lord. Behold a populose multitude shall come from the north parts/ and a great nation shallbe steredup from the coostis of th'earth armed with bow and bokeler/ a nation both boystuouse fierce and merciless/ their voice rorethe like the sea: they come riding/ everyone well appointed & bent to fight against thee/ oh daughter Zion. Here as soon as we shall hear of these tydingis/ our hands shallbe dissolved/ anguish & heaviness shall hold us as a woman traveling of child. We shall say/ let noman go forth into the field/ noman go by the highewaye. For both sword & the fear of our enemies shall occupy all places.  
Gird the therefore with sak/ oh daughter of my people and sprinkle thyself with ashes: take the to morning as it were for thy only dear beloved son/ & lament as thou shuldste for them whom thou mayst not lose with out many a bitter tear: for in the twinkling of an eye/ this destroyer shallbe upon you: whom I have set upon my people as a tryeroute of metal to try them & to disclose their ways. For they are forsakers of me and traitors. They hunt after filthy lucre/ they are brass & iron/ for they hurt and destroy al. The blower of the fire with the belows shall faint/ the lead shall fail: the trier out of the silver shall try in vain/ for they are worse than worthy to be melted. Wherefore they shallbe called forbode and reproved silver/ for the Lord shall refuse them.   

¶ The vii Chapter.  
THis is the word given unto jeremy from the Lord saying. Stand up in the gates of the house of the lord/ & preach this sermone with a loud voice saying. Hear the word of the Lord all ye that haunt these gates entering in to worship the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Amend your ways & counsels/ & I shall make you to inhabit this place. Put not your confidence in the words of liars saying. The temple of the Lord/ the temple of the Lord/ the temple of the Lord is here. For if ye amend and redress your ways & counsels/ & do right to every man/ if ye do no wrong to the stranger/ to the fatherless and poredestitute/ if ye shed no innocent blood in this place/ if you follow not strange gods into your own destruction: I shall cause you to inhabit this place in the land which I gave your fathers from age to age. But lo/ ye trust in deceaitful counsel & lying words which shall not profit you. For when ye have walked altogether in theft/ murder/ adultery and perjury: when ye have offered to Baal and followed strange gods/ ye and even unknown gods/ then at last ye come and stand before me in this house/ which beareth my name/ and ye say/ we be absolved/ ye although we had committed all these abominations.  
Think ye that this house which beareth my name is made a den of thieves? And these things are not done privily but openly in my presence/ saith the Lord. But go your ways (I pray you) to my place in Silo/ to the which I gave my name some time/ and behold what I did to it for the malice of my people Israel. Now therefore because ye have committed all these dediss saith the Lord. Notwithstanding yet I rose fulerly continually warning you in time/ I spoke but ye would not hear/ I called but ye would not answer/ I shall do (I say) therefore unto this house to whom my name was given in which house also ye trust: I shall do (I say) to this place which I gave you and your fathers even as I did to Silo. And I shall cast you out of my sight as I casted out all your brothern/ even all the seed of Erhraim. Now therefore pray thou not for this people/ neither bid prayer nor praise for their sake/ nor make no intercession to me. For in nowise will I hear the. Seist thou not what they do in the cities of Juda and without Jerusalem? The children gather sticks & their fathers set them on fire. And their wives strew & sprinkle their flower to make fine cakes for the queen of heaven. 
* The ●one.  Over this yet they offered to false gods to anger me/ albeit there is no such affect in me/ saith the lord/ aught they not yet rather to be a shamed of their own selves? wherefore thus saith the lord God. Behold my wrath & indignation shallbe powerdforth upon this place/ upon man and beast/ upon the trees of the field and upon the fruits of th'earth: & it shall so burn that noman may quench it. Thus saith the lord of powers/ the God of Israel/ ye join & heap together your brent sacrifices with your slain beasts to be offered/ but eat you the flesh yourself/ for as for me I spoke nothing of these unto your fathers: how much less than was it my mind/ when I brought the out of the land of Egypte to command these ceremones of brent sacrifices and oblations as my chief and first precepts? But this was the substance of my first precept. 
* Ex de. x  Hear & obey my voice/ and I shallbe your god/ and ye shallbe my people/ this condition added/ that ye walk in all my ways which I shall command you for your health. But they obeyed not nether gave ear/ but walked after the lusts and crafty counsels of their own shrewd hearts/ and became froward and nothing toward/ ye and that even from the same day that your fathers went out of Egypte unto this day. And I sent them my servants/ all the Prophetis rising & busily warning them in time/ but they listened not to me/ nor yet once inclined their ears: but hardened their proud necks and became far worse than their fathers. And thou thyself now to/ shalt also speak unto them all these words: but they shall not give ear unto thee: thou shalt call them/ but they shall not answer. Wherefore thou shalt say unto them. This is the people that heareth not the voice of their lord god/ neither receiveth his discipline. Faith is gone & banesshed from their mouths. Therefore clipof the hears of thy head & cast them a way/ take the to morning thoroute all the land. For the Lord wilcaste away and scatter the generation with whom he is anger. The Children of Juda have done evil in my sight saith the Lord. They have set-uped their own abominations in my house named after my name and so polluted it. And they have builded an altar at Topheth which is the vale of Benhinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire/ which thing I never commanded nor minded. Wherefore behold the time shall come saith the lord/ when it shall no more be called Tophet or vale Benhinnom: but the vase of the slain. For they shallbe buried in Tophet because they can get no nother place: and the carcases of this people shallbe meat for fowls of the air and for wild beasts of the earth/ & there shallbe to noman to chaar them a way. I shall make a vacation of the voice of gladness and of the voice of joy/ of the voice of bridegroom and brydewyfe from the cities of Juda/ and the region of Jerusalem. For the land shallbe left desolate with out inhabitors.   

¶ The viii Chapter.  
AT this time saith the lord: they shall bring forth the bones of the kings of Juda/ and the bones of her rulers/ the bones of priests and Prophetis and of the citizens of Jerusalem/ out of their sepulchres: and shall lay them abroad before the son/ moan and all the company of the stars/ whom they loved/ whom they served/ after whom they went/ whom they sought and worshippeth. They shall not be gatherdup nor buried/ but lie still like a dunghill above th'earth. And all that shallbe left of this wicked generation shall desire rather to die than to live. wheresoever they shall become as I shall scatter them/ they shallbe but (as ye would say) a left reamnant saith the lord of powers. Also this shalt thou say unto them. That thus saith the Lord: Do men so fall that they never arise up again? Are they so averted that they will be never converted? How is it than that this people and Jerusalem be averted so steifly for ever?  
Their stourdines increaseth/ they will not be converted. For I have beheld them and hearkened/ but there is not one that once thinketh on this/ not one repentith him of his sins saying/ what have I done? Or wherefore have I done thus?  
Every one after that he was once averted/ he ran fro me like an horse that runneth neaing into battle. The stork knoweth her appointed time/ the turtle/ the fwalow/ and the crane observe the time of their forthefleing: but my people know not the time of the vengeance of the lord. How then happeneth it that ye say. It is we that are the wise/ it is we that have the law of the lord? se therefore they are but very lies which the false pen of the scribe payntethe. Wherefore the wise shallbe ashamed/ they shallbe afraid and be taken/ for lo/ they have throne a way the lord. which gone/ what wisdom than can there remain in them? Wherefore I shall give their wives to strangers/ and their fields to their destroyers: for from the lest to the greatest all gape for filthy lucre. from prophet to priest all are liars. But in the mean season they heal the breach & affliction of my people powdering it with this lie saying: There shall be peace/ there shallbe peace/ when there is none at all. Fygh for shame/ they commit abominable and shameful deeds & are past all shame. Wherefore they shall fall among the deed carcases and shall come down together in the day of their visitation saith the lord. I shall cause them to be gathered up and taken away saith the Lord. Like as there is not a grape left in the vine/ nor a fig on the figtree/ and as leaves are fallen a way/ even so shall I cause them to be carried away captived while they be at their wits end saying: Come and let us go into some strong cities/ and let us abide there with silence. For our Lord God hath put us to silence and given us to drink water mingled with gall because we sinned against him. We looked for peace/ but there came no good: we tarried and waited for the time of health/ but lo/ all is sickness and trouble. Than shall the neaing and noise of their horse be herd from Dan. At the noise of their harness and armed horse men all the region shall falldowne. For they shall invade & devour this land & what so ever is in it/ both cities & dwellers in them. And over this yet shall I send into among them kokatrices and serpents whom they may not charm/ and they shall sting you saith the lord. I am oppressed with sorrow/ and heaviness holdeth my heart. For lo/ the loud voice of the daughter which is my people shallbe herd from a far country/ saying: Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her? Whereunto the Lord shall answer. Wherefore have they angered me with their carven images and strange vanites? Harvest is paste. Summer is done/ & we are yet miserable and unhappy. I am sorry for thaffliction of the daughter my people/ I am fallen into a swoon. Is there no rosyne medicinable or triakle left in Galaad? There is no physician there that may restore the daughter my people to her health.   

¶ The ix Chapter.  
UVho may minister water to my head/ and plenteous tears to my eyes/ to weep day and night for the murder of the daughter my people? Who will give me some strange solitary cottage in the desert/ that I might (my people forsaken) go from them? For they be all adulterers and the church of bakslyders.  
They bend their tongues like a bow to shoteforth lies: but for the truth/ they may do nothing in the world. For they proceed from one mischief to another & they hold not upon me/ saith the Lord. Every man must be ware of other/ & no brother may trust another: for brother supplanteth brother/ & neighbour deceiveth neighbour. Every man mocketh his neighbour/ and the trowthe they speak not. They have accustomed their tongues to lie and take great pains to do mischief. Thou haste set thy stole in the mids of desaight/ and for to deceive men/ they forsook my knowledge saith the lord. Wherefore thus saith the lord of powers. Behold I shall seethe them out/ I shall melt and try them. For what else should I do to my people?  
Their tongues like sharp arrows pierce with desaight. With their lips they speak peace with their neighbour/ but pr●●ely they set snares for him. Must I not then viset them for th●se things/ saith the Lord? Or should my mind judge that nation innocent (who so ever they be) that is like unto this? Upon the mountains therefore shall I take me to weeping and morning. And upon the fair plains of the desert shall I begin to laments that they be thus brent up/ that noman pass thorough them/ that their is not heard one word of any possessor/ and that the birds of the air with the beasts are carried and gone fro thence. And even very Jerusalem shall I bring into an heap of stones and dragons dens. And the cities of Juda shall I make desolate without any inhabior. What mortal man is sowyse as to understand these things? or to whom hath the lord told forth these by mouth? saying: Wherefore perisshest o land? wherefore art thou so brentup and made like a desert/ that noman may pass thorough thee? Even the lord therefore himself told it them that forsook his law which he gave them/ and yet they received it not/ nor lived after it: but followed the craftiness of their own shrewd hartis & went after gods as their fathers taught them. Wherefore even thus (I tell you) saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold I shall feed this people with anxt/ and give them gall to drink: I shall scatter them into among the nations/ whom nether they nor their fathers know. I shall send the sword among them persecuting until I have consumed them. Also thus said the Lord of powers. See that ye call mourners and send for the wise women to come speedily that they might sing our mourning songs/ that the tears might fall from our eyes/ and water our cheeks. For the lamentable voice of Zion appeareth yet still/ even thus to be hard. How are we destroyed? How miserably are we confounded? we must forsake our own country/ for our own tabernacles cast us forth. But yet hear the word of the lord/ o ye women/ & let your ears hear the word of his mouth/ that ye might teach your daughter's/ & each of them their neighbours this lamentable morning. Death is clymen yn at our windows and hath pierced thorough our houses destroying our children before our doors and our young ones in the streets. But tell thou them/ that thus saith the lord. Mennis carcases shall fall like dung upon the face of the field/ and like grass after the sith/ noman to gather them up. And tell them that he saith thus to. Let not the wise glory in his own wisdom/ nor the great man in his power/ neither the rich in his riches. But he that will glory/ let him glory in this/ that he hath understanding & knowledge of me/ me. For it is I that am the Lord/ which do mercy/ equity and righteousness upon th'earth. Wherefore in these things I delight chiefly saith the Lord. Behold the time shall come saith the Lord/ that I will viset every circumcised nation: as the Egyption/ the Iwe/ the Idumey/ Ammonites/ Moabites/ and the shaven Madianitis which dwell in the desert. For all the gentiles have their foreskin uncircuncised/ but all the ho●se of Israel have their hartis uncircuncised.   

¶ The ten Chapter.  
HEre the sermone of the Lord which he sendeth unto you oh house of Israel/ saying thus. Be not learned after the ways of the gentiles/ neither fear ye at the signs of the sky or heaven which the gentiles fear. For the rites and laws of the gentiles are very vanity. They will go cut down a tree from the wood and fashion it with the handis & axe of the artificer/ than is it made gay with gold or silver/ and fastened with hamers and naylis that it move not nor go not a way. It standeth as stiff as the palm tree/ it speaketh not/ it goeth not/ but is borne only. Be not a frayed of siche things: for they may do nether good nor harm. But unto thee (oh Lord) none is like/ thou are great/ and great is the name of thy power. 
* 〈…〉.  Who ought not to fear thee? Or what king among all nations ought not to obey thee? For among all the wise of the gentiles/ and in all their kingdoms/ none is like the. They are all a like/ unlearned and unwise. All their craft and coning is but vanity. Silver is brought hither from Tharsis/ and beaten forth into thin plates. And gold is brought from Ophir and beaten into the work of the craft man by the hand of the caster and clad with byse and purple. Siche is the work of all their witty men together. But the Lord is the very God/ the living God and king everlasting. He being angry the earth trembleth: his indignation no people may bear. But as touching these Idols thus shall ye report by them. They are gods which made nether heaven nor earth. They shall perish therefore as well from th'earth as from these things which are under this sky. But as concerning this our God/ ye shall say. He hath made the earth by his power/ & finesshed the round world by his wisdom/ and stretched forth the heavens by his understanding/ at his voice much water runneth together in the air/ clouds are lifted up from the extreme parts of th'earth. 
Psal. cxxxv●  He turneth thunder into rain/ and leadeth forth the winds out of their secret places. Every man is made a fool of his own wisdom. Every man may be ashamed that casteth an image. For it is but a vain thing that he so melteth and bloweth together/ & clean without life. These vain craftsmen with their works worthy to be scorned so fondly framed and ornowernde/ shall perish all together in the time of their visitation. Siche is not jacob's lot/ but it is he that hath fashioned all things. And Israel is the met rod of his heritage/ whose name is the lord of powers. Take away a non fro my sight thy filthenes which yet sittest in so strong holds. For thus saith the Lord. Behold I shall castoute th'inhabitors of this land/ all at this time/ and so vex them that they no more appear. Ah alas/ how grievous is my affliction? how sorrowful is my plague? For I bear this heaviness and reckon it as my noun. My tabernacle is destroyed and all my lines broken insunder. My children are gone fro me/ and appear no more. Now is their noman to bend my tent/ or rear up my skins. For full folesshly have the herdsmen done in that they sought not the lord: whereupon all their flocks also have done unwisely & be scattered away. Lo the rumour of the host is present/ and a great uproar cometh from the north to turn the cities of Juda into a wilderness and into dens for dragons. I know verily (Lord) that it lieth not in man's power to direct and rule his own ways/ nor yet to make perfit his own steapes and his going. Thou therefore (Lord) shalt amend us in equity/ & not in thy wrath: lest thou bring us unto nought. Power forth rather thy wrath upon the heathen that know the not/ and upon the generations that call not upon thy name/ and that namely for this cause/ that they have eatenup/ devoured/ and consumed Jacob/ & extinct his brightness.   

¶ The xi Chapter.  
¶ Another sermon which the Lord steered up Jeremy to preach/ saying.  
HEar ye the words of this his covenant/ and speak unto all Juda & to th'inhabitors of Jerusalem. But thou namely shalt say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Cursed be every man that obey not the words of this covenant which I commanded your fathers what time I led them out of the land of Egypte from that hard furnace and grievous servitute/ saying: Obey my voice/ and do after that I command you/ and ye shallbe my people and I shall be your God/ & keep mine holy oath which I swore to your father's/ to give them this land flowing with milk & honey/ as ye may see it fulfilled unto this day. Here I answered saying: Oh Lord it is true. And then the Lord said to me again. Preach thou all these words in the cities of Juda & ro●●●e about Jerusalem/ saying: Hear the words of the covenant that ye might fulfil them. For I certified your father's/ openly testifying unto them from that time sense I brought them out of the land of Egypte unto this day warning them intime saying. listen to my voice: & noman listened nor gave ear/ but followed the crooked thoughtis of their own hearts. Wherefore I brought all the words of this covenant upon them which I gave them to fulfil & they fulfilled it not. Over this the lord yet said to me. There is foundoute a conjuration in all Juda & in the cytesens of Jerusalem. They are returned unto the sins of their fore fathers which forsook to hear my words. And even so do these men follow strange God's to worship them. The house of Israel and Juda hath made void my covenant which I smit with their fathers. Wherefore thus saith the Lord. Behold I shall bring forth a plague upon you/ from which ye may no ways escape. ye & when ye shall cry to me/ yet will I not hear you. Then shall the cities of Juda with the citizens of Jerusalem go & cry upon their God's whom they worshipped/ but in no manner wise may they help them in time of their miserable affliction. For look how many cities/ so many gods hadst thou oh Juda/ & according to the number of the streatis of Jerusalem/ thou settedst up shameful auters/ auters upon whom thou brenst thy offeringis even unto Baal. Thou therefore pray not for this people/ neither bid praise nor prayer for them. For when thou shalt cry to me I shall not hear them in their affliction. Wherefore (oh my best beloved Israel) committest thou in my house so many sins? as though the holy 
* their beasts sacrificed & offered up is called holy flesh.  flesh might take away thy sins namely which haste so roioysed in thy noun my schefe. The lord named thee/ that goodly green floureshing fruitful & fair olyne: but now/ the contrary fame wide spread/ he will burn the in the fire & destroy thy branches. For the lord of powers which planted the hath ordained a plague for thee (oh house of Israel & house of Juda) for the evil that ye have done provoking him to wrath with the worship done to Baal. These things oh lord (thou teaching me) I understood/ when thou showedst me their counsels: but I like a meek lamb was appointed to be slain/ knowing nothing that they had taken their counsel thus against me: saying let us corrupt his breed on the tree/ & so banysshe him from the company of the living that even the very mention of his name might be odious and loothsome.  
Thou therefore/ lord of powers/ righteous judge searcher out of reins and hearts: I beseech the that I might see vengeance taken on them. For unto the I commit my cause. As concerning these things/ thus spoke the lord upon the citizens of Anathot which sought to make an end of me/ saying: Preach to us no more in the name of the lord/ except thou wilt die in our handis. Thus (I say) spoke the lord of powers. Behold/ I shall viset you/ your young men shallbe slain with sword: and your sons and daughters shall die for hunger/ so that none be left. For I shall bring a plague upon the citizens of Anathot/ and the day of their visitation.   

¶ The xii Chapter.  
But thou Lord art to righteous for me to reason with. Not withstanding yet I would talk with the of rightwiseness. 
* or of thy deep judgments.  How is it that the way of the ungodly so prospereth and all unshamefaced sinners live in such pleasure? Thou art ready at their mouths what so ever they ask/ although thou be full far from their hearts. But thou Lord/ unto whom I am known and perfectly seen/ which also haste searched out my heart/ doist thou not favour them to bring them yn together like fed ware appointed to the bochers stall consecrated unto the day of slaughter? How long shall this land wail and all the grass of the field be withered up for the malice of her inhabitors? Beast and fowl are gone/ while these men yet say. God thinketh not to make an end of us. And they upbraided me saying when thou ramnest but with footmen/ thou wast tired/ and wilt thou than strive to run with horse? Thou waste not sure in thy noun peaceable country: how wilt thou then look to endure in the proud ruffeling of Jordane? For even thy noun brethren and thy father's family altogether honted the forth following the with ●n out cry▪ For thou wouldst not believe them even when they told the for the best. Whom I answered thus. I left my house in deed and gave over my heritage/ and put my life (which nothing is to me more dear) into the handis of my enemies/ for my heritage was made to me as a lion in the wood: It barked against me: wherefore I hate it. My heritage is to me as a painted b●●de/ but a greedy flock of fowls hovered over it round about. Go your ways & begathred together also ye beasts of the field/ & haste you to denoure it. The multitude of herdsmen have destroyed my vineyard/ they have trodden down my heritage/ even my most pleasant heritage have they brought into a desolate desert and wasted it/ which now wasted moorneth upon me/ ye althe hole land is destroyed/ and noman petyeth it or set it at heart. There shall come destroyers thorough althe ways of the field: for the sword of the Lord shall devour this land from one end to other/ and nothing living shall have rest. Men shall sow wheat/ & reap thorns: they shall take fermes/ but all in vain: for ye shallbe ashamed of your profit for the wrath and indignation of the Lord. Also thus said the Lord upon all my neighbours which molested & laid hands upon theritage which I gave to Israel my people. I shall verily sweep them forth/ even Israel shall I cast out of their land/ and the house of Juda shall I carry away to. But after that I have plucked them up by the roots/ I shall favour them and be merciful unto them/ and bring them again every man to his own heritage and to his own country. Also/ it shall come thus to pass/ that if the destroyers of my people willbe instruct and taught the ways of my people to swear be my name. The Lord five. As they taught my people to swear be Baal/ they shallbe grieffed into among my people. But if they will not obey/ I shall cast out sich manner of folk and destroy them/ saith the Lord.   

¶ The xiii Chapter  
ALso thus saith the Lord unto me.  
Go and buy the a broad synen girdle: and gird it about they reins/ but let it not come in any water. Than I got me this girdle as the Lord bade me and put it about my reins. after this/ the Lord spoke to me again. Take the girdle which thou haste bought thee/ and put it about thy loins/ and rise/ and go thy way to Euphrates and hide it there in an hole of the rock. Then I went and hide it as the Lord commanded me. And it happened that long after this/ the lord said unto me. Arise and haste the to Euphrates/ and take out thy girdle which I commanded to be there hid. Then I went forth to Euphrates/ and digged out my girdle/ and took it away from the place where I-hid it. And lo the girdle was rotten/ so that it would serve to no use. Then spoke the Lord to me these words. Thus saith the lord. Even after this manner fhal I destroy the pride and glorious fame of Juda and Jerusalem with sword. This people is fulcursed & malicious. They will not hear my words/ they follow the counsels of their own hearts & the strange gods whom of they worshipped & fildowne before them: wherefore they shallbe like this girdle which is profitable for nothing. For even as the girdle cleaveth to a man's reins/ so had I glued to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Juda saith the Lord/ to be my people to have a great name/ to be honourable and clear/ but they obeyed me not. Thou shalt tell them therefore this ridel. Thus saith the lord God of Israel. Every wine pot is filled with wine. Here shall they anon answer. Can we not know this/ that every wine pot may be filled with wine? Than shalt thou tell them. Thus saith the lord. Behold I shall fill all th'inhabitors of this land and even the kings that sit in the seat of David/ priests & Prophets to/ & all the citizens of Jerusalem with drunkenness/ and thrust them down together/ one neighbour upon another/ & the fathers upon their children all upon an heap saith the Lord. I will not forgive nor spare/ nor have mercy/ to th'intent I would destroy them. Obey/ give ear/ & be not proud/ for it is the Lord that speaketh. give ye therefore glory to your lord God before he withdraw his light/ and ere your feet stumble in darkness at the hill. For than if ye look for light he shall turn it into deadly darkness. And if ye will not here this secret monition/ 
* Or this prophecy  my heart shall weep with yn me for your stobourne pride/ I shall lament grievously/ tears shall drop down fro my eyes/ for the flock of the Lord shallbe led away captive. Tell the king the queen & the chief rulers saying: Homble yourselves and sit down: for the crown of your beauty shall fall from your headis. The south cities shallbe shutup & taken/ and noman shall open them. Al Juda shallbe led away captive so that none be left. Lyfteup your eyes and behold who cometh from the north. They shall come upon the like a wealy drove of beasts. Unto whom then (I pray thee) shalt thou make they moon when they shall thus fall upon thee? For they are of thy noun teaching into they noun utter destruction. Shall not pangs come than upon the as on a woman traveling of child? And if thou thinkest with thyself/ wherefore come these upon me? For thy many fold sins (I tell thee) thy arse shallbe showed and thy bare thighs shallbe seen. For even as the Morin may change his skin & the leopard his spots/ so may you once accustomed & stained with sin do good. I shall therefore disperse you like stubble tossed with the south wind. This shallbe thy lot & thus shall I measure thee/ saith the Lord. In asmuch as ye have forgotten me and trusted in deceivable things/ I shall turn thy clothes over thy head: & show thy bare thighs/ & thy privy parts: thy adultery/ thy wanton neainge/ & crime of fornication shallbe showed. For I have seen thy abominations in fields & hills. Wobe to the Jerusalem: for there is no hope after this that ever thou wilt be made clean.   

¶ The xiiii Chapter.  
The word of the Lord showed unto jeremy upon the famine/ drought/ & dearth.  
IVda shall moorn & her gates shallbe no more haunted. The land shallbe neglect/ & the kryingout of Jerusalem shall fleforthe. The Masters shall send their servants to fetch water/ which when they shall come to the pits/ shall find no water. But carry again their vessels empty. They shamed & confounded/ shall cover their headis: for the earth shallbe rough & hard/ for that no rain falleth upon it. Also it shall irk the ploughmen which also shall cover their headis. The hind fawning in the field/ shall leave her fawn behind her for lak of grass. The wild asses shall stand in open out places drawing in the wind 
* or gaping for wind  like dragon's/ their eyes shronken into their headis for lak of grass. Verily our wickedness is welworthy this plague. But thou Lord yet deal with us according to thy name/ all though our bakslyd ingis & sins be full great & many fold: for it is thou which art so looked & waited for: it is thou that art the health & saviour of Israel in time of tribulation. Wherefore shouldst thou become a stranger in this land & lyk a way fairer to turnyn & tarry but a night? Wherefore shalt thou be as amazed man so benoumed for all his strength/ that he cannot save us? Lord thou art ours/ and we are called after thy name/ forsake us not then. Here spoke the Lord as concerning this people whose feet never ceased/ but delighted ever more to wander hither & thither with the lords so high displeasure/ that he would now call to mind their wickedness & viset their sins: thus (I say) said the Lord to me. desire nothing that good is for this people: For albeit they their selves fast/ yet shall I not hear their prayers. If they offer brent sacrifices & slay any other oblation for me/ yet will I not accept them. For I will waste them up with sword hunger & pestilence. Then answered I unto these words. Ah Lord God/ behold/ the Prophetis tell them/ ye shall not see the sword/ ye shall not suffer hunger/ but very peace & prosperity doubtless shall the Lord give you in this place. Then said the Lord to me. These Prophetis prophecy them lies in my name. I never commanded them I spoke not to them/ I never sent them: & yet they prophecy false visions/ blind prophecies and vain desaightis invented of their own hearts. Wherefore thus saith the Lord upon these Prophetis that thus prophecy in my name/ & yet are they not sent of me/ affirming nether sword nor hunger to come upon this land. such Prophets shallbe consumed with sword and hunger. And this people unto whom they preach/ shallbe cast out of Jerusalem/ slain with sword and hunger/ no man to bury them: neither shall they only suffer this/ but their wives/ sons/ & daughters to. For I shall powerforth their own mischief again upon them. And even thus shalt thou say to them: I shall weep day & night never ceasing because the daughter of my people shallbe destroyed with grievous affliction and made anende of with so great a plague. For go I forth into the field: lo/ all shallbe koverd with the slain with sword: enter I into the city/ I shall see all starven for hunger. But both Prophetis & priests shallbe led a way into unknown regions. Hast thou then (said I) utterly cast a way Juda/ & aborrest thou Zion? Or hast thou smitten us with out a cause/ so that there be left in us no hope of health/ looking for peace while no good cometh/ and for the time of cure/ and lo there cometh trouble more and more? no verily. For we (Lord) knolege our ungodliness/ and the wickedness of our fathers with which we have offended the. Be thou not angry for thy name's sake: Fall not from thy mercy/ forget not thy goodness/ remember the seat of thy glory/ and break not covenant made with us. Arthur any among the God's of the gentiles that can rain? Or do the clouds give us showers? But is it not thou rather Lord our God/ in whom we trust? It is thou verily which dost all these things.   

¶ The xu Chapter.  
ANd here the Lord interrupted my prayer saying. If Moses & Samuel should stand before me entreating/ yet would I not bepeased or at one with this people. Cast them out of my sight that they were once gone. And if they ask the whother shall we go? tell than: thus saith the Lord: Some to the sword/ some to hunger/ some into captivity. For I shall send among them four kind of plagues saith the Lord: the sword to slay them/ dogs to tear them in peses/ fowls of thair/ & beasts of th'earth to devour & destroy them/ & I shall make them to be vexed & evil entreated of all the kingdoms of th'earth/ & that namely for Manasses the son of Ezechias king of Juda/ even for these things which he committed in Jerusalem. Who then shall pity the oh Jerusalem? who shall lament thee? or who shall make intercession to purchase thy peace when thou shalt be fallen fro me & slyden back saith the Lord? I shall therefore stretch forth my hand against the & destroyethe. It shall grieve me to spare the. I shall wenowe the into the uttermost parts of th'earth. I shall waste & destroy my people because they would not return from their own ways. I shall increase me their widows above the sandis of the sea. I shall surely bring destroyers upon the mothers of their young children even at none days. I shall smite them down suddenly with enemy and fear. She shallbe childless that was fruitful/ she shallbe sorrowful & counfortles. The son shall fail her even at the mid day/ she being ashamed & sunken away for thought & heaviness. The rest of them I shall throw against their enemies sword/ saith the Lord. Ah lass that ever thou my mother conceyvedst me/ a man borne to be againsaid contraryed & chyden with of all men. Which although I neither lend nor borrow/ yet am I spoken evil by of all men. And the Lord answered me. Is it not I that direct the for the best? do not I help the in time of tribulation? When thou art in trouble even among thy utter enemies? Doth yern hurt yearn: or steel brought from the north? But your substance and treasure/ shall I give into their proye: not for any price: but for all your sins which ye have committed in all your costs. And I shall translate you with your enemy into a land which ye know not: For the fire which is kindled with my wrath shall burn you up. Than began I again to entreat/ saying: Thou Lord knowest clearly all things/ remember me & defend me: deliver me fro my pursuers: let thy mercy prevent thy wrath. For thou knowest that for thy sake I suffer this opprobry. I fill upon they words and devoured them: they were joy and gladness unto my heart. For it is thy name Lord God of powers that I call upon. I am not conversant with scorners to deride and to make a gaudy: but I dwell alone under the fere of thy hand/ for thou haste filled me with bitterness. Shall my heaviness last ever? and my uncurable wound shall it never be healed? Wilt thou toss me here and there like unstable and violent waters? Unto this my complaint the Lord answered. If thou turnest again I shall restore the to my service. And when thou shalt divide the precious from the vile/ thou shalt be as my noun mouth. They shallbe turned to thee/ but beware thou turnest not away fro me unto them. For I shall set the against this people like a strong brazen wall. They shall fight therefore against thee/ but they shall not win the.  
For I will be with the to save and deliver the saith the Lord. For I shall deliver the from the hand of the most mischievous and take the out of cruel hands.   

¶ The xvi Chapter.  
THe word of the Lord was given me on this manner saying. Take no wife nor bringeforth no children in this place. For thus saith the Lord upon the children borne in this place & upon the motherne that bring them forth and fathers that beget them in this land. They shall die a full bitter and painful death. They shall not be mourned for/ nor buried/ but lie still upon donghillis on theart. They shallbe consumed with sword and hunger/ & their carrions shallbe meat for the fowls of the air and beasts of the earth. Also thus spoke the Lord. Come not at their comen festis or at their comen moorningis and lamentations. For I have taken away my peace from this people saith the Lord/ ye both my favour & mercy. And both old and young shall die in this land and not be buried: there shall noman clip or shave his head for them. They shall not viseteche other in time of morning to coumfort than for the dead/ neither drink with each other of the cup of consolation to take away the heaviness for their father and mother. Come not in their feste houses to sitdown with them at meat and drink. For thus saith the Lord of powers/ the God of Israel. Lo I shall take from this place (your selves looking on & living) the voice of joy & mirth/ the voice of bridegroom & spouse. Wherefore when thou shalt show this people all these words/ and they shall ask the again: wherefore hath the Lord decreed all these great mischiefs to fall upon us? or what is our wickedness and sin that we committed against our Lord God? Thou shalt answer: Because your fathers have forsaken me (saith the Lord) and followed strange gods whom they worshipped & fill down before/ forsaking me & keeping not my law. And you have excedid thungodliness of your fathers in your own sins: For every one of you follow the devilish thoughts of his own shrewd heart & obeyeth me nothing at all. Wherefore I shall cast you out of this land into a land unknown both to you & your fathers: & there shall ye serve strange gods day and night: where I shall have no compassion upon you. Wherefore/ behold/ the days are come saith the Lord/ that it shall no more be said. The Lord liveth that brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt: but it shallbe said/ the Lord liveth which hath brought the children of Israel out of the north east land/ and from every region whother I casted them forth. For I shall bring them again unto their own land which I gave their fathers. Behold I shall send them many fishers/ saith the Lord/ which shall ketche them up: and after that I shall send many honters to count them out of every mountain and hill/ and also forth of every hole in the rocks. For my eyes are bent upon all their ways/ and they cannot be hid fro my face/ nor their sins koverd fro my sight. ye & that after I have fully rewarded them for their iniquytes & sins wherewith they have defiled my land/ that is to say/ for their abominable stinking Idols wherewith they replenesshed my heritage. Oh Lord my strength/ my might/ & my refuge in time of tribulation/ yet shall the gentiles come to the from the costs of the earth saying. surely our fathers cleaved to lies/ full vain are Idols/ and no profit is there in them. For should a man make him God's of them whom it is impossible to be God's? Wherefore/ see I shall teach them now again saith the Lord: & make my power & strength known unto them/ so that they shall know that my name is 
* the Lord.  Jehovah.   

¶ The xvii Chapter.  
YOur sin (o tribe of Juda) must be written with a pen of iron/ & graven yn with an Adamantyne klaye into the table of your heart/ & into the corners of your altar's/ that your children should remembyr your altar's/ wodis/ and thick trees/ hill tops/ mountains and fields. Wherefore I shall layeforthe all your substance & treasure to be a proye for your open crimes committed in hillis at images whom ye worshipped throughout all your region. And ye shall also be blotted out of your heritage which I gave you. And I shall cast you under the bondage of your enemies in an unknown land: for ye have put fire unto my fury which shall burn evermore. These thing is saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man/ & maketh man his arm/ whose heart goeth from the Lord. For he shallbe like the fern that groweth in the desert/ never to see the goodness to come/ but shall abide upon the dry desert/ even the salt barren ground inhabitable. But blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord/ whose hope is the Lord. 
Psal. i  For he shallbe like a tree planted by the waters putting down her roots to draw up moistness: which tree may abide the heat when it cometh/ and shall flowresshe with green leaves: & when the drought shall dryup and waste all other fruits/ yet this tree shall not fade nor cease from bringing forth her fruit.  
Of all things living/ man hath the most disceaightful heart unable to be serehed: who then shall know it? even I the lord both ensercher of heart & espyerout of reins to reward every man after his own ways and according to the fruit of his counsels. He maketh him a nest/ but hatcheth no eggs that gatherth goodis wrongfully. In the middis of his life he must leave them/ and last of all be found a fool. But thou Lord/ who'll seat is most noblest/ highest and aunciaunt: which dwellest in the place of our holy rest/ thou art the hope of Israel. All that forsake thee/ are confounded. All bakflyders from thee/ are written in the earth & not in heaven. For they sorsake the Lord/ even the well of everlasting waters. heal me Lord/ & I shallbe holl. Save me Lord/ & I shallbe self: for thou art my praise. For lo/ these men say unto me. Where is the word of the Lord? let it comeforth (I pray thee) Whiles I myself was now leading the flock in thy paths/ I constrained noman violently/ nor yet coveted I any man's death as thou well knowest. But my words were right in thy sight oh lord. Be not fearful unto me/ for thou art he in whom I hope when any perelis present. Let my pursuers be confounded/ & let not me be confounded. Let them be afraid & not me be afraid. Thou shalt bring a troublous time upon them/ & destroy them with a great destruction. furthermore/ thus said the Lord unto me. Go & stand in the gate of the people/ for whose cause the kings of Juda come yn & out/ & in all the gatis of Jerusalem/ saying unto them. Hear the word of the Lord ye kings of Juda/ with all Juda & all the citizens of Jerusalem which pass thorough these gatis. Thus commandeth the Lord. Take heed to yourselves lest ye take up your burdens in the Sabbat day/ to bring them in thorough these gatis. Nether karye ye out of your houses any burdens in the Sabbat day. Nor do you any work/ but sauntifye the Sabbat day as I commanded your fathers albeit they obeyed me not nor gave ear: but rather hardened their stiff necks to th'intent they would not be reclaimed & receive my discipline. But you/ if ye will hearme (saith the Lord) & not carry in your burdens thorough the gatis of this city in the Sabbat day doing in it no work/ than shall the kings & princes of this city/ which shall sit upon the seat of David/ go thorough these gatis karyed in charietis & upon horse/ both they & their princes/ & all Juda with their citizens shall pass thorough them/ & this city shall abide for ever. And men shall come from the cities of Juda/ and from the field of Jerusalem/ and the land of Benjamin from the plains and mountains: & from the wilderness bringing brent sacrifices and beasts slain to be offered up/ & incense/ offering up praise and thanks in the house of the Lord. But if ye obey me not/ I shall sanctify the sabbat day/ so that ye shall take up no burden to bring it in thorough these gatis of Jerusalem in the Sabbat day. I shall set the gatis on fire/ which shall devour the houses of Jerusalem/ so that it may not be 〈◊〉.   

¶ The xviii Chapter.  
THe sermon of the Lord showed unto jeremy/ saying: Arise & go down into the potter's house: that I might there certify the more of my mind. And when I came unto the potter's house: I found him making his work upon a wheel. And that vessel which he ofayned out of clay broke under the hands of this potter: which then (his mind changed) made another vessel thereof as it seemed him best for his purpose. And here than the Lord spoke unto me. May not Jeven as this potter/ do unto you (o house of Israel) saith the Lord? Lo/ ye be in my hand oh house of Israel/ even as the clay is in the hand of the potter. Anon as I have determined to pluck up by the roots/ to destroy & to cut away any nation or kingdom/ and if that same nation will return from their malice/ upon which I began now to take my counsel: by and by it repenteth me of the plague which I determined to cast upon them. And again/ and as I am purposed to build and to plant any nation or kingdom: & the same folk will do evil in my sight/ and not hear my voice/ by and by it repenteth me of that goodness whereby I purposed to edify and to increase them. Wherefore (I pray thee) tell all Juda and every citizen of Jerusalem. Thus saith the Lord. Behold I am devising a plague and will conspire against you: Turn ye therefore every man from his own evil ways/ & both do & think well. But here shall they say▪ Let these words pass/ for as for us/ we will walk after our own mind/ and we will every man do after the lust of our own heart. Wherefore thus said the Lord. inquire (I pray ye) among the gentiles if any man hath committed any such like abominations as hath Israel the virgin done/ and that so grievously. May the snow that lieth melting upon the rocks of Libanus fail the feldis? Or the veins of springs even from the bottom be so taken away that they flow no more forth to water and to make plenteous? And yet my people hath forgotten me: In somich that they burn & offer unto vain Idols: & in following their own ways ar: fwarued and wandered from the lawful comen way: & are gone a way by an untrodden private path. For the which thing/ they have given up their land into a perpetual desolation and outehissinge. So that every man passing thorough/ may be woundresly astoned/ and shake his head. I shall therefore scatter them in the sight of their enemies with a contrary skorching este wind. And when their destruction is at hand/ I shall turn my back to them/ and not my face. And than they said: Come and let us go and conspire against jeremy. We be the priests to whom the law is committed that it perish not.  
And ye be the elders endued with wisdom. We be the Prophets that never are without the word of the Lord. Let us (I say) than go and kutoute his tongue/ that we be no more constrained to hear his sermons. Attend unto me (Oh Lord) and hear the noise of my adversaries. Is not evil for good reqcquyted me while they dig this pit for me? Remember how. I stood before the to speak the best for them/ and to turn thy wrath from them. Now therefore betake their children into hunger/ and cast them against the violence of sword. Let their wives be childless and housbandlesse/ their housbandis put to death/ and the youngmen slain with sword in battle. Let out cries arise from their houses/ thieves breaking yn upon them unwares: For they have digged a pit to take me/ and laid a privy snare for my feet. But thou know'st all their counsel bent to slay me. Be not therefore merciful to their mischief/ neither suffer thou their sins to be puttoute of thy sight: but let them fall guilty convict before the. These things shalt thou do to them in time of thy furious indignation.   

¶ The xix Chapter.  
ALso thus said the Lord to jeremy. Go and buy the an earthen pitsherde: and bring forth the elders of the people and of the priests into the vale of 
* Tophet Gehena all one.  Ben hinnon which is without the gate where all the potsherdis be scattered And preach me there these sermons which I shall tell the. Thus (I say) thou shalt preach. Hear the word of the Lord ye rulers of Juda and citizens of Jerusalem. These things commandeth the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold I shall bring a scourge and affliction upon this place: which who soever heareth/ a none his ears shall glow: and that even because they have forsaken me/ & defiled this place offering their brent sacrifices unto strange God's: whom neither they theirselues/ nor their fathers know/ nor yet the kings of Juda. And have filled this place with the blood of innocentis. For they bylte Baal an altar to burn their children into asacrifice for Baal. Which thing as for me/ I never commanded nor spoke of/ nor never thought it. Wherefore/ behold/ the time shall come (saith the Lord) that this place be no more called Thopheth or vale of Benhinnon/ but the vale of slaughter. For I shall slay the senators of Juda and Jerusalem in this place and smite them down with sword in the sight of their emnes which seek their life. And I shall give their carrions meat to the fowls of the air & bestis of the earth. Also I shall make this city desolate and hilled at: so that every man that passeth by it/ may be a ston & hiss upon her great plague. And I shall cause them to eat their own childer's' flesh: ye/ and one shall eat another in the besiege & distress wherein their emnes with sich as seek their lives shall hold them hard/ and thou shalt all to break this pitsherd before these men which shallbe there present with thee/ saying unto them. Thus saith the Lord of powers. Even thus shall I alto break and destroy this people & city/ like as a potter breaketh a vessel which can never more be repayrede. And in Thopheth shall they be buried/ because they have no nother place to bury them in. Also thus shall I do to this place & to the inhabitors thereof saith the Lord/ for I shall make the city like Thophet. For the houses of Jerusalem/ & the houses of the kings of Juda are polluted even as is this place Thophet/ because that all the houses in whose parlours they burned incense unto all the companey of the stars & planetis were pollated/ & they with out any stop offered unto strange God's. after this/ jeremy came from Thophet whither the Lord had sent him to prophecy and preach: and stood in the fore court of the temple saying unto all the people. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold I shall bring upon this city/ & upon all her tow●es about/ every plague which I have decreed to fall upon it: be cause they have so hardened their proud necks/ that they would not obey my monitions   

¶ The twenty Chapter.  
THan Pashur the Priest/ son of Immery/ overmost in the house of the Lord: when he heard Jeremy so constantly preaching these things: he smitte Jeremy the Prophet/ and cast him bound into the stocks that stood in the over gate of Benjamin which was in the house of the Lord. And the day following Pashur brought forth jeremy out of the stocks. And Jeremy said unto him. The Lord shall no no more callthy name 
* Pas●ur/ is craft glori●use up lymiter. Pa●●ur/ is ●●ne shri●●ige in 〈◊〉 a kor●●er for ●●are  Pashur/ but Magur every where. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I shall make the fearful/ both to thy noun self/ and also to all thy friends which shall fall under the sword of their enmes before thy face. And I shall give up all Juda into the power of the king of Babylon/ which shall kary a way captive to Babylon part of them: & part shall he slay with sword. Also likewise shall I give up all the riches of this city: all the noble acts and victorious labours/ all the precious iwells & treasure of the kings of Juda into the handis of their enemies/ which shall both rob them & kary them captive to Babylon. And even thou Pashur with all thy household shalt be ledawaye captive to Babylon: and there shalt thou die and be buried/ both thou and all that set any thing by thee/ unto whom thou prechedst lies. Lord thou breakest me/ but thou counfortest me again & makest me strong. I am jested upon & scorned every day of every man/ because that now I have preached a long time/ inveinge against their wicked violence & tyranny/ crying into their ears this desolation. Whereupon they upbraided me of the word of the Lord/ and turned it into my perpetual derision. Wherefore I thought many times/ never more to mind it/ nor to preach in thy name. But yet the word wrought in my heart and in my bones like a kindled fire closed yn/ which when I laboured to repress/ it passed my power/ ye although yet I heard the heinous rebukis of many and suffered unjust vexations even of my noun singler acquaintance/ evermore ready to fear me saying: Let him be taken/ broughtforth/ accused and trapped: so that if thus peraventure (he cooled and broken) and we seeming to prevail against him/ might be avenged on him. But the Lord stood by me like a valiant knight/ which fight for me/ my pursuers fill away having no power over me. They were shamefully confounded for that they dealt foolishly: whereupon they fill into perpetual obprobrye. Thou therefore Lord of powers/ the just trier and sercheroute of the truth/ unto whom heart & reins are not hid: let me see vengeance taken on them: for unto the I commit my cause. Sing ye to the Lord & praise him: for he hath delivered the life of the poor from the cruel hand of the violent. Cursed be the day that I was borne yn: the day that my mother brought me forth be never more spokenof. Cursed be the man that first brought glad tydingis to my father/ saying: Thou hast a man child. The same thing mought chance to that man/ which chanced once upon the cities (which the Lord with out any stop subverted hearing their pestilent fame with out cease) because I was not killed as soon as I was borne: 
Sodo●e and Gomer.  or that my mother was not made my grave/ my conception holden back in her for ever. Wherefore was I brought forth of my mother's womb? Verily/ because I should feel both labour & sorrow & so leadforth my life in obprobrye   

¶ The xxi Chapter.  
THe sermone of the Lord showed unto jeremy/ when Zedechias sent unto him pashur the son of Melchre and Zephony the Priest/ son of Maasy with this manner of commandment saying: Ask counsel of the Lord (we pray thee) as touching us (for Nabuchadrezar king of Babylon laith siege unto us) whither god peradventure will do with us after his marvelous power/ and so turn this king from us. Then Jeremy said unto them. Thus shall ye answer Zedechye. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Behold I shall wring the weapons out of your hands/ which ye hold to fight against the king of Babylon & the Chaldeis fight against you without at the walls: & I shall bring your weapens altogether into the middis of this city/ and I myself shall fight against you with a stretched-forth hand and strong arm/ with indignation fury and great wrath/ and shall smite the inhabitors of this city/ so that both man & beast shall die of a great pestilence. And after this/ saith the Lord/ I shall give up Zedechye king of Juda/ both his servants and the people/ with the residue of this city/ whom pestilence/ sword/ and hunger have left/ into the power of Nabuchadrezar king of Babylon/ into the handis of their enemies/ even into the hands of them that thirst for their life/ which shall smite them with the edge of sword/ without alcompassion/ neither sparing/ nor having any mercy on them. And unto this people thou shalt say. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I shall setforth before you the way of life and death. Whoso ever abideth in this city shall die with sword or hunger or pestilence: but he that will goforthe to go to the Chaldees that besiege you/ shall save himself/ and his life shall be unto him like a lukkely gotten proye. For I have bent my face against this city to scourge it/ and not to do it good/ saith the Lord: that it might be given up into the power of the king of Babylon to be brent. Also thou shalt say to the kings house of Juda. Hear the word of the Lord ye house of David for thus saith the Lord: Ministre rightwiseness without any delay and deliver the oppressed & spoiled from the power of the violent vexer before my fury comeforthe like fire to burn/ so that noman may quench it/ for your mischievous studies. Behold me here at hand even among you which dwell here & there in wales in rocks/ & plains saith the Lord/ which say who shall make us afraid? Or who can come to our holdiss? But I shall viset you according to the merits of your study saith the Lord/ and kindel a fire throughout your wodis to devour all things round about you.   

¶ The xxii Chapter.  
furthermore thus spoke the Lord. Go thy ways down into the kings house of Juda: & there speak this sermone saying: Hear the word of the Lord o king of Juda which sittest in the seat of David. Hear (I say) both thou/ thy servants & people which jest so proudly thorough these gatis. Thus commandeth the Lord. Observe equity and righteousness/ & avenge the spoiled from the power of the wrong doer. The stranger/ the fatherless/ and wedewe/ see thou molest not/ hurt/ nor rob: neither shed ye innocent blood in this place. And if ye observe these things constantly: the kings which shall sit in the seat of David/ shall go thorough the gates of this house/ and be carried in charyets and upon horse/ both they/ their servants/ and their people. But if thou observest not these precepts: I swear by my nownselfe (saith the Lord) that this house shallbe desolate. For even thus hath the Lord spoken upon the house of Juda. Thou art the head even as is Galaad in Libano: but if I bring not the & thy cities into a desert/ that they be not inhabited. 
* never trust me. the form of his oath in the scripture.  For I shall appoint forth/ & send into the a destroyer with is weapons to cutdowne thy chosen cedars & cast them into the fire. And when any other nation shall pass forby this city: one shall say to another: wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great cite● Than it shallbe answered: even because they forsook & despised the covenant of their lord God/ and fildowne & worshipped strange God's. Weep not for the dead/ nor mourn yet not for him: but weep sore for him now going a way: For this man shall never come again/ nor yet see his own native land. For thus saith the Lord upon Sellum 
* otherwise called Joachas now led captyvein to Egypt  the son of Josias king of Juda reigning after Josias his father. He that is goneforth of this region/ shall nevermore return. For he shall die in the same place/ into which he is led captive & nevermore see this land. Woe be to him that buildeth his house by injury and wrong & setteth up his parlours and chambers by fraud and violence/ which maketh his own neighbour to serve him for nought/ not giving him his reward for his labour. Thus thinketh he with himself. I will build me a large house & costly chaumbres. He cutteth him forth windows/ beams and grounsels of cedar & painteth them with read. Thinkest thou now to reign/ when with thy cedre buyldingis thou provokest me to envy and to be avenged? Did not thy father in his true and just labour eat & drink & prospered well? Whiles he avenged the cause of the poor oppressed/ he prospered well: which thing/ whereof else sh●ld it happen/ but for the knowledge of me/ saith the Lord? But thy eyes and thy heart are all together set upon covetousness/ to spillinnocent blood/ to do injury and extorsion. Wherefore thus saith the Lord upon Joakim son of Josias king of Juda. They shall not lament & mourn him with these wont lementable words. Ah my brother/ oh my sister/ neither with these/ Ah Lord/ oh noble king. But he shallbe buried like anasse/ even stinking cast with out the gatis of Jerusalem. Climb up into Libanus oh virgin and daughter Zion/ and cry. In Basan also let thy voice be herd/ and cry out from all the high ways: for all thy 
* strange gods & images.  lovers are perished. These things I gave the warning of/ when thou waste yet in wealthy prosperity. But thou answerdst me saying. I will not hear: this verily was thy manner even from thy youth/ that thou wouldest not obey my voice. All thy pastors shall be ruled and blown away of the wind/ and thy lovers shallbe carried away into captivity: and than verily thou shalt be shamed and confounded for thy great wickedness and malice/ which yet dwellest in Libano & nestelest in the cedars. How great shall thy sorrowful sighs be when this ruin shall fall upon the like pangs upon the traveler of child? 
Jechonias is called Joachin.  As verily as I live (saith the Lord) though Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda be the signet which I wear on my right hand: yet shall I pluk him of from hence: & betake the into the handis of them that seek thy life/ into the power of them whose face thou fearest/ evem into the hand of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ & into the handis of the Caldes. And shall translate the and thy mother that bore the into a strange land/ where ye were not borne/ but ye shall die in it. And into this land/ whither ye shall so sore desire to return/ shall ye never come again. This man Jechonias/ shallbe plucked & torn in peses like a contemptible graven image/ which for all his costly apparel/ yet pleaseth he noman wherefore he shallbe baneshed/ both he & his seed/ & casteforth into an unknown land. But oh earth/ earth/ earth: hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord. Bill me this man barren to be among the dishereted outelawes/ for he shall never more prosper in all his life: there shall none of his seed prosper/ to sit 
* Freely.  in the seat royal of David and to reign 
* Freely  in Juda.   

¶ The xxiii Chapter.  
UVo be the herdsmen that destroy and scatter my flock/ saith the Lord. Wherefore this commandment sendeth the Lord God of Israel unto the herdsmen that should govern my people. ye destroy and thrust out my flock/ and ye look not upon them. Wherefore I shall look upon your wicked counsels & studies (saith the Lord) and gather the 
* the gentiles.  residue of my flock from all the parts into which I had cast themforth/ and restore them unto my pasture/ that they may grow and be increased. I shall set herdsmen over them which shall feed them. They shall no more be afraid nor dread/ for they shall not perish/ saith the Lord. Behold the time shall come saith the Lord/ that I will steer up that righteous. Bud or branch of David to reign and to execute his office prudently in restoring equity and rightwiseness in the earth.  
In his days Juda shallbe saved and Israel shall dwell sure. And this is the name that men shall call him by/ even the Lord/ our rightwiseness. Wherefore/ lo the time shall come saith the Lord/ that men shall no more swear. As verily as the Lord liveth which led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypte/ but as verily as the Lord liveth which hath ledforth and brought again the seed of the house of Israel from the north este land: and from all the regions into which I had dispersed them/ to dwell in their own land. Woe be to the Prophetis also. My heart is alto broken/ all my bones are shyured insunder. I am like a drunken man troubled with wine: for fear of the Lord and his holy word. For th'earth is full of adulterers/ wherefore it is now come/ that she being a cursed & aborred/ shall wail: & her pleasant feldis of the desert shallbe withered up: For the living of these men is evil/ & their power contrary to the holy word. Both Prophet and Priest are polluted and be filthy hypocrites/ and their malicious wickedness is espied even in my house saith the lord. Wherefore their way shallbe slybery/ and full of stumbling stones in darkness at which they shall stumble and fall: for I shall bring a plague upon them/ even the day of their visitation/ saith the Lord. The same foleshnes which I saw among the Prophetis of samary whereby they preached for Baalis profit & decyved my people of Israel: I have now seen also among the prophetis of Jerusalem/ even filthy stinking adultery and licentious liberty to lie. They flatter and join handis with the most mischievous men/ to th'intent that every one of them should never return from their wickedness They all with their citizens are unto me like Sodom & the citizens of Gomorre. Wherefore thus saith the Lord of powers upon the Prophetis. Behold I shall feed them with wormwood and give these to drink water mingled with gall. For out of the Prophetis of Jerusalem are brokenforth the contagious spots of all hypocrisy into all the world. Wherefore thus warneth the Lord of powers. See that ye listen not unto the words of these preachers that preach unto you: for they deceive you/ speaking the vision of their own hearts/ and nothing of the mouth of the Lord. They tell them boldly which depyse me. The Lord saith we shall have prosperous peace: and they tell all them that walk after the lusts of their own hearts. There shall no plague come upon you: for who stood in the counsel of the Lord to hear and know his mind? Behold/ the whirlwind of the Lord/ that is to say his wrath shall comeforthe and turn herself with great violence into the headis of the ungodly: Nether shall the lords wrath be returned until he hath acompleshed and finesshed the set purpose of his heart. But in time to come ye shall understand his counsel. I sent not these Prophetis (saith the Lord) and yet they run. I said nothing to them▪ and yet they preach and prophecy. But had they stood in 
* high counsels & ●y wor●●s: & ●ot mē●s.  my counsel and heard my words: they had converted my people from their evil ways and evil thoughts. Am I god which may see but things only at hand saith the Lord/ and not things all afar? May any man hide himself so privily that I see him not saith the Lord? Do not I fulfil both heaven and earth saith the Lord? I have herd verily what manner things the 
* Pre●hers.  Prophetis say: which preach lies under the cloak of my name saying. I dreamed I dreamed. How long shall this steke in the Prophetis hearts to preach lies? & to preach the desaight of their own minds? whose counsel is bent upon this even to deceive my people with their dreams which they tell every man to draw my name out of memory/ as their fathers forgot my name by process of time bringingin 
* The ●ope with 〈◊〉 his ●dols  Baal. That Prophet which hath seen a dream/ will preach but a dream. But he unto whom my word is showed/ will speak my word even of faith. What shall chaff do with wheat saith the Lord? Is not my word like fire saith the Lord/ and like a twybit cleaving the rock of stone? wherefore behold me now against the Prophetis saith the Lord: which steal my word from whom they list. Behold me now against the Prophetis saith the Lord: which take upon their tongues to say/ Thus saith the Lord. Behold me now against the prophetis/ even against their lying dreams saith the Lord: & which dreams yet dare they mind & speak/ to deceive my people with their lies & feigned miracles: whom I never sent/ nor commanded them any thing: which prophetis shallbe full great hurt unto this people/ saith the Lord. When this people/ or prophet/ or priest/ shall ask the saying/ what manner thing is the burden of the Lord? Thou shalt say unto these. What? Askeyeme of the burden? Even yourselves be the burden. Wherefore I shall cast you of/ saith the lord. And I shall viset both prophet priest and the people which use this word/ the burden of the Lord. I shall viset both him and his house. Also thus shall ye say to each other. What thing answerth the Lord/ or what commandethe the Lord? but as for the burden of the Lord/ shall ye name no more. For every man's own word must be his burden/ because he hath perverted the words of the living god/ even of the Lord of powers which is our god. Thus shall every man say unto their Prophetis. What hath the Lord answered thee? or what saith the Lord? But as for the burden of the Lord/ ye shall not once name it. Wherefore thus spoke the Lord. Because ye have taken into an use this word. The burden of the Lord/ albeit I sent unto you/ forbidding to once say the burden of the Lord: behold I shall surely reckon you to be even my burden. But I shall cast you of/ with this cite also/ which I gave you and your fathers. I shall cast you out of my sight/ and lad you with perpetual obprobrie & shame which shall never be forgotten.   

¶ The xxiiii Chapter.  
THe Lord showed me this vision. Lo/ theridamas stood two panyers full of figs before the temple of the Lord after that Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon had led away captive Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda/ the princes of Juda/ smiths and craftsmen from Jerusalem: and had brought them to Babylon. The one pannier contained very good figs/ even siche as are wont to be first ripe/ and the other pannier contained as evil figs which might not be eaten forbitternes. Than the Lord spoke unto me.  
What sayest thou I eremy? And I answered: Figs do I see/ of which some be very good: and some be as bad/ so that noman may eat these. again/ The word of the Lord came to me on this manner. Thus saith the Lord god of Israel. As thou knowest the good figs/ even so shall I know the men translated from Juda/ whom I sent forth from this place into the land of Chalde/ for their profit: and set my eyes upon them for the best. For I shall bring them again unto this land: and edify them & not destroy them I shall root them/ and not pluck them up. And I shall give them an heart to know me/ that I am the Lord. They shall be my people/ and I their god: for they shall turn to me with all their hearts. And as thou know'st the evil figs/ which for their sowernes may not be eaten: even so saith the Lord shall I set Zedechias the king of Juda/ her ruler's/ & the rest that remain in this land/ & them also that dwell in Egypte: I shall set them (I say) to be vexed and scourged in every region of the earth/ to be had in obprobrye/ into a proverb/ into a fable and shame in every place whither I shall scatter them. And I shall send among them sword/ hunger/ pestilence/ till I have consumed them from the land/ which I gave them and their fathers.   

¶ The argument of this Chap.  
A●ermone given unto Jeremy upon all the people of Juda: the fourth year of Joachim the son of Josias king of Juda: which was the first yet of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon. Which sermon Jeremy the Prophet preached unto all the people of Juda/ and before all the citizens of Jerusalem saying on this manner.  
¶ The xxv Chapitre.  
FRom the thirtente year of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda unto this day/ which is now xxiii year/ the word of the Lord was committed unto me: which I spoke unto you rising in time/ and constantly warning you/ but ye obeyed it not. Albeit the Lord hath sent unto you all his seruantis/ even his Prophets early rising and swiftly sending: yet ye obeyed not/ nor once inclined your ears to listen. Thus verily he said. Turn ye again every man from his own evil way/ and fro your evil thoughtis/ and ye shall inhabit the land which the Lord gave you and your fathers from age to age. And go not your ways after strange God's to serve them and to fall down before them: Anger me not with the works of your own handis: and I shall not scourge you. But ye heard me not saith the Lord: for ye angered me with the works of your handis/ but not unpunished. Wherefore thus said the Lord of powers. Because ye heard not my words/ therefore behold/ I shall send and call upon you all the nations of the north saith the Lord: & even that same Nebuchadrezer also king of Babylon my servant/ and shall bring them upon this land/ & upon the inhabitors thereof/ and upon all these nations round a bout/ and shall utterly destroy them. I shall bring them into a desert/ into an hissing and perpetual desolation. And I shall take from them the voice of gladness and solace/ the voice of the bridegroom and spouse/ the voice of men ointed and hanged full of sweet & fresh flowers to bear the lightis. And all this land shallbe turned into a desert & wilderness. And they shall serve the foresaid nations and the king of Babylon lxx years. And when these lxx. years be fulfilled: I shall also viset the wickedness of that king of Babylon and of his people saith the Lord/ and that same land also of the Caldeis/ and bring them together into a perpetual wilderness. And I shall bring upon that land all my words which I have decreed against it/ even all that be written in this book which Jeremy prophesied against all the gentiles. For even they to shallbe bond servants to many nations and great kings. For I shall reward them after their sins and works of their own handis. Thus therefore spoke the Lord God of Israel unto me. Take this cup of the wine of wrath of my hand: that thou mayst give to drink thereof all nations unto whom I shall send thee/ which once drunken/ might be plucked into fury and madness/ the sword coming upon/ which I shall send among them. Than took I the cup of the Lordis hand to give drink to all the nations unto whom the Lord sent me. But first of all I gave even Jerusalem herself and the cities of Juda/ her kings & princes to drink thereof/ to bring them into a desert and wilderness/ into an hissing & execrable curse/ even as we see unto this day ye I gave all nations indifferently to drink thereof/ as Pharaoh king of Egypte/ his seruantis and his rulers with all his people/ all the kings of Ausitidis/ all the kings of the land of the Palestines. Ascalon/ Gazam/ Accaronen with all the left cities of Aschote/ the Idumes/ Moabites and the sons of Ammon/ all the kings of Tyri and Sidon/ the kings of the islands beyende the sea/ Dedan/ Thema/ Buz/ and the clipped headid Ismasitis. All the kings of Araby/ all the kings one with another that dwell in the desert/ all the kings of Zimri/ all the kings of Elam/ all the kings of Mede/ all the kings of the north este both nigh and far every one with his borderer/ and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the round world. And let king Sesach drink with them to. And thou shalt say unto them. This is the Lord of powers even the God of Israel his pleasure and commandment: Drink and be drunken/ run together that ye might fall never to rise again/ ye and that by the sword which I shall send among you. And if they refuse to take the cup of thy hand to drink: than shalt thou say unto them. Thus threateneth you the Lord of powers. ye shall drink it surely. For so I begin to scourge the cite named after my noun name: and shall I let you than escape unpuneshed? Verily ye shall not go quite. For I now call for a sword to come upon all the inhabitors of th'earth saith the Lord of powers. Wherefore see that thou preach them all these sermons: and tell them. The Lord shall thunder from above/ and shall cry a loud from his holy habitation. He shall thunder with great noise from his kings haul. The loud noise like the grape gatherers shall come before upon all thin habitours of th'earth: and the sown shallbe brought unto the uttermost costs of th'earth. For the Lord will sit in judgement upon the nations & declare himself the judge of all manner men living to betake the ungodly unto the sword/ saith the Lord. For thus saith the Lord of powers. Behold/ a miserable calamity shall go thorough the gentiles one after another: and a great whirlwind shallbe stired up from diverse costs of th'earth/ & the sword shall krepe thorough with slaughter in that day from one cost of th'earth to the t'other. Noman shallbe mourned for none gatherde up/ noman buried: but like dung shall they lie upon the face of th'earth. Howl out oh ye pastors & cry/ bespriene yourself with ashes oh ye rams & leaders of the flock/ for the time of your slaughter & down tredinge is fulfilled: & ye shall faldowne together like costly byral vessels made to contain daintes. There shallbe no way to i'll for the pastors/ for the rams of the flock shall not escape. Than shall the pastors cry out/ & the rams of the flock shall howl. For the Lord shall waste & consume their pastures. And their best fields shall lie dead with out noise/ for the fury of the Lordis wrath. They shall forsake their folds weeping and roaring like lions. For their land shallbe desolate for his indignation and furious wrath.   

¶ The xxvi Chapter.  
IN the begining of the reign of Joachim/ son of Josias king of Juda/ this word was showed of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord: stand in the fore court of the temple/ and speak unto all the cities of Juda which come to the house of the Lord to do their worship. Speke all the sermons which I command the. And be aware thou takest not away one word/ that if thus peradventure yet they may obey and return every man from his own wicked way that it might for think me of the plagues which I had ordained for them for their own malicious minds & counsels. And thou shalt say (I tell thee) unto them. Thus saith the Lord: If ye obey me not to walk in my laws which I have given you/ hearing the sermons of my servants the Prophetis whom I send unto you/ early rising & yet still sending. If you (I say) obey not: I shall make this same house like unto Sylo: and even thissame cite shall I cast into a contumelious curse to be abhorred of all the nations of the earth. And the priests and levites with all the people heard Jeremy preaching these sermons in the house of the Lord. Wherefore when Jeremy had made an end of all that the Lord commanded him to preach unto the people: the priests/ Prophetis and all the people did set hold upon him and took him saying. Thou must die. Wherefore prechedst thou as though the Lord had commanded thee/ that it should happen unto this house as it did once to Sylo/ and that this cite should be destroyed that noman should inhabit it? And when all the people were gathered together in the temple about jeremy/ the rumour of this matter came unto the chief rulers of Juda/ which a non camup from the kings palace unto the house of the Lord: & sat down together before the new door of the temple. Than came the priests and Prophetis unto the rulers and to all the people saying these words This man is guilty death/ for he preached against this cite/ as he ye have herd with your ears. Than said jeremy unto all the rulers & to all the people/ these words. The Lord sent me to preach against this house and this city all that ye have herd. Now therefore amend your living & your thoughtis/ and obey the voice of your Lord God: and than it shall forethink the Lord God of thafflictionaffliction/ which he hath decreed against you. And as for me/ lo I am in your handis/ do with me what seemeth to you right & good. But yet this one thing I assuer you/ that if ye kill me/ ye shall make yourselves/ this cite/ and the citizens thereof guilty my innocent blood. For this I ensure you: the Lord hath sent me to you to preach into your ears all these sermons. Than said the Princes and all the people unto the priests and Prophetis: ye can find no cause of death in this man/ sith he preached unto us in the name/ of our Lord. Also the elders of the land rose up together saying unto the hole company of the people on this manner. Micheas Morastith/ was a Prophet in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and this Micheas said to all the folk of Juda. Thus saith the Lord of powers. Zion shallbe ploughed up like a field: and Jerusalem shallbe turned into an heap of stones: And the hill where the house of the Lord standeth into an high wood. And yet notwithstanding this sermone/ did nether Ezechias king of Juda nor yet the comen people go once about to slay him? 
This precedent the priests brouht forthagenst Jeremy nothing considering that Urias was unjustly slain.  But did they not rather reverently fear the Lord/ and prayed him to turn a way his wrath? Where upon it forthinked him of the plague which he had decreed upon them. And shall we now commit so great a crime against ourselves? But yet was there another that preached constantly in the name of the Lord/ called Urias' the son of Semee of Cariathiearim which preached against this cite and land in all points even after the sermons of jeremy: And king Joachim with all the great men and rulers heard his sermons: where upon the king sought to kill him. But when Urias heard of it/ he feared and fled into Egypte. Then sent king Joachim officers into Egypte as Elnathan the son of Achbor with certain sergeants with him which led Urias out of Egypte/ and brought him to king Joachim/ which slew him with his sword/ and cast his carcase into the comen place of other malefactors. But as for jeremy is helped of Ahikam the son of Saphan/ that he be not given into the handis of the people to be slain. These things were done of the Lord/ to jeremy/ in the beginning of the reign of Joachim son of Josias king of Juda.   

¶ The Argument of this Chapter following.  
¶ The Lord decreid firmly to subdwe all the kingdoms of the este/ to thonelyand head kingdom of Babylon. And declareth also that the Prophetis which prophesied all things to be restored/ and every man to come home again within two year: were but liars.  
¶ The xxvii Chapter.  
Thus spoke the Lord unto me. Make the kolers and chains fet for thy neck/ & send them to the king of Edom/ to the king of Moab/ to the king of the children of Ammon/ to the king of tire/ to the king of Zidon/ & that by thambassadors that be now come to Jerusalem to Zedechias king of Juda/ commanding them to bear these messages unto their masters. Thus commandeth you the Lord of powers and God of Israel/ that ye tell your masters thus. I am he that made the earth/ man and beast which are upon the face of the earth thorough my great pour and forthstretched arm: & given it unto him whom it hath pleased me. And now shall I give up all these regions into the power of my servant Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon. I shall give him also the beasts of the field to do him service: And all nations shall serve him/ and his son & his nephew. Many nations and great kings shall serve him (I say) until the 
* time of destruction  time also of the same land be come to. And that nation or kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezer king of Babylon/ nor will not put their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon/ I shall viset even the same nation with sword hunger & pestilence until I have consumed them in his handis saith the Lord. Wherefore see that ye hear not your prophets/ dyvines/ dream sayers/ sorcerers/ charmers/ which tell you: ye shall not serve the king of Babylon. For they preach you lies/ to send you a way far from your land: and that I should expel you that ye might perish. But the nation that will put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him: them shall I leave still upon their own land/ saith the Lord: and they shall replenisshe it and inhabit it/ ye and even unto Zedechias king of Juda have I told the same thing in every point saying. Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon/ and serve him and his people/ that all yovers might be self. Wherefore shuldeye be slain/ both thou and thy people with sword/ hunger/ and pestilence? as the Lord hath decreed it upon what so ever nation it be/ that refuseth to serve the king of Babylon. And yet I tell you again. Hear not the sermons of the Prophetis preaching and saying unto you. Serve not the king of Babylon: for they preach you but a lie. Nether did I send them/ saith the Lord/ although they be so bold to preach lies in my name/ that I should the sooner cast you forth to perish with these men that thus preach unto you. Also I spoke unto the preistis & to all this people thus. This commandeth the Lord. Hear not the words of the prophetis preaching you these things. Behold/ the Iwel●s of the house of the Lord shallbe brought again shortly from Babylon: For thy preach you but a lie/ hear them not/ but serve the king of Babylon that ye may abide self. Wherefore should this cite be brought into a wilderness? And if they will nediss be proved true Prophetis & the word of the Lord to be committed unto them: let them make intercession (I beseech you) before the Lord of powers that the remnant of the Jews & vessels of the lords house/ of the kings house of Juda/ & of Jerusalem come not to Babylon to. For thus spoke the lord of powers as touching the pilers/ the laver & the socketis with other vessels & Iwels yet left in this cite: which Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon took not a way/ when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda/ from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the rulers of Juda and Jerusalem. Thus (I say) spoke the Lord of powers even the God of Israel as concerning the rest of these vessels & jewels both of the house of the Lord and of the kings house of Juda and of Jerusalem. They shallbe translated to Babylon there to continwe till I shall viset them again (sathe the Cord) and then shall I restore and bring them again into this same place.   

¶ The xxviii Chapter.  
IT came so to pass/ That in the four the year of Zedechias king of Juda/ the fist month: Ananias the son of Azure/ Prophet of Gabaon/ spoke unto me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people saying. Thus said the Lord of powers the God of Israel. I have broken in peises the yoke of the king of Babylon. So that after ii year/ I shall restore into thissame place all the vessels & jewels of the house of the Lord: Which Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon took out of this place and translated into Babylon. ye/ and even Jechonias son of Joachim king of Juda with all the captives of Juda which are led to Babylon/ I shall bring again unto this place/ saith the Lord. For I shall break the king of Babylonis yoke. Then Jeremy the Prophet answered the prophet Anamas before the priests and all the people standing by them in the house of the Lord. And the Prophet Jeremy said Amen/ the Lord mought it so do/ and make thy prophecy to stand/ in restoring the jewels of the lords house and all the captives from Babylon into this place. nevertheless yet hear what I shall say to the in the presence of all this people. The Prophetis which were before us in all times passed/ both over many regions and great kingdoms/ prophesying other battle/ calamity/ pestilence/ or peace/ were proved true in this one thing/ that the Lord doubtless had sent these: if the thing came so to pass/ which the prophet had told them before. And Anamas the Prophet took a chain from the Prophet Jeremy's neck and alto broke it in pieses/ saying on this manner/ all the people hearing it. Thus saith the Lord.  
Even thus shall I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon with in these ii years from the nek of every nation. And here Jeremy went his ways home. But the word of the Lord was showed him after Ananias the Prophet had broken the chain from the Prophet Jeremyes neck on this manner. Go and tell Ananias these words. Thus saith the Lord. Ananias/ thou hast broken chains of wood/ but for them/ jeremy thou/ shalt make again chains of iron. For thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. I shall lay a yoke of iron upon all these nations that they shall serve Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon/ that shall they. And even the beasts of the field shall I betake unto him/ so shall I Than said the Prophet Jeremy unto the prophet Ananias. Hear (I beseech thee) Ananias. The Lord sent the not: but thou goist a bout to bring this people into a vain and false hope. Wherefore thus saith the Lord. Behold/ I shall send the therefore: but whither? verily even from the face of the earth. For within this same year shalt thou be dead. For full emnyously and despitefully hast thou spoken against the Lord. And so Ananias died the same year in the seventh month.   

¶ The argument of this xxix Chapter. There arose certain false Prophetis among the captynes in Babylon/ which promised themselves liberty to return after Ananias his saying with in two year: but these false Prophetis jeremy confuteth.  
THese are the words of the pistle which the prophet Jeremy sent from Jerusalem unto the men in captivity: both to the elders/ priests/ prophet's/ & to the people also whom Nebuchadnezar had led a way to Babylon: after that king Jechonias and his queen/ & the g●lded men/ the rulers of Juda & Jerusalem/ sinythes also with the artificers were gone. Aelassa son of Saphan and Gamaria son of helkie bearing it.  
Whom Zedechias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon: the pistle (I say) containing these words. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel unto all the captives that are led from Jerusalem to Babylon. build ye houses to dwell in/ plant gardens & hortyardis to eat their fruits/ mary wives to bringforth sons & daughters: ye/ and give your sons & your daughter's husbands that they may bringforthe sons & daughter's/ & increase there greatly. Study in nowise to be few in number But study for the prosperous peace of the same cite wherein ye be held captive & pray to the Lord for it: For their peace shallbe yours. For thus saith the Lord of powers the god of Israel. Let not the prophets with your divines that are with you deceive you. Nether believe your own dreams which ye dream. For these men prophecy unto you lies in my name. I sent them not saith the lord. But thus saith the Lord. When ye have fulfilled lxx years in Babylon/ I shall viset & deal with you after my goodness to bring you again into this place. For I forget not my set purposes decreed upon you/ saith the Lord. They are counsels of wholesome peace & not of troublous affliction/ to give you another manner chance/ that ye might have a fresh a better hope. ye shall cry unto me/ & I shall hear you. ye shall seek me/ & find me: If ye sek me with all your heart/ I willbe found (I say) of you/ saith the Lord: & I shall redeem you from captivity: & gather you from out of all the gentiles & from all places where yn to I had dispersed you/ saith the Lord/ & restore you into thissame place fro whence I led you captive. But as touching this/ where ye say the lord to have stired up Prophets in Babylon. Thus saith the Lord/ both as concerning thissame king that yet sitteth in the set of David/ & all the people that inhabit this cite/ with your brothern that are not yet gone with you into captivity: thus (I say) saith the Lord of powers upon them. Lo/ I shall send among them the sword/ hunger/ & pestilence/ & make them like unripe figs which for their bitterness may not be eaten. And I shall persecute them with sword/ hunger & pestilence. I shall give them to be vexed of all the kingdons of therthinto an execration to be abhorred/ into an outhissinge and opprobry among all nations where so ever I shall scatter them/ because they obeyed not my commandments (saith the Lord) which I sent them by my seruantis the Prophetis early rising & evermore sending: but yet obeyed they not/ saith the Lord. And all you in captivity/ whom I sent from Jerusalem to Babylon/ hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel/ as concerning Ahab the son of Colie/ and Zedekia son of Maasie which prophecy lies unto you in my name. Behold/ I shall give them into the handis of Nebuchadnezar king of Babylon to slay them before your faces. And all the captives of Juda which are in Babylon shall take up this word of excecration upon them saying. The lord rid them out of the way as he did Zedekias and Ahab: whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire because they committed wicked foolishness against Israel: For when they had defiled their neighbours wives/ yet went they and preached lies in my name which I never commanded them. These things do I certify and testify unto you saith the Lord. But as touching Semeia the Neemalite/ thus shalt thou tell him. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Sith thou haste sent letters under thy noun name sealed/ unto the people in Jerusalem and also unto Zephanias 
* zephanias is magister inquisitor heretice pravitatis: that is master heretic taker.  son of Maasie Priest/ and to all the priests also: in which thou speakest to him thus.  
For as much as the Lord hath set the being Priest/ in the stead of the Priest Joiada to bear rule in the house of the Lord/ and to search for all furious spirited Prophets that preach or prophesy/ to cast them into presone or stocks: how happeneth it/ that thou takest not and correckest not Jeremy of Anathot that preacheth with you so continually? Which over all this yet he sent unto us that are here holden in Babylon/ saying plainly our captivity to be very long/ bidding us to build houses to dwelyn/ and plant orteyardes whose fruit we might eat. Which letters Zephanias the Priest red over/ Jeremy the Prophet hearing them. Then was the word of the Lord showed unto Jeremy saying thus: Tell the hole company in captivity thus. Thus saith the Lord upon Semeia that Neelamite. Sith Semeias hath thus preached unto you with out my commandment stuffing you full of vain hopes: therefore this is the lords pleasure. Behold/ I shall viset Semeias the Neelamyte & his seed/ so that none of his shall nevermore dwell among this people: nether shall they see that goodness which I shall do unto this people saith the Lord: for he hath preached emayously & spite fully upon the Lord.   

¶ The xxx Chapter.  
THe sermone showed of the Lord unto Jeremy: Thus spoke the Lord of Israel. Write me up together in a book all the sermons which I have spoken unto the. For lo/ the time shall come saith the Lord/ that I shall make a joyful and self return of my captived people of Israel & Juda saith the Lord. For I shall restore them again into the land which I gave their father's/ & they shall possede it. But the Lord added these things to/ speaking upon Israel & Juda on this manerwyse. We hear a a terrible and dreadful noise as though all things were in fearful confusion. For what else signifieth this sight/ every man be he never so manly/ thus to smite his handis upon his loins like a woman traveling of child? Who saw ever a man traveling of child? Inquire and search out this vision if ye will. ye and every man's face is deformed with pale wan colour. Out alas for this day/ so horrible so dreadful/ that never was there any like. Oh time of tribulation unto Jacob: fro the which yet he shallbe delivered. For the day shall come/ saith the Lord of powers/ that I will break of N●buchadnezars yoke from thy neck/ and break of thy bondis to/ that thou settest no more strange gods under him. But even they shall serve their Lord God to/ that is to say their king David: whom I shall stereup for them. And thou Jacob my servant/ fear not/ saith the Lord: nor be not dismayed Israel. For lo/ I shall save thee/ although thou beast yet far of/ and bring thy seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shallbe brought again: he shall have rest flowing in all prosperity/ to fear noman. For I am with thee/ saith the Lord/ to save thee: Albe it yet must I make an end of all the nations among whom I have scaterd thee: but yet thee/ shall I not make an end of: but chastise the in the mean time/ but yet with inugement and discretion: For I know the not in any wise for innocent. For thus saith the Lord. I pity thy decease & sorrow for the smart of thy wound but there is noman that may avenge thy cause delivering the by judgement bring the again into the way/ or bind up thy wound/ & so to further thy cure. All thy lovers have forgotten thee/ they seek the no more. For I have smitten the with a cruel plague/ and correcked the sharply/ & that even for the multitude of they noun wickedness for thy sins have prevailed. Wherefore lamentest thou thy destruction? It is I myself that pityeth thy sorrowful grief. But for the manifold wickedness & outrage of thy sins/ dealt I thus with the. Wherefore all men that devour thee/ shallbe devoured again/ and all thy enemies shallbe led into captivity.  
They that rob the shallbe rob: and of all them that spoil thee/ I shall make a spoil of them again. For I will restore the thy health and heal thy wounds saith the Lord/ because they called the a neglect abject oh Zion/ & even her/ whom noman would set buy. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I shall restore the tabernacles of Jacob & favour his habitations. Thy city shallbe edified again in her old place: & the temple shall have her just foundation: & praise & the voice of gladmen shall goforth of them. I shall increase them/ & they shall not be minished. I shall enlarge them/ & they shall not be drawn yn. And their children shallbe as before. And their church shall continwe and increase before me/ and all that molest or oppress them/ I myself shall viset & look upon them. And I shall give them a noble goyde & head ruler to go for the even of the mids of them/ and even this man will I sociat and join unto myself: & he shallbe full nigh me. But who shall this man be/ whose heart shall so sweetly be married unto me/ saith the Lord? Thorough this your goyde/ shall ye be my people and I shallbe your God. But lo/ first shall the fury of the Lord come forth like a whirlwind/ ye like an hasty raveshing violent whirlwind shall it come/ even into the heads of the ungodly. This furious wrath of the Lord shall not cease until he hath done & acomplesshed the thoughts of his heart. Which ye shall know at last in these later days. In that time (saith the Lord) I shallbe the God of all the family of Israel/ and they shallbe my people.   

¶ The xxxi Chapter.  
THus saith the Lord. The people of Israel/ which escaped sometime the sword in the desert: found favour to come unto their rest. And even so now shall the Lord show himself unto me being in far parts saying. I love with a perpetual love: wherefore I spread my mercy over the. I shall build the to be fast and sure/ oh virgin Israel. Thou shalt take up and tuwne thy tympanies again/ & goforth merrily leding the dance. yet again shalt thou plant vynyardis in the hills of Samary: and the vine keepers shall plant singing. And when the time shall come the keepers shall cry thoroute the mountain of Ephraim Arise and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God: for thus saith the Lord: Be glad and rejoice for jacob's sake ●●ye●t forth even at the head of the gentiles. 
Babylon was then the head cite of the gentiles.  Preach/ sing/ and tell them. The Lord will desyver and save his people/ even the reamnaunt of Israel. Lo/ I shall bring them again from the north regions/ and gather them together from the costis of the earth/ with the blind and lame which are among them/ with women great with child/ and with them also that now be delivered. And there shallbe a great church or company of the returners hither again. They went away weeping: but I shall bring them again with solace. By the sweet rivers/ a plain and pleasant strait way where they shall not stumble shall I lead them for to return. For I willbe Israel's father. And Ephraim shallbe my first begotten son. Hear ye gentiles the word of the Lord: & tell it forth thorough the islands which stand so far insunder/ sainge: He that had scattered Israel gathereth them together again/ and shall keep them as the herdsmen his own flock. For the Lord will deliver Jacob/ and avenge him from a full mighty hand. And they shall come and rejoice in the mount Zion/ and be increased with the benefits which the Lord shall give them/ as wheat/ sweet wines/ oil/ flocks and herds. And their hearts shallbe like a fruitful fresh garden: nether shall they any more be hungry. Than shall the maid/ and as well that old m●n as the young daunseful meresy. For I shall turn their weepy morning into fressbe gladness/ & costforte & there them from their heaviness. Also I shall enbrewe the priests minds with 
* fat of fringes  fatness/ & my people shallbe sated & filled with my benefits saith the Lord. And yet thus also said the Lord. The lamentable noise of moornes & their bitter weeping ascended unto heaven: even the voice of Rachel weeping for her children/ neither would she receive any consolation for them/ because they were clean gone captived But now saith the Lord: peace and weep no more/ wipe thy eyes: for thy painful labours shallbe looked upon saith the Lord. And they shall return from that cruel region: but yet shall it be thy posterity that shall hope for this/ saith the Lord. For they be your children that shall return into their own region. Even Ephraim going into captivity did I hear verily thus complaining. Thou haste chastised me oh Lord/ being then like a wild bullok/ but now shall I receive thy nourtering and discipline. 
Our conversion beginneth of God. a token of repentance  But thou therefore now convert me/ and I shallbe converted: for thou Lord art my God. Wherefore as soon as thou shalt convert me/ I shall repent me/ and anon as thou shalt make me to know my sin/ I shall smite my handis upon my thigh. Very shame confoundeth me for my sins committed in my youth/ which now grievously obrayde me to my great pain. At this penitent complaint of Ephraim/ I thought thus with myself/ saith the Lord. Is not Ephraim my goodly pleasant child? Is he not my tender fair white son? I remembir him even from the time of our first communication: wherefore my very heart yammerth & all my bowels are moved upon him. I will gladly have compassion upon him saith the Lord. Get the well watching overseers standing on high: & take unto the sharp teachers and warners: and let thy heart attend unto the path of that same way whereby thou must walk. And return oh virgin Israel: return unto these same/ even thy noun cities. How long wilt thou err ohs straying bakslyden daughter? For the Lord verily shall make ●a new thing in this land: the woman shall take her husband in her arms. For thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. The time shall come that they shall say in the land of Juda/ and in her cities after that I have brought them again/ even these words. 
Ose. two  The Lord which is the fair spouse of righteousness mought favour & bless the oh holy hill. For there shall herdsmen & tylmen inhabit both Juda and all her cities. For I shall satisfy the hungry soul & replenesshe every meek soul. When I heard this/ I came to myself again considering as though I had waked from a very sweet sleep. Behold/ the time is come saith the Lord/ that I will sow the house of Israel & the house of Juda with man & beast. And the time shall come/ that likewise as I was occupied in plucking up by the roots/ in scatering abrede/ casting dewne/ desiroing & scourging them: even so shall I study diligently to edify/ & to plant them/ saith the Lord. In these days shall they no more say. 
●hat is ●chyl●●ein be 〈◊〉 for ●heir father's fawtis  They were our father's that eite the so●wer grape/ & yet their childer's' teeth be 〈◊〉. ● For every man shall die for his owns wickedness. So that every man that eat the so● were grape/ his own teeth m●ste oe ●n edge. Behold the days shall come saith the Lord/ that I will smite up a 〈…〉 both with the house of Israel & with the house of Juda: not after the bargain that I smote with their fathers what time I took them by their handis and led them out of the land of Egypte: which my bargain & testament they broke/ and I punished them sharply/ saith the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will smite with the house of Israel after these days new spoken of so oft saith the Lord I shall grif● my law into their minds/ and write it in their hearts/ and I willbe their God/ & they shall be my people: so that it shall not be 〈◊〉 man that shall teach his neghbo●r or his brother by monesshing him saying/ knowledge the Lord: but every man shall know me from the lest to the greatest/ saith the Lord/ because I willbe merciful to their wickedness and never more remember their sins.  
Thus spoke the Lord which gave the son into the dayelight/ and orderly the moan and stars to shine in the night: which troubleth the sea that it swelleth up in to waves/ whose name is the Lord of powers. Like as this law shall never be taken away fro my sight/ saith the Lord: even so (I tell you) shall the seed of Israel never cease/ at any time never more to be a nation before me. Also this said the Lord. As the heaven above cannot be measured: nether the foundations of th'earth that be under us/ searched: even so/ neither shall I cast away all the seed of Israel for all the things that they have committed/ saith the Lord. Lo the days shall come saith the Lord/ that the city of the Lord shallbe enlarged even from the tower of Hananeel unto the corner gate in the walls/ & from thenceforth shall measure be taken forth right before it unto the hill top of Gareb/ & shall so come about closing in Goatha & all the vale where they cast their carrions & ashes or dust/ & so forth all Semeroth unto the brook call●d Cedron/ & so from thence unto the corner of the horse fair gate against the este: where the holy temple of the Lord shallbe set. And this cite restored after this manner/ shall no more be beaten down nor destroyed for ever.   

¶ The xxxii Chapter  
THe sermone of the Lord/ showed to jeremy the ten year of Zedechias king of Juda: which was the xviii year of Nebuchadrezar. Than the host of the king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. And Jeremy the Prophet was in hold in the utter ward which was at the kings house of Juda: wherein Zedechias king of Juda had cast him/ because he prophesied thus. Thus saith the Lord: Lo/ I shall give up this cite into the handis of the king of Babylon/ and he shall take it. And king Zedechias shall not escape the handis of the Chaldees: but doubtless shall be delivered into the handis of the king of Babylon/ which shall speak with him mouth to mouth/ and shall behold each other face to face. And Zedechias shallbe led to Babylon/ there to continue till I viset him/ saith the Lord. But if thou wilt nediss fight against the Caldes: thou shalt fight infortunatly: Unto the which accusation/ Jeremy thus answered. It was the Lord that spoke unto me on this manner: Lo Hananeel the son of Sellum thy eames son shall come to thee/ desiring the to redeem for thyself the field which lieth in Anathot/ because it pertaineth to the to buy it again by the reason thou art next of kin. Than came Hananeel my eames son according to the saying of the Lord unto me into the utterward of the presone/ saying: I pray the buy my field which is in Anathot in the Land of Benjamin: for it is thy right by the reason of next of our kin. Redeem it therefore I pray the. I know all this to be done by the Lordis commandment/ wherefore I bought this field of Hananeel my eames son which dwelled at Anathot. And I weighed him forth his money even vii sickles and ten peses of silver. And the writing made and sealed and witness called to/ I weighed forth the money in the skoles: and received the copy whereby I challenged and posseded it. after this was it sealed according to the form of the law and dew order/ and rehearsed with the copy thereof. And I delivered this copy whereby I held it unto Baruch the son of Nerie/ son of Mahasie (Hananeel my eames son being present before the witnesses whose names were written in the instrument whereby I held it) all the Iwes at last being by which sat about us in the said ward: commanding this Baruch before them on this manner. This is the Lord of powers pleasure the God of Israel/ that thou receivest this instrument sealed with this copy/ & put it into an earthen pot that it may continue long. For thus hath the Lord of powers/ the God of Israel decreed: That the houses/ fields/ & vynyardis in this land/ shallbe possessed again. Wherefore I made my prayer to the Lord after the deliverance of this instrument unto Baruch the son of Neerie on this manner saying: Ah lord God: lo thou art he that made heaven & earth by thy mighty power & high strength & nothing is hard or of difficulty unto thee. Thou dost mercy upon thousands/ thou rewardest the wickedness of the fathers into the bosoms of their children which are borne after them. Thou art that great & mighty God/ whose name is the Lord of powers/ great in counsel and infinite in thought. Thy eyen behold all the ways of man to reward every man for his own ways & for the fruits of his inventions. Which hast done signs & wonders in the land of Egypte/ as we well know even unto this day/ as well upon this same Israel as upon these men to magnify thy name as it is right great unto this day. And thou leddest forth Israel thy people out of the land of Egypt with signs & wonders/ with a mighty hand/ a forthstretched arm & great power. And gavest them thissame land/ as thou hadst sworn to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk & honey. But when they were come & had posseded it: they obeyed not thy voice/ nor walked not in thy law: but what so ever thou commandest them to do/ that they did not. wherefore all these afflictions & plagues are come upon them Lo they come with bulwarkis even unto this cite to take it/ which overcome with sword/ hunger/ and pestilence/ shallbe delivered up into the hands of the Chaldeis which even now fight so sore against it. And what so ever thou hast said/ it shall come to pass/ for lo/ all things are present unto thee. And yet/ thou Lord God notwithstanding/ commandest me saying: challenge the thy field/ the money paid before witness/ when the city in the mean season must come into the hands of the Cal●es? Than came the word of the lord to me. Lo/ I am the lord God of all things living: is there any thing hard unto me? Wherefore thus commanderh the lord. Lo/ I shall betake this cite into the power of the Caldes & into the nower of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon which shall take it. For the Chaldees shall come & fight against this city and set fire on it/ and it shallbe burned with the houses in whose parlours they burned sacrifices to Baal/ and offered to strange God's/ that they might the more provoke me to anger. For when the children of Israel and Juda had done all manner of sin in my sight even fro their yeugth. What else was it that they did than provoked me only by the works of their own handis/ saith the lord? Or what else was this city/ than a provoking stock of my wrath fro the day that it was builded unto this present hour? In which hour/ I shall well worthily take it a way from out of my sight for the sins of the children of Israel and Juda/ which they committed to anger me/ both they their selves/ their kings/ their ruler's/ their priests/ their prophets/ all Juda/ & the citizens of Jerusalem. They turned their backs and not their face to me/ when I taught them & warned them in time: nether gave they ear to receive my discipline. They did set their idols in the house consecrated unto my name to pollute it. They builded high places for Baal in the vale of Benhinnon their to consecrate and to give their sons and daughters even to Moloch: which thing I never commanded them/ neither did it ever touch my mind/ that I would thus draw Juda into sin to commit these abominations. Over this yet again spoke the Lord God of Israel/ as concerning this city which (even yourselves being present) shallbe given up into the hand of the king of Babylon/ the city (I say) first overcomen with sword/ hunger and pestilence. Lo I shall gather them from all the regions into which I had dispersed them in my wrath/ fury/ and great indignation/ and shall bring them into this same place/ where they shall dwell sure. They shall be my people/ and I their God. And I shall give them one heart/ and one way that they mought fear me at all times. Which thing shall profit them & their children after them.  
Also I shall smite an everlasting covenant with them/ that I will never cease to do them good/ that I will give my fear into their hearts/ that they fall not fro me/ that I shall delight in doing them good/ ye and that I shall plant them in this land in very truth with all my heart and with all my soul. For thus said the Lord/ like as I have brought upon this people all this great affliction: even so shall I bring upon them again all manner of goodness which I have laid up for them. And their fields shallbe possessed in this land/ which ye grant now worthily to bedesolated & for saken of man & beast/ & to be brought into the handis of the Caldes. The feldis (I tell you) shallbe bought with money/ instrumentis written there upon and sealed before witness in the land of Benjamin & rowndaboute Jerusalem/ throughout the cities in the desert. For I shall bring again their captivity/ saith the Lord.   

¶ The xxxiii Chapter.  
again/ the word of God came unto jeremy/ while he was yet in hold in the utter ward/ on this manner. Thus saith the Lord which bringeth his word to pass/ the Lord which accomplessheth his thoughts and purposes/ even he whose name is the Lord. Thou cried'st unto me/ and I answered thee/ and I exponed the great and high things which were unknown unto you. Thus (I say) saith the Lord God of Israel as concerning the houses of this city & the kings houses of Juda to be thronedowne with ordinance and weapon/ the caldes now coming upon to won it/ filling these houses with men's caryons/ whom I shall smite in my wrath & fury/ my face turned away fro this city for the multitude of their malice. Lo/ I shall close up their wounds & heal them. I shall open them the treasure of peace and faithfulness: And I shall surely bring again Juda and Israel and restore them as they were before. And I shall purge them from all heir wickedness committed against me/ and parden all their sins done so spite fully against me: whereby I shall get me a blessed & glad name into my praise and glory among all the nations of th'earth which shall hear of all my goodness showed upon them. For they shall fear and be atoned to see how great goodness and peace I shall bestow on them so lovingly. Also thus saith the Lord. And again/ there shallbe herd in this place which ye say also shallbe turned into a wilderness/ so that nether man nor beast shallbe in it/ and in the city of Juda/ & without Jerusalem/ which also shallbe desolate/ so that neither man nor beast inhabit them/ there shallbe herd (I say) the voice of men making mirth joy & solace/ even the voice of the bridegroom with his spouse/ & the voice of men singing. magnify ye the Lord of powers: for right good is the Lord whose mercy endureth for ever. Theridamas shallbe herd the voice of men knowledging God with gifts in the Lordis house. For I shall restore the captivity of this land into their old state saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of powers. Theridamas shallbe again in this region now desolate man and best and in all her cities/ in the cities of the mountains/ of the plains/ & in the desert/ herdmen's lodges keeping their flocks: In the land of Benjamin/ in the field of Jerusalem/ & in the cities of Juda/ the flocks shallbe numbered again under the handis of the teller/ saith the Lord. Behold the days shall come saith the Lord/ that I shall perform this goodness which I have promised to the house of Israel & Juda. In these days & in that time/ I shall bringforthe that righteous bud of David which shall do equity & righteousness upon the earth. 
christ is that rightwise bud.  In these days Juda shallbe made self/ & Jerusalem shaldwel surely. And he shallbe called in her/ even thus. The Lord our rightwiseness. For even thus promiseth God. The seed of David shall not be without a man to sit in the kings seat of the house of Israel. The priests also & the Levites shall not lak a man to offer before me sacrifices to burn the sacrifice/ ministering & offering the slain offeraunces every day. Also the word of the Lord was showed to jeremy on this manner. If it be possible my covenant to be broken which I have smitten with the day & night: so that neither the day nor the night follow not in their time: so is it impossible my covenant to be void which I have made with David my servant: & so not to have a son reigning in his seat. And even likewise shalnot my service lake Levite and priest. 
christ was of the seed of David both pressed & minister after the order of Me●chisedech.   
For as the stars of heaven cannot be nowbred/ nor the sea sands measured/ even so shall I increase the seed of my servant David/ my Levites and ministers. Over this yet came the word of the Lord again to Jeremy thus. Understandest thou not what this people saith? There be two kynredis (say they) whom the Lord hath chosen/ and even these same both hath he cast away (for to this is my people brought that they believe themselves never to come in together with the gentiles) wherefore thus saith the Lord. If I have not smitten a bargain with the day & night. If I have not given laws to the heaven & earth: the seed of Jacob & David my servant now shall I cast away/ so that I receive not of his ysswe to be princes over the seed of Abraham/ Isaac and Jacob. For I shall repayer their fall and be merciful unto them.   

¶ The xxxiiii Chapter.  
THe sermone which was showed of the Lord unto Jeremy (when Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ with all his host gathered from all the regions of his land/ that were under his empery/ and all his people made battle against Jerusalem & her cities bordering about her) one this manner. Thus commandeth the Cord God of Israel. Go and speak to Zedechias king of Juda/ & tell him: Thus saith the Lord. Lo/ I shall betake this city into the hand of the king of Babylon/ which shall set fire upon it: & thou thyself shalt not escape his hand/ but be led captive & delivered into his power. Thy eyen shall behold the present face of the king of Babylon/ & he shall speak unto thee/ mouth to mouth: & than shalt thou come to Babylon. But yet hear the word of the Lord (Zedechias king of Juda) Thus the Lord telleth the. That thou shalt not be slain with sword/ but thou shalt die in peace. For they shall burn the in the fire/ as they brent thy father's the kings thy predecessors. And shall give the thy morning tuwne/ saying. Ah Master. For this counsel have I taken saith the Lord. And the Prophet Jeremy spoke unto Zedechie king of Juda all these sermons at Jerusalem/ when the king of Babylon's host laid siege to Jerusalem and to all the other cities of Juda that were left/ as to lachiss and Azecham which yet remained of the sironge defensed cities of Juda. The sermone which the Lord shrewed to the Prophet jeremy/ after that Zedechias had made a law with all the people of Jerusalem: that liberty & freedom should be proclaimed/ so that every man should let fire go his bond servant that were hebrews/ both man & w●man/ & no jew to suffer his brother to be his bondman. And all the rulers with the hole people that moved this bargain/ consented that every man should let go free both bond man and woman/ and no more to be lords over them. And agreeing to this law/ they obeyed & consented/ sending them for the fire. But after ward they repented them/ and plucked their bond men & maid seruantis home again whom they had let go free/ & called them again into bondage. For the which cause the word of the lord was showed from him unto Jeremy thus. Thus saith the lord god of Israel. I made a covenant with your fathers when I led them forth of the land of Egypte/ that they should no more live in bondage/ with these words. At the seven years' end/ let every man let go free his bond servant that is an Hebrew and bought/ after hath served vi. year/ let him go free. But your fathers obeyed me not 〈◊〉 yet hearkened to me. And ye were 〈◊〉 turned/ doing that just and right 〈◊〉 in my sight/ every man proclaiming freedom to his neighbour/ smyting the bargain in my presence/ even in the temple which beareth my name. But your mids soon changed/ ye have defiled my name/ every man calling home again/ his bond man & maid whom ye had once let go free at their own liberty. Wherefore this is the lords pleasure/ saying. ye obeyed me not/ when everyman proclaimed liberty to his brother & neighbour/ wherefore I my self shall call you unto a liberty saith the lord: even into the liberty of the sword/ pestilence & hunger. 
Theryte of convenants to be confirmed then both with Iwes & gentles  And I shall deliver you for the to be vexed of all nations of the earth: even these men which have broken my bargain not observing the words of the covenant smitten in my presence (the bullok cleft in twain: & the going thorough between the parts thereof solemnly done) even the rulers (I say) of Juda/ the rulers of Jerusalem with their geldid men/ the priests and all the people of the land which passed thorough between the two sides of this bullok/ I shall betake into the power of their enemies which long to draw out their hearts. And their karions shallbe meat for the fowls of the air & beasts of the earth. And as for Zedechias king of Juda & her rulers/ I shall deliver them into their enemies handis which thirst for their life/ even into the handis of the king of Babylon's host: which now goithe away from you/ but at my beck/ (saith the Lord) he shall return unto this city/ which won and taken/ they shall set on fire. And the cities of Juda/ I shall leave desolate noman to inhabit them.   

¶ The xxxv Chapitre.  
THe sermon showed of the Lord unto Jeremy/ in the reign of Joachim the son of Josias king of Juda/ on this manner. Go to the house of the Rechabites/ and call them forth/ and bring them to the house of the Lord into some of the revestries/ and give them wine to drink.  
Then took I Jazaniam the son of Jeremy the son of Habaznie/ and his brethren with all his children and all the family of the Rechabites/ & brought them to the house of the Lord into the revestrye of the children of Hanan son of Igdalie the man of God/ which revestry was by the revestry of the rulers: this was over the vestry of Maasie son of Sallum chief of the treasure house. And I set before the sons of the family of the Rechabites/ tankerdis full of wine and cups/ and bad them drink wine. 
●f the ●echa●tesfa ●er re●e the iiii ●●ke of ●e kin●s ca● ten  And they answered/ we drink no wine. For Jonadab our father the son of Rechab commanded us saying. Drink never no wine/ neither you nor your sons. Belde no houses/ sow no corn: Also ye shall neither plant nor possede any vineyards: but dwell ye in tentis all your life the ye may live long upon the land wherein ye be strangers. Wherefore we obeyed the commandment of Jonadab the son of our father Rechab in all that he bode us/ so that nether we/ our wives/ our sons nor daughters drink wine all our lives/ nor build us houses to dwelyn neither have we vineyards nor corn feldis among us: but dwell in tabernacles obaing & doing to our power all that our father Jonadab bode us. But now it chanced so/ that when Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon came up into this province/ we commoned together saying. Let us go to Jerusalem that we mought scape the host of the Chaldees & Assyrions. Wherefore we dwell now in houses here in Jerusalez. Than came the word of the lord to Jeremy saying Thus saith the lord of powers the god of Israel. Go & say unto all Juda & to the cities of Jerusalez. Will ye receive no discipline that ye might obey my words saith the Lord? The words of Jonadab/ son of Rechab commanding his children to drink no wine stand fast/ for they drink none unto this day/ but obeyed the precept of their father. But I meselfes have spoken to you both early rising & diligently warning & yet obeyed ye not me: over all this/ I sent you all my servants/ the prophetis/ both early rising/ over sending & saying. Lome again (I pray you) every man from his own ill way & turn your minds into a better state/ & go not thus away after strange God's to worship them that ye might abide still in this land which I gave you & your fathers: but ye gave no ear nor obeyed me. The children of Jonadab/ son of Rechab kept fast their fathers precept which he gave these: but this people obeyed not me. Wherefore the Lord God of powers the God of Israel commandeth me thus to say. Lo/ I shall bring all thaffli●●iōs upon Juda & upon all the citizens of Jerusalem/ which I have decreed against them. For I spoke to them/ but they obeyed me not. I called them/ but they answered not. Than said Jeremy unto the family of the Rechabites. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. For that ye obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father & kept all his preceptis doing after all that he body you: therefore thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. The stock of Jonadab son of Rechab shall not be with out a man to continue and stand in my presence for ever.   

¶ The xxxvi Chapter.  
THe fowerth year of Joachim the son of Josias king of Juda: thus did the Lord his word unto Jeremy saying. Take the a great book and write therein all the sermons which I have spoken unto the to be preached unto Israel/ Juda/ and to all nations: sense I began to fpeke with the in the reign of Josias/ unto this present day: If peradventure yet the house of Juda hearing/ all these afflictions which I purpose to do to them/ turn every man from his evil way/ & I forgive them their wickedness and sin. Then Jeremy called to him Baruch the son of Nerie: And Baruch did write in the book/ at the mouth of Jeremy all the sermons of the Lord spoken unto Jeremy. And Jeremy commanded Baruch saying. It is not sure for me to come into the house of the Lord. Go thou therefore/ and read this book written of my mouth/ the very words of the Lord/ all the people hearing it in the day of the fast/ and all Juda hearing it to/ ye & even unto them to that are comen hither from their cities shalt thou read them. If peradventure they will submit their prayers unto the presence of the Lord/ & so return every man from his evelwaye. For great is the wrath & indignation ordained of God for this people. Then did Baruch the son of Nerie to his power all that Jeremy the Prophet commanded him reading of the book the sermons of the Lord/ in the house of the Lord. And this was done the fift year of Joachim son of Josias king of Juda in the nyenthe month when they commanded all the people to fast to pease the Lord: 
It wa● noue●● by'r.  as wet the people of Jerusalem as them that came thither from the other cities. Then did Baruch read on the book/ Jeremyes' sermons at the house of the Lord/ standing in the vestry of Gamarie son of Saphan the scribe: which vestry is by the over vestry before the new door of the temple/ all the people hearing them. And when Micheas/ son of Gamarie the son of Saphan had heard all the sermons of the Lord out of the book: He went down to the kings house unto the scribes counting house. For there sat the rulers/ Elisama scribe/ Dalias son of Semei/ Elnathan the son of Achbori/ Gamarias son of Saphan/ Zedechias son of Hanany with all the rulers. And Micheas told them all the sermons which he had herd of Baruch red out of the book/ all the people hearing. And all the ruler's scent Jehudi the son of Nathany son of Salamy son of Chusi unto Baruch on message saying. Take the book in thy hand where upon thou reddist/ the people hearing thee/ and come thy ways with me.  
Then took Baruch the son of Nery the book in his hand and came to them. And they said unto him. Sat down (I pray thee) and read/ and let us here them.  
And Baruch read them/ they harkening thereunto: And when they had heard all these sermons/ they were astoned one gazing upon another/ saying unto Baruch/ verily we shall show the king all these words. And they asked Baruch thus. Tell us I pray the how thou wrotest all these sermons of his mouth? Whom Baruch answered: he spoke them to me with his own mouth/ which I alone being with him received with my pen into this book. Then said the rulers unto Baruch. Go & hide the with Jeremy so that noman know where you be. And these rulers went in to the court to the king leaving the book in Elisams the scrybis study/ & told all the sermons unto the kings presence. Then sent the king one Jehudi to fetch the book: which brought from Elisams the scrybis study: and Jehudi had read it/ both the king himself & all the rulers present herring it. The king than abode in his winter house: for it was then novembyr/ and there was a great fire before him: And when Jehudi had red three or four leaves/ the book was cut in pesis with a pen knife and cast into the fire upon the hearth till all the book was brent up: notwithstanding yet in the mean season/ they neither feared nor cut their clothes/ neither the king himself nor his seruantis when they had heard all these sermons. But Elnathan/ Dalias/ and Gamarias' made intercession to the king that the book should not have had been brent/ but he heard them not: but commanded Jerachmiel the son of Hameleche/ Sarie the son of Ezriel and Salamie son of Achdiel to take Baruch/ that wrote it/ & Jeremy the Prophet to. But the Lord had hid them. Than came the word of the Lord to Jeremy/ after the king had brent the book with the sermons which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremy. The word of the Lord came to Jeremy on this manner. yet again take the another book/ & write in it all the foresaid sermons which were in the book before: which Joachim king of Juda brent: And tell Joachim king of Juda. Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast brent this book/ thus revolving in thy mind. For what intent haste thou written in it this matter: that the king of Babylon shall come & subvert this land? & that he should leave it desolate both man & beast? Wherefore the Lord saith as concerning Joachim king of Juda. There shall none of his stock sit in the seat of David. His carcase shall be cast against the heat of the day & cold of the night. And I shall look upon the wickedness both of him/ of his sede/ & of his seruantis: and bring upon them & the inhabitors of Jerusalem and upon all Juda/ all that great affliction which I told them before/ albeit they heard me not. Then Jeremy took another book/ and gave it to Baruch the scribe son of Nery/ which wrote in it at Jeremyes' mouth all the sermons of the same book that Joachim king of Juda had brent: moreover there were added unto them moo then before.   

¶ The xxxvii Chapter.  
ZEdechias the son of Josias/ made king of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ reigned over the land of Juda/ in the stead of Jechonias son of Joachim son of Joachim. But nether he/ nor his servants/ nor the people of the land obeyed the sermons of the Lord which he spoke by Jeremy the Prophet. nevertheless yet was king Zedechias fain to send Jehuchal son of Selemy and Zephaniam son of Maasy Priest unto the Prophet Jeremy/ that they should say to him. Pray for us unto our Lord God we beseech the. For Jeremy went freely among the people/ not yet put in preson. But now was Pharaous host come out of Egypte: whom when the Caldeis now laying siege to Jerusalem perceived/ they went bake from the cite. And then was the word of God showed unto Jeremy the Prophet on this manner: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: These thing is shall ye answer the king of Juda which sent you to inquire it of me. Behold Pharaous host which came forth to help you/ shall turn home again into Egypte: and the Caldes shall come hither again/ and win and take this city and set fire on it: For so saith the Lord: Let it not sink in to your hearts to think thus. Now are the Caldes doubtless gone away from us. For I ensure you they shall come again. For albe it/ ye had slain all the Caldes host that fightith yet against you/ so that very few of them/ & that wounded to/ had been yet left each man in his tent/ yet should these rise & burn up this city. And when the Caldes host was removed from Jerusalem for fere of the Egypcians host: Jeremy went out of Jerusalem to go unto the land of Benjamin to set an order among his kinsfolk. And when he came to the gate called Benjamins' gate/ there was a certain man/ chief of the ward or watch called Jerias son of Selemy the son of Hanany/ which took him imputing unto him that he would have slipped from them to the Caldes. Which thing Jeremy said was false/ saying I intended no thing less than to i'll to the Caldes. Whom Jerias would not believe: but took Jeremy and led him unto the rulers. And the rulers being angry with Jeremy/ be it him & thrusted him into presone at Jonathan the scrybs house: for this man was the lieutenant of the presone. And so was Jeremy let down into a deep dongen and there laid in stocks a long season. Then sent king Zedechias & called him forth to him ask him secretly at home in his house saying: Thinkest thou that this besieging of this city now in doing is done of the Lord? And Jeremy answered: ye. adding also/ that thou shalt be delivered into the handis of the king of Babylon. And over this/ Jeremy said unto king Zedechias: What have I offended either thee/ or thy seruantis/ or this people that ye have thus cast me into presone? Where be your Prophetis that told you: the king of Babylon should not come against you/ nor yet once in to this land? Now therefore hearken my lord the king/ hear my petition I beseech your favour/ that ye command me no more to be led again to the house of Jonathan the scribe/ lest I there die. Then king Zedechias commanded Jeremy the Prophet to be shut but in the fore entry of the presone/ and to be given him every day a little cake of breed with out any other sudden or roasted meet till all the breed in the city were consumed. Then there lay Jeremy in the entry of the presone.   

¶ The xxxviii Chapter.  
THen Saphathias son of Mathan/ Godolias son of Phashur/ Juchal son of Salamie/ and Passhur son of Malechy the rulers/ understanding Jeremyes' sermons spoken unto the people in this sense: Thus saith the Lord/ who so ever shall abide still in this city/ shall die either with sword/ or hunger/ or pestilence. But whoso go forth unto the Caldes shall live & save themselves finding their life as a proye. For thus said the Lord. This city shallbe given up in to the handis of the king of Babylon which shall take it. Wherefore these rulers said unto the king: let this man be put to death we pray you. For by this means he both slacketh the handis of the soldiers and discourageth the men now ready to fight left in this city/ & discourageth all the people while he preacheth such manner sermons. For he nether seeketh peace for the people but rather death. Than answered king Zedechias. Lo he is in your handis/ for your king may not deny you any such thing. Then took they Jeremy & cast him into the dongen of Malchy the son of Hamalech which before was in the fore entry of the preson. And they let down Jeremy with ropes into a dungeon where was no water but mire. And Jeremy was rolled & set fast in the mire. And when Abdemeleche the ethiop/ a gelded man & office in the kings house heard that they had cast Jeremy into this doungen/ he went from the kings place & spoke to the king which then chanced to sit in judgement in Beniamyns gate/ these words: Lord my king/ it is not rightwysely done that these men have done to Jeremy the Prophet in that they have cast him in to this dungeon/ for he shall storue in this same place for hunger/ sith there is no breed left in the city. Then the king bode this Addemelech thethiop saying: Take with the from hence at thy pleasure thirty. men/ & pluck up the Prophet Jeremy from out of the dungeon ere he die. Then took Abdemelech these men with him/ and went to Hamalechis house/ where under an aumbry he got old clowtis and raggis/ and let them down to Jeremy with cordis into the dungeon. And Abdemelech the Ethiope called to Jeremy bidding him put these rotten clowtis under his arm holis between the rope and his body. And Jeremy so did/ and than they lifted 'em up and drew him out of the dungeon/ and than he abode still in the fore entry of the presone. Than sent king Zedechias and called the Prophet Jeremy before him unto the third ward which was by the house of the Lord. And the king said to Jeremy. I will ask the a thing/ so that thou hidest nothing fro me. And Jeremy answered Zedechias. If I tell it thee/ thou wilt surely slay me. And if I give the counsel/ thou shalt not hear me. Then king Zedechias made an oath secretly to Jeremy in these words. As verily as the Lord liveth/ even he which hath made us these souls: I swear that I will not slay thee: neither will I deliver the into the handis of these men that thirst for thy life. Than said Jeremy unto Zedechas. Even thus saith the lord God of powers the God of Israel: If thou go forth at once with out any stop yielding thyself unto the princes of the king of Babylon: thou shalt save thy life: & this city shall not be brent up with fire/ & thou shalt be self with all thy house. But if thou wilt not i'll to the king of Babylon's princes: this city shallbe given up into the handis of the Caldes which shall set fire on it. And thou thyself shalt not escape their handis. Than said Zedechias to Jeremy. I fear these iwes which are fled all ready to the Caldes lest I be betrayed into their hands and they laughed me to scorn. Jeremy answered/ they shall not betray thee. Believe (I pray thee) thee voice of the Lord which I tell thee/ & thou shalt be well enough and have thy life. But if thou refusest utterly to go for thee: even this thing hath the Lord showed me. Lo/ all the women left in the kings house of Juda/ shall go forth to the princes of the king of Babylon: For they are persuaded the thou are deceived in that thou trustest so much the men which have ruled the. They/ in whom thou didist put all thy trust/ have set thy feet fast in the mire to leave the be hind. Wherefore/ all thy wives with their children will i'll to the Caldes: and thou shalt not escape their handis. For thou shalt be taken captive in the king of Babylon's hands/ & thy city brent up. Then said Zedechias unto Jeremy. Let noman know these things/ & thou shalt not die. But if the rulers perceive that I have commoned with thee/ & so come to thee/ saying: Tell us (we pray thee) what words thou haddist with the king/ hid nothing from us/ & we will not slay the ask what the king said to thee: thou shalt answer these: I made my supplication unto him/ sith I am thus cast away/ praying the king that I might no more be led again to Jonathas his house lest I there die: Then came the rulers to Jeremy ask him/ & he told them all as the king had commanded him. Whom as soon as he had thus answered/ they held their peace. For they knew nothing of the matter. Then abode Jeremy still in then try of the presone until the same day that Jerusalem was taken. And all this was done while Jerusalem was in besieging and taking.   

¶ The xxxix Chapter.  
FOr in the ninth year of king Zedechias of Juda the ten month came Nebuchadnezar 
Decembyr.  king of Babylon with all his host unto Jerusalem and besieged it. And in the xi year of Zedechias the four month the ninth day of the monithe be broke in to the city/ and all the rulers and cheiftens of the king of Babylon came in and sat down together in judgement in the open gate/ as Nergal/ Garezer/ Samgarnebo/ Sarsechim/ Rabsaris/ Nergal/ Sarezaer/ Babinag/ with all the other kings of Babylonis rulers and captains. Whom when Zedechias king of Juda saw: he with all his host fled & conveyed themselves out of the city be night thorough the kings back ortcharde & so thorough at a privy gate between two wallis/ and went for the tower the desert. But the Caldes host pursued upon them/ and took Zedechias in the plain of Jericho/ and brought him to Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon in Riblatham in the land of Hamathe. Where the king laid sore to Zedechias his charge in judgement. And Zedechias sons slain in the sight of their father in Riblatham/ the king of Babylon (after he had slain also all the nobles of Juda) he put out Zedechias eyen: & his feet bound together/ sent him to Babylon. And the kings palace with the wother commons houses/ the caldes brent up/ and threw down the walls of Jerusalem. And the people left in the city/ with them to that fled to him for succour the rest of the comens/ Nebuzar Adan chieften of the host translated unto Babylon. But the rascal & poor forlorn wretches this Nebuzar Adan chieften left still in the land of Juda/ and divided among them the vynyardis and feldis the same tyme. But Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ as concerning Jeremy/ commanded Nebuzar Adan their cheiften on this manner. Take him to the and be favourable to him/ and see thou dost him no harm/ but what so ever he asketh of thee/ let him have it. Then Nebuzar Adan the archeiften of the host/ Nebusasban chieften of the geldedmen & Nergal Sarezer chief auditor with all tother officers and rulers under the king of Babylon/ sent & called Jeremy from thentry of the presone and committed him unto Gedolias seen of Ahicam son of Saphan that he should take him home to his house/ and so he dwelled and continued still abroad among the people. But while Jeremy was shut in thentryentry of the presone/ the word of the Lord was showed him on this manner. Go & tell Abdemelech thethiop: Thus saith the Lord of powers the god of Israel. Behold I shall bring to pass my purpose right sharp surely & nothing pleasant which I have decreed upon this city even thissame day/ thou seeing it: In which day/ yet will I deliver thee/ saith the Lord: so that thou shalt not come into the handis of these men whom thou ferest somyche. Vndowted I shall preserve the from the sword so that thy life shallbe a proye unto thyself because thou dost trust in me saith the Lord.   

¶ The argument of the xl Chapter.  
This Chapi. with certain other following declare the miserable end of the cite now taken and the people overcome. For the ungracious reamnant were so tossed about and discorded among themselves one betraying another: that the prophecy of Moses as the lord threatened them was now verified on them/ even this: That they should be overcome and led captive into their enemies land: he would persecute them still with sword.  
¶ The xl Chapter.  
HOw the Lord dealt with Jeremy after that Nabuzar Adan archeiften of the host had delivered him from Ra●a/ whither he had led him bound among all the other captynes of Jer●salem and Juda. This Nabuzaradan called Jeremy unto him saying. Thy Lord God testified firmly this same calamity to fall upon this place: wherefore the Lord hath brought it upon them & fynesshed it according to his word/ because ye sinned against the Lord & obeyed not his voice: Wherefore this misery is chanced unto you.  
Now therefore/ lo: I lose thy bondis which are now upon thy handis: and if it please the to go with me to Babylon/ come: for I will chourisshe the & see thou wantest nothing. And if it like the not to go with me: me: abide here stil. Behold all this land is at thy pleasure/ dwell in it where it like the best/ and it like the not to dwela broad alone: go dwell with Gedolias son of Ahicam son of Saphan whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cite of Juda/ and abide with him among the people/ or else where so ever it please the. And the archeiften of the host gave him meet and drink and rewardis & let him go. Then went Jeremy unto Gedoliam son of Ahikan unto Masphat/ and dwelled with him among the other people left in the land. And when it came to the ears of all the petty captains in Juda dispe●sed with their fellows thorough the fields that the king of Babylon had made Gedolian son of Ahikam ruler of the land/ and that men women and children with the poor men of the land which were not led captive to Babylon/ all should be under his dominion: they came to Gedoliam in Masphat. There came Ishmael the son of Nathanie/ Johanna and Jonathan sons of Care/ Saraias son of Thanhumeth/ and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite/ Zemeias son of Maachathi with their fellows. And Gedolias son of Ahikam son of Saphan swore both to them and to their fellows in this manner. Fere not to serve the Caldes/ dwell ye still in this land/ and serve the king of Babylon/ & ye shall prosper. For I myself lo/ dwell in Masphat to govern and be head in the Caldeis name to answer & to content who so cometh unto us. Go ye therefore and gather your grapis to make wine/ gather yn your wheat/ corn/ and oil/ and lay it up in your garners/ & dwell still in your towns which ye hold. Then all the Iwes being among the Moabites and Ammonitis in Idumea & in all these regions understanding that the king of Babylon had given Gedolian son of Ahikam son of Saphan to be ruler of the reamnant left in Juda returned from every place whither they had fled before/ and came into the land of Juda unto Gedoliam in Masphat and gathered grapis and great plently of corn. Then came Johanna the son of Caree and all the petty captains dispersed thorough the region unto Gedolias in Masphat saying unto him: know'st thou not how Baalis king of Ammon hath sent Ishmael son of Nathany to slay thee? And yet Gedolias believed them not. And Johanna son of Lare said unto Gedolias privily in Masphat these words: Wilt thou that I go and slay Ishmael son of Nathanie so that none be aware of it? wherefore should he slay the and the Iwes also which be gathered unto thee/ to scatter them away and so the rest of Juda utterly to perish? And Gedolias son of Ahikam said unto Johanna son of Cart. See thou dost it not/ for they be but lies that are told of Ishmael.   

¶ The xli Chapter.  
IN the seventh month came Ishmael the son of Nathanie son of Elisame/ which was of the kings blood with the greatest about the king & with x. more of their conspired complices unto Gedolias son of Ahikam in Masphat where they sat down to meat altogether. And Ishmael the son of Nathany start up with his ten conspired complices that were with him/ and smote Gedolias son of Ahikam son of Saphan with his sword. And so slew they him whom the king of Babylon had made ruler of the land. And Ishmael also slew all the Iwes that were with Gedolias in Masphat and the Chaldees there left to assist him. And it came to pass that the next day following the death of Gedolias which yet was kept secret: there came certain men from Sichem/ from Silo and Samary lxxx in nowmber their heads clipped/ their clothes cut all sad & kareful bringing gifts & sense in their handis to offer them up in the house of the Lord. And Ishmael the son of Nathany going forth of Masphat met them coming a great pace weeping. And when he met them/ he said: Go your ways to Gedoliam son of Ahikan. And when they were comen into the mids of the cite: Ishmael son of Nathany with his conjured slew them by the middis of the dyke or lake. And among these lxxx men: there werten that said to Ishmael: slay us not/ for we have treasure in the fel●e/ both wheat/ barley/ oil and honey. Then he spared them/ and slew them not with their brothern. And the lake into which Ishmael threw the bodies of the slain whom he slew for Gedolias' sake/ was the same which king Asa made for fere of Baase king of Israel/ the same lake Ishmael filled with the carkasis. And he led away captive all the rest of the people/ as the kings daughter's with all the people left in Masphat: over whom Nebuzaradan tharehieften had set Gedolias' ruler. And Ishmael took them all & went his way to go to the Ammonitis. Then Johanna the son of Caree & all the petty captains over the company hearing all this mischief that Ishmael had done/ took all their company and went forth to fight with Ishmael son of Nathany/ and found him at the waters of Rabim which arin Gabaon. And when all the people led captive with Ishmael saw Johan the son of Caree with all these petty captains and their company/ they were glad. There brought they again all the people that Ishmael had carried from Masphat/ which returned/ came to Johan the son of Caree. But Ishmael escaped with viii of his conjured from the face of Johan/ & went to thammonitis. Then Johan son of Caree & all his captains/ took all this rest of the people whom they rescued & took from Ishmael carried fro Masphat after the death of Godolias/ which were men valiant in battle/ their wives/ children and geldedmen whom they brought again from Gabaon/ & went & sat down in Geruth Chimham which place is by Bethlehem/ intending so to goforthe into Egypte for fere of the Caldes/ whom they feared for this cause/ that Ishmael had slain Gedolias son of Ahikan/ whom the king of Babylon had made ruler and overseer of the land.   

¶ The xlii Chapter.  
THen came all these gonerners/ as Johan son of Caree/ Jezanias son of Hosie & all the people from the lest to the most saying unto Jeremy the Prophet. Here our petition (we beseech thee) that is/ pray for us unto thy Lord God for all this remnant here left of so many/ which are now very few (as thou seist us) that thy Lord God would show us what way we mought go/ and what we mought do. Whom Jeremy the Prophet answered. I have he●de you effectuouly. Lo/ I shall pray unto your Lord God according to your desire. And what so ever the Lord answer you/ I shall show it you/ hiding nothing from you. Then said these men unto Jeremy. The Lord of truth and faith be our witness/ if we do not after every word which thy Lord God shall answer concerning us/ be it good or ill. The voice of our Lord God unto whom we send thee/ we shall here: that we mought prosper if we obey the voice of our Lord God. after x. days the word of the Lord came to Jeremy. And then he called Johan the son of Caree and all the headis of the company that were with him/ with all the people from the lest unto the most & told them. Thus spoke the Lord God of Israel unto whom ye sent me to lay forth your prayers before him. If ye will dwell still in this land/ I shall increase you & not destroy you/ plant you/ and not pluck/ you up by the rotis. For I am well apaid and peased as touching the affliction which I decreed upon you. Fere no more the king of Babylon/ whom ye yet fere/ and need not saith the Lord. For I shallbe with you to save and deliver you from his hand. I will forgive and be merciful unto you & bring you again in to your own land. But if ye will not set your minds at rest to dwell still in this land/ not abaying the voice of your Lord God/ saying let us not abide here/ but go into the land of Egypte/ where we shall see no war nor here of any pealis to battle/ nor suffer any hunger/ theridamas let us dwell. Wherefore here the word of the Lord ye reamnant of Juda. Thus spoke the Lord of powers the God of Israel. If ye be full bent to go into Egypte/ theridamas to be in exile: it shall come to pass that the sword which ye now fere shall over take you in Egypte: and the hunger that ye here fere/ shall cleave upon you even into Egypte/ there to die. For as many as shall set their faces firmly bent thitherward there to ease their exile or banishment/ shall die with sword hunger and pestilence. There shall not one of them escape the plague which I shall bring upon them. For thus saith the lord of powers the God of Israel. Like as my wrath and fury did flowforthe upon the inhabitors of Jerusalem: even so shall it flowforthe over you if ye go into Egypte. For ye shallbe an execration/ a wondering stock/ detested/ reviled & in opprobry to men/ never more to see this land again. It is the Lord that biddeth you (Oh reamnaunt of Juda) that ye go not into Egypte/ and that ye forget not what he hath testified unto you this day. For ye should trap your own selves. For ye sent me to your Lord God saying. Pray our Lord God for us: And what so over our Lord God answer/ tell us: and we will do it. Now therefore have I showed you the voice of your Lord God: for the which thing he hath sent me unto you: and yet will ye not obey. Be ye sure therefore to die with sword/ hunger and pestilence in that same place which delight you so greatly to i'll unto.   

¶ The xliiii Chapter.  
ANd after that Jeremy had left preaching to all the people/ all these words of the Lord God: for whose cause he sent him to them: Azarias son of Holy/ & Johan son of Caree with all that heady presumptuous people said unto Jeremy. Thou liest unto us: nether hath our Lord God sent the to command us that we go not into Egypte to dwell there. But Baruch the son of Nery hath let the slip among us to betray & deliver us into the power of the Babylonytis to lead us captive to Babylon there to slay us. And this Johan the son of Caree with all the captins of the host and all the people/ obeyed not the lords words that they should dwell still in the land of Juda. Then took Johan son of Caree & all the cheiftens of the multitude & led a way all the remnant of Juda which were now come together again from all the nations among whom they had benscatred/ to dwell again in the land of Juda as strangers: they took and led away (I say) men women and children/ the kings daughters/ and all them that Nebuzaradan tharchieften had left with Gedoliam son of Ahikam son of Saphan: They took also Jeremy the Prophet and Baruch the son of Nery & came into Egypte. For they obeyed not the lords voice. And they came into Thaphnis: & in Thaphnis the word of the lord was showed unto Jeremy saying. Take in thy hand great stones & hide them in an hole in the ground by the brik wall under the door of Pharos house in Thaphnis in the sight of the men of Juda saying unto them. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold I shall send & call hither Nebuchadrezar my servant king of Babylon/ & set his throne upon these stones which I have hid/ which shall bend his tent over them. For he shall come and plague the land of Egypte: some with slaughter/ some with captivity/ & some with sword: he shall set fire on the temples of the Goddis of Egypte and burn them up/ and hold their godis captive. And the land of Egypt after this shall cloth herself as the herdsman putteth on his clothes to get him hence in peace. Also he shall alto break the pilers of the temple of the son in Egypt and the temples of the Gods of Egypte/ he shall consume with fire.   

¶ The xliiii Chapter.  
THe sermon showed unto jeremy/ upon all the Jews that dwelled in Egypt in Migdalo/ in Thaphna/ in Memphi & in the land of patheres on this manner. Thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel ye have seen all the miserable calamity which I brought upon Jerusalem & upon all the cities of Juda how they be desolate unto this day no man dwelling in them/ & that even for their sins which they committed provoking my wrath while they went and kindled their fierce worshipping strange gods/ which nether they their selves knew/ nor yet you/ nor your fathers. Albeit yet I sent them all my servants the Prophetis early rising continually sending and mou●sshing in time saying. See (I pray you) that ye commit not this abomination which I aborre so greatly/ and yet they obeyed not/ nor once moved their ears to them/ to go from their mischief no more to kindle their fierce before these strange gods. Wherefore my hot indignation & wrath was kindled & burned up their cities & feldis with the stretis of Jerusalem: and so were they made desolate & forsaken as ye may see even this day. Now therefore saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Wherefore do ye so great wickedness against your own selves to spill your men & women soukelingis & infantis of Juda/ so that ye shall at last leave none a live while ye provoke me to anger with the works of your own hands kindling lyghtis unto strange Gods in the land of Egypte into which ye are gone to dwell in to be clean cut away/ execrable/ accursed & ignominious among all the nations of the earth. Remember ye not the sins of your fathers? the sins of the kings of Juda/ & of their wives? your own sins & your wives? which ye committed in the land of Juda both in the field & stretis of Jerusalem? And yet be ye not sorry or humbled unto this day/ ye fear not/ ye walk not in my law and preceptis which I gave both to you/ & your fathers. wherefore thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel Behold I am firmly decreod to scourge you & to pluckup all Juda by the roots: & take the reamnaunt of Juda the bent their faces so stifeneckedly to enter into Egypt/ theridamas to dwell & take their pleasures. And they shallbe all wasted away/ they shallbe all smitten down in the land of Egypt/ & consumed with sword & hunger. from the lest to the greatest shall they die with sword & hunger. They shallbe an execration/ aborred/ wondered at/ cursed and into obprobrye. For I shall so visit th'inhabitors of the land of egypt/ as I have visited Jerusalem with sword hunger and pestilence/ that of all the remnant of Juda which went into Egypt there to dwell/ shallbe none left self to return into the land of Juda/ although their minds was to come again: yet shall their none return but such as shall i'll & escape. Then all these men which were privy to their wives sacryfiing unto strange gods and all the women there present in the hole multitude/ and all the people to/ that their dwelled in Egypte in the city of patheres/ answered Jeremy on this manner. The sermone which thou madist unto us in the name of the Lord/ in nomaner wise will we receive/ but we will do what so ever goeth forth of our own mouth/ whether it be sacrificing unto the queen of heaven/ or offering any other oblation/ like as both we & our fathers have done before us/ as well our kings & rulers both in the cities of Juda/ as well with out as with in Jerusalem. For than had we plenty of food/ then were we happy and saw no plagis. But as soon as we ceased from sacrificing to the queen of heaven & from giving her gifts: we were needy of all things & consumed with sword & hunger. And last of all: when we women did sacrifice to the queen of heaven giving her gifts: did we then make her kake breed housbandlesse/ and offered to her lyquet sacrifices to provoke her to anger? Then said Jeremy unto all the people/ to men and women and all the comens that answered him on this manner. Remembered not the Lord/ the facrifices which ye offered in the cities of Juda and Jerusalem both with in & with out/ both you and your father's/ both your kings and rulers and the people of the land? Did he not revolve them in his mind? And the Lord could suffer no longer your malicious thoughts and abominations which ye committed. Was not your land therefore made desolate/ forsaken & so detestable that no man may dwell in it unto this day? And even for this cause/ that ye sacrificed and sinned against the Lord/ not obaing his voice that ye mought have had walked in his law/ his ordinances/ & testimonis/ for these causes/ I say/ these afflictions & plagues came upon you/ as this day well witnesseth. moreover Jeremy added unto all the people and all the women these words. Here ye the word of the Lord all Juda which are in the land of Egypte. For thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel/ you & your wives have spoken the thing with your mouths which ye have accomplesshed with your dediss: saying we will with out any stop do our own decreed pleasures which we have vowed/ that is to wit to do sacrifice unto the queen of heaven & power her forth lyquet sacrifices before her: thus stoutly have ye set up your own set pleasures and with out any refrain have ye fin●sshed your own vows. Wherefore here ye the word of the Lord all Juda which dwell in the land of Egypt. Behold/ I have sworn by my noun name that is so great/ saith the Lord. My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda/ that he may say in all the land of Juda. The Lord God liveth. For I shallbe their watch man to scourge & not to defend them that they might rest. And all Juda shallbe consumed which is in the land of Egypte with sword & hunger till they be clean gone. And they that shall escape the sword shall return from Egypte unto the land of Juda: but these shallbe very few. And the remnant of Juda comen into the land of Egypte there to be strangers shall know whose words abide most certain & true of theirs or mine. And take this for a token among you. That I will visit you in this same land/ that ye may know certainly that I will stablish my purpose as touching your affliction. Lo/ I shall deliver up Pharaoh Haphraz king of Egypt into the power of his enemies which thirst for his life: even as I delivered up zedechias king of Juda into the islands of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ his enemy thirsting for his life.   

¶ The xlv Chapter.  
THe words which Jeremy the Prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Nery/ when he wrote these sermons in a book received at the mouth of Jeremy/ the fowerth year of Joachim son of Josias king of Juda/ on this manner. Thus saith the lord God of Israel unto the o Baruch. Thou saidst as thou wast in writing. Ah lass for sorrow wretch that I am: for the Lord hath sauced my labours with sorrow & care/ I laboured with great desire/ & shall I find no rest? Thou therefore Jeremy tell him thus. Thus saith the lord. Behold me/ these things which I have builded/ I shall caste down: & that I have planted/ I shall pluck up by the roots/ even all this same land: & gapest thou for any great promotion or to be magnified? Be not covetouse nor ambitious/ for lo/ I shall bring a miserable calamity upon every man saith the Lord: nevertheless yet shalt thou enjoy thy life/ and take it for a vantage. where so ever thou becomest. ¶ Here follow the sermons of the Lord showed unto the Prophet Jeremy: which he preached unto the gentylis.   

¶ The xlvi Chapter.  
THis sermone following Jeremy preached unto the Egyptians/ as concerning 
To the Egyptians.  the host of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt/ when he was in Charchamis by the flowed Euphrates/ where he was slain of Nebuchadrezer king of Babylon/ the fowerth year of Joachim son of Jos●as king of Juda. ye make ready buckler and shield/ and ye goforthe to fight: ye harness your horse & lightup on their backis/ oh horse men. ye set on fast your salettis/ ye bring forth your spears/ ye scour your swerdis and cloth your selves with cotis of mayse. But hearken hoiwe seirs: wherefore seem ye to be afraid? shrink ye now back? are your valiant waryers thus slain? i'll you so that none dare look back? Trembling fere must close them in saith the Lord. The lightest of foot shall not i'll away/ nor the strongest shalnot escape. Northward by the flood Euphrates shall they be smitten down and fall all together. But who is this that swelieth rising up like a flowed/ roaring like a great rising water? They are thegyptionsegyptians that swell like a flowed casting out their streams with so great noise: for they say. Let us arise & cover the land/ let us destroy the cities with their inhabitors: Get ye to horse back/ rumble forth charietis: Set forth ye strong waryers: ye Morions and Lybeons that bear shield/ & ye Lydeons with your bows ready bent. But this same day shallbe the day of vengeance of the Lord God of powers to take vengeance upon his enemies. The sword shall devour themup & be satisfied/ it shallbe bathed in their blood: For the Lord God of powers will make a sacrifice north ward by the flowed Euphrates. Go up oh Galaad & bring medecynable rosin or treacle for the virgin and daughter Egypte/ but thou shalt multiply and make thy plasters in vain. For the wounds cannot be closed up. The nations shall here of thy ignominy: & thy infamy shall fill all the land. For where one strong man falleth upon another/ shall they not come both down together? The sermon spoken of the Lord unto the Prophet Jeremy/ of the setting forth of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon to slay and conquer the land of Egypte. Shewsorth thorough Egypte & preach in Migdalo / Memphi & Taphna saying. Stand still and make thyself ready. For the sword shall devour the in every party. Wherefore are thy valiant men fallen down? Wherefore stood they not fast? For the lord thrusted them down. great was the slaughter: For one fill upon another while they stood taking their advysment saying. hearken how syers'/ let us return unto our own folk and native land from the edge of the devoweringe sword. Call hence king Pharaoh and tell him/ oh Pharaoh king of Egypt/ this day will be thy confusion. As verily as I live/ faith the king whose name is the Lord of powers: That Thabor stand not so fast among the hills/ neither yet Carmelus reacheth not so verily unto the sea/ as thissame plague shall come. Make the therefore (oh daughter inhabirres of Egypte) vessels & packs to flit thy way. For Memphis shallbe desolate & throne down that noman inhabit her. Egypte is a fair fat wealthy bulloke: but there shall come unto her a prodder with a prick from the north. Her hyerde soldiers which are in her as fat as bullockis shall take them to their feet: neither shall they stand and abide/ for their slaughter day/ & time of visitation shallbe present. The noise of their enemies shall sown in upon them as hard as yearn. For they shall come with an host & down slayers with pole-axes like tree fellers: & hew down her woods saith the Lord with out any stop or choice. They shall exceed the swarming locust flies & be innumerable. The daughter of Egypt delivered up into the power of the people of the north shallbe ashamed. And yetagayn saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold I shall visit the pride of Alexandrye/ Pharaoh & Egypte/ her gods & kings/ even Pharaoh & them that trust in him: And betake them into the power of them that seek their lives/ even into the handis of Nebuchadreser king of Babylon & of his servants. And after this it shallbe inhabited as before saith the Lord. But thou my servant Jacob fear not/ neither dread thou Israel. For lo/ I shall save the from a far & thy seed to/ from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return & have rest/ he shall be rich/ noman to trouble him. Be not afraid my servant Jacob yet again I warn the saith the Lord: For I am with thee/ & will make an end of all the nations into among whom I scattered thee: but of thee/ will I not make an end: but correcke thee/ & that with discretion/ for in no manner wise art thou innocent & faultless.  
THe sermon of the Lord showed unto Jeremy the Prophet against the Palestyns before Pharaoh won Gazam. 
against the Palestyns.  Thus said the Lord: Behold/ waters shall come down from the north & rise up into a flowed running over the land and all that is in it/ and both cities and their inhabitors shall howl at the noise of the coming of the army & stamping of their barbed horses/ at the shaking of their charietis & rambling of their whelis. The fathers shall have no respect unto their children/ their hands shall tremble for fere. And even the same time that he shall be present to destroy all palestine with other eylandis divided from the land: there shall come a shaving and chipping upon Gazam. Ascalon with her other valis shall keep silence. Ah how long wilt thou slay oh sword of the Lord? How long shall it be ere thou cease? Return into thy sheath/ rest & cease. But how should it cease sith the Lord hath commanded it and steered it up against Ascalon & other cities upon the sea coostis?   

¶ chapiter. xlviii.  
against Moab/ thus spoke the Lord of powers the God of Israel. 
Sitfast proud Moab.  Woe be to Nebon/ for it shallbe subverted/ she shall be ashamed and taken. 
Beware/ Rome.  Also that strong kiriatham shallbe ashamed & afraid/ she shall no more be the glorious shining beauty of Moab. Upon Esebon shall there be taken shrewd counsel/ Come & let us cut her away from the nowmbir of the gentiles/ so that she be never more spoken of/ the sword shall so persecute her. There shall a voice cry from horonaim: Destroy & kill. And Moab is alto destroyed/ an out crying shallbe heard thorough her villages. For weeping & wailing shall sty up over all the hanging of the hill of luhit: and this cruel noise of destruction shall come down and be herd unto Horonaim/ i'll/ save your lives: And even unto the very haith of the desert be ye like. Because thou didist trust in thy strong defensed holdiss and treasure/ thou shalt be taken away to. 
* A devowering v●ciouse god.  Chamos shallbe carried into captivity/ both peasen and rulers all together: And the destroyer shall come unto every city/ none shall escape. Dales shall perish/ and feldis shallbe destroyed/ as the Lord hath decreed. lift up a sign unto Moab that she may i'll away swiftly: her cities shallbe so desolate that noman may dwell in them. Cursed be he that shall do this work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently. 
☞  And cursed be he that holdeth back his sword from blood. Full rich & sure hath Moab been even from her youth/ and hath sit at rest careless in the middis of her filthy fast laid up riches. She was not yet never set a brooch/ drawn out of one vessel into another/ that is to wit/ she came never yet into captivity/ wherefore her verdcur & taste yet abideth & endwreth/ & her vigour & savour is not chanched. But lo the day shall come saith the lord/ that I shall send her trussers/ which shall truss and pak her up/ prepare & ceason her vessels but her pottiss & bags they shall so shake together that Moab shallbe as much ashamed of her Chamos as ever was Israel of Bethel even their own hope. Wherefore think ye thus/ we are strong and valiant to fight? Moab shallbe destroyed & her cities shall fleup into ashes. And her chosen lusty lance kneightis shallbe slain saith the king whose name is the Lord of powers. Moabs' death & fall is at hand/ & his miserable calamity cometh fast upon: whom all of his faction round about him shall lament and bewail/ And as many as know his name/ shall say. How happeneth this so strong a staff and so gay a rod to be thus alto broken? And even thou to/ daughter which dwellest in Dibon shall come down from thy glory & sit in a dry thirst. For the destroyer of Moab shall come unto thee/ and overthrow thy strong holds. And thou/ oh inhabitres of Aroer shalt stand by the way & behold asking these that flee escaped/ saying what is chanced? For Moab shallbe confounded & overcome. They shall howl and cry out/ & tell it forth unto Arnon that Moab is destroyed. And like calamity shall come even unto the plains/ unto Holon Jahazam and Mephat/ Dibon/ Nebo/ and unto the house of Diblathaim/ unto Kiriathaim/ Bethganrob and Betheneon/ Kirioth/ Bassra & unto all the cities of the land of Moab both far and nigh. 
Of th● horn r●de. apo● where i● now ye●ur▪ brachium culare?  Moabs' horn shallbe alto broken/ and his arm shallbe shaken in pesis saith the Lord. ye shall make him drunken because 
* 2. tes. Moabe theft deceit  he magnified himself above the Lord: And Moab in his vomit shallbe clapped out with husbands/ and be a laughing stock to Shall he not be a laughing stock unto thee (oh Israel) which is found among thieves? Thou shalt be cast forth (oh Moab) for thy deceit done against Israel/ ye shall leave your cities and dwell in rocks (oh Moabits) & be like doves nestelinge in their hole mouths. We heard of Moabs' pride/ he was all to proud/ his pride/ his stoughtnes/ his arrogancy/ his high lokis were known well enough unto me saith the Lord. 
☞  But for all his pride/ yet might not his power bring a bout his enforcementis according unto his arrogaunte fury. Wherefore I shall yeloute upon Moab/ and cry/ Moab as loud as I can/ so that the dwellers at the brick wallis shall here & bewail him: And even with like lamentation as I bewail thee (Oh Jazer) shall I lament thee (oh vineyard Sibema/ Thy branches went over the sea: but the branches of Jezer wretched but to the sea. But into thy harvest and grape gathering shall this destroyer break in violently. joy & gladness shallbe taken away from Charmelus & fro the land of Moab as it is now gone from Charmelus. There shall no more sweet wines come under the press/ nor the caller to the grape gathering shall no more tread in the wine press: neither shall theridamas be any more callers at all/ which before time called & were herd from Hesebon to Eleale and Jahaz/ whose voice was herd also from Zoar unto Horonaim that wealy bullok of iii year old. ye & the waters of Nimrim shallbe desolate to. 
We sew no more to Rome, Moab get no more peter petence &ce. Beware your herd Moab.  I shall make a vacation in Moab (saith the Lord) from any more offering in high placis and from sensing their God's. Wherefore/ for Moabs' sake my heart mourneth like an heavy crowd: for they shallbe brought into very few/ and yet shall these few perish to. Every head shallbe shaven of/ and every/ beard clipped/ every hand bound/ and all their loins gyrte with sacken. Upon all the house roofis of Moab/ and in all her stretis there shallbe way sing and mourning. For I shall alto break Moab as it were a vile vessel saith the Lord/ Se/ how he feareth and howifeth/ se how his proud neck is smitten down? how is he now ashamed? Moab shallbe a laughing stock and an ensample to all that are about him. For thus saith the Lord. 
☜  Behold his enemy shall i'll to him like an eagle & stretch forth his wyngiss over Moab. Then shall his wallis be taken/ and his towers of defence occupied. Than shall the hearts of Moabs' valiant waryers he like a woman's heart traveling of child. And Moab shallbe so scattered/ that they be no more any people/ because they extolled themself against the 
two. Th●ssa. two.  Lord. Fere shallbe unto thee (oh Moab) and both pit and snare to/ saith the Lord. For he that shall escape fear or peril/ shall fall into the pit: and he that shall happen to creep out of the pit/ shallbe taken in snare. For I shall bring upon Moab even the hour of their visitation saith the lord. And they that shall have strength to flee shall run into the fire of Hesebon: 
☞  For out of Hesebon shall come a great fire/ and flame shall i'll out of Sihon and devour both nose noddle and crown of the stout proud people of Moab. Woe be to the Moab/ for thou shalt be undone oh people of Chamos. And thy sons and daughters shallbe led away into captivity. 
* Mention is here made of the calling of the gentles.  But I shall see that Moab shall come again here after at their time saith the Lord. Hitherto is it prophesied of the plague and vengeance to be taken of Moab.   

¶ The xlix Chapter.  
UNto the children of Ammon thus saith the lord. 
Ammon Moabs' brother howthe● were begotten of their drunken father by his own daughter's red● Gen. 19  Is Israel childless/ or want he an hair? But wherefore then doth your Melchon occupy and sit in Gad/ and the people of Melchon inhabit the city of Gad? For this cause/ lo/ the time shall come saith the Lord/ that I will blowup to battle in Babbath the chief city of the children of Ammon. Lahel shallbe desolate/ and her villages brent up. And the children of Isarel shall possess them/ which before kept Israel under saith the Lord. Let Hesebon howise/ for it shallbe utterly subverted. Let the towns of sabbath cry out and gird themselves with sak/ let them wail wandering all out their hedges: For 
* Then abeminable fill thy god.  Moloch shallbe carried away captive/ both his priests and princes with him. Wherefore trustest in thy streams which flow in vain oh fierce daughter? thinking thyself so sure for thy treasure that noman may come to thee? Behold/ I shall cast a fere upon thee/ & upon all that are about thee/ saith the lord god of powers/ And ye shallbe scattered every man from other the non may bring the men fleeing/ together again. 
The calling of the gentiles is here prophesied  But after this I shall restore the captivity of the children of Ammon. Thus spoke the Lord of powers unto Idumea. Is there no wisdom left in Theman? are these men destitute all counsel? Is their wisdom turned in to nought? flee/ turn your backis. 
The bu●den of Idumea  Creep down into valis there to dwell oh citzens of Dedan. For I shall bring upon them the destruction of Esau even the day/ of their visitation. If grape gathers had come to thee/ they should not have left the one grape. If thieves had come upon the in the night/ they should have rob the at their pleasure. But I shall make bare Esau and so show his secretis/ that they cannot be hid. His seed shallbe destroyed both his brethren & borderers to/ and himself shall not be left a live. Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee: but I shall keep them/ and thy wydews shall trust in me: 
i. Petri iiii.  For thus said the Lord. Lo/ they that were thought unworthy to drink of the cup/ drank it first of all: & shouldst thou then go quite as innocent? Thou shalt not go quite as innocent/ but drink as well as other. For I swear by my now self saith the Lord/ that Bosra shallbe turned into desolation/ opprobry/ contempt and excecration/ & all her cities shallbe a perpetual wilderness. For I heard verily of the Lord a messengre sent unto the gentylis saying. Be ye gathered together and come forth against her/ Rise up to battle: For lo I shall make the right small among the gentilis/ & contemned among men. 
☞  Thy now arrogancy and audacity of thy high mind hath undone thee: because thou contendidst to inhabit the holes of the rokis of stone/ & to reach up unto the hill toppis. But albeit thy nest were as high as the eagles/ yet shall I pluck the down out of it saith the Lord. 
Idum●  And Idumea shallbe desolate to. All that pass forby her shall wonder and hiss upon all her miserable calamities. Even as Sodom/ Gomor and their cities about them were subverted saith the lord: so shall noman inhabit Idumea: nor yet any mortal man dwell in her. Behold/ as the lion cometh up from the green woods of Jordane unto the fresh plenteous pastures of Ethan: even so shall I thrust-forth her enemy and steer him up to run against her. But who is this young man whom I shall choose to do this deed? And who may match me? Who will wrestle with me? or which one among all the herdsmen may stand in my handis? Wherefore here the counsel of the Lord/ which he hath taken & begun upon Idumea. Here his thoughts which he hath devised upon the citizens of Theman/ that the feste of the flock shall tere them in peses/ & their fairest habitations shallbe left desolate/ and they to The earth shall crack at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice shallbe herd in the red sea. See/ their enemy mownteth up like an eagle/ he shall come fleeing/ his wings spread a broad over Bosra. And then shall the hearts of the most strong & bold men of Idumea be like the heart of a woman traveling of child. 
The burden of Damask  Upon Damask thus prophesied Jeremy. Hemath and Arphat shallbe shamefully confownded: for they shall here right cuil tydingis. They shall run here and there for fere like the sea that cannot rest. Damask shallbe faint hearted and flee. Fere shall over whelm her: anguish & sorrow shall betake and hold her as a woman traveling of child. But shall that merry city so populose be left desolate? ye verily. For even their young men shallbe smitten down in her stretis: and all her noble men of arms shallbe laid a sleep the same day saith the lord of powers. And I shall kindle a fire upon the wallis of Damask which shall devour the houses of Benhadad. 
The bur●en of Cedar.  Unto Cedar and the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon smote down/ thus said the Lord. Arise and go yp unto Cedar and destroy/ ye children of the este. Then shall they take away their tabernacles/ their flockis/ their skinnis with all their armour/ stuff/ and substance. They shall also take a way their Camelis/ and close them in with fere round a bout. flee/ get ye hence at once and creep into caves there to dwell oh inhabitors of Hazor saith the Lord. For Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon hath decreed and bent his pleasure against you. Arise and go up to those rich folk which dwell so surely saith the Lord: which have nether gatis nor door bars/ but dwell one from another. Their Camelis shallbe stolen/ and their herdis of beasts droven away. And I shall disperse these polled or shaven crowns into every wind/ and bring them into destruction/ ye and that of everyone of their own familiaris saith the Lord. And Hazor shallbe a den for dragons and a perpetual wilderness/ noman shall there inhabit/ neither dwell there any of the sons of Adam. 
The burden of Elam.  The sermon of the Lord showed unto Jeremy the Prophet upon Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedechie king of Juda.  
Thus saith the Lord of pwrs. Lo I shall all to break Elam his bow/ the chief weapon of their power: and bring upon Elam four wyndis from the fourte plagis of heaven: and I shall we now them into all these four wyndis/ so that there shallbe no nation unto whom Elam be not come fleeing for succour. For I shall so bring it to pass that Elam shallbe a frayed of their emmes/ even of those that seek the lives of them. And I shall bring upon them the grievous plague of my furious wrath saith the Lord. And perswe them with sword till I have consumed these. I shall set my seat in Elam/ & there destroy both king & rulers saith the lord. 
The calling of the gentiles. Babylon is Rome. against the king ●●om of ●●ntichri f●te. ●●eel their ●●od/ the ●●ope.  But at fast/ in process of time/ I shall restore the captivity of Elam/ saith the Lord. The sermon which the Lord spoke upon Babylon/ and of the land of the Chaldeis unto Jeremy the Prophet. Tell it forth unto the gentiles and preach it. give them a token. Show it them/ and hid it not. But tell them. Babylon shallbe taken. Beel shallbe confounded with shame. Merodach shallbe taken/ her graven images shallbe shamefully confounded/ and their Idolis shallbe taken. For there shall come forth against them/ a people from the north/ which shall bring their region into a wilderness/ that none may dwell in it/ neither man nor beast. For they shall i'll and go their ways. In those days and time saith the Lord/ the children of Israel/ both they and the children of Juda shall come together weeping & hasting to seek their Lord God. They shall ask readily the way unto Zion: and their faces turned thither ward/ they shallbe joined to the Lord in a covenant never to be broken. My people were of a long space lost sheep. My herd men led them out of the right way/ and made them to wander in mountains/ from mountains they went to little hyllis/ forgetting their own bed: Who so fowonde them/ devoured them: And even their enemies said we sinned not/ because they are offenders of the Lord/ even that lord which is the beautiful glory & flower of rightwiseness/ and the true hope of their fathers that preserved them. But ye shall i'll from out of the mids of Babylon: and get ye out from the land of the Caldes: and shallbe as rams that go before the flock. For behold/ I shall steer up and bringeforth from the north region an host or congregation of a great nation against Babylon: which shall fight against her/ and afterward take her. Their arrows shall not rebowne void but steke fast like arrows of an expert & strong archer. The Caldes shallbe a proye/ and all her spoilers shallbe satisfied saith the Lord: Because ye rejoiced & gloried in the tredingdowne of my heritage/ taking your pleasure over them/ like the wealy bullok over her grass/ neainge over them as stallandis: your mother shallbe greatly confounded and she that brought you forth shallbe ashamed of you. She shallbe rascal of all gentiles/ desolate/ laid lay and dry. 
☞  The wrath of God shall make her all forlaten unable to be inhabited. Whoso ever shall go for buy Babylon/ shall suddenly stop and wonder hissing at her plagis. Set your array/ and ordir your host against Babylon closing her in round about. All the can handle a bow/ shot at her: spare no arrows: For she have sinned against the Lord. Blow up trumpets upon her round about. She hath yilded herself/ her foundations are fallen/ and her walls be down. For this is the vengeance of the Lord. For they shall take vengeance upon her. And as she have served other/ even so shall she be served again. They shall cast out the sedis man out of Babylon/ and the syithe man in time of mowing. For fear of the dent of the bloody sword/ every man shall convey himself home again to his own nation & i'll to his country. Israel is a poor scattered flock. lions have scattered them abroad. The first lion the devoured them/ was the king of the Assyrions. And the last the shall all to break their bones is this Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon. Wherefore thus saith the lord of powers the God of Israel. Behold/ I shall viset the king of Babylon & his kingdom/ even as I visited the king of Assyrie. And shall bring Israel again unto her pleasant pasturs/ & they shall feed upon Carmelus & Basan: And in the mount Ephraim & Galaad shall they be well filled. In these days & this time saith the Lord. If the wickedness of Israel be sought for/ there shall none be found. If the sin of Juda be sought: it shall not be found. For I shallbe merciful unto this little reamnant escaped by me. Ascend (oh avenger) unto this cruel & lordly land & viset her inhabitors: take vengeance & lay upon their backis (saith the lord) & finish all that I have commanded the. The rumour of battle & great destruction shall i'll thorough the land/ men talking/ How is this great hammer of all the world/ ihus now broken alto peses? 
Rome hath k●●ked us full long tyme.  How happeneth it that Babylon among all the nations is thus brought into desolation? It was I that laid wait for thee/ & thou wast taken o Babylon/ thou wast espied unwares/ and thus trapped/ because thou provokedst the Lord to anger. The Lord laid open his house of ordinance & brought forth the darts of his indignation. For this is the work of the Lord God of powers done of him in the land of Called. These things shall come upon her at last: They shall break into her privy treasure houses/ & leave her as bare as stones taken & cast upon an heap. And they shall so cut her away/ that nothing be left of her. They shall destroy all her valiant soldeyers and put them to death. Woe be to them: for the day & hour of their visitation shallbe at hand. Me thinketh/ I here even now the noise/ both of men fleeing and escapen from the land of Babylon: which voice or noise shall declare in Zion the vengeance of our Lord God even the taking vengeance for his temple: and also the noise of men crying: Call up against Babylon the multitude of all the bowemen. Pitch your tents against her rowndaboute the none escape. Serve her after her own dealing/ and as she have done to other/ so do to her again. 
☞  For she presumed to boldly against the Lord/ even him that sanctifieth Israel. Wherefore her mighty soldiers shallbe smitten down in the stretis/ & all her noble men of war shallbe laid a sleep together in that day saith the Lord. It it I lo/ that tell it thee (
* Rome ●s as●nich to ●aye as snowed.  oh thou proud) saith the Lord God of powers. For the day shall come/ even the hour of thy visitation/ and the proud shall fall suddenly and be all to broken/ noman to lift him up again. I shall set fire on his cities/ which shall eat up all round about him. These things saith the Lord of powers: The children of Israel & Juda shall suffer both a like great violence and wrong. Whoso have taken them/ shall hold them fast loath to let them go. But their strong avenger and mighty redeemer/ whose name is the lord of powers shall so defend their cause: that he will stir up a dissension among themselves/ & set the church of Babylon together by the ears. 
the gretwyse writer o● their unwriten v●●●rites/ where i● he now become●  The sword upon the Caldes saith the Lord/ and upon the inhabitors of Babylon/ upon her rulers/ and upon her wise men/ the sword upon her soithe sayers/ & they shallbe made fools.  
The sword upon her bold valiant/ and they shallbe afraid. The sword upon her horsemen/ chariets/ and upon all the comen people in her/ so that they be all like women. The sword upon her treasures that they be stolen away. The sword upon their waters/ that they be dried up: For this land is an image server/ and delighteth in strange & wounderouse inventions. Wherefore these cruel unsatiable satyris/ with marmesaits/ apes & mermaids shall inhabit her: neither shall she be inhabited for ever/ nor dwelled yn from age to age. Like as God subverted Sodom & Gomor with their cities annexed saith the Lord/ even so shall there here noman dwell/ neither the son of Adam shall inhabit her. Behold/ people shall come from the north with great power/ & many kings stired up from the coosts of the crt●e. They bear bow & buckler/ they be cruel & merciless/ their noise is like a fierce swelling sea. They come hovering on horsebak/ they come forth well armed to fight against thee/ oh daughter Babylon. The fame of these men once heard/ the king of Babylon's handis shall tremble for fere/ anguish and sorrow full pain shall hold him as a woman traveling of child. As the lion lo/ cometh upfrome the green fens of Jordane unto the fat fair pasturs of Ethan: even so shall I prick them forthward & steer them up against her. But whom shall I choose chief captain to do this deed? Who is like unto me? or may strive with me? or which one of the herdemen may resist my face? Wherefore hear the counsel of the Lord conceived against Babylon/ hear his intent entered against the land of Caldey. That is to wit/ even the most weak and lowest of the flock shall tear them in pieses. And their most pleasant placis with their own selves also/ shallbe desolate. All the world shall tremble & quake at the fame of the taking of Babylon/ and the rumour of her shallbe heard into among the gentiles.   

¶ The li Chapter.  
THus said the Lord. Behold/ I shall steer up a pestilent wind against Babylon and her citizens which are bent cruelly against me. And than shall I send wenowers into Babylon/ which shall we now her and destroy her field. For they shall close her in round about in the day of her affliction. Also unto the archers and harnessed men entering the walls thus said the Lord: Spare not her men of arms. Of with the hedis of all her host/ that they may lie dead thorough the field of the Caldes and smitten thorough in her streets. For Israel and Juda although they have filled the earth with their sins: yet shall they not be forsaken of their God the Lord of powers & maker holy of Israel/ & so left unto the world. flee from out of the middis of Babylon: & let every man save himself. Let noman dissemble the wickedness of Babylon. For the time of the vengeance of the Lord is now present. For he will acquit her again. Babylon was the golden cup in the land of the Lord. Which cup hath made drunken all the world. Of her wine the people hath drunken: wherefore they are out of their wittis'. But suddenly Babylon is fallen/ & alto broken. Bewail her therefore/ & lay the plaster of resyne unto 
●esyne ●aster/ 〈◊〉 the ●●riptu.  heir wounds/ that if thus peradventure she may be yet healed again. But we have done our cure (say they) right diligently: & yet is she not healed. We shall therefore forsake her/ & go our ways every man to his own region. For her judgement is turned up unto heaven & removed up unto the clowdis. The Lord hath laid forth our rightwiseness. Come hither therefore & let us put Zion in mind of the work of our Lord God. Sharpen your arrows/ & fill your quivers: For the Lord shall stir up the sprite of the king of Mede against Babylon/ even now ready bent to destroy her. For this shallbe the vengeance of the Lord/ even the avenginge of his own temple. life up your signs & shields upon the wallis of Babylon/ warn watches enough/ set keepers/ lay good a wait about. And yet nevertheless shall the Lord do his purpose decreed upon the inhabitors of Babylon. Oh thou Babylon which haste thy situation by so goodly great waters/ having such riches & so great treasure/ thy end is come/ thou mayst sitdowne and tell up thy winning. The Lord of powers hath sworn by his own self to overwhelm the with men as with locustis/ which shall aninate & encourage one another against thee. Which Lord made the earth by his might & did set fast the world by his wisdom & stretched abroad the heavens by his prudence At his word/ the waters in heaven arise & swell. He calleth forth the clouds from the coosts of the earth/ & changeth thunder into rain/ & leadeth forth the wind out of his secret place. Every man is but a fool/ if thou esteemest him of his cunning. Every man shallbe confownded the casteth or engraveth images. For it is but deceitfully blowme & framed together of lies/ neither is there any breath in it. Deign things are they/ & works worthy to be scorned/ in the time of their visitation shall they perish. The portion of Jacob is far unlike these things. But he that made all things whose name is the Lord of powers/ he is the met rod of his heritage. Thou haste scattered our weapons of war. And I have for thy sake scattered the gentiles/ & dispersed kingdoms. For thy sake have I scattered horse and man/ chariet and him that road in it. For thy pleasure I dispersed men & women/ old and young/ bachelor and maid. For thy pleasure I dispersed the herdsman and his flock: the tylman with his cattles/ Prince's and rulers. And now shall I reward Babylon/ all his citizens/ and the Caldes all that calamity which they did to Zion. ye and that yourselves looking upon saith the Lord. Behold me here upon thee/ thou pernicious pestilent hill saith the Lord which undoist all the hole world. It is I (I tell thee) that shall stretch forth my hand upon the & roll the down from the rocks/ and make the a perpetual burning hill/ that noman may take either corner stonne/ or top limestone/ or foundation stone at thee: 
other is ●ow our bu●ler: of 〈◊〉 Pe●us & 〈◊〉 hanc●etram, ●ce.  but thou shalt be a perpetual desert saith the Lord. Spread your banners over the land/ blow up trumpets upon the gentylis. Move ye the nations to take vengeance on them. Call up these kingdom's against them/ Ararat/ Minni & Aseenez/ and tell out Tiphsar to be against her. Bringeforh horses like swarms of locustis. appoint forth against her the people of Mede with their king/ princes and all their rulers/ ye even all the hole land under his empery. Then shall the land quake and be full heavy when the counsels of the Lord shall come against Babylon to make the land of Babylon desolate that noman inhabit it. The valcant men of Babylon shall no more defend her/ they shall krepe into their holds/ their strength shall fail them/ they shallbe like women/ her habitations shallbe brent/ her bars shallbe broken/ one post shall come running against another/ and messenger against messenger to bring tydingis to the king of Babylon/ that his city is taken on every side/ and his foordis laid and occupied/ her ●ennes set on fire/ and the soldiers out of their wit for fear. For thus saith the Lord of powers the God of Israel. Daughter Babylon hath been in her time like a ry●e plenteous field of corn: but shortly oftir was come her reping tyme. Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon hath devourerd & undone me/ he hath made an empty vessel/ & swelowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my tenderness. He expelled me & took a way my substance/ & at the I had left & did cast me forth unto Babylon saith the inhabitres Zion/ & expelled my blood unto the cytesens of Called saith Jerusalem. Wherefore thus saith the Lord. Behold I shall defend thy cause & avenge thy hurt. I shall sowp up her sea & dry up her veins/ And Babylon shall lie like moll hyllis or graves. It shallbe an habitation for dragons/ fear and wonder for that there dwelleth no body. Then shall they roar together like lions and lions whelps when they are angry shaking their locks. In their heat I shall set drink before them/ and they shallbe drunken for joy/ and than shall they sleep a long sleep/ from which they shall not be waked saith the Lord. I shall lead them forth to veslayne like sheep like wethers & goats. How was Sesach taken? How was this noble daughter/ flower of all the earth thus ●●atched? How came Babylon into this wondering stock among the gentiles? The sea swelled & arose over Babylon which is over whelmed with her great waves: her cities are desolate/ her land over grown the noman may come to it/ a land wherein noman dwelleth/ nor yet any son of Adam may pass thorough it. And even the same 
* The bishops & gods of Rome.  Beel in Babylon shall I visit/ and pluck out of his mouth that thing which he hath so swelowedyn/ And those folk shall no more swarm so fast to him. Also the wall of Babylon shall falldowne. Get ye out from the mids of it my people/ and let every man save him self from the furious wrath of the Lord. Let not your hearts faint nor fear at every rumour that shallbe herd in the land. For year by year shall ye hear news & diverse tidings/ now this & then that strange tyranny and wickedness/ sudden & oft change of rule and empery. More over/ behold/ the day shall come that I shall visete the graven images of Babylon into the utter shame & confusion of all the region: & her most dear beloved shall lyedede in her. Heaven & earth and what so ever is in them shall rejoice upon Babylon/ when these destroyers shall come upon her from the north/ saith the Lord. As Babylon threwdowne the dear-beloved of Israel: even so shall the best beloved of Babylon be thronedowne thorovout all the realm. ye that i'll from the sword/ speed you: stand not still. Remember the Lord in the mean time/ even from a far. And let Jerusalem come into your mind. For we shamed to here of the obbraydes: very shame made us to hide our faces/ to se the aleants come unto the holy house of the Lord. Wherefore lo/ the time shall come (saith the Lord) that I shall viset the graven images of Babylon that they shall roar like beasts falling down throughout all the region. 
☞  If Babylon be extolled unto heaven/ ye & defend her power whithe never so high authority: yet shall I send her destroyer's/ saith the Lord. A noise full of compsaynte of Babylon/ & great destruction/ shallbe heard from the land of Called when the Lord shall destroy her: and shall cast out of her/ her proud ruffling whereby they have swelled & be blown up like the waves of the maigne sea/ & made so great crackis with their words. For there shall come unto her (even Babylon I meant) destroyers: which shall take her baseaunt men & break their bows. For the Lord is ready to recquyte them/ and the Lord shall reward them abundantly. Also I shall make drunken (saith the Lord) her princes/ wisemen/ ruler's/ her mighty men/ that they shall sleep continually/ never to a wake saith the king/ whose name is the Lord of powers. Thus saith the Lord of powwers. That marvelous thick wall of Babylon shall be undermined & overthrow: and her proud high gates shall be brent. And what so ever those gentiles and people have wrought with so great and weary labour: it shall perish and be brent up. The commandment that Jeremy the Prophet commanded Sarie/ son of Nerie/ son of Mahasie: when he should go with Zedechias king of Juda unto Babylon/ the fowerth year of his reign. This Sarias' was chief tresurere. Jeremy wrote all the calamity that should happen unto Babylon/ in a book: that is to wit all these sermons which are written against Babylon And then he bode Sarie. When thou comest to Babylon: see thou readest all these sermons saying: Lord thou haste decreed upon this place utterly thus to destroy it/ that noman inhabit it: nether man nor beast: but to be desolate for ever. And when thou hast all red the hole book: thou shalt taye a stone to it/ & cast it into the middis of Euphrates/ sainge. Even thus shall Babylon sink away/ and be wearied synking dough under the burden of thafflictions which I shall lay upon her/ that she shall nevermore rise again. Hitherto are continued the sermons of jeremy.   

¶ The lii Chapter.  
ZEdechias was xxi year old/ when he began to reign: 
●iii. Regum xxiiii. &. xxv.  and reigned in Jerusalem xi years: his mother's name was Hamital/ daughter of Jeremy of Lobna. And he did evil even in the eyes of the Lord/ and that in all points as did Joachim/ because the Lord was angry with Jerusalein & Juda/ until he had cast them out of his sight. Zedechias fill from the king of Babylon: 
Decembyr  wherefore in the ix year of his reign/ the x day of the x month/ Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon came with all his host unto Jerusalem/ & besieged it/ bulwerkis droven rownaboute it. And the besiege of the city enduered unto the xi year of king Zedechias. 
June.  And the ix day of the iiii month/ the city was so famesshed/ that there was no food for the people of that land. Then did all the men of arms brekeforthe and fled from the cyte be night/ comingforth by the way to the gate of the two wallis/ thorough the kings orteyarde/ the Caldes compassing the city round about: & yet went they their ways tower the plains. Then pursued the host of the Caldes/ and took the king Zedechias in the field of Jericho/ when all his host was now scattered away from him. And when he was taken: they led him to Redlatham unto the king of Babylon in the land of Hemath. Where he gave judgement upon him. And the king of Babylon slew Zedechias sons before his eyen: & slew also the rulers of Juda in Reblath●. And then he put out Zedechias eyes/ and dow●de his feet together/ and brought him to Babylon/ and put him in custody or presone till he died. The x day of the v month/ the nineteen year of the reign of Nebuchadrezar king of Babylon/ came there Nebuzaradan chief over his host & deputy for the king unto Jerusalem/ & did set fire on the house of the Lord/ on the kings palace/ on all the houses in Jerusalem/ and so brent up all the goodly and great houses. moreover all the host of the Caldes/ there being undyr this chief captain threwdowne the wall is round about Jerusalem. And the raskel of the people there left in the city/ & siche as fled to the king of Babylon with the multitude of the artificers left behind/ Nebuzaradan tharcheiften over the host carried a way with him. But the poor people of the land/ Nabuzaradan chief capitain left behind still to plant and keep the bynes and to till the feldis. The brazen pilers that were in the house of the Lord with their feet/ and the great brazen laver in the house of the Lord/ the Caldes broke in pieses/ and carried away all the metal of them unto Babylon. The kalderns/ tongues/ knives/ sprynkles'/ spoons/ and all the brazen vessels wherewith they ministered/ they took all away: water pots/ ships wherein they put sense/ tankerdis/ basons/ candelstickis/ mortars/ cups/ of which some were all of gold and some silver/ the chief capitain took away with him. The weight of both the pilers & of but one of the laver/ & of the xii brazen oxen that bore up the sokets or feet/ which king Solomon made for the house of the Lord/ the weight (I say) of the metal of all these Iwels and vessels was above measure. For one piler was xviii cubits high/ and the rope that went about it was xii cubitis/ and it was four fingers round about/ and upon the top of this rope/ was their standards of brass/ of which each was v cubitis high/ & over these toppestonderds was there a kel or net closing round about the pome granets: and all was of brass. after this manner were both the pillars fashioned and garnesshed with pome granets/ of which there were ●●cvi. & all hanging/ as it were in the air/ closen under this kell. This Nebuzaradan the chief capitain/ took Sarias' the chief Priest and Zephoniam the priest next under him and the iii keepers of the bestrye. And out of the city he took a gelded man/ which was master of the kings guard/ and seven men that where the kings servants which were found in the cite. And at last/ he took away the chief scribe/ whose office was to bill the people into the host/ with lx other men/ which were of the people of the land and found in the city. These (I say) this Nebuzaradan the archeiften took away. And carried them to Reblatha unto the king of Babylon. And the king of Babylon slew them in Reblatha in the land of Hemath. And thus was Juda translated & led captive out of their own land.  

¶ This is the some of the people led away into captivity of Nebuchadrezar.  
IN the seven year of his reign he led away iii M. & xxiii In the xviii year of his reign. Nebuchadrezar ledawaye captive from Jerusalem viii C. men and xxxii The xxiii year of Nebuchadrezar/ Nebuzaradan chief capitain & ruler over the Iwes/ ledawaye seven ninety & xlv The hole some of all the captives iiii M. and vi C. It came to pass in the day the lxxiii. year of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda the xxv day of the xii month: that Aevil Merodach king of Babylon/ the same year that he reigned/ would restore Joachin king of Juda unto his dignity: and so brought him out of the preson: And there talked with him very ientely: And ordained him a kings seat above the place of other kings that were with him in Babylon. He changed the clothes of his captivity. And he did eat at the kings cost all his life. Also he had his living continually given him of the king of Babylon/ for every day a certain allowed him until he died.     

¶ The lamentations of jeremy. which he did sit & weepermoorninge upon Jerulalem: & upon the miserable fall of the Iwes: after that Juda was led away into captivity: and Jerusalem left desolate/ lamenting on this manner. Every verse having before it orderly an Hebrew letter after their. A. B. C.  

¶ The i Chapter.  
verse Aleph. AH/ How now sitteth this city all alone/ some time so populose? Which was the most haunted among all nations/ how is she now become so like a widow? Oh lady of provinces/ how art thou thus distressed and brought under tribute?  
verse Beth. She passeth over the night waking and weeping. She watereth her cheeks with bitter tears. For there is not one of all 
* Her lovers an● next friends at her God's.  her lovers that will comfort her/ even her next friends aborre her/ and are become her enemies.  
verse Gimel. Juda is taken/ for her lying down/ and for her manifold false worship she now dwelleth among the 
* gentiles are haithe●  gentiles. She hath little rest. Every man that pursued her/ took her. And she dwelleth among her enemies.  
verse dale. The ways to Zion/ mourn: because no man come unto her solemn festis/ all hi● gates are desolate. Her priests wail: her maidens untyered are right careful/ and she herself hath a sorrowful heart.  
verse He. Her enemies flewyn upon her head/ & scornfully reviled her: for the Lord scourged her for her manifold sins. Her children were droven a way captive before their adversaries.  
verse Dau. All the beauty of the daughter Zion is perished & gone. Her rulers are like rams/ that can find no pasture. They be so tagged and harried away before their pursuers/ that they are brethlesse.  
verse Zain. Jerusalem remembreth both the days of her affliction and rebellion/ & also the days paste of her wealy prosperity/ even whiles her people fall down under their adversaries handis/ noman to help them/ Their enemies behold them/ and scorn their sabbath days.  
verse Heth. Jerusalem for her abominable and so manifold sins/ is thus translated & tossed from place to place. All that looked upon her/ contemn her: for they saw her shameful secret parts. Even she herself be waileth her state being a shamed of her own self.  
verse Teth. Her uncleanness runneth down rowndaboute by her helis/ she considered not what would follow and be her end/ & so to have come down from her pride: wherefore she sitteth counfortlesse/ neither can she say herself. Lord behold my affliction/ for my enemy prevaleth against me.  
verse Jod. Her enemies stretch forth their handis unto all her most precious things/ even before her own face. That is to say/ she saw the heathen come in and out of her holy secret place of the temple/ which thing I forbade/ that is to wit that they should not come into thy church.  
verse Caph. All her people sought their breed with waysinge/ every man layed out his most precious iwelliss for meat to save his life. See Lord and behold how vile I am made.  
verse Lamed. Oh ye all that pass forby this way/ behold and see: If any sorrowful heaviness hath so plucked down any as it hath done me/ with which sorrow and heaviness the Lord hath scourged me in the day of his terrible wrath.  
verse Mem. He sent down fire from above into my bones/ he bent a net for my feet/ and threw me wide o●en: He left me desolate/ and in a perpetual mourning.  
verse Nun. The yoke of my trasgressions/ his hand speedily prepared: He lifted me up and wroth it about my nek/ my strength fill away. The Lord betook me into the handis of them whence I could not deliver myself.  
verse Samech. The Lord destroyed all the great men that were with me: He bode me to a feste of the destruction of my noun chosen. Even as in the wine press/ the Lord pressed out the virgin and daughter Juda.  
verse Ain. Wherefore/ I weep and my eyes water: for far from is any counforter/ which should restore me to myself again. My sons are cast out of the doors/ for my enyme hath prevailed.  
verse Pe. Zion splayeth her hands a broad/ neither is their any that will comfort her: the Lord hath brought upon her thenemies of Jacob round about her: And Jerusalem standeth in the mids of them like a menstruous woman.  
verse Zadic The Lord verily is righteous/ but I have offended his presence. Hear (I beseech you) all manner of people/ and consider my heaviness: My maids and my young men are led away captive.  
verse Kuph. I call my lovers/ but they deceive me: I call my priests and the alder men of my city: but these are all perished in the time of famine seeking to sustain their life.  
verse Res. Behold Lord/ for I am sore scourged/ my belly rombleth/ my heart wambleth in me/ and I am without forth full of bitterness/ the sword maketh me a wydewe/ with in I am like death.  
verse Sin. They hear my wailing/ but they cease to comfort/ All mine enemies hearing of my calamity/ rejoiced. For thou didist cause it. Thou shalt call and bringeforth a time/ when they shallbe made like me.  
verse Thau. Thou shalt cast upon them great calamity: Thou shalt pluck them a way for their wickedness: even as thou hast cut me a way for mine. My sorrowful morning is endless: & my heart is full heavy.   

¶ The ii Chapter  
verse Aleph. HOw hath the Lord derkened the daughter Zion in his wrath? Hath he so scattered the noble land of Israel from under heaven that he hath forgotten his footstool in his anger? 
Juda i● here called/ God's fo●stole.   
verse Beth The Lord casted down hedesinge all the glorious beauty of Jacob/ with out any favour: He throw down in his ●●●gnacion the strong defensis of the daughter Juda: & laid them on the earth: he profaned her kingdom & rulers.  
verse Gimel. In his heavy wrath he alto broke the power of Israel. He caused Israel to be handled of their enemies: and ●urned up Jacob with the flame of fire wasting all round a bout.  
verse dale. He bent his bow like an adversary/ and stretched forth his right hand like an enemy: & destroyed all things pleasant to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter Zion: he powered forth his wrath like fire.  
verse He. The Lord became an enemy/ & threwdowne hedelinge Israel: he casted down all their palaces/ with all their strong defences/ & increased heaviness even perpetually unto the daughter Juda.  
verse Dau. He also dispersed her tabernacle which was like paradise/ and did put down her solemn festis. The lord did out of mind in Zion solempnites & sabbath days: & in the fury of his indignation & wrath/ he laid open king and priest for every obprobriouse reveling.  
verse Zain. The Lord repessed his own altar/ he was angry with his secret holy place/ and gave up her wallis with turrettis into the handis of their enemies/ which made a noise in the house of the Lord as it had been in one of their solemn festis.  
verse Heth. The Lord determined to destroy the wallis of the daughter Zion/ he drew for the his line and turned not his hand till he had cast it down: wherefore the turrettis with the walls throne down mourn both together.  
verse Teth. Her gates were cast down to the ground/ their bars were alto broken. Her kings and rulers were led a way unto the heathen. They are with out law & prophet/ & vision from the Lord.  
verse Jod. The aldermen of the daughter Zion sit down with silence on the ground/ their headis bespreigned with ashes/ & themselves girt with sak. The virgens of Jerusalem cast down their headis to the ground.  
verse Caph. Abundance of teris wasted my eyes/ my bowels rombled with in me/ my liver was powered forth upon the ground for the destruction of my people/ when the children and souklingis famesshed and filldowne in the stretis of the city.  
verse Lamed. Even when they would say to their mother's/ where is the meat and drink? And as they thus said/ they fildowne in the stretis as men wownded/ and some leete their lives in their mother's bosoms.  
verse Mem. By what thing might I certify thee/ to what thing might I compare thee/ oh daughter Jerusalem? what thing might I liken the to: with what thing might I confer the oh virgin and daughter Zion? For thy destruction and wownde is a sea unmeasurable: Who may heal thee?  
verse Nun. Thy Prophetis looked the forth vain and foolish things/ neither would they utter and tell the thy wickedness/ that they might have turned a way thy captivity: but they looked forth falsely burdens for the & deceivable dispersions.  
verse Samech. All that passed forby thee/ clapped their handis at thee/ they hissed and wagged their headis upon the daughter Jerusasem saying: Is th●s the city that every man praised to be so fair in whicht all the world delighted?  
verse Ain. All thy enemies mocked & moewed upon thee/ they hissed & grenned saying/ let us devour/ for the time is come that we looked fore/ we have found and seen.  
verse Pe. The lord hath performed his thought and fynesshed his word decreed in time paste. He hath destroyed and spared not: He hath made thine enemy glad over thee/ and exalted the power of thy adversayries.  
verse Zadic. Let thy heart cry unto the Lord oh city/ daughter Zion. Let thy teris flowout like a river day and night/ take the to no rest/ nor let not the apple of thine eye cease.  
verse Kuph. Arise and pray be night in the begining of the watch/ powerout thy heart like water before the Lord/ life up thy handis unto him for the lives of thy lytelons which perish for hunger in the headis & endis of every street.  
verse Res. See Lord & behold/ wherefore: hast thou thus plucked us away? hath it any where be seen women to have eaten their own children of a span long? Ha●ie there be seen priest and Prophet slain in the secret holy place of the Lord?  
verse Sin. young and old are laid with out on the ground/ my maids and young men are smytendowne with sword whom thou slewest in the day of thy wrath/ thou hast slain and not spared.  
verse Thau. Thou called'st my neighbours a bout me/ like as unto a solemn feste/ & there escaped none/ nor yet any left in the day of the wrath of the Lord. What I nourished & encriased/ my adversarys consumed.   

The iii Chapter.  
verse Aleph. IT is I that am the very man which have felt the miserable calamity by the staff of his wrath.  
verse Aleph. It is I whom he drove and led/ but yet in darkness and not in light.  
verse Aleph. against me be turned and moved his hand at all times.  
verse Beth. He made old my flesh and skin/ and broke my bones to powder.  
verse Beth. He builded against me/ and closed me in with gall and labour.  
verse Beth. He did set me in Detkenes as dead men for ever.  
verse Gimel. He hedged me in rowndabout that I could not scape/ and laid more weight upon my gives.  
verse Gimel. Ye and albeit I cry and make supplication/ yet he repelleth my prayer  
verse Gimel. He stopped my way with four squared stones/ and made crooked my paths.  
verse dale. He became a wait laying bear for me/ & a lion in a privy place.  
verse dale. He inverted my way and disappointed me of my journey/ he made me desolate.  
verse dale. He bent his bow/ & did set me up his mark to shoot at.  
verse He. He sent his arrows into my reins.  
verse He. I was made a fable/ and a perpetual jesting stock to all my people.  
verse He. He satisfied me with bitterness and filled me with worm wood  
verse Dau. He knocked out my teeth with a stone/ & spurned me rolled with his feet in the dust.  
verse Dau. He did put me from all manner rest/ so that I have no remembrance of any goodness.  
verse Dau Thus therefore I think with myself. I am utterly undone and altogether forsaken of the Lord.  
verse Zain Remember my affliction/ my violent injury/ wormwood and gall.  
verse Zain. My soul/ in earnestly remembering these things/ melteth a way in me.  
verse Zain. Whyse yet I call these things unto my mind/ I come thus again to hope.  
verse Heth That the mercies of the lord are all not wasted/ & his goodnesses cease not.  
verse Heth. Thy great faithfulness is like the fresh morning  
verse Heth. The Lord is my part saith my soul/ wherefore I trust in him.  
verse Teth. The Lord is good unto the fast believing soul that seeketh & asketh after him.  
verse Teth. It is good/ patiently to suffer/ and softly/ to wait for that saving health from the Lord.  
verse Teth. Oh how goodly a thiug is it/ for a man to take and bear the yoke even from his yougeth?  
verse Jod. He sitteth alone full still/ that is content with himself.  
verse Jod. He setteth his mouth unto the earth: if peradventure any hope will offer herself.  
verse Jod He offereth his cheek unto the smiter/ & is well content with obprobrye.  
verse Caph. For the Lord never forsake thee: nor spurneth us a way for ever.  
verse Caph. But if he cast us of/ yet for his abundant mercy/ he forgiveth again.  
verse Caph. For he scourgeth not/ nor repelleth not the children of men of heart and mind.  
verse Lamed. (As though he would break & tread under his feet all that be bound in preson on the earth)  
verse Lamed. To avoid & turn from man's judgement/ in the sighed of the most highest.  
verse Lamed. Nether to vex unjustly any man's cause/ the Lord knoweth it not.  
verse Mem. Who then dare say/ that any thing is done with out God's commandment?  
verse Mem. Both good & ill/ go they not forth of the mouth of the most highest?  
verse Mem. wherein then is man yet living so strong? He is valiant in the goodly acts of sin.  
verse Nun. Let us therefore search & remember our own ways/ & turn to the Lord.  
verse Nun. Let us lift up our hearts & handis unto the Lord which is in heaven.  
verse Nun. We be verily the sinners & the disobedient but thou/ shalt thou not forgive?  
verse Samech Thou hast harnessed thyself with wrath/ and pursued us/ thou hast slain us with out grace.  
verse Samech. Thou hast harnessed thyself with a cloud/ that our prayer should not pierce thorough unto the.  
verse Samech Thou hast made us the dregs & dirt even abjects of all people.  
verse Ain. All our enemies potted and mowed with their mouths upon us.  
verse Ain Fear/ snare/ a lifting up & a throwing-downe changed upon us.  
verse Ain. My eyes gusshedout water for the throyngdowne and breaking of the daughter which is my people.  
verse Pe. My eyes powerout water & cease not/ because there appeareth no rest.  
verse Pe. When wilt thou see and behold us (oh Lord) from heaven?  
verse Pe. My eye wasteth my heart/ for all the daughters sake of my city.  
verse Zadic. My enemies honted me sharply like a bird/ ye & that with out a cause.  
verse Zadic They thrusted down my life into the pit/ & laid a stone upon me.  
verse Zadic. They powered water upon my head/ & I said: now am I done.  
verse Kuph. I called upon thy name (oh Lord) even from a right deep grave.  
verse Kuph. And thou herdst my voice/ and turnedst not thy earis fro my sobbing and crying.  
verse Kuph. Thou didist come to me/ even when I called upon thee: saying unto me/ be not a frayed.  
verse Res. Lord thou defendedst my cause/ and redemedst my life.  
verse Res. Lord thou sawest my sins/ take up/ and defend my cause.  
verse Res. Thou espyedst all their study to hurt me/ & all their counsel against me.  
verse Sin. Lord thou herdist their obprobriouse reviles/ and all their thoughts to hurt me.  
verse Sin. And thou heardest the lips of them that stood up against me/ & their conspirisons daily conspired against me.  
verse Sin. Thou seist their downsittinge and upstandinge: 
* They ●ake ●nges 〈◊〉 me.  I am the matter of their songs.  
verse Thau. Requite them (Lord) after the works of their own handis.  
verse Thau. Reward them the harp of their own heart/ even their own curse to light upon them.  
verse Thau. Follow upon them/ Lord/ with thy indignation/ and pluk them up by the roots from all that are under heaven.   

The four Chapter.  
verse Aleph. OH/ How is the gold thus dimned/ & her so oriast● colour changed? How are the stones of the holy temple dispersed & s●rewed unto the ends of every street?  
verse Beth. The noble sons of Zion/ sometime decked with the purest gold: How are they now like earthen potsherdis made with the potters hand?  
verse Gimel. These 
* Men maiden dragon or sich other ●●sters.  ●amies give sou●●e their whelps with their bare breasts: but the daughter of my people/ now like a wild beast/ dwelleth in the wilderness like Struthions.  
verse dale. The soukelings tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the lytelons asked breed/ but there was none that would 
* Or ●●ke it th●  give it them.  
verse He. They that fed sometime dilicately/ died in the stretis: & they that were brought up in purple were now fled with a torde.  
verse Dau. And the sin of the daughter of my people/ is reputed greater than the sin of Sodom subverted in the twynkling of an eye/ without any man's hand.  
verse Zain. Her nazarenes were whiter then the snow or milk/ they were roidirer than the 
* 〈◊〉 or coral.  diamond or any of the other precious stones/ their fresh beauty did shine like the Sapphire.  
verse Heth. But now is their beauty blacker than the very darkness itself/ thou wouldest not know them in the stretis/ their skins eleve to their bones/ they be withered up like a dry blok.  
verse Teth. The slain with sword were better at ease/ then those that perished for hunger/ which famesshed for the famine of the field  
verse Jod. The women naturally full of pity/ seethed their own children with their own handis/ to eat them in that miserable famine of the daughter of my people.  
verse Caph. The Lord finesshed his wrath & powered forth his hot indignation/ and did set fire on Zion/ which devowered her foundations.  
verse Lamed. Nether the kings of the land/ nor yet all the world/ would not have believed/ that their enemies should ever have comen in thorough the gatis of Jerusalem.  
verse Mem. Which thing/ not withstanding/ yet came it to pass/ for the sins of her prophetis/ and mischief of her priests/ which shed in her the blood of innocentis.  
verse Nun. So that these blind betells went staggering in the stretis 
* embrwed with blood.  wrestling with blood: saying yet in the mean season/ we may not touch their clothes.  
verse Samech. But cried unto every man: i'll from blodeshedinge/ avoid/ get ye hence/ touch them not. nevertheless thus saying/ they cause men to be burned/ to i'll from place to place/ & at last never more to inhabit their own country.  
verse Ain. Wherefore the grim countenance of the Lord hath banesshed them/ never more to behold them: for nether they their selves reverently feared the face of the priests nor yet had thy any pity of their elders.  
verse Pe. Wherefore even yet our eyes dazzle and fail/ while we look for our vain help seeking busily such folk that can not help us.  
verse Zadic They laid a wait and made slyber our paths/ so that we could not go in the stretis: then was our end comen/ our days were done/ our departing was present.  
verse Kuph. Our pursuers were swyfter than the eagles of the air/ they pursued us in the hillis and laid await for us in the desert  
verse Res. The breath of our mouth/ even 
* christ  Messiah the Lord/ shallbe taken for our sins: of whom we say/ that in his 
* defe●●.  shadow we shallbe saved among the gentiles.  
verse Shin. Thou therefore joy & begladde daughter Edom/ which dost inhabit the land of Hus: for unto the shall come the cup with the which thou shalt be made moist in drinking thereof.  
verse Thau. Thy sin is fynesshed (oh daugther Zion) he shall translate the no more: but thy wickedness/ oh daughter Edom/ shall ●e visit/ and translate the for thy sins.   

¶ The prayer of jeremy.  
REmember Lord what we suffer: se & behold our ob●robrye. Our heritage it turned unto aliauntiss/ and our houses unto strangers. ●e are karefull fatherless children/ and our mothers sit housbondles. We buy our own water which we drink: & we buy our wood with money. Persecution hangeth over our necks. We labour & yet are like to have no rest. We once yilded ourselves bound unto thegyptionsegyptians: but now are we in like bondage under Assur to: that yet at the lest wise we mought thus eat our breed. Our fathers were sinners/ which now be gone/ & we bear their iniquytes. 
Exodi xx. deutero. v. Jerem. xxxi. & Ezech. xviii  The bond/ & servants are become our lords & rulers/ noman to deliver us out of their hands. We get our living with great peril of our life for the drought of the desert: our hyidis be tanned & parched as it were in an ●ouē/ so ougely is our stormey famine. They defiled women in Zion/ & virgens in the cities of Juda. The rulers are hanged up with the handis of their enemies. They did disreverente the face and person of the elders & feared them nothing at al. They drew the youngmen about by the members tering out their bowels/ and hanged up laddis upon the treis'. The elderly men sat no more in judgement at the gates/ & their young men played no more upon their music instruments. Our hearts joy failed. Our merry quere is turned into mourning. The crown of our headis fallen of. Ah lass for sorrow that ever we so sinned. For our sins our hearts mourn/ & our eyes be wasted with bitter teris for the mount Zion. Which is now so desolate/ that foxes run in it. But thou (oh Lord) which abidest for ever/ and thy seat royal thorout all ages: wherefore forgettest thou us for ever? Why forsakest thou us so long? Convert us unto thee (oh Lord) and so shall we be converted. Renew and restore us our days as they have been in time paste. For thou hast now repelled us long enough/ & been angry with us above measure.  
¶ The end of the Prophet Jeremy: translated by George joy. An M.D.xxxiiii. Mense Maii.  
¶ To supplee the leaf/ take here (christian reader) that goodly and godly song of Moses. Where with thou oughtest now gloriously to magnify & praise God for the destruction and throing down of our cruel Pharaoh the Bishop of Rome: no nother wise than did Moses and his church love him for drowning of Pharaoh: which Pharaoh figured our bloody Bishops of Rome.    

¶ The song of Moses and his church/ sungen after Pharasus death drowned with his host in the red sea.  
I Shall sing with praise unto the Lord: 
Exode xv.  For it is he verily/ that is gloriously to be magnified. Horse and man/ hath he casten down into the sea.  
The Lord it is/ unto whom I ●leue: It is the Lord/ whom I praise/ he is become my health and salvation.  
It is he that is my God. Him will I glorify. He is the God of my father's/ & even him will I exalt.  
The Lord is a mighty man of war: Jehovah is his name: Pharaous chariettis and host hath he casten down into the sea.  
His ioylye chosen captains are drowned in the red sea/ the deep waters have overwhelmed them/ they sank down unto the bottom like stones.  
Thy righthande oh Lord is great & glorious in strength: Thy righthande Lord hath thrusted down the enemy.  
To thy great glory haste thou destroyed thine adversaries: thou sent'st forth thy wrath/ & it consumed them like stobble.  
With the breathe of thine anger the waters ran together on heapis: so that the bare bottom was seen/ the flowing flowed stodeup as fast as a rock. And the bottomless water was congealed in the mids of the sea.  
The enemy had thought thus/ I shall follow and take them/ I shall divide out the spoil/ and satisfy my pleasure upon them/ I shall draw out my sword and my hand shall slay them.  
But thou didist but blow with thy breath/ & the sea ran over them: They sank down lyk led under the vehement waters.  
Who among the God's is like unto the oh Lord? Who may be compared unto the in power and might? who is like unto the in magnificence and holiness? who is like the in reverent fere/ to be praised doing so wonderful miracles?  
Thou stretchedst forth thy righthande/ and the sea swelowed them yn.  
But in thy mercy hast thou led forth thy people whom thou deliverdest: and with thy mighty power hast thou brought them unto thy holy habitation.  
Which thing when the gentiles heard of/ they were sore troubled/ sudden sorrowful pangs fill upon the Philistens.  
Then the Princes of Edom were confounded with fear/ trembling came upon the mighty Moabitis/ and all the hearts of thin habitours of Canaan melted for fear and sank a way like water.  
Let anxt and fear fall upon them thorough the great might of thine arm/ that them be as still as stones while thy people pass thorough/ oh Lord: while this people pass thorough/ whom thou haste gotten into thy possession.  
Bring them yn/ plant and fill them upon the mount of thine heritage/ the very habitation (Lord) which thou hast made the to dwell in/ even thy noun secret sanctuary oh Lord which thy hands have prepared.  
The Lord be king evermore to reign world with out end. Amen.  
Finis.