THE LAMENTATIONES OF JEREMY, TRANSLATED WITH GREAT CARE OF HIS HEBREW ELEGANCY, AND ORATORIOUS SPEECHES: WHEREIN HIS SIXFOLD ALPHABET STIRRETH all to attention, OF GOD'S ORDERED Providence in kingdoms confusion. WITH EXPLICATIONES from other Scriptures, touching his story & phrases. BY HUGH BROUGHTON. 1606 OF JEREMY'S LIKENESS TO MOSES IN MANY DEGREES. IEremy had great resemblances to liken him unto Moses in many points, pleasant to consider: & much for his authority. As Moses was of Leuj, the godliest tribe, and the best family: that which by faith hid him three months: So jeremy was of Leuj, of the sacrificers of Anathoth: & his father was Chelkiah the high sacrificer: who found the Law, hid in the temple: in Manasses days: whose repentance was but a little afore his death: that he could not think of the Law. And Amon his son was wicked. Of this Levite came jeremy: Son & father honourers of Moses. Moses was unwilling to go upon his message: jeremy was unwilling to go upon his message. Moses own tribe stood up against him: Core & his company. jeremy his own, the men of Anathoth stood up against him: Moses was cast into the river by his own kindred: jeremy was cast into a dungeon by his own kindred. Moses was taken out of the river by one of Pharaohs maidens: jeremy was taken out of the dungeon by an Aethiopian, by Abdemelech. Moses reproved Israel: jeremy reproved Israel: Moses told Israel, of captivity: & closely of seventy years: Levit. 26. and of a new remembrance of covenant▪ jeremy told Israel of captivity & expressly to end at 70 years: and of the New Testament Moses told that the Kings should go to a strange Land: upon desert, to be rooted out: jeremy telleth the Kings shall go to Babel. & telleth expressly twice: jer. 36. & 22. that the King's stock shallbe rooted out. Moses desired of God to show him his ways: seeing the strange success of wicked here: jeremy desired to know why the wicked prospered. Moses bade Israel they should no more return to Egypt. jeremy bade Israel they should no more return to Egypt. Moses spoke from his own faith in God: that the rebels against him should have a strange death: jeremy from his faith in God told the pseudoprophet Ananias, S. of Azor, this year thou shalt die. Moses written of sadness to Rachel the mother, by her death at Beth Lechem, jeremy wrote that Rachel shall weep for her children's death at Beth Lechem. Moses prophesied, a King, of Christ the King forty years: jeremy prophesied unto Kings, of Christ the true King forty years. Moses written most curious poetry Ex. 15 & Deut. 32. jeremy's Lamentations bring more joy for learned style: then sadness by speech of the nations fall. Moses and jeremy saved much of their company by their forty years: for going into the Land: from the wilderness: & out of the Land into the wilderness of the heathen. The Pharisees despising Moses & jeremy, & Apostles 40 years bred Eternal Lamentations. THE COMMENDATION OF JEREMY'S LAMENTATIONS. THe holy spirit commendeth in jer. 36. the book of Lamentations: that it abridgeth all jeremy's sermons made from the thirteenth of josias unto the fourth of joakim, which space jeremy reckoneth to betwenty three years. And as he abridgeth his own sermons made from the phrases of the Law, job, Psalms, and Salomon's Books, & from all the former prophets: So his Lamentations in very speech do call the reader to former works that the reading of them bringeth into mind all the former holy writers. And the holy Daniel so delighted in him, that ch. 9 he abridgeth his Lamentations how under heaven it hath not been done, as it hath been done to jerusalem: where every curse spoken in the Law of Moses hath showed full event. God bade jeremy write the Book: & to read it in a great fast. Baruc wrote it & read it to the nobles: they bring it to joakim the King: & read it: he being at a fire in his winter chamber: in his fifth year: when he had returned from Babel, & purposed rebellion in his heart. It was about November: & a burning fire was in his chamber: & as jehudj read three or four Leaves, joakim with a penknife cut them, & cast them into the fire: till he consumed all the Book. yet the nobles requested him not to deal so. Also he commanded to lay hold upon jeremy & Baruc. But God hid them: & bade jeremy write again the book▪ with addition: the threefold Alphabet: ch. 3. as well may be thought: & to prophesy of joakim, the rooting out of his succession and house: & that he shallbe buried like an ass: cast out of jerusalem. Which fell out as he was carried the second time for Babel. And thus in jeremy GOD honoureth the Lamentationes of jeremy▪ HOW daniel's VISIONS HONOUR IEREMYES LAMENTATIONS. FIve years after jeremy's Lamentations were first written Daniel writeth of the jew enemies: how they make a great & goodly image: & figureth them not by beasts, while the Kings of judah be savage wights, & caused jeremy's Lamentations: But after threescore years, when the King's race was gone, than judah's enemies were likened unto savage beasts: & the jew of jeremy's Lamentations are the holy: which shall possess a kingdom for Ever and Ever. Also jeremy Lam. 4. closely telleth of Babel's fall: that doth Daniel lively describe: chapt. 5. jeremy Lam. 5 prayeth unto God to turn his People: because so only they can be returned: & to renew his gracious face as of old. Daniel ch. 9 expressly nameth jeremy's 70 years for God's anger: & prayeth for the renewing of God's favour. THE STORY OF JUDAH, FOR THE TIME OF JEREMY'S LAMENTATIONS. Daniel only recordeth, ch. 1. that in the third of jehoiakim; Nabuchadnezzar King of Babel came against jerusalem▪ But by jeremy, ch. 25. we gather that part of joakim his fourth was also in Nabuchadnezar his first. And then God gave the K. into his hands: & part of the vessels of the temple: & God brought K. and vessels unto Babel: But the K. was suffered to return: for in his fifth vere he was at jerusalem: This captivity was mentioned only in Daniel: who was also carried with three as godly, Ananias, Misael, & Azarias: & other of the King's race. Eight years after this would not teach K. joakim that he upon rebellion should be buries an Ass: For he had sinned against the holy Gh. in bur●ing jeremy's Lamentations: & could not be renewed to re〈…〉 nce: but must have open punishment here, as Eternal 〈◊〉 Gehenna. After five years Daniel & Nab: both dreamt of the great Image: that should rule not only judah but all: a long time: joakim cared nothing for all this. Nab. the K. presently maketh a Golden Image, to augment the visions memory: & his hope: as Diod: Siculus noteth: that he should be a Monarch: and would have it worshipped. Then daniel's godly cousins quench the fire. And the K. of Babel proclaimeth God's glory: But joakim contemneth God, to hasten judgement! & rebelleth against Nab: K. of Babel. The second & third ch. of Daniel must be here considered: how against them the wicked harden their heart. So God sent armies of Chaldeans, Aram, Moab, & Ammon against judah, & they took joakim and bound him in chains to have brought him to Babel: 2. ch. 36. But he died by the way, & he was buried like an ass. jer. 36. jehoiachin reigned three months: like a Cruel Lion. Him Nabuchadnezar suffered not to sit any longer upon David's throne: But carried him to Babel. And more vessels of the temple & palace; & all the nobles: & Mardochaj then a suckling, one of Ieremies Lamented. Then also was Ezekiel captived. That he might freely in Babel tell the rest of juda they should follow. But they would never believe that judah's kingdom should err to destruction. Many thousands also of the People, all saving the poor, he carried to Babel: & kept jechonias 37. years in prison: that wicked Thalmudists should not say: jechonias by repentance called back God's oath: that said he should die childless. Repentance should have holpen Achabs' brood; first out of prison. But no repentance, not Moses repentance, can call back God's oath: Besides the oath passed as well for joakim that none of his seed should sit upon David's throne. yet the infidels teach it to be Atheism to say that Salomon's race is ended. But the Gospel of S. Luke & jer. 36. & 22. & Aggej. 2. & Zach. 12. teach us that it is infidelity to deny it to be ended. Let him that readeth understand. TO THE MOST NOBLE HENRY PRINCE OF GREAT Brittany. THE Law promisseth (G. P). all blessing of this world, &, when this earthly house of tabernacle is dissolved, a building from God everlasting, if we keep it: But without any token that men would keep it, breaking upon breaking is foretold: & eight and twenty fold punishments, until at the last judah should lose their Land and be seventy years in the Land of Nemrod: where they might behold the wicked building: which bred confusion of tongues: and which should end the tongue of Adam from common use. When the first year of this captivity was beginning: jeremy penned a form of lamentations: showing man's misery to the full. and the rooting out of Salomon's house, which from Roboam was Ammonitish: and from Ochozias was Achabish: and was often near rooting out. that men might better believe it should wholly decay: and look unto the family of Christ the son of Nathan Salomon's brother. The Godly in captivity, as Daniel, who stopped the mouth of Liones, and Ananias, Misael, with Asarias, who quenched the force of fire, were humbled by these Lamentationes to behold the days of Christ. And presently from their beginning Daniel beginneth his captivity: as a witness to jeremy's truth; and showeth how God in sorrows advanced him to be wealthier than mighty Kings; and contrived the Kingdoms which thence should afflict faithful judah's religion, unto the form of one man's body: and distinct in matter, as judah's zeal, or relenting would be. jeremy's Lamentations I have set over into our tongue; with care to set forth, so near as our speech could, the oratorious bravery of his words. But all men, yea all Greeks, though their learning & eloquence were powered into one head, would come nothing near his heavenly gayness. They must learn his own language that would fill their ears with those sounds of Chanaan. Besides his translation, I have showed his meaning so far as I deemed need was; for his conference with the other holy works. And him I joined to Koheleth,. Also I finished that work which was sent over to your G. in Hebrew and Latin which handleth David's Families & daniel's sum. That I have also turned into more languages; as containing an explication of common Christianity. These I laboured, that your G. might by ripe years, be ripe in the know ledg of God. Your Grace's most humble, HUGH BROUGHTON. THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY. Aleph. 1 HOw is the city dwelled solitary which was full of people; She is become a very widow. The great among nations, the prince among countries is become a jehoiakim was carried to Babel, in the first of Nabu: & Daniel, Ananias, Misael, & Azaria● with other young nobles. Da. 1. And jehoiakim was suffered to return to his Kingdom: being made a servant tributary to the King of Babel. tributary. Beth. 2 She weary sore all the b Affliction is night. as Es. 21. Three years jehoiakim served the K. of Babel. That time was night: Three years he was vexed with forces of Chaldeans Syrians Moabites Ammonites. And that was a darker night. night: Her tears trickle upon her cheeks: She hath no comforter of all her Lovers: all her c Egypt and Tyrus & other near nations, which afterwards resisted Babel 35. years. yet they left jerusalem to be taken of Nabuchadnezar after a small siege. friends deal unfaithfully with her: They are become her enemies. Gimel. 3. judah d In th' eight of Nab: with K. jechonias & Mardochai then a child, & Ezekiel, & many who then saw Salomon's temple, & Lived till Aggei asked them, of it & Zorobabels▪ Ag. 2. And many thousands: all saving the poor. And again when the remnant is captived, after full bondage & sorrow. Besides in the Book of Ester Letters went into 127 countries against the jews, & again for them. And the Chaldean scattered them not: wherefore we must understand that many believing their country should become under Babel fled into other coutreyes. And of them might they be who made the synagogues in Corinth & Rome. leaveth country after affliction & much bondage. She dwelleth among the heathen: She findeth no rest: all that pursue her overtake her in the straits. Daleth. 4. The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the feasts: all her gates be desolate; her sacrificers e They sighed not for killing the prophets but for the punishment. sigh: her virgins sorrow, & she feeleth bitterness. Herald 5 Her adversaries are the chief: her enemies prosper: because the Eternal hath made her sorrowful, for her great trespasses: Her infants f As Mardochai: who was active in esther's days: Ester. 10. & was carried to Babel 62. years afore Babel fell. So he must live 85. at the least; though he were 〈…〉 ived, in his cradle. go to captivity, before the adversary. Chap. I. Vau. 6 And from the g All settled common weals are called daughters in the Scripture; as Daughter Babel, ps. 137. So Rome is pictured a woman Apo. 17 daughter Zion all her gayness is departed: her Princes are like hearts which find no pasture, and go void of all strength before the pursuer. Zain. 7 jerusalem remembreth in the days of her affliction and vexation, all the precious things that she had in the old time: when the People hath fallen by the hand of the Enemy: and she hath no helper: her adversaries behold her, & Laugh at her h This prophesieth how in Babel they will mourn for desire unto their feasts: which in their Land they would not keep aright And the Chaldeans will skoph their Sabbatismes, as did long after Horace, Ovid, and other Poets. & Tully too: Deserving to have his head cut off and his tongue pricked, as he had. The ps. 137. commenteth upon this verse. Sabbatismes. Cheth. 8 jerusalem hath sinned grevously: therefore came she into i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nydah. Such uncertainty of place as Cain had Gen. 4. wandering from place to place. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expresseth of purpose this word, 1 Cor. 4. 11. dispersion: all that honoured her contemn her: because they have seen her shame: also she sigheth & turneth herself backwards. Teth. 9 Her k jer. Ch. 2. handleth this at large. The trope meaneth Idolatry. uncleanness is upon her skirts. She remembreth not l Deu. 32. O that they were wise, & would remember their last end. Moses spoke of this age. her last end: How she is wonderfully brought down, she hath no comforter. O Eternal see my affliction: because the enemy is mighty. Iod. 10 The adversary layeth his hand upon all her m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoc. 18. precious things: when she seeth the nations come into her temple: of whom thou hast commanded: They should not come into thy n That is: They shall bear no office in thy common weal. they are Ammonites and Moabites. Deut. 23. 3. they come now even into the Temple where only the Levites should come. congregation. Caph. 11 All her People sigh, seeking for bread: they give their precious things for o This speech is a prophecy of the famine that should befall the city, in the last siege: which began in the ninth of Sedekias. Then Nab; compassed the city with siege, until the Eleventh year; when the famine was exceeding great, & the People of the Land had no meat. 2. K. 25. 1. Though two captivities were passed, & none were left but a remnant of poor, & Ezekiel in captivity prophesied that Sedekias and his company should come after the former, & jeremy still in jerusalem commented in Sermons upon his Lamentations, all this moved not Sedekias & his nobles. For they knew not the Kingdom of Christ: that it was for the world to come; & knew that an Eternal throne was promised unto David. 2. Sam. 7. & 1. Chro. 17. So still they made their belly their God. Phil. 3. And to this day the Thalmudiques say; in R. Moses Ben Mamony Tom. 1. tractat. Poenitentia: Perek or section. 9 All the good things which the prophets prophesied unto Israel: they are only body things, wherein the body shallbe benefited in the days of Messias; when the Kingdom shallbe restored to Israel. Moses foretold Deut. 32. that when they became fat, gross, and burly, they would forget God that made them, & contemn the rock of their Salvation. And Esay Ch. 6. recordeth that to have come to pass: & Rambam tract. poenit. recordeth the sin there to be sin against the holy Ghost: wherein God would never give repentance. As they could not repent: to give ever at the siege: but they dreamt still that Egypt would help; but jeremy Lamenteth that their folly: So for the second destruction, they believed not the Angel Dan. 9 that telleth again and again that their city should have a final destruction. But when S. Stephen, act. 6 & 7. told the same, & had in his faco like the Angel's brightness, they stopped their ears: & would neither hear nor see. And who would have thought that Saraias the high Sacrificer, & father of good Esra should conspire with the rest to damn jeremy for a false prophet, because he told of Ruin to the temple, & implements: & of the New Testament. But man sold into sin cannot see, where God openeth not the eyes. And here the spirit teacheth the Godly to groan with sighings unspeakable. meat to keep in life. See o Eternal, & consider how contemptible I am become. Lamed. Daniel full of grace honoureth this verse ch. 9 thus: It hath not been done under all the heaven as it hath been done to jerusalem. 12 This hath not befallen you, o all that pass by the way. Consider ye, & see if there be any sadness like my sadness, which is caused unto me; where the Eternal hath caused sorrow, in the day of his hot anger. Mem. 13 From an high he hath sent fire into my p The cities of juda brent by the Chaldeans. bones, and made it prevail: he hath spread a net to my feet: he hath turned me backward, he hath made me desolate, sick, all the day. Nun. 14 The q The yoke of the Law was given to teach how sin abounded. So seeing they humbled not themselves before God, to walk better in his holy covenant, all the curses written in the Laws of Moses came upon them: when from the yoke of the Law, which these fathers could not bear, they yoke of their trespasses galled the neck. When Dan. Ch. 9 confessed this much: the angel Gabriel teacheth him of the easy yoke of Christ, named so: Math. xj. And that oration of the Angel Gabriel is no less to the old Testament than the sun is to the sky. yoke of my trespasses hath made an impression by his hand: they plate r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. s. Paul expoundeth this strange Hebrew with as strange Greek: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: Eb. 12. Sin that cunningly wrappeth about. And this he meaneth that the glorious wisdom of Moses Law, which standeth for the marrow, still, but not for the outward, Sabbat, circumcision Tabernacle, & other rites of Levy, this blinded them, who would not look unto Christ the end of the Law; that God from the Law plagued them, & made the Law, held as their table, to be their trap: Seing they would not enter into the rest of Christ: where baptism, and the lords supper are no burden. S. Paul calling the hebrews being in the Error of sedekia's times unto jeremy's Lamentations, closely warneth by the former destruction, a second as a deluge: when the Apostles preaching hath had forty years as Ieremies when Sedekias & his went into the wilderness of the heathen. The thalmudics' traditions to this day, are their sins, plaiting themselves as the boughs of a tree, or the Nerves of the Elephant's cods. job 40. 17. Whence jeremy borrowed his word, which S. Paul gave to Gracia. themselves; they go over my s Neck signifieth as in Abak., 3. the highest towns of state. when josuah conquered Chanaan. Such was jerusalem to jeremy's days & S. Paul's. neck; he hath beaten down my strength: The Lord hath given me into their hands before whom I cannot stand. Samech. 15 The Lord hath trodden down all my t When Nah: carried away all the men of war, & all the nobles, & jewellers, in his eight year 2. K. 34. valiant, within me; he hath called an u When the Kings of the earth assisted Nab: to be siege jerusalem; Craaesus King of Lydia might well be one of them. Old Herodotus noteth his familiarity with the King of Babel. God would have Kings to know jerusalem's fall by Babel, that when they should hear of Babel's house of Nemrod fallen, by japheth and Sem, & proclamation to send home the jews by subsidy of 120 nations; they might listen when God in Christ would pity the world for that liberality to his people. assembly against me, to break my young men; the Lord hath trodden the winepress, to the virgin daughter judah. Ain. 16 Therefore do I weep; mine eye mine ey gusheth out of water; for comforter is far from me, that should keep in my life; my children are desolate because the enemy is the stronger. Pe. 17 Zion spreadeth the hands, she findeth no comforter; The Eternal hath given charge concerning jacob, to his enemies round about him; jerusalem is become a menstruous woman among them. Sade. 18 The x Dan. Ch. 9 expreseth this whole sentence. Eternal is just. For I have rebelled against his mouth. Hear now all ye people & see my sadness. My virgins & my young men are gone into captivity. Coph. 19 I called upon my y Egyptians, Ezek. 29. resisted Babel, as well as juda: But promising help they durst not perform it. As in many places Ezekiel telleth, 30. & 31. & more. Also though we have no record of confederacy betwixt judah & other Enemies to Babel, reason telleth that all of one danger at the first, joined League: These were confederate with Egypt, Ezek. 30. Cush, Put & Lud, & all Arabia, & Cub or Barbaria. These, as haters of jerusalem partly for fear of nabuchadnezar's greatness, partly of hatred to God's truth, for sake jerusalem, while Nab: besiegeth Sedekias: Ezekiel Ch. 29. & 30. prophesieth against them. Lovers; & they have deceived me; My sacrificers & my Elders yield up the ghost in the city, when they seek them meat to keep in their life. Resh. 20 See o Eternal how I am in distress. My bowels are z job. 16. 16. disquieted, & my heart is turned within me, because I have stubbornly rebelled. a Deu. 32. They shallbe brent with hunger & eaten up with burning, & bitter destruction. without, the sword shall rob: within shallbe fear. S. Paul 2. Cor. 7. 5. calleth Moses & jeremy both into mind: saying: when we came into Macedonia my flesh had no rest: we were always in distress, without was fight, within was fear: Thus divinely honoureth he the songs of Moses and jeremy: as having tbeir words still before him, joining Moses prophecy with jeremy's story: & showing how the Apostles were vexed in the world, as jerusalem of the Chaldeans. Without the sword doth rob, within is death itself. Schin. 21 They have heard how I sigh, having no comforter; all my enemies have heard my evel; b Namely Tyrus, reproved of Ezechiel for joyance at the fall of ●erusalem: which Tyrus is there told of ruin. Many years it was besieged of Nab: & taken at the last. Other nations untaken yet, but told jer. 25. that they should serve Babel, they also hated judah; concerning whom this prophecy is uttered. they rejoice at thy doing. Thou bringest a day which thou hast proclaimed, that b Namely Tyrus, reproved of Ezechiel for joyance at the fall of ●erusalem: which Tyrus is there told of ruin. Many years it was besieged of Nab: & taken at the last. Other nations untaken yet, but told jer. 25. that they should serve Babel, they also hated judah; concerning whom this prophecy is uttered. they shallbe as I am. Tau. 22 Let all c The first Alphabet row is ended in the prophecy of ending the wicked Kingdoms which should be brought under Babel's yoke: to show that all these troubles are in God's providence settled in most exquisite order for his judgements. their evil come before thee; and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my trespasses. For my sigh be many & my heart is sick. Chap. 2. Aleph. 1 HOw hath the d Four Hebrew names of God are only used in this book: jehovah, the Eternal, in each Chapter: & is accompanied with Adonaj: Abraham's stay, with a note of trinity: (Gen. 15.) Lam. Ch. 1. 2, 3. And in the third also, with El: Mighty, & once in a most fit argument; & with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The most HIGH, twice; wherein jeremy complaineth against the high states of judah, unto one whom they felt higher & mightier. In the fourth and fifth, jehovah: Performer of promise from Eternal purpose, only is used Elohim the exact mighty judge, only used Gen. 1. & elsewhere most usual in story, is not at all in this book: where the prophet showeth how God in will remember mercy▪ to make the jews in Babel a golden state: & not enter into judgement to consume them. A translator, unmindful of fit English for each, will blind his reader. Lord beclouded in his anger the daughter Zion; he hath cast down from heaven to the earth the fayreness of Israel: and remembreth not his footstool in the day of his anger. Beth. 2 The Lord hath e Eb. swallowed, & used as here, job. 2. overwhelmed, nothing sparing, all the dwellings of jacob: he hath f Deut. 28. & Amos term of David's tabernacle Ch. 9 is here. broken down in his wrath the forts of the daughter judah: He hath g Es. 25. brought unto the ground, He hath made h Ps. 89. where the whole psalm handleth this matter: that Salomon's kingdom was but vanity: & that of Messias is in heaven. a riddance of the kingdom, & of the Princes. Gimel. 3 He hath broken in his hot anger all the i Ps. 75, 12. horn of Israel: He hath turned back his right k Ps. 89. hand from the enemy: and he hath kindled l Deut. 33. in jacob a flaming fire which eateth up round about. Daleth. 4 He hath bend his bow as an enemy: he hath settled his right hand as an adversary: he hath killed all the pleasant to the eye, in the tent of the daughter Sion: he hath powered out his heath as fire. Heh. 5 The Lord is become a very enemy: he hath overwhelmed Israel, he hath overwhelmed all m 2. K. 25. her palaces: he hath marred all n Deut. 28. her forts: & he hath multiplied, in the daughter judah, o Esay 29. hath the same strange Hebrew for this matter. heaviness upon heaviness. Vau. 6 And he hath pluck up his p Ps. 76. 3. The Temple, & so in the Chaldy here. pavilion as a garden: he hath put down his feasts: the Lord hath caused in Zion feast and Sabbath to be forgotten, & he hath loathed in the indignation of his anger, q This was the main point whereupon Koheleth wrote that all things under the Sun were vain. And for this the Atheist joakim brent the Lamentations: whereupon God told he should have the burial of an ass: & that none of his seed should sit upon David's throne: & expressly that jechonias should die childless. As to this hour our Learned over Europe cannot believe jeremy 22. & s. Luc. 3. for that, so in jeremy's days men could hardly believe this: & for this the Sacrificers condemned jeremy too. So hard a matter it is to despise the world: & to look to the Kingdom of heaven. And further large commenting I shall not need. The learned in I brew upon a warning may by mine examples search how still from other holy writers jeremy fetcheth his phrases. King & Sacrificer. Zain. 7 The Lord hath rejected his altar: he hath cast off his temple: he hath delivered into the hand of the Enemy the walls of her towers: they make a noise in the house of the Eternal as on a feast day. Cheth. 8 The Lord purposed to destroy the brickwall of daughter Sion: he stretched the line; he withdrew not his hand from over-whelming: both frontier and wall mourned: together they became of no strength. Teth. 9 Her gates are sunk to the ground; he hath marred & broken into shevers all her bars; her King & her princes are among heathen that * Ro. 2. have no Law; also her prophets find no vision from the Eternal. Iod 10 The Elders of the daughter Sion sit on the ground, they be silent; they cast up dust upon their head; they put on sackcloth. The virgins of jerusalem hung down their heads to the ground. Caph. 11. Mine eyes are spent by tears; my bowels are disquieted; my liver is powered upon the ground; for the breach of the daughter of my people; while infant & suckling faint in the streets of the of the town. Lamed. 12 To their mothers they say where is * Eb. corn. bread wine; & when they faint as the slain in the streets of the city; when they power out their souls in the bosom of their mothers. Mem. 13 What testimony shall I bring for thee, what shall I liken to thee, o daughter jerusalem? what shall I compare with thee, that I may comfort thee, o daughter virgin Zion? For thy breach is great as the seas. Who can heal thee; Nun. 14 Thy prophets have looked out for thee things vain, & which have lost the saltness: they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but they have looked out for thee, prophecies of dispersion. Samech. 15 All that pass by the way clap their hands, they hiss & wag their head at the daughter jerusalem. Is this the city of which they said: * ps. 48. the perfection of fairness, the joy of all the earth; Phe. 16 All thy enemies gape with their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, we have devoured: this now is the day which we have expected, we have found, we have seen. Ain. 17 The Eternal hath done that which he purposed: he hath performed his word, as he ordained of old time: he hath broken down, and nothing spared▪ and he hath made the enemy to rejoice over thee: he hath exalted the horn of thy adversaries. Sade. 18 Their heart will cry unto the Lord: O wall of daughter Zion, power down tears like a river day & night: take thee no rest: nor let the apple of thine eye leave off. Koph. 19 * Eb. Kumi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Marc. 5. 41. Arise, break out on the night at the first watch: pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thine hands unto him for the life of thy children, which faint for hunger, in the corner of every street. Resh. Deut. 28. 20 See o Eternal & behold with whom thou hast dealt thus. Should women eat their own fruit; infants that may be spanned; should sacrificer & prophet be killed in the temple of the Lord? Schin 21 They lie in the streets, * Deut. 32. on the ground, young & old: my virgins & young men fall by the sword: thou dost kill in the day of thine anger; thou dost make a slaughter; thou dost nothing spare. Tau. 22 Thou callest, as in a day of assembly, § Ps. 31 14. jer. 6. 25 20. 3. & 10 & 46. 5. & 49. 29. my fears from round about; & there was in the day of the anger of the Eternal none escaped or remnant. Them, whom I could span, & brought up, my enemy hath consumed. Chap. 3. Aleph. jeremy telleth his own misery: after wicked joakim brent his Lamentations, and sought to kill him, & ●a●uc & he prophesieth how he shallbe used by the Sacrific●rs wickedness in sedelias times: This Chapter was added to the first book. 1. I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Aleph 2 Me hath he led & caused to go into darkness & not light. Aleph 3 He is wholly bend, he turneth his hand against me all the day. Beth. 4 He hath made my flesh and my skin wax old; he hath bruised all my bones. Beth 5 * jer. 32. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and weariness Beth 6 In * Ps ●43. jer. 38. dark places hath he set me, as the dead for ever. Gimel. 7. He hath made a wall about me, that I cannot get out: he hath laid an heavy chain upon me. Gimel 8 Though I cry, and call piteously he shutteth out my prayer. Gimel 9 He hath walled in my ways with squared stones; and turned away my paths. Daleth 10 A bear lying in wait, is he unto me; a Lion in a secret place. Daleth 11 My ways hath he made thorny; & he hath torn me; he hath made me desolate. Daleth. 12 He hath bend his bow, & set me as a mark for an arrow. Heh 13 He hath shot into my reins the shafts of his quiver. Heh 14 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 1. Cor 4. we are made a spectacle of the world. I am become a laughter to all my people: their song all the day. Heh. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness. he hath made me drunk with wormwood. Vau 16 And he hath burst my teeth with pebble stones: he hath turned me on my face in ashes. Vau 17 And my soul is cast off from peace: I have forgotten the good. Vau 18 And I thought in myself, my state is undone, and my hope from the Enall. Zain. 19 Remember my affliction, & my vexation, worm wood & gall. Zain 20 My soul shall still remember them, & pray within me full heavily. Zain 21 I will set this to my heart wherefore I shall hope: Cheth. 22 It is the mercy of the Eternal that we are not * Ps. 64. 7. consumed, because his compassions are not spent, Cheth 23 Because they be new every morning, because thy fidelity is great, Cheth 24 The Eternal is my portion, saith my soul: Therefore I will trust in him. Teth. 25 The Eternal is good to them that wait on him: to the soul that will seek unto him. Teth 26 It is good that a man trust & expect for the salvation of the Eternal. Teth 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Iod 26 He will sit alone, & be still, because HE hath laid it upon him. Iod 27 He will lay his face to the ground, that there may be hope. Iod 28 He will a Mat. 5. give his cheek to the striker, he willbe filled with reproaches. Caph 29 For the Eternal will not cast off for ever. Caph 30 For though he make sorrowful he will also have compassion: according to the riches of his grace. Caph 31 For he doth not grieve from his own heart, nor make sorrowful the sons of man. Lamed 32 To stamp under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, Lamed 33 To overthrow the right of a man before the face of the Highest, Lamed 34 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord liketh not. Mem. 37 Who is he that saith, that any thing falleth out, which the Lord commanded not? Mem. 38 From the mouth of the highest cometh not the evil & the good? Man 39 What should living man grudge, any person after his sin: Nun 40 Let us search & try our ways, & return unto the Eternal. Nun 41 Let us lift up our heart with Mat. 6. our hands unto * El. Ebb used but here: for all the Lamentations. God which is in heaven. Nun 42 We have trespassed and rebelled: thou hast not forgiven. Samech. 43 Thou hast covered thyself in anger, & dost persecute us: thou hast killed, nothing sparing. Samech. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud: that prayer should not pass through. Samech. S. Paul translates this. 1. Cor. 4. 45 Thou hast made * Himself, & Baruc, & Vriah. us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Pe 46 All our enemies open their mouths against us. Pe 47 Fear and pit is come upon us: ruin & breach. Pe 48 My eye runneth with rivers of water for the breach of the daughter of my people. Ain. 49 Mine eye floweth & cannot cease: because there is no rest: Ain 50 Until the Eternal look down & behold from heaven. Ain 51 Mine eye worketh into my soul for all the daughters of my city. Sade 52 Mine enemies have without cause chased me as a bird. Sade 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon & they have cast a stone upon me. jer. ●8. 6. Sade 54 Waters swim over my head, I said, I am cut off. Koph 55 I have called upon thy name o Eternal out of the low dungeon. Koph 56 Thou didst hear my voice, jer. 38. hide not thine ear from my release; at my prayer. Koph. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidest: fear not. Resh 58 O Lord thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life. Resh 59 Thou hast seen, o Eternal, my wrong: judge my right. Resh 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devises against me. Shin 61 Thou hast heard their reproaching, o Eternal, all their devises against me. Shin 62 The lips of * The Sacrificers that held jeremy guilty of death for saying that Babel should destroy the city. jer. 38. them that stand up against me: & their meditation against me all the day. Shin 63 Their a Ps. 139. 2. lying down, and rising up, do thou behold: I am become b They thought it so strange that Salomon's race & kingdom should fall. their sonnet. Tau 64 Thou wilt c S. Paul translateth this verse against Alexander the Coppersmith. 2. Tim. 4. reward them, o Eternal, according to the works of their hands. Tau 65 Thou wilt give them a bursting of heart: thy heavy curse willbe upon them. Tau 66 Thou wilt persecute in anger, & rid d jeremy Ch. 24. told how the men of the third captivity should come to nothing. And Ezekiel prophesied only in their days: but they would take no warning. This threefold Alphabet endeth in their threefold & absolute destruction. Yet Ezra was of that captivity. But an infant. And of Anathoth cursed by jeremy, by repentance 128 returned. Ezra, 2. them from under the heavens of the Eternal. Chap. 4. Aleph. 1 HOw is the gold dimmed, how is the pure e one name of gold in Eb. cethem changed: how be the holy stones powered out at the corner of all streets. Beth 2 The children of Zion the precious, valued as the Fez over, how are they reckoned as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hand. Gimel. 3 Even the Dragons open their breast, they give suck to their whelps: the daughter of my people is like the cruel: as * job. 39 14. the ostrich in the wilderness. Daleth 4 The tongue of the suckling cleaveth unto his throat for thirst: the infants ask for bread, none doth break it to them. He 5 They that fed delicately lie desolate in the streets; they which were brought up in scarlet embrace the dung. Vau 6 And the punishment of the daughter of my people passeth the penalty of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment; and no hands stayed upon her. Zain 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter then milk; they were in colour redder than the carbuncles; they were polished like the Saphir. Cheth 8 Their visage is darker than a coal; they cannot be known in the streets; their skin sticketh to their bones; it is as dry as a stick. Teth 9 The slain by the sword are better than the slain by hunger. For they wast away pierced by wanting the fruits of the field. Iod 10 The hands of the pitiful women seth their own children; they became their meat, in the breach of the daughter of my people. Caph 11 The Eternal hath accomplished his indignation; he hath powered out his hot anger; and he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath eaten up her foundations. Lamed 12 The Kings of the earth, & all that dwell in the world, would not believe that the adversary should enter the gates of jerusalem. Man 13 For the sins of her prophets, for the iniquities of her Sacrificers, which shed within her the blood of the just: Nun 14 The blind stumble in the street: they are polluted with blood: that men might not touch their garments. Samech 15 Give place, o polluted, they cried unto them, give place, give place: touch not: when they took flight, yet they stumbled upon others. Among the heathen it was said: they shall no longer have a dwelling. Pe 16 The face of the Eternal hath scattered them: he will no more regard them. They respect not the person of the Sacrificers, they pity not the Elders. Ain 17 Even yet our eyes are spent at our vain help: In our waiting we wait for a nation that cannot save. Sade 18 They chase our steps that we cannot go in the streets: our end is approached: our days are fulfilled: for our end is come. Koph. 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the sky, on the mountains they pursue us, in the plain fields they lay wait for us. Resh 20 The spirit a josias: the King: killed by Pharaoh Necho. of our nostrils the anointed of the Eternal was caught in their trap: of whom we said, in his shadow shall we live among the nations. Shin 21 Rejoice & be glad o daughter b Fron Esaw to the Herodes Edom hated jacob. & no less than ten prophecies are against them: As Barbinel noteth upon Obedias. Edom, which dwellest in the Land of Huz. Over thee also the cup shall pass: thou shalt be drunk & show thy nakedness. Tau 22 Thy punishment is accomplished, o daughter Zion: He will no c As in Dan. 9 490 years they held their land in God's favour. more carry thee away: he will visit thine iniquity, o daughter Edom: he will discover thy sins. Chap. 5. 1 REmember o Eternal, what hath befallen us: consider & behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers: our houses roaliants. 3 We are become orphans, fatherless: our mothers are as widows. 4 Our water do we drink by money, and our wood cometh by price. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we are weary; we have no rest. 6 We gave our hands to Egypt, to Assur, for to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned; they are no more; we bear their punishment. 8 Servants rule over us; none rescueth from their hand. 9 By our lives we get our bread; for the sword of the plain fields. 10 Our skin is as black as an oven: for the burning of hunger. 11 They defile the women in Zion: the virgins in the cities of judah. 12 The princes are hanged by their hand: the Persons * Deut. 28. 21. of the Elders are not honoured. 13 The young men they take to grind: & the boys fail under the wood. 14 The Elders have ceased from the gate: the young men from their songs: 15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown of our head is fallen▪ woe now unto us that we have sinned. 17 For this our heart is sick; for these things our eyes be dim. 18 For mount Zion which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou o Eternal continuest for ever; thy throne from age to age. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time. 21 Turn us, o Eternal unto thee, & we shall return: renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast greatly hated us: thou hast been exceedingly angry against us. Of four repeated verses. Turn us, o Eternal unto thee, & we shall return: renew our days as of old. The verse 21 is one of the four which in the Massoreth Bible are Printed as a postscript for better memory: an other is the last save one in Ecclesiastes: an other the last save one in Esay: the fourth, the last save one in Malachi, as I noted upon Ecclesiastes. These sayings contain the main of the writers. That in Ecclesiastes biddeth us look for all happiness in the world to come: that of Esay telleth how all Moses' policy shall end. That of Malachy showeth how john Baptist shall begin the New Testament. And this of jeremy telleth that God will begin a new state for his People. Upon that they studied in Babylon fifty years: and they made themselves a golden age: knowing that the kingdom of Christ was in sufferings. Afterwards they are plainly told of the true kingdom: & be renewed, as of old. This verse was given in the beginning of the captivity for a comfort that way. Finis.