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THE BOOK

OF THE

PROPHET JEREMIAH

^ Mi^'itxi nntx <^xxixicul ®r^ns:l^il)Crw

BY
Charles Rufus Brown, D. D.
Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages in the
Newton Theological Institution

PHILADELPHIA
American Baptist Publication Society
1630 Chestnut Street

Copyright 1906 by the
American Baptist Publication Society

Published November, 1906

10b

PUBLISHERS' KOTE

This translation of the great prophecy of Jeremiah is used as collateral text in
the author's contribution to the American Commentary on the Old Testament, now
in process of publication by the Society. For its poetic form as well as for its
critical worth it seemed important to issue it as an independent publication. It is
believed that many students of the word will desire to possess it.

PKEFATORY NOTE

The words of Jeremiah have been edited and his life has been written by Baruch,
other disciples, and friends of the prophet. In the translation which follows, no dis
tinction is made between Jeremiah's own writings and those of his followers, save
to include in brackets a number of superfluous additions to the text that were made
by individual readers or scribes in the use of their copies, doubtless as marginal
notes, or in some instances as unintentional repetitions of the words of the copy.
Almost none of the additions so designated are to be found in the best MSS of the
LXX version. Additions to the text later than thi.s version are retained without
brackets whenever they add in the slightest degree to our knowledge of attendant
circumstances, and this policy has been observed even in regard to the minute
details in chaps. 27 to 29, 34, 35.
Other explanatory signs are as follows :
A vertical line ( | ) precedes and follows brief expressions not found in LXX
but to be included in the text.
Parentheses ( ) are used to include words needed to complete the sense. Words
in black=faced type have been adopted in addition to (if within parentheses), or
instead of words of the Massoretic Text on the authority of parallel passages and
ancient translations on the one hand, and the demands of the context on the other.
Wherever the present writer has adopted changes in vowels or vowel-letters he has
not used this symbol, since these do not involve any alteration in the earlier text.
He has endeavored to exercise great care in the use of the external evidence, and
has not assumed, e. g., that a writer in quoting a biblical passage would necessarilj'
do so word for word. This caution he has learned from the method of the writer
of Jer. 48 : 29-38 in using parts of Isa. 15 and 16, and of Jer. 49 : 7-16 in the use
of parts of Obadiah.
Single words or brief expressions in italia type have been transferred from their
traditional place which is indicated by an asterisk (*).
Longer passages now found in the Hebrew out of their original connection, or
introduced into the midst of a section of this book from some other source, are
preceded by a line (  ) and followed by a broken line (  ). Should two
or more passages similarly interrupt the connection, they are separated by a single
line (  ) from one another, while a double line ( — ), or when needed
a treble line ('^^===) is placed at the beginning of the series of insertions, and
the sign of resumption (  = ), or (  =), at the close.
Newton Oenteb, Massachusetts, June, 1906. C. K. B.

THE BOOK
OF THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH

•* 1 The words of Jeremiah the Preface
I son of Hilkiah, of the priests 604 b.c.
that were in Anathoth iu the
2 land of Benjamin ; unto whom the word of Jeho
vah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon,
king ot Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 And it came in the days of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the
eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king
of Judah ; unto the going into exile of Jerusalem
la the fifth month.

Purt I.
iQiquit; and
Judgment, §1.
Jeremiah's Call,
626 I. c.

4 And the word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I
kuew thee.
And before thou earnest forth out of
the womb I sanctified thee,
A prophet unto the nations I ap
pointed thee.
6 Then I said,
Alas, Lord Jehovah ! behold, I do uot know how
to speak : for I am a child.
7 And Jehovah said unto me.
Say not, I am a child : for nnto whomsoever I
shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever
S I shall command thee thou shalt speak ; be not
afraid of them : for I am with thee to deliver
thee, says Jehovah.
9 And Jehovah put forth his hand,
And touched my mouth ;
And Jehovah said unto me.
Behold, I put my words in thy mouth :
10 See, I appoint thee this day
Over the nations and over the kingdoms.
To pluck up and to break down and to destroy
[and to overthrow] ;
To build and to plant.
11 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou?
And I said,
A rod of an almond tree do I see.
12 And said Jehovah unto me.
Thou hast well seen :
For I am wakeful over my word to perform it.
13 And the word of Jehovah came unto me a second
time, saying.
What seest thou ?
And I said,
A heated pot do I see ;
And the face thereof is turned toward the
north.
14 And Jehovah said unto me.
Out of the north misfortune shall be blown

15 upon all the inhabitants of the land. For, lo, I
will call all [the families of] the liingdoms of
the north, says Jehovah ; and they shall come,
and they shall set every one his throne at the
opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and before
all the walls thereof round about, and before
16 all the cities of Judah. And I will execute
my judgments against them on account of all
their wickedness ; in that they have forsaken
me, and have burned sacrifice to other gods,
and worshiped the works bf their own hands.
17 And do thou gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto them all that I command thee :
Be not dismayed at them
Lest I dismay thee before them.
18 For behold, I make thee this day
A fortified city, [and an iron pillar], and a
bronze wall, [against the whole land] ,
To the kings of Judah, to the princes thereof,
[To the priests thereof] , and to the people of
the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee ;
But they shall not prevail over thee :
For I am with thee to deliver thee.
Says Jehovah.*
21 And the word of Jehovah came i^-
unto me, saying, ingratimde
2 Go, and cry in the ears of conscquenoes.
Jerusalem, saying, 626-621 b. o.
Thus says Jehovah,
I remember for thee the loyalty of thy youth.
The love of thine espousals ;
How thou didst follow me in the wilderness.
In a land that was not sown.
3 Israel was holy to Jehovah,
His firstfruits of the income :
All that devoured him were to be held guilty ;
Misfortune was to come upon them.
Says Jehovah.
4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, 0 house of
Jacob, and all the families of the house of
Israel ;
5 Thus says Jehovah,
What unrighteousness did your fathers find
in me.
That they went far from me,
And walked after vanity, and became vain?
6 And said not. Where is Jehovah
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt ;
Who led us in the wilderness.
In a land of steppes and of pits.
In a land of drought and of deep darkness.
In a land that none passes through.
And where no man dwells?
7 And I brought you into the fruitful country.
To eat the produce thereof and the good things
thereof ;

Chap. 2, ver. 7]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 2, ver. 37

But ye proceeded to defile my land,
And to make my heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not. Where is Jehovah?
Aud they that handle the law kuew me not :
The rulers also rebelled against me.
And the prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.
9 Therefore I will still contend with you [says
Jehovah] ,
And with your sons' sons will I contend.
10 For pass over to the coast lands of the Kitians,
and see ;
And send unto Kedar,
And consider diligently, and see.
If there has been such a thing.
11 Has a nation changed (its) gods?
And they are not God :
But my people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.
12 The heavens are astounded at this.
And they shudder miglitily, says Jehovah.
13 For my people have committed two evils ;
They have forsaken me, the fountain of run
ning water.
And hewed them out [cisterns] broken cistern
That can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant?
Is he a homeborn (slave) ?
Why has he become a prey,
15 (Why are) his cities mimed up f
The young lions roared upon him.
They yelled :
And they made his land a fright,
* Without inhabitant.
16 The sons also of Noph and Tahpanhes
Shall break the crown of thy nead.
17 Has not occasioned this to thee
Thy desertion from Jehovah thy God,
[When he led thee by the way] ?
18 And now what hast thou to do with the way to
Egypt.
To drink the waters of the Shihor ?
Or what hast thou to do with the way to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the river ?
19 Thine own misfortune shall chastise thee.
And thy revoltings shall reprove thee :
Know therefore and see that it is au evil thing
and a bitter,
That thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God,
And that no fear of me came upon thee.
Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.
20 For ever since long ago thou hast broken thy yoke,
And burst thy thougs ;
And thou sayest, I will not serve (thee) ;
But upon every high hill
And under every leafy tree
Thou dost bow thyself, playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted thee a choice vine.
Wholly a right seed :
How then art thou turned to corruption
To a degenerate plant I
22 For though thou wash thee with soda.
And take thee much lye.
Yet thine iniquity is stained before me.
Says the Lord Jehovah.
23 How canst thou say, I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals?
See thy way in the valley,

Know what thou hast done.
A swift young she-camel
Running hither and thither —
24 A cow accustomed to the wilderness
Tlirough her desire —
SnuflEs up wind on account of her ardor.
Who can turn her away ?
None that seek her need weary themselves ;s
In her month they may find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod.
And thy throat from thirst :
But thou saidst ; It is useless ; no ;
For I love alien (gods).
And after them must I go.
26 As the thief is put to shame when he is discovereol
So shall the house of Israel be put to shame ;
They, their kings, their princes,
And their priests, and their prophets ;
27 Who say to a tree. Thou art my father ;
And to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth i
For they have turned (their) back unto me.
And not (their) face :
But in the time of their misfortune they say.
Arise, and save us.
28 But where are thy gods
That thou hast made thee ?
Let them arise, if they can save thee
In the time of thy misfortune.
For according to the number of thy cities
Are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore do ye complain unto me ?
Ye all (have done wicl^edly ;
And ye all) have rebelled against me.
Says Jehovah.
30 In vain did I smite your sons ;
They received no correction :
The sword devoured your prophets,
Like a destroying lion.
31 0 generation, yourselves, mark the word of
Jehovah :
Have I been a wilderness to Israel ?
Or a land of darkness?
Wherefore say my people. We are set free ;
We will come no more unto thee.
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments,
A bride her sash?
Yet my people have forgotten me
Days without number.
33 How well takest thou thy way
To seek love I
Therefore also to evil deeds
Hast thou accustomed thy conduct.
34 Also in thy skirts is found
The blood of [poor] innocent persons ;
I have not found it upon house-breakers (only)
But upon all these.
35 But thou sayest, I am free ;
Surely his anger is turned away from me:
Behold I will enter into judgment with thee.
If thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36 How exceedingly light dost thou make of it
To change thy ways !
Thou Shalt be put to shame by Egypt also.
As thou wast put to shame by Assyria.
S7 From thence also shalt thou go forth.
With thy hands upon thy head :
For Jehovah has rejected thy confidences.
And thou shalt not prosper in them.

Chap. 3, ver. 1]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 4, ver. 5

3 lit is I said §3.
If a man put away his wife, ^'" ^"''*
And she go from him, p„„f needs.
And become another man's, 626-621 b, o.
Can there be a return unto him
again ?
Will not be greatly polluted
A land like that?
But thou hast played the harlot with many
lovers.
And canst thou return unto me ? says Jehovah.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see ;
Where hast thou not been violated ?
By the ways hast thou sat for them.
As an Arab iu the wilderness ;
And thou hast jiolluted the land with thy
whoredoms
And with thy misdeeds.
3 And the showers have been withholden.
And there has been no spring rain ;
Yet thou hadst a whore's forehead,
Thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Dost thou not now call to me, My father.
The friend of my youth art thou?
5 Will anger be retained for ever?
Or will it be kept to the end ?
Behold, (thus) thou hast spoken.
But thou hast done evil things, and hast had
thy way.

Sin,
Penitence, and
Restoration,
626-621 B. c.

6 And Jehovah said unto me in the
days of Josiah the king.
Hast thou seen that which revolt
ing Israel did ? She went up upon
every high mountain and under
every leafy tree, and played the
7 harlot there. And I said : After she has done all
these things, she will return unto me ; but she
returned not: and her faithless sister Judah saw,
8 and she 2 saw that, for this very cause that re
volting Israel had committed adultery, I put her
away and gave her a bill of divorce, yet faithless
Judah her sister feared not ; but she also went
9 and played the harlot. And it came to pass that,
by her common fornication, she polluted the
land, and she committed adultery with stones
10 and with trees. And yet for all this [her] faith
less [sister] Judah did not return unto me with
her whole heart, but feignedly, says Jehovah.
U And Jehovah said unto me.
Revolting Israel has shown herself more right-
12 eous than faithless Judah. Go, and proclaim
these words toward the north, and say.
Return, thou revolting Israel,
(Unto me), says Jehovah ;
(And) I will not look in anger upon you :
For 1 am merciful, says Jehovah.
I will not keep (anger) for ever,
13 Only know thine iniquity.
That against Jehovah thy God
Thou didst rebel,
And didst scatter thy ways to alien (gods)
Under every leafy tree.
' And to my voice thon didst not hearken.
Says Jehovah.

14 Return. O revolting sons, says Jehovah ; for I
am a lord to you : and I will take you one from
a city, and two from a family, and I will bring
15 you to Zion : and I will give you shepherds after
my own heart, who shall feed you with knowl
edge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied
and are fruitful in the land, in these days, says
I Adopted on the authority of the Vui.

Jehovah, that they shall say no more. The ark
of the covenant of Jehovah ; neither shall it
come to mind ; neither shall they remember it,
nor miss it ; neither shall it be made any more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of Jehovah ; and all the nations shall be gathered
unto it, [to the uame of Jehovah to Jerusalem] :
neither snail they walk any more after the stub
bornness of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk
unto the house of Israel, and they shall come
together out of the land of the north nnto the
land that I gave for an inheritance unto their
fathers.

19 And I had said.
How can I put thee with sons,
And give thee a pleasant land.
The most beautiful heritage of the nations ?
And I said. Ye will call me. My Father ;
And will not turn away from following me.
20 Surely as a woman is untrue to her lover.
So have ye been untrue toward me, O house of
Israel, says Jehovah.
21 A sound is heard upon the bare heights.
The weeping with supplication of the sons of
Israel ;
That they have perverted their way.
Forgotten Jehovah their God.
22 Return, ye revolting sons,
I will heal your revolting :
Behold, we have come to thee ;
For thou art Jehovah our God.
23 Truly [from] the hills lead to falsehood,
The tumult on the mountains :
Truly in Jehovah our God
Is the salvation of Israel.
24 But the shameful thing has devoured from our
youth
The labor of our fathers ;
Their flocks and their herds,
Their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame.
And let our confusion cover us :
For we have sinned against Jehovah our God,
we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this
day : and we have not hearkened to the voice of
Jehovah our God.
41 If thou wilt turn about, 0 Israel, says Jehovah,
Unto me mayest thou return :
And if thou wilt put away thy detestable
things, [And] from me thou needest not wander,
2 And if thou swearest. As Jehovah lives.
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness.
Then the nations shall bless themselves in him.
And in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says Jehovah tn the men §5.
of Judah and to (the inhabit- Judgment
ants of) Jerusalem, No"rth
Break up your fallow ground. 626-621 b. c.
And sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah,
And take away the foreskin of your heart.
Ye men of Judah
Aud inhabitants of Jerusalem :
Lest my fury go forth like fire.
And burn with none to quench it.
Because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah,
And in Jerusalem publish it : [and say] ,

2 With one Heh. MS and some ancient Vrss.

Chap. 4, ver. 5]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 5, ver. 2

Blow ye the trumpet in the land :
Cry aloud, and say.
Assemble yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified cities.
6 Lift up a standard toward Zion :
Bring (your belongings) into safety, stay not
For I will bring misfortune from the north.
And great destruction.
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations ;
He has departed, gone forth from his place ;
To make the earth a fright.
Thy cities are laid waste
Without inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth.
Wail aud howl :
For will not turn back from us
The fierce anger of Jehovah.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says Je
hovah,
The heart of the king shall perish.
And the heart of the princes ;
And the priests shall be affrighted.
And the prophets shall be amazed.
10 And they shall say, Ah Lord Jehovah I
Surely thou hast greatly deceived this people
and Jerusalem,
Saying, Ye shall have peace :
Whereas the sword reaches even unto the life.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem,A wind from the hottest bare heights in the
wilderness
(Comes) the way of the daughter, my people,
Not to winnow and not to cleanse ;
12 Is a full wind [from these] come for me :
Now will I also execute judgments against them.
13 Behold, he comes up as clouds.
And his chariots are as the whirlwind :
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe unto us 1 for we are spoiled.
14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem,
That thou mayest be saved ;
How long shall lodge within thee
Thy pernicious thoughts?
15 For hark ! one proclaims from Dan,
And publishes disaster ;
16 From the hill country of Ephraim they give
warning to the nations,*
They publish concerning Jerusalem,
Behold, besiegers come,
Prom a far country.
And give out against the cities of Judah
17 Their voice round about.

As keepers of a field are they against her'* ;
cause me she has defied, says Jehovah.
18 Thy way and thy doings
Have procured these things for thee ;
This is thy wickedness, indeed it is bitter,
Indeed it reaches even unto thy heart.
19 0 my bowels, my bowels 1 I have to writhe ;
O walls of my heart !
Mu soul rages npon me
My heart beats ;
Because I * hear the sound of the trumpet.
The shout of battle.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried ;
For the whole land is spoiled ;

be-

Suddenly are my tents spoiled,
Iu a moment my curtains.
21 How long must I see the standard.
And hear the sound of the trumpet ?
22 For my people are foolish.
Me they do not know ;
Sottish children are they,
And they have no understanding :
They are wise to do evil.
But to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth.
And, lo, it was empty and void ;
And the heavens.
And they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains.
And, lo, they trembled,
And all the hills
Moved to and fro.
25 I beheld (  )
And, lo, there was no man.
And all the birds of the heavens
Had fled.
26 I beheld the fruU/ul field
And, lo,* It was a wilderness.
And all the cities [thereof] were broken down
Before Jehovah,

Before his fierce anger.
27 For thus says Jehovah,
The whole laud shall be a desolation ;
Yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn.
And the heavens above be black :
Because I have spoken it,* and have not repented;
/ have purposed, and will not turn back from it.
29 At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen
The whole land flees ;
They go into the thickets.
And climb up upon the rocks :
Every city is forsaken.
No man dwelling therein.
30 And thou, O spoiled woman.
What wilt thou do?
Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet.
Though thou deckest thee with ornaments of
gold.
Though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint.
In vain wouldest thou make thyself fair;
(The) lovers despise thee,
They seek thy life.
31 For I hear a sound as of a woman In travail,
Shrieliins as of her that brings forth her
first child.
The voice of the daughter Zion, who gasps for
breath,
Who spreads out her hands, (saying),
Woe to me now ! for succumbs
My life to murderers.

' 1 Run ye to and fro through the
J streets of Jerusalem,
And see now, and know.
And seek in the broad places
thereof.
If ye can find a man,
If there be any that does justly,
That seeks faithfulness ;

§6.
The Resultof
Iniquity,
626-621 B. c.

10

And I will pardon her.
And though they say. As Jehovah lives ;
* They swear not aright.

Chap. 5, ver. 3]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 5, ver. 31

3 O Jehovah, are thine eyes set upon falsehood.
Are they not upon faithfulness ?
Thou hast smitten them, but they feel it not,
Thou hast consumed them, they refuse to re
ceive correction :
They make their faces harder than a rock
They refuse to return.
4 And I said.
Surely they are poor people : they are foolish ;
For they know not the way of Jehovah,
The ordinance of their God :
5 I will get me unto the great men.
And will speak with them.
For they know the way of Jehovah,
The ordinance of their God.
But they, one and all, had broken the yoke.
Had burst the thougs.
6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,
A wolf of the steppes ;
A leopard shall spoil them.
Lurking about their cities ;
Every one that goes out from them
ShaU be torn in pieces :
Because their rebellions are many
Their revoltings are increased.
7 How can I pardon thee ?
Thy sons have forsaken me.
And sworn by them that are not God :
When I had satisfied their desire, they committed
adultery.
And made themselves at home at the harlots'
houses.
8 Horses aroused in passion
Eager were they :
Every one after his fellow's wife
They neighed.
9 Shall I not punish for these things?
Says Jehovah :
And on such a nation as this
Shall not my soul be avenged
10 Go ye up upon her vine-rows.
And destroy ;
But make not a full end :
Take away her twigs :
For they are not Jehovah's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have dealt very faithlessly against me, says
Jehovah,
12 They lie against Jehovah,
And say. Not he ;
Neither will misfortune come upon us ;
Neither shall we see sword or famine :
13 And the prophets will become wind.
Having no word in them.*
14 Therefore thus says Jehovah,
The God of hosts.
Because theyi speak this word.
Thus shall it be done to ihem.
Behold, I will make my words
Fire in thy mouth.
And this people wood.
And it snail devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring upon you
A nation from far, O houise of Israel, says
Jehovah :
It is an indestructible nation.
It is an ancient nation,
A nation whose language thou knowest not.

Neither understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver is an open sepulchre,
They are all mighty men.
17 Aud they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread ;
They shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters :
They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds :
They shall eat up thy vines, (and thine oliTes)
And thy fig trees,
They shall beat down thy fortified cities, where
in thou trustest, with the sword.

18 But even in those days, says Jehovah, I will not
make a full end with you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore has Jehovah our God done all these
things to us ? that thou shalt say unto them.
Like as ye have forsaken me.
And served alien gods in your land.
So shall ye serve strangers
In a land that is not yours.
20 Declare ye this in the house of Jacob
And publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this,
O foolish people, and without understanding ;
'W'ho have eyes, and see not ;
Who have ears, and hear not.
22 Fear ye not me ? says Jehovah :
Or will ye not tremble at my presence,
who has placed the sand for a bound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, which it cannot trans-

And so Us waves toss themselves, but cannot
prevail ;
And * they roar, but cannot pass over it.
23 But to this people belongs a heart refractory and
defiant ;
They have turned aside and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart.
Let us fear now Jehovah our God,
Who gives winter-rain [both] , the autumn-rain,
and the spring-rain, in its season ;
Who reserves for us the appointed weeks of
harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things.
And your sins have withholden good from
you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men :
They seize property ;
Snares they set ;
With traps they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds.
So are their houses full of deceit :
Therefore they have become great and waxen
rich,
28 They are waxen fat.
They plan wicked thi-n^s and s^icceed ;
Also they violate * justice :
They do not procure justice for the fatherless * * ;
And the right of the needy they do not defend.
29 ShaU I not punish for these things?
Says Jehovah :
Or on such a nation as this
shall not my soul be avenged ?
30 Frightful and horrible things
Have come to pass in the land ;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely.
And the priests teach' according to theli
directions ;

1 Third person Is determined by the context. 11

1 With Micah 3 : 11.

Chap. 5, ver. 31]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 6, ver. 26

And my people love to have it so :
And what will ye do at the end thereof ?

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61 Bring (your belongings) into
safety, ye sons of Benjamin,
Out of the midst of Jerusalem,
And blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
And raise up a beacon on Beth-
haccherem :
For misfortune looks forth from the north,
And great destruction.
2 Is a I refreshing pasture
The height ofthe daughter Zion?
3 Shepherds shall come unto her
With their flocks ;
They pitch tents against her round about ;
They feed every one oH his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her ;
Arise and let us go up at noon :
Woe unto us ! for the day declines,
For the shadows [of evening] stretch them
selves out :
5 Arise and let us go up by night.
And let us destroy her foundations.
6 For thus said Jehovah of hosts,
Hew ye down her trees.
And cast up a mound against Jerusalem :
¦Woe to the marauding' city ;
The whole of her — oppression ia in the midst
of her.
7 As a well keeps fresh her water,
So she keeps fresh her wickedness :
Violence and plundering
Are heard in her ;
Before me continually,
Wounds and blows.
8 Let thyself be corrected, O Jerusalem,
Lest my soul be alienated from thee ;
Lest I make thee a desolation,
A land not inhabited.
9 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts].
Glean thoroughly as a vine
The remnant of Israel :
Turn back thy hand as a grapegatherer
Upon the shoots.
10 To whom shall I speak, and testify,
That they may hear?
Behold, their ear is uncircumcised.
And they cannot listen :
Behold, the word of Jehovah has become to
them a reproach ;
They have no delight in it.
11 But I am full of the fury of Jehovah ;
I am weary with enduring it :
I must pour it out upon the children in the
street.
And upon the assembly of young men to
gether :
For [even] the husband with the wife shall be
taken.
The aged with him that is full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned to others.
Fields and wives together:
For I will stretch out my hand
Upon the inhabitants of the land, says Je
hovah.
13 For from the least of them even unto the great
est of them
Every one of them is greedy of gain ;
And from the prophet even unto the priest
Every one of them deals falsely.

14 And they have treated the injury of my people
Superficially,
Saying, peace, peace ;
When there is no peace.
15 They shall be put to shame because they have
committed abomination :
Yea, they are not at all ashamed,
Neither do they know how to show confusion :
Therefore they shall fall among them that
fall:
At the time of their visitation they shall
stumble,
Says Jehovah.
16 Thus said Jehovah,
Stand ye upon the ways and see.
And ask for (my paths).
The old paths.
Where is the way to prosperity,
And walk therein.
And ye shall find rest for your souls :
But they said. We will not walk therein.
17 And I raised up over them ^watchmen, (say
ing),
Listen to the sound of the trumpet ;
But they said, we will not listen.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations,
And know the testimonies * that are among
them.
19 Hear, O earth :
Behold, I will bring misfortune upon this
people,
Even the fruit of their revolting.
Because they have not listened nnto my word.<! j
And as for my instruction, they have rejected it.
20 To what purpose then to me is the frankincense
that comes from Sheba,
And the [sweet] cane from a far country?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable.
Nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
21 Therefore thus says Jehovah,
Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this
people
And shall stumble against them fathers and sous
together ;
The neighbor and his fellow shall perish
22 Thus says Jehovah,
Behold, a people comes
From the north country ;
And a great nation is stirred up
From the recesses of the earth.
23 They lay hold on bow and javelin ;
They are cruel, and have no compassion ;
The noise of them roars like the sea.
And they ride upon horses ;
Prepared, as a man for the battle.
Against thee, O daughter Zion.
24 We have heard the report thereof ;
Our hands waxed feeble :
Anguish has taken hold of us.
Pangs as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field.
Nor walk by the way ;
For a sword of the enemy-
Terror is on every side.
26 0 daughter, my people, gird thee with sackcloth,
And wallow in asnes :
Make thee mourning, as for an only son,
Most bitter wailing ;
For suddenly shall come
The spoiler upon us.

1 With several ancient Vrss.

2 With Nahum 5 : 1.

3 Third person, determined by context.
12

i With Aquila.

Chap. 6, ver. 27]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 8, ver. 2

27 I have made thee an assayer [a fortress] ^ among
my people ;
That thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They are all the most refractory of the refractory,
Abounding in lead, bronze, and iron :
All of them deal corruptly.
29 If a smelter burns himself at the Are,
There remains only lead :
In vain do they go on refining ;
For the bad elements are not removed.
30 Rejected silver shall men call them,
Because Jehovah has rejected them.

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71 The word that came to Jere
miah from Jehovah, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of Jehovah's
house, and proclaim there this
¦\vord, and say, Hear the word of
Jehovah, all Judah, who enter in
at these gates to worship Jehovah.
3 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts] , the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will
4 cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not
in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah,
the temple of Jehovah, the tem.ple of Jehovah,
5 are these ; but amend thoroughly your ways and
your doings. If ye thoroughly execute judgment
6 between a man and his fellow ; if ye oppress not
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and
shed not innocent blood iu this place, neither
7 walk after other gods to your own hurt : then will
I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that
I gave to your fathers, from of old and even for
8 evermore. Behold, ye trust in lying words, for
9 no profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn sacrifice
to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have
10 not known, and then proceed to stand before me
in this house, over which my name has been
called, and say, We are delivered ; in order to do
11 all these abominations? Has this house, over
which my name has been called, become a den
of robbere in your eyes? I also, — behold. I have
12 seen, says Jehovah. For go, I pray you, unto my
place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my
name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to
it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works,
says Jehovah, and I spoke unto you, rising early
and speaking, but ye heard not ; and called you,
14 but ye answered not : I will do to the house, over
which my name has been called, wherein ye
trust, and to the place which I gave to you and
15 to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. And I will
cast you out of my presence, as I have cast out
[all] your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 And thou, pray not thou for this people,
Neither lift up cry nor prayer for them,
Neither make intercession to me :
For I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood.
And the fathers kindle the fire,
And the women knead dough.
To make cakes for the queen of heaven,
Pouring out also drink ofierings to other gods
In order to vex me.
19 Do they vex me?
Says Jehovah ;
Is it not themselves,
To the confusion of their own faces ?
20 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah :
Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured
out npon this place, upon man, and upon beast,
and upon the trees of the field, and upon the

fruit of the ground ; and it shall burn, and shall
not be quenched.
21 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of Israel] :
Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices,
And eat flesh.
22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded
them in the day that I brought them out of the
land of Egypt, with reference to burnt offering
23 or sacrifice : but this thing I commanded them,
saying. Hearken to my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in
all the ways that I command you, that it may
be well with you.
24 But they hearkened not,
Nor inclined their ear.
But walked [in counsels] in the stubbornness of
their evil heart,
And went backward and not forward.
25 Since the day that yoiir fathers came forth out
of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent
unto you all my servants, the prophets [by day],
rising early and sending them :
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me,
Nor inclined their ear,
But made their neck stiff :
They did worse thau their fathers.

27 And thou shalt speak all these words unto
them ;
But they will not hearken unto thee :
Thou shalt also call unto them ;
But they will not answer thee.
28 And thou shalt say unto them.
This is the nation that has not hearkened
To the voice of Jehovah their God,
Nor received correction :
Faithfulness has perished [and is cut off] from
their mouth.

29 Cut off thy hair, and cast it away.
And take up a dirge on the bare heights ;
For Jehovah h£is rejected and forsaken
The generation oi his wrath.
30 For the sons of Judah have done that which ia
evil in ms' sight, says Jehovah: they have set
their detestable things in the house over which
31 my name has been called, to defile it. And they
have built the high place [s] of Topheth, which
is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire ; which
I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah,
that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor. The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of
slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, be-
33 cause there shall be no place else. And the dead
bodies of this people shall be food for the birds
of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth, with
34 none to frighten them away. And I will cause
to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
streets of Jerusalem, the sound of joy and the
sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride : for the land shall
become a waste.
81 Atthattime, says Jehovah, [and] they shall
bringoutthebonesof the kings of Judah, and
the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the
bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
2 their graves : and they shall spread them before
the sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, which they have loved, and which they
have served, and after which they have walked,
and which they have sought, and which they

1 Came in from 1 : 18.

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Chap. 8, ver. 2]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 9, ver. 7

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have worshiped : they shall not be gathered,
nor be buried ; they shall be as dung upon the
3 face of the ground. And death shall be chosen
rather than life by all the remnant that are left
of this evil family, in all the places [that are
left] , whither I have driven them, [says Jehovah
of hosts].
4 And thou shalt say unto them.
Thus says Jehovah :
Do men fall, and not rise again?
Or does one turn back and not
return 1
5 Why then has this people [Jerusalem] turned
back
By a perpetual revolt ?
They hold fast deceit.
They refuse to return.
6 I listened and heard.
They speak not aright :
No one repents of his wickedness.
Saying, What have I done ?
Every one runs hither aud thither in his
course,
As a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven
Knows her appointed times ;
And the turtleAiove and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming ;
But my people know not
The ordinance of Jehovah.
8 How do ye say. We are wise.
And the law of Jehovah is with us?
Surely, behold, has wrought falsely
The false pen of the scribes.
9 The wise men shall be put to shame.
They shall be dismayed and taken :
Lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah ;
And what manner of wisdom bave they ?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
Their fields for new possessors  1
For from the least even unto the greatest
Every one of them is greedy of gain,
From the prophet even unto the priest
Every one deals falsely.
11 And they have treated the injury of the daughter
my people
Superficially,
Saying, peace, peace ;
When there is no peace.
12 They shall be put to shame because they have
committed abomination :
Yea, they are not at all ashamed.
Neither do they know how to be confused :
Therefore they shall fall among thera that fall :
At the tirae of their visitation they shall
stumble.
Says Jehovah.
13  will I certainly gather, says Jehovah ;
(Leaving) no grapes on the vine.
Nor figs on the fig tree.
And (only) faded leaves,
I will give to these the fruits thereof.
14 Why do we sit still ?
A.ssemble yourselves.
And let us enter into the fortified cities,
And let us perish there ;
For Jehovah our God
Causes us to perish.
And gives us water of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against him.

15 One looked for peace,
But no good came ;
For a time of healing,
And behold sadden destruction.
16 (A sound) is heard from Dan,
The snorting of his horses ;
At the sound of the neighing of his steeds
The whole land trembles ;
And he comes, and devours the land and all that
is in it ;
The city and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send among you
Serpents, basilisks.
For which there is no charm ;
And they shall bite you, [says Jehovah] .
18 Incurable upon me is sorrow.
My heart is heavy upon me :
19 Behold, the sound of ttie cry of the daughter my
people
From a far-stretching land :
Is not Jehovah in Zion ?
Or is her king not in her?
Why have they vexed me with their graven
images.
With foreign vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
And we are not saved.
21 For the break of the daughter my people, am 1
broken up, I am in black ;
Fright has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead ?
Nor physician there ?
For wherefore is not grown
The new flesh of the daughter my people?
91 Oh, that my head were waters.
And mine eye a fountain of tears.
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter my people !
2 Oh, that I had in the wilderness
A most distant lodging place ;
That I might leave ray people,
And go from them !
For they are all adulterers.
An assembly of faithless men.

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3 And they bend their tongue, their bow.
Lies and not [to] faithfulness
Prevail in the land :
For from evil to evil
They proceed.
And me they know not.
Says Jehovah.
4 Take ye heed every one of his friend,
And trust ye not in a[ny] brother :
For every brother utterly circumvents,
And every friend goes about with slanders.
5 And they mock every one his fellow.
And speak not the truth :
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
They have done perversely, they are weary
with returning :
6 Oppression on oppression.
Deceit on deceit ;
They refuse to know me.
Says Jehovah.
7 Therefore thus says Jehovah [of hosts] ,
Behold, I will melt them and try them,
For how (else) should I do.

1 The last words of this line are found at ver. 13.

14

Chap. 9, ver. 7]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 10, ver. 10

Because of (the evil of) the daughter my
people?
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow ;
The word in their mouth is deceit :
One speaks peaceably to his fellow.
But within himself be forms a crafty plan
against him.
9 Shall I not punish [them] for these things ?
Says Jehovah :
Or on such a nation as this
Shall not my soul be avenged ?
10 For the mountains will I take up
A weeping and lamentation.
And for the pastures of the wilderness
A dirge.
Because they are burned up, with none passing
by;
Neither do men hear a sound [of cattle] ;
From the birds of the heavens unto the beasts
They have fled, they have gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
A dwelling place of jackals ;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation.
Without inhabitant.
12 Who is the man so wise
That he may understand this?
And to whom has the mouth of Jehovah so
spoken
That he may declare it?
Wherefore is the land ruined.
Burned up like the wilderness, without a passer
by?
13 And Jehovah said :
Because they have forsaken my law
Which I set before them.
And have not hearkened to my voice,
Neither walked therein ;
14 But they have walked after the stubbornness of
Their (evil) heart
And after the Baals,
Whom their fathers taught them :
15 Therefore, thus says Jehovah [of hosts] , the God
of Israel,
Behold, 1 will feed them [this people] with
wormwood.
And make them drink the water of gall.
16 And I will scatter them araong the nations.
Whom neither they nor their fathers have
known :
And I will send the sword after them.
Till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts] ,
Consider ye, and call for the women that chant
dirges.
That they may come ;
And send for the skillful women.
That they may cry aloud :
18 And let them hasten and take up
A lamentation for us.
That our eyes may run down with tears.
And our eyelashes flow with water.
19 For a sound of lamentation is heard out of
Zion,
How are we spoiled !
We are put greatly to shame, for we have for
saken the land,
Becau.se our dwellings are cast down.
20 For hear my word, 0 ye women.
And let your ear receive the word of my
mouth.
And teach your daughters lamentation,
And every one her female friend a dirge

21 Death has come up into our windows,
It has entered into our citadels ;
Cutting oft the children from the street,
The young men from the squares.
22 [Speak, Thus says Jehovah] ,
And the dead bodies of men are fallen
As dung upon the open field,
[And] as a handful after the reaper,
With none to gather it.

23 Thus says Jehovah, Si-
Let not a wise man glory in his ^ ¦ ??'
 . ..  ° ' Desirable
Wisdom, Possession.
Neither let a mighty man glory
in his might.
Let not a rich man glory in his riches :
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he has
understanding, and knows me, that I am Jeho
vah who exercises kindness, judgment, and
righteousness in tbe earth: for iu such men I
delight, says Jehovah.

25 Behold, the days come, says Jeho- §5.
vah, that I will punish all them „ ,,.;''„-!„.,
that are circumcised in their un- "°J„ He^n
26 circumcision; Egypt, and Judah,
and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab,
and all that have the corners of their hair shorn,
that dwell in the wilderness : for all the nations
are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel
are uncircumcised in heart.

4 f\ 1 Hear ye the word which §6.
j.y Jehovah speaks unto you, O «,„IX.c.
^ ^ house of Israel :
2 Thus says Jehovah,
Learn not the way of the nations.
And be not dismayed at the signs of heaven ;
For the nations are dismayed at them.
3 For the terror of the peoples is vanity :
For it is a tree which one cuts out of the
forest.
The work of the hands of the craftsman with
the axe.
4 They beautify it with silver and with gold :
They fasten it with nails and with hammers.
That it shake not.
5 They are like a pillar in a cucumber-patch, and
speak not :
They must needs be borne, because they can
not step.
Be not afraid of them ; for they cannot do evil,
Neither is it in their power to do good.

6 There is [from] none like thee, 0 Jehovah ;
Thou art great.
And thy name is great in might.
7 Who should not fear thee,
O King of the nations?
For to thee it is fitting :
Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
nations,
And araong all their king^s.
There is [from] none like thee.
8 And in short they are senseless and foolish :
Vain discipline are his counsels.
9 There is imported .silver from Tarshish that is
beaten into plates,
And gold from Ophir,
The work of the craftsman.
And of the hands of the goldsmith ;
Violet and purple is their clothing ;
They are all the work of skilled men.
10 But Jehovah is God in truth ;
He is a living God, and an everlasting King:

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Chap. 10, ver. 10]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 11, ver. 15

At his wrath the earth trembles.
And the nations cannot abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them,
The gods that have not made the heavens and
the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from
under these heavens.
12 Who made the earth by his power.
Who established the world by his wisdom.
And by his understanding stretched out the
heavens :
13 When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters
in the heavens.
And he causes the vapors to ascend from the
end of the earth ;
He makes lightnings at the time of rain.
And brings forth light out of his store
houses.
14 Every man becomes senseless, losing knowl
edge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven
image :
For his molten image is falsehood,
Having no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, a work of mockery :
In the time of their visitation they will
perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like these ;
For the former of all things is [and Israel the
tribe of] his inheritance,
Jehovah of hosts is his name.

17 Gather up thy goods from the land,
And dwell thou in the siege.

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18 For thus says Jehovah,
Behold, I will throw down the inhabitants of the
land
At thi.s time.
And will distress them
That they may despair.
19 Woe to me for my injury !
My wound is grievous :
But I said. Truly this is sickness.
And I must hear it.

20 [My tent is spoiled and]
All ray cords are broken :
[My sons] and my flock [and] gone :
There is none to stretch forth my tents any
more.
And to set up my curtains.
21 For the shepherds became senseless.
And did not inquire of Jehovab :
Therefore they ruled unwisely,
And all their flock is scattered.
22 Hark ! a rumor, behold it coraes,
And a great coraraotion out of the north
country.
To make the cities of Judah a desolation,
A dwelling place of jackals.
23 I know, 0 Jehovah,
That not to man belongs his way :
It is not for a man to walk,
And to direct his steps.
24 Correct ns, O Jehovah, but with judgment ;
Not in thine anger, lest thou make us few in
number.
25 Pour out thy fury upon the nations
Who know thee not.
And upon the families
Who call not on thy name.

For they have devoured Jacob [and devoured
hira] and con.sumed him.
And have laid waste his habitation.

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I I Jeremiah from Jehovah, say-

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2 And do thon speak unto the ^,'
men of Judah and unto the in- The
habitants of Jerusalem, Hear ye the Denteronomio
3 words of this covenant; and say Coj™"""'
unto them, Thus savs Jehovah the "¦"^ =¦ "•
God of Israel : Cursed be the man
that hears not the words of this covenant,
4 which I commanded your fathers in the day
that I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying. Hearken
to my voice and do [them acccording to] all
that I command you : and ye shall be my people,
5 and I will be your God : that I may establish
the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give
them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at
this day. And I answered, and said. Amen, O
Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah said unto me.
Proclaim all these words in the

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§2.
The
cities of Judah and in the streets of Reenforced
Jerusalem, saying. Hear ye the go: b. c. '
words of this covenant, and do
7 them. For I earnestly protested to your fathers
from the day that I brought them up out of
the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising
early and protesting, saying. Hearken to my
8 voice. Yet they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked every one in the stubborn
ness of their evil heart : so I brought upon them
all the words of this covenant, which I com
manded them to do, but they did it not.
9 And Jehovah said unto me, §3.
A conspiracy has been found Aposuisy
among the men of Judah, and Retribution
among the inhabitants of Jeru- 6O7 b. c. '
10 salem. They have turned back
nnto the iniquities of their forefathers, who
refused to hear my words; aud (behold) they
have gone after other gods to serve them : the
house of Israel and the house of Judah have
broken my covenant which I made with their
11 fathers. Therefore thus says Jehovah,
Behold, I will bring misfortune upon this
people,
Wnich they shall not be able to escape ;
And they shall cry unto me,
But 1 will not hearken unto them.
12 And shall go the cities of Judah and the inhabi
tants of Jerusalem
And they shall cry unto the gods to whom they
burn sacrifice :
Bnt they will not save them at all
In the time of their misfortune.
13 For according to the number of thy cities
Are thy gods, O Judah ;
And according to the number of the streets of
Jerusalem
Have ye set up [altars to the shameful thing]
altars to burn sacrifice to Baal.
14 And thou, pray thou not for this people,
Neither lift up cry nof prayer for them ;
For I will not hear them in the time that they
call unto me,
In the time of their misfortune.
15 What has my beloved to do in my house?
Seeing she' has committed offenses :
Can fat pieces and holy flesh
Remove from thee [thee] thy misfortune ?
(Or canst thon escape by these) ?
Then thou mightest exult.

Cliap. 11, ver. 16]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 13, ver. 7

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16 A leafy olive tree, fairish of [fruit of] form,
Jehovah called thy name :
With the sound of a great roaring, its leaves are
set on fire.
And the branches of it are deformed.
17 For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, has
pronounced misfortune against thee, because of
the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of
Judah, which they have done [for themselves],
to vex me by burning sacrifice to Baal.
18 And Jehovah caused me to know,
and I knew it:
Then thou showedst me their
doings.
19 But I was like a pet lamb
That is led away to be slaughtered ;
And I kuew not that against me
They had devised devices,
(Saying-, Come and) let us fell
The tree in its vig-or.
And let us cut him off from the land of the
living,
That his name may be no more remembered.
20 Bnt Jehovah [of hosts] judges righteously.
Tries the reins and tne heart,
Let me see thy vengeance on thera :
For unto thee have I committed my cause.
21 Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the
men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou
shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that
thou die not by our hand ;
22 Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts.
Behold, I will punish them :
Their young men shall die by the sword ;
Their sons and their daughters shall be con
sumed by famine ;
23 And there shall be no remnant to them :
For I will bring misfortune npon the men of
Anathoth,
The year of their visitation.
1 Righteous art thou. O Jehovah ; I could not
contend with thee :
Only I would speak with thee concerning
judicial questions:
Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper?
Wherefore are all they at ease that deal faith
lessly ?
2 Thou plantedst thera. yea, they take root ;
They spread, yea, they bring forth fruit :
Thou art near in their mouth,
And far from their reins.
3 But thou. O Jehovah, knowest me :
Thou [seest rae, and] triest my heart toward
thee:
Pull them away like sheep for slaughter.
And prepare them for the day of butchery ;

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4 How long shall the land mourn,
And the herbs of the whole country wither?
For the wickedness of thera that dwell therein,
Beasts and birds have vanished.
Because they said.
He will ndt see our latter end.
5 If thou ha.st run with footmen, and they have
wearied thee,
Then how canst thou contend with horses?
And if in a land of peace only thou art secure.
Then how wilt thou do in the majesty of
Jordan ?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy
father.

Even they deal faithlessly with thee ;
Even they cry aloud behind thy back :
Believe thera uot, when they speak fair words
unto thee.

7 I have forsaken my house,
1 have cast off my heritage ;
I have given the dearly beloved of
my soul
Into the hand of her eneraies.
8 My heritage has becorae to me
As a lion in the jungle.
She has uttered her voice against me;
Therefore I hate her.

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9 My heritage was unto rae as a speckled bird of
prey
Surrounded by birds of prey ;
Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
Bring them to devour !
10 Many shepherds destroy my vineyard,
They tread my portion under foot ;
They make my choice poi tion
A desolate wilderness.
11 They make it a desolation ;
It mourns upon me, being desolate ;
The whole land is devastated.
For no man lays it to heart.
12 Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness
Spoilers come :
For the sword of Jehovah devours from one end
of the laud even to the other end of the
land :
No flesh has peace.
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns ;
They have made themselves sick and profit
nothing :
But are disappointed with their ^ crops.
Because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
14 Thus says Jehovah concerning all mine evil
neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I
have caused my people Israel to inherit:
Behold, I will pluck them up from off their
land, and the house of Judah will I pluck up
from the midst of thera.
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have
pi ucked them up, I wil I turn and have compassion
ou them ; and I will bring thera back, each one to
16 his heritage, and each to his land. And it shall
come to pass, if they diligently learn the ways
of ray people, to swear by my name. As Jehovah
lives ; even as they taught my people to swear
by Baal; then shall they be built up in the
17 midst of my people. But if they do not hear,
then wil] I pluck up that nation, plucking up
and destroying it, says Jehovah.

1 Thus said Jehovah unto me.
Go, and tiuy thee a linen loin

I J Go, and buy thee a linen loin ^ *•'«
¦'^^ cloth, and put it upon thv T^Tr^lh
2 loins, and put it not in water. Sol 60° b J
bought the loin cloth according to
tbe word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.
3 And the word of Jehovah came unto me a'second
4 time, saying, Take the loin cloth [that thou hast
bought], which is nnon thy loins, and arise, go
to the Euphrates, and hide it therein a rhink of
5 the crag. So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates,
as Jehovah commanded rae.
6 And it came to pass after raany day.s, f hat Jeho
vah said unto rae. Arise, go to tlie Euphrates,
and take the loin cloth from thence, -which I
7 commanded thee to hide there. Then I went to
the Euphrates, and digged, and took the loin
cloth from the place where I had hidden it : and.

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Chap. 13, ver. 7]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 14, ver. 12

behold, the loin cloth was marred, it was profit
able for nothing.
8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
9 Thus says Jehovah, After this manner will I mar
the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jeru-
10 salem. This people *, who refuse to hear ray
words, who walk in the stubbornness of their
evil heart, and go after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them, shali even be as this loin
11 cloth, which is profltable for nothing. For as
the loin cloth cleaves to the loins of a man, so
bad I caused to cleave unto me the whole house
of Israel and the whole house of Judah. says
Jehovah ; that they might be to me for a people,
and for a name, and for praise, aud for glory :
but they hearkened uot.
12 And thou shalt speak nnto thera this word :
Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel. Every jar
is filled with wine ; and they will say unto thee.
Do we not indeed know that every jar is filled
13 with wine? Then shalt thou say unto them.
Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the
inhabitants of this land, and the kings that sit
upon David's throne, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
14 with drunkenness. And I will dash thera one
against another, even the fathers and the sons
together, says Jehovah : I will not pity, nor
spare, nor have compassion, that 1 should not
destroy them.
15 Hear ye, and give ear ;
Be not proud : for Jehovali has spoken.
16 Give glory to Jehovah your God,
Before it grow dark.
And before your feet stumble
Upon the dark mountains :
And while ye look for light, he turn it into
darkness ;
He change to obscurity.
17 But if ye will not hear it.
My soul weeps in secret
At the sight of pride ;
And mine eye [weeps sore, and] runs down with
tears.
Because Jehovah's flock is carried into exile.
18 Say ye to the king and to the queen-mother.
Sit down in the depths :
For shall come dowu from your beads.
Your beautiful crown.
19 The cities of the south are shut up,
With none to open them :
Judah is completely carried away,
A whole exiled band.
20 Lift up thine eyes, and behold
Them that come from the north :
Where is the flock that was given thee.
Thy beautiful flock?
21 What wiltthou say, when they shall be appointed
Over thee as i-ulers f
Since thou thyself hast been intimate with them.
And they are friends of thine *.
Shall not pains take hold of thee,
As of a woman in travail ?
22 And if thou sav in thy heart.
Wherefore have these things come upon me?
For the greatness of thine iniquity thy skirts
were uncovered.
Thy heels suffered violence.
23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin.
And a leopard his spots ?

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Then may ye also do good,
That are accustomed to do evil.
24 And I will scatter them, like stubbie that passes
away,
Before the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is thy lot, the portion measured to thee.
From me, says Jehovah ,•
Because thou hast forgotten me,
And trusted in falsehood.
26 And I myself also have stripped
Thy skirts over thy face,
27 Aud shall appear the shame of thine adultery.
And of thy neighiugs
The disgrace of thy fornication.
On the hills (and) in the field,
I have seen thy detestable deeds ;
Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem ! (for ) thou wilt
not become clean ;
How long will it yet be?
^ A I * The word of Jehovah that
y lL came unto Jeremiah with ref-
^ erence to the drought.
2 Judah mourns,
And the gates thereof languish,
They sit in black upon the ground ;
And the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
3 And their nobles sent their inferiors for water :
They came to the pits,
And found no water;
They returned with their vessels empty :
[They were disappointed and confounded,
And covered tlieir heads].
4 And the tillage of the ground is interrupted.
Because no rain has fallen [in the land] ;
The plowmen are disappointed, (and con
founded i).
They cover their heads.
5 For even the hind in the field
Calves and forsakes her young.
Because there is no grass.
6 And the wild asses stand [upon the bare heights],
they pant for air [Uke jackals] ;
Their eyes fail.
Because there is no herbage.
7 [If| our iniquities testify against us,
Work thou for thy [name's] sake, O Jehovah ;
For our revoltings are many ;
Against thee have we sinned.
8 O thou hope of Israel,
Their savior in the time of trouble,
Why shouldest thou be as a traveler in the land.
And as a wayfaring man that turns aside to
tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest thou be as a man surprised,
As a mighty man that cannot save ?
Yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us,
And thy name has been called over us ;
Leave us not.
10 Thus says Jehovah respecting this people,
So they love to wander;
They do not restrain their feet :
And Jehovah does not accept them ;
Now will he remember their iniquity,
And punish their sins.
11 And Jehovah said nnto me,
Pray not for this people for their good.
12 When they fast,
I will not hear their cry ;

1 With ver. 3,

18

Chap. 14, ver. 12]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 15, ver. 13

And when they present burnt offering and obla
tion,
I will not accept them :
But by the sword, and by famine, and by pesti
lence,
I will consume them.
13 And I said.
Ah, Lord Jehovah I
Behold, the prophets say to them,
Ye shall not see a sword.
Neither shall ye have famine ;
But I will give you enduring peace in this
place.
14 And Jehovah said unto me.
The prophets prophesy lies in my name :
I sent thera not.
Neither have I coraraanded them.
Neither spoke I to them :
A lying vision.
And empty divination,
And the deceit of their own heart.
They prophesy to you.
15 Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the
prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent
them not, yet they say. Sword and famine shall
not be in this land : By sword and famine shall
16 those prophets be consumed. And the people to
whom they prophesy shall lie cast out in the
streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the
sword ; and they shall have none to bury thera,
them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daugh
ters : for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
17 And thou shalt say this word unto them,
Mine eyes run down with tears,
Night and day ;
And they may not cease ;
For with a great break is broken
The virgin daughter my people,
With a very grievous blow.
18 If T go forth into the fleld.
Then behold the slain with the sword I
And if I enter into the city.
Then behold famine-diseases.
For both prophet and priest
Wander tlirongb the land,
Aud have no knowledge.
19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah ?
Has thy soul loathed Zion?
Why hast thou smitten us.
And there is no healing for us?
One looked for peace,
Bnt no good carae ;
And for a time of healing.
And behold terror.
20 We know, O Jehovah, our wickedness.
The iniquity of our fathers ;
For we have sinned against thee.
21 Do not despise us, for thy narae's sake ;
Do not treat with contempt the throne of thy
glory :
Remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations
that can cause rain ?
Or can the heavens give showers ?
Art not thou he, O Jehovah our God ?
And we look to thee ;
For thou hast made all these things.
1 And Jehovah said unto me.
If Moses and Samuel stood before me.
Yet my soul would uot be toward this
people :

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Send (them^) away from before me.
And let them go forth.
2 Aud it shall come to pass, when they say unto
thee.
Whither shall we go forth ? that thou shalt tell
them.
Thus says Jehovah :
Such as are for death, to death ;
And such as are for the sword, to the sword ;
And such as are for famine, to famine ;
And such as are for captivity, to captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says
Jehovah :
The sword to slay,
And the dogs to drag.
And the fowls of the heaven to devour,
And the beasts of the earth* [and] to destroy.
4 And I will make thera a consternation to all the
kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the
son of Hezekiah king of Judah, on account of
(all) which he did in Jerusalem.
5 [For] who will have pity upon thee, O Jeru
salem ?
And who will commiserate thee?
And who will turn aside
To ask for thy welfare?
6 Thou hast cast me off, says Jehovah,
Thou goest backward :
And I will stretch out my hand [against thee]
and destroy thee ;
I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will winnow them with a, winnowing-
fork
In the gates of the land ;
I will bereave of children, I will destroy my
people.
On account of their evil deeds [they have
not returned] .
8 Tlieir widows shall be increased to me
Above the sand of the seas ;
I will bring [to them] upon the mother in the
street
A spoiler at noonday :
1 will cause to fall ujwn her suddenly
Alarm and terror.
9 She that bore seven shall languish,
She shall breathe out her life ;
Her sun shall go down while it is yet day ;
She shall be put to shame and abashed :
And the residue of them will I deliver to the
sword
Before their enemies, [says Jehovah].
10 Woe to me, my mother, that thou
hast borne me,
A man of strife [and a man of
contention] to all the world :
I have not lent money, neither have
men lent to me;
Yet all of thera curse me,
11 Amen, O Jehovah, if I had not struggled.
And* if I had not entreated thee,
In the time of misfortune and in the time of
distress
For good to the enemy,
12 Have I an arm of iron
Or a covering of [and] bronze?

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13 Thy substance and thy treasures
Will I give for a spoil,
[Not] as wages [ana] for [all]* thy sins,
[And]2 in all tny borders.

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19

Chap. 1-5, ver. 14]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 16, ver. 21

14 And I will cause (thee) to serve thine enemies
In a land which thou knowest not:
For a lire is kindled in mine anger
Which shall burn for ever.'
15 Thou knowest, O Jehovah :
Remember me, and visit me.
And avenge thyself for me on my persecutors ;
Jtlake no delay with thine anger [take me] :
Know that for thy sake I hear reproach
16 From tbose that despise thy words.
Destroy them and thy word shall be to me a
joy,
And the rejoicing of my heart :
For thy name has been called over me,
0 Jehovah [God] of hosts.
17 I sat not rejoicing
In the assembly of merry-makers* ;
Because of thy hand, I sat alone :
For thou didst fill me with indignation,
18 Why has ray pain become perpetual.
And my wound mortal.
Refusing to be healed?
Thou wouldest indeed become unto me as a
deceitful stream,
As waters that are not constant ?
19 Therefore thus says Jehovah,
If thou return, then will I bring thee back.
Thou mayest stand before me ;
And if thou wilt utter noble words without base
ones,
Thou shalt be as my month :
They muy return unto thee.
But thou shalt not return unto them.
20 And I will raake thee to this people
A fortified [bronze] wall :
And they shall flght against thee.
But they shall not prevail over thee :
For I am with thee
To save thee
21 And to deliver thee, [says Jehovah ; and I will
deliver thee] out of the hand of the wicked,
[.\nd I will redeem thee] out of the palm of
the terrible.
¦* /" 1 And the word of Jehovah §9.
I r\ came unto me, saying, .,^^^' ^°^
' ^ 2 Thou Shalt not take thee a '"em""™"''
wife, neither shalt thon have sons
3 and daughters in this place. For thus says Je
hovah concerning the sons and concerning the
daughters that are born in this place, and con
cerning their mothers that bore them, and con
cerning their fathers that begat them in this
laud :
4 They shall die of grievous maladies.
They shall not be bewailed, nor be buried.
They shall be as dung upon the face of the
ground :
And they shall be consumed bythe sword and
by famine.
And their dead bodies shall be food for the birds
of heaven.
And for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus says Jehovah,
Enter not into the house of grief.
Neither go to wail.
Neither commiserate thera :
For I have taken away my peace
From this people, [says Jehovah],
6 Even kindnessand corapassion. Bothgreatand
small shall die in this land : they shall not be
buried.

Neither shall men wail for them.
Nor cut theraselves,
Nor make themselves bald for them :
7 Neither shall men break bread for a mourner,
To corafort him for the dead ;
Neither shall men give hini the cup of consola
tion to drink.
For his father or his mother.
8 And into the house of feasting thou shalt not
enter, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
9 For thus says Jehovah [of hosts], the God of
Israel '
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place.
Before your eyes and in your days,
The sound of joy and the sound of gladness.
The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt
make known to this people all these words, and
they shall say unto thee : Wherefore has Jehovah
spoken against us all this great misfortune ? and
what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we
11 have committed toward Jehovah our God? Then
shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers
forsook me, says Jehovah, and walked after
other gods, and served them, and worshiped
them, and me they forsook, and my law they did
12 not keep ; and ye have done evil more than your
fathers : for, behold, ye walk every one after the
stubbornness of his evil heart, so as not to
13 hearken unto me : and I will hurl you from
upon this land into the land that ye have not
known, ye nor your fathers, and there shall ye
serve other gods day and night ; for I will show
you no favor.

14 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jeho
vah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah
lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the
15 land of Egypt; but, as Jehovah lives, who
brought up the sons of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the countries whither
he had driven them: and I will make them
dwell upon their land which I gave to their
fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, says Je
hovah, and they shall catch them; and "after
ward I will send for many hunters, and they
shall hunt them from upon every mountain, and
from upon every hill, and out of the clefts of
the crags.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways :
They are not hid from before my face,
Neither is their iniquity concealed from before
mine eyes.
18 And [first] I will recompense their iniquity
and their sin double : because of their pollution
of my land with the dead bodies of their de
testable things, and because they have filled my
heritage with their abominations.
19 0 Jehovah, my strength, and my strong hold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
Unto thee shall nations come
From the ends of the earth,
And shall say,
Our fathei-s have inherited nought hut lies.
Even vanity, and things wherein there is none
that profits.
20 Should a man make for himself gods?
Aud they are not God,
21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know
my hand.
This once will I cause them to know *rand] mv
might: "
And they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

1 With 17 ;4; Deut. 32 : 22.

20

Chap. 17, ver. 1]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 18, ver. 9

17

1 The sin of Judah is written
With a pen of iron.
With the point of a diamond it is graven,
Upon the tablet of their heart.
Upon the horns of their altars,
2 According to the recollection by their sons of
their altars.
And their Asherim.
Upon (every) 1 leafy tree,
Upon the high hills,
3 The mountains in the field.
Thy substance and^ thy treasures
vvill I give for a spoil,
As wagres for (thy) ^ sins,
In allthy borders.

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4 And thou shalt loosen thy haud^ from thy
heritage
That I gave to thee ;
And I will cause thee to serve thine enemies
In the land which thou knowest not:
For a fire is* kindled in mine anger.
Which shall burn forever.
5 [Thus says Jehovah:]
(.'ursed is the man
Who trusts in man,
And makes flesh his arm,
And whose heart turns aside from Jehovah.
6 And he shall become like a juniper in the
steppe.
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit parched places in the wilder
ness,
A salt land and not habitable.
7 Blessed is the man
Who trusts in Jehovah,
And whose confidence Jehovah has become.
8 And he shall be like a tree planted by the
waters,
And that spreads out its roots nnto the stream,
And does not fear when heat comes.
But its leaves remain fiourishing.
And it is undisturbed in the year of drought,
And ceases not from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is unreliable above all things, and it
is mortally sick :
Who can know it?
10 I Jehovah search the heart
I try the reins,

And to give every one according to his ways.
According to the fruit of his doings.

11 A partridge that gathers eggs and does not hatch
them
Is he that {?ets riches unjustly :
In the middle of his day he must leave it,
Aud at the end of it lie shall be a fool.

12 A throne of glory, an eminence from the be
ginning,
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O hope of Israel, Jehovah,
AU that forsake thee shall be disappointed.
And the apostates in the land shall be con
founded ;
Because they have forsaken Jehovah,
Th*^ fountain of running water.*
14 Heai me, 0 Jehovah,
That I may be healed ;
Save me. that I may be saved :
For thou art my hope.

15 Behold, they say unto me.
Where is the word of Jehovah ?
Let it come uow.
16 But as for me, I have not hastened
On account of misfortune after thee ;
Neither have I desired the woeful day
Thou thyself knowest :
That which proceeded from my lips came
Before thy face :
17 Do not become a dismay unto me,
[Thou] my refuge in the day of misfortune.
18 Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but
let not me be put to shame ;
Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dis
mayed :
Bring upon them the day of misfortune.
And break them with a double fracture.
19 Thus said Jehovah unto me : §ii-
Go, and stand iu the gate of the The Sabbath,
sons of the people, whereby the "" °'
kings of Judah come in, and by which they go
20 out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem ; ana say
unto them, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings
of Judah, and ail Judah, and all the inhabit
ant of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates ;
21 Thus says Jehovah : Take heed on your lives,
and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor
22 bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem ; neither
carry forth a burdeu out of your houses on the
sabbath day, neither do any work: and so hal
low the sabbath day, as I commanded your
23 fathers. And they hearkened not, neither in
clined their ear, but made their neck stiff, not
24 to hear, and not to receive correction. And it
shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto
me, says Jehovah, to bringin no burden through
the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but
to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work there-
25 in: then shall there enter in by the gates of this
city kings [and princes] ^ sitting upon the throne
of David, riding in chariots and oh horses, they,
and their princes, the men of Judah. and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem : and this city shall be
26 inhabited for ever. And they shall come from
the cities of Judah, and from" the places round
about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benja
min, and from the lowland, and from the hill
country, and from the south, bringing burnt
offering, and sacrifice, and oblation, and frank
incense, and bringing thank offering, unto the
27 house of Jehovah. But if ye will not hearken
unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to
bear a burden, and therewith to enter in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then
will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it
shall devour the citadels of Jerusalem, and it
shall not be quenched.

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1 The word that came unto Partiv.
Jeremiah from Jehovah, say- '^^^

the potter's house, and there I §i.
will cause thee to hear my words. The
3 Then I went down to the" potter's Determination
house, and, behold, he was doing °^
4 work on the wheel. And when SiTc '
was spoiled in his hand the vessel
that he made [with the claj^], he made it again
another vessel, as seemed good to him to make
5 it. And the word of Jehovah came unto me,
6 saying, As this potter, cannot I do to you, O house
of Israel? says Jehovah, Behold, as the clay in
the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house
7 of Israel. Whenever I speak concerning a na
tion, and concerning a kingdom, [to pluck up,
8 andj to break down, and to destroy it; if that
nation turn from their evil, [concerning which
I have spoken], I will repent of the misfortune
9 that I thought to work for it. And whenever I

1 tJsually found in this phrase. 2 With 15 : 13. 3 With Deut. 15 : 2.
21

t With 15 : 14 ; Deut. 32 : 22. 5 Demanded by context.

Chap. 18, ver. 9]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 19, ver. 15

speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
10 Jiingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil
in my sight, not to hearken to my voice, then I
will repent of the good, wherewitb I said I vf ould
beuetit it.
11 And now, say indeed unto the men of Judah,
and nnto the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fsay-
ing], [Thus says Jehovah :]
Behold, I frame misfortune concerning you,
And devise a device concerning you :
Return ye now every one from his evil way,
And amend [your ways and] your doings.
12 And they will say,
It is useless:
For we will walk after our own devices.
And we will do every one after the stubborn
ness of his evil heart.
13 Therefore thus says Jehovah :
Ask ye now among tne nations,
Who has heard such things;
Has done a horrible thing
The virgin Israel.
14 Can there tail from tbe rock of Sirion
The white snow?
Or can be dried np tbe waters of the north
stars.
The cold streams ?
15 For my people have forgotten me,
They burn sacrifice to nothingness ;
And they stumbled [from] in their ways.
In the old tracks,
To walk in a path, a way,
Not cast up ;
16 To make their land a fright,
A perpetual hissing ;
Every one that passes thereby shall be astounded.
And shall shake his head.
17 I will scatter them as does an east wind
Before the enemy ;
I will look upon them with the back, and not
the face.
In the day of their calamity.
18 And they said.
Come and let us devise devices
Against Jeremiah ;
For the law shall not perish from the priest.
Nor counsel from the wise,
Nor the word from the prophet.
Come, and let us smite him witb the tongue.
And let us [not] listen to all his words.
19 Listen to me, O Jehovah,
And hearken to the sound of my contention.
20 Should evil be repaid for good ?
[For they have digged a pit for my life].
Remember how I stood before thee
To speak well of them.
To turn away thy fury from them.
21 Therefore give their sons to famine.
And deliver them over to the power of the
sword :
[And] let their wives become childless and
widows ;
And let their men be slain by death.
Their young men smitten by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses.
When thou bringest a troop suddenly upon
them:
For they digged a pit to take me.
And hid snares for my feet.

23 But thou, Jehovab, knowest all tbeir counsel
For death upon me ;
Forgive not their iniquity.
Neither blot out their sin from thy sight :
But let thein become men made to stumble before
thee ;
In the time of thine anger deal with them.
4 rt 1 Thus says Jehovah, 5?.
19 Go, and buy an earthen- '^'%^»";'"'8
' ^ ware cruse, and (take) of j^f , „'
the elders of the people, and of
2 the elders of the priests ; and go forth unto the
valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the
entrance of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there
3 these words [that I shall speak to theej : and
say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of
Judah, and Inhabitants of Jerusalem ; thus says
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I
will bring misfortune upon this place, so that
the ears of every one that hears of it shall tingle.
4 Because they bave forsaken me, and have made
this place foreign, and have burned sacrifice in
it to other gods, whom they knew not, they and
tbeir fathers, and the kings of Judah [and] have
filled this place with the blood of innocent peo-
5 pie ; and they have built the high place of Baal,
to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings
to Baal : which I commanded not, nor spoke it,
neither came it into my mind.

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Je
hovah, that this place shall no more be called
Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom,
but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah
and Jerusalem in this place ; and I will cause
them to fall by the sword before their enemies,
and by the hand of them that seek their life :
and their dead bodies will I give for food to the
birds of heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city a fright, and a hissing ;
every one that passes thereby shall be astounded
9 and hiss over all her blows. And I will cause
them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh
of their daughters, and they shall eat every one
the flesh of bis friend, in the siege and in the pres
sure, which their enemies and they that seek
their life apply to them.
10 And thou shalt break tbe cruse in tbe sight of
11 the men that go with thee, and shall say unto
them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts : Even so will I
break this people and this city, as one breaks a
potter's vessel, that cannot be made wbole again.
And they shall bury in Topheth, because there
shall be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and
to the inhabitants thereof,
[and] making this city as Topheth ;
13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of
the kings of Judah, shall be [the] i defiled,
like the place of Topheth ;
namely, all the houses upon whose roofs they
have burned sacrifice to all the host of heaven,
and have poured out drink offerings to other
gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither
Jehovah had sent him to prophesy ; and he stood
in the court of Jehovah's house", and said unto
all the people:
15 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of Israel]
Behold, I will bring upon this land and upon

1 with the context.
22

Chap. 19, ver. 15]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 21, ver. 13

all her cities all the misfortune that I have pro
nounced upon it ; because they have made their
neck stiff, not to hear my words.
^f\ 1 And Passhur the sou of Immer the priest,
y 11 who was chief officer in the house of Je-
^^ hovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these
2 things. And Passhur smote Jeremiah the
prophet, and put him iu the stocks that were in
the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the
3 house of Jehovah. Aud it came to pass on the
morrow, that Passhur brought forth Jeremiah
out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said unto nim,
Jehovah has not called thy uame Passhur, but
4 Magor-missabib. For thus says Jehovah, Be
hold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to
all that love thee: and they shall fall by the
sword of their enemies, thine eyes seeing it:
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall carry them into
exile to Babylon, and shall smite them with the
5 sword. And 1 will give all the riches of this city,
and all the gains thereof, and all the precious
things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings
of Judah will I give into the hand of their ene
mies, and they shall spoil them, and take them,
6 and carry them to Babylon. And thou, Passhur,
and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into
captivity : and to Babylon thou shalt come, and
there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be
buried, thou, and all that love thee, to whom
thou hast prophesied falsely.
7 Thou hast enticed me, O Jehovah, and I wa3
enticed :
Thou didst lay hold of me, and prevail :
I have become a laughing-stock all the day,
Every oue mocks me.
S For as often as I speak, I cry out ;
Violence and plundering do I call out:
Because the word of Jehovah has become a
reproach to me.
And a derision, all the day.
9 And if I say, I will not call it to mind,
Nor speak any more in his name,
Then it is [in my heart] as it were a burning fire
Shut up m my bones.
And I am weary with enduring,
Aud I cannot (bear it).
10 For I have heard the machinations of many,
Terror on every side !
Denounce, and let us denounce him.
All ye his familiar friends
Lie ye in wait at his side, peradventure he may
act foolishly,
And we may prevail over him,
And may take our revenge on him.
11 But Jehovah is with me
As a terrible hero :
Therefore my persecutors shall stumble,
And they shall not prevail :
They shall be put greatly to shame,
Because they have not done wisely.
They shall have everlasting confusion,
Which shall not be forgotten.
12 But Jehovah of hosts tries righteously,
Sees the reins and the heart,
Let me see thy vengeance on them ;
For unto thee have I committed my cause.
13 Sing to Jehovah,
Praise ye Jehovah :
For he delivers the life ofthe needy
From the hand of evil-doers.
14 Cursed be the day
In which I was born :

(The) day on which my mother bore me
Let it uot be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man
Who brought glad tidings to my father, saying,
A son, a male, has been horn to thee ;
Making him very glad.
16 And let that day ^ be as the cities
Which Jehovah overthrew, without repenting
of it:
And let it hear a cry in the morning,
And shouting at noontide ;
17 Because it slew me not in the womb ;
So that my mother became my grave,
And her womb always great.
18 Why then out of the womb
Came I forth
To see labor and sorrow.
And that my days should end in shame?

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Woes. §1
The
Approaching Fall of
Jerusak'm, 587 B. c.

/^ ^ 1 The word that came unto
y^ I Jeremiah from Jehovah, when
^ king Zedekiah sent unto him
Passhur the son of Malchiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
2 priest, saying, Inquire, I pray thee,
of Jehovah for us ; for Nebuchad
rezzar king of Babylon makes war
against us: peradventuie Jehovah will deal with
us according to all his wondrous works, that he
3 may go up from us. And Jeremiah said unto
them. Thus shall ye say unto Zedekiah (king- of
4 Judah) : Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Behold Iwill turn back the weapons of war [that
are in your hands], wherewith ye fight [the king
of Babylon, and] the Chaldeans, that besiege you,
without the wall, [and I will gather them] into
5 the midst of this city. And I myself will fight
against you with outstretched hand, and with
strong arra, and in anger, and in fury, and in
6 great wrath. And I will smite the inhabitants
of this city [both], man and beast: they shall
7 die of a great pestilence. And afterward, says
Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and
his servants, and the people, [and] that are left
in this city from the pestilence, from the sword,
and from famine, into the hand of [Nebuchad
rezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of]
their enemies, and into the hand of those that
seek their life : and they shall smite them with
the edge of the sword ; I will not spare them»
neither pity, nor have compassion.
8 And unto this people thou shaltsay.
Thus says Jehovah : Behold. I set before you the
9 way of life and the way of death. He that abides
in this city shall die by the sword, and by fam
ine, and by pestilence; but he that goes out and
falls away unto the Chaldeans that besiege you,
shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.
10 Fori have set my face against this city for mis
fortune, and not for prosperity, says Jehovah:
it shall be given into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11 [And] respecting the house of the
king of Judah, Hear ye the word of
12 Jehovah, O house of David, Thus
says Jehovah :
Execute judgment in the morning,
And deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor.
Lest my fur^ go forth like fire,
And burn with none to quench it.
Because of the evil of your doings.

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13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitress of the
valley,

1 With Job 3 : 3-10.

23

Chap. 21, ver. 13]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 23, ver. 3

Bock of the plain, [says Jehovah ;]
Ye who say,
Who can descend upon us?
Or who can enter into our habitations?

14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of
your doings, says Jehovah :
And I will kindle a fire in her forest.
And it shall devour all that is round about her.
'^'^ 1 Thus said Jehovah:
^^ Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
2 and speak there this word, and say. Hear
the word of Jehovali, 0 king of Judah, that sits
upon the throne of David, thou, aud thyservants,
and thy people, that enter in by these' gates.
3 Thus says Jehovah :
Execute ye judgment and righteousness.
And deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor ;
And to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow, do
no wrong, do no violence.
Neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there
enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting
upon the throne of David, riding in chariots
and on horses, they, and their servants, and
5 their people. And if ye hear not these words,
by myself I swear, saj's Jehovah, that this house
shall become a waste.
6 For thus says Jehovah concerning the house
of the king of Judah :
Thou art Gilead to me.
The top of Lebanon :
Surely I will make thee a wilderness,
Cities not inhabited.
7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee,
Every one with his tools :
And they shall cut down thy choice cedars.
And cast them on to the ffre.

8 And many people shall pass by this city, and
they shall say every man to his fellow, Where
fore has Jehovah done this unto this great city?
9 And they shall say, Because they forsook the
covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshiped
other gods, and served them.
10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither commiserate
him :
Weep sore for him that goes away ;
For he shall return no more.
Nor see his native country.
11 For thus says Jehovah concerning- ShaUum
the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned in
stead of Josiah his father, and who went forth
out of this place :
He shall not return thither any more ;
12 But in the place whither they led him into
exile, shall he die.
And this land he shall not see again.
13 Ah ! he that builds his house by unrighteousness.
And his roof-chambers by injustice ;
That uses his fellow's service without pay,
And gives him not his wages ;
14 That says, I will build me a spacious house,
And airv roof-chambers,
With its wide windows, paneled [to it] with
cedar,
And painted with vermilion.
15 Art thou a king,
Because thou art on fire for cedar ?
Did not thy father eat and drink
And /are well
He exercised judgment and righteousness,

24

16 [Then] * [he judged] justice toward the poor
and needy ;
[Then it was well] :
Is not that knowledge of me ?
Says Jehovah.
17 For thine eyes and thy heart consider nothing
Except thy dishonest gain.
And innocent blood, to shed it ;
And oppression and tyranny, to do them.
18 Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah :
They shall not wail for him, Ah ! my brother,
And, Ah ! my sister ;
They shall not weep for him, Ah ! lord.
And, Ah ! hermajesty ;
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
Dragged, and cast forth beyond the gates of
Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry out;
And in Bashan utter thy voice :
And crv out from Abarim,
For all thy best beloved are broken in pieces.
21 I spoke unto thee in thy security.
Thou saidst, I will not hear.
This has been thy wav from thy youth,
[That] thon hast not hearkened to my voice.
22 The wind shall feed upon all thy shepherds,
And thy best beloved shall go into captivity :
[For] then shalt thou be put to shame, and con
founded.
On account of all thy misfortune.
23 O inhabitress of Lebanon,
That art nestled in the cedars,
How wilt thou g-roan when [pains] come to thee.
Pangs as of a woman in travail.
24 As Hive, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet upon
my right hand, yet would I pull thee oS there-
25 from; andl will give thee into the hand of them
that seek thy life, [and into the hand of them]
of whom thou art fearful, and into the hand of
[Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
26 hand of] the Chaldeans. And I will hurl thee,
and thy mother that bore thee, into another
country, where ye were not born, and there shall
27 ye die. But unto the land whereunto they long
to return, thither shall they not return.
28 Is [this man] Coniah a despised image, [to be
shattered]
Or a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
Wherefore was he hurled, [he and his seed] and
cast forth
L'pon the land which he knew not?
29 O land, land, land, hear the word of Jehovah :
30 Thus says Jehovah, Write ye this man childles--.
a man that shall not prosper in his days : for in>
man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the
throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
1 Ah! theshepherdsthatdestroy and scatter
thesheepof their pasture, [says Jehovah].
2 Therefore, thus says Jehovah, the God of
Israel, concerning the shepherds that feed my
?eople :
e have scattered my flock, and driven them
away,
And have not visited them ;
Behold, I will visit upon you
The evil of your doings", [says Jehovah].
3 And I will gather the remnant of rav flock
Out of all the countries whither I have driven
them.
And will bring them again to their fold ;
And they shall be fruitful and multiply.

23

Chap. 23, ver. 4]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 23, ver. 3:?

4 And I will raise up shepherds over them and
they shall feed them: and they shali fear no
more, nor be dismayed, nor be terrified, says
Jehovah.
5 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah,
That I will raise up for David a righteous shoot.
And he shall reign as king and rule wisely.
And shall execute judgment and righteousness
iu the land.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved,
And Israel shall dwell safely :
And this is his name by which he shall be called
Jehovah is our righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jeho
vah, that they shall no more say, As Jehovah
lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of
8 the land of Egypt; but as Jehovah lives who
[brought up, and who] caused the seed of the
house of Israel to corae out of the north country,
and from all the countries whither he had driven
them ; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Respecting the prophets :
My heart within rae is broken,
All my bones are enfeebled ;
I have become like a drunken man.
And like a man whom wine has overcome ;
Because of Jehovah,
And because of his holy words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers ;

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595 B. c.

For because of the curse the land mourns.
The pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
And their course is evil.
And their might not right.
11 For both prophet and priest
Are profane ;
Yea, in my house I found their wickedness,
Says Jehovah.
12 Therefore their way shall be to them
As slippery places :
Into darkness they shall be driven on
And fall therein :

For I will bring misfortune upon them.
The year of their visitation, says Jehovah.
13 On the one hand, in the prophets of Samaria,
I have seen tastelessness :
They prophesied by Baal,
And caused my people Israel to err.
14 Also in the prophets of Jerusalem,
I have seen a horrible thing:
Committing adultery, and walking in lies.
And how they strengthened the hands of evil
doers.
That no man should return from his wicked
ness.
They all became to me as Sodom,
And the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

15 Therefore, thus says Jehovah [of hosts] con
cerning the prophets :
Behold, I will feed them with wormwood.
And make them drink the water of gall :
For from the prophets of Jerusalem went forth
Profaneness into all the land.
16 Thus says Jehovah of hosts,
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy to you;

They make fools of you :
The vision of their own heart do they speak.
And not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
17 Saying continually to them that despise the
word of Jehovah,
Ye shall have peace ;
Aud (to) every one that walks in the stubborn
ness of his own heart they say.
No misfortune shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the council of Jehovah,
And perceived [and heard! his word?
W'ho has listened to my word
And heard it ?

19 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah,
His fury goes forth,
And a cyclone
Whirls over the head of the wicked.
20 The (fierce)^ anger of Jehovah will not re
turn.
Until he have executed,
And till he have performed the purposes of his.
heart:
In the latter days ye shall understand it [per
fectly] .
21 I sent not the prophets.
Yet they ran :
I spoke not unto them.
Yet they prophesied.
22 But if they stand in my council,
Then let them cause my people to hear my
words,
And turn them from their evil way.
And from the evil of their doingb.
23 Am I a God at hand, says Jehovah,
And not a God at a distance ?
24 Or can a man hide himself in secret places,
And I not see him, [says Jehovah] ?
Do not I fill heaven aud earth?
Says Jehovah.
25 I hear what the prophets say,
That prophesy lies in my name, saying,
26 I have dreamed, I have dreamed, I have
dreamed.
Will repent the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies.
And that prophesy the deceit of their own
heart ?
27 Who think to cause my people to forget my
name
By their dreams which they tell every man to
his fellow,
As their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28 The prophet with whom there is a dream,
Let him tell (his) dream
And he with whora is my word.
Let him speak my word faithfully,
What is the straw to the wheat ?
Says Jehovah,
29 Is not my word so ?
Says Jehovah;
Like a fire,
And like a hammer that breaks rock irt
pieces ?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophete^
says Jehovah,
That steal my words every one from his fellow.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, [says Je
hovah],
That take their tongue, and produce an oracle-
32 Behold, I am against the (prophets)
That prophesy lying dreams, [says Jehovah],

1 With 30 :
25

Chap. 23, ver. 32]

JEREMIAH

[Cliap. 25, ver. 20

And tell them, and cause my people to err
By their lies, and by their empty boasting :
And I sent them not, nor commanded them ;
Neither do they profit this people at all, [says
Jehovah].
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a
priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is tne burden
of Jehovah? Then shalt thou say unto them.
Ye are the burden, aud I will cast you off, says
34 Jehovah. And as for the prophet, and the priest,
and tlie people, that shall say, The burden of
Jehovah, I will punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall ye say every one unto his friend,
and every one unto his brother. What has Je
hovah answered ? and what has Jehovah spoken ?
36 And the bnrden of Jehovah shall ye mention no
more : for the burden to a man will become his
word. And ye have perverted the words of the liv-
37 ingGod,of Jehovah of hosts, our God. Thus shalt
thou say unto the prophet. What has Jehovah
answered thee ? and. What bas Jehovah spoken ?
38 But if ye say. The burden of Jehovah :
Therefore, thus says Jehovah : Because ye say
this word, Tbe burden of Jehovah, and Ihave sent
unto you, saying. Ye shall not say. The burden
39 of Jehovah ; Therefore, behold, 1 -will indeed
lift you up, and 1 will cast you off, and the city
that I gave to you and to your fathers, away
40 from my presence ; and I will put an everlasting
reproach upon yon, and perpetual confusion,
which shall not be forgotten.
^ Jl I (Thus) Jehovah showed me, §*¦
//\ and, behold, two baskets of tigs c.„°,
set before the temple of Jeho- Remainder
vah ; after that Nebuchadrezzar king 5961,. 0. '
of Babylon had carried into exile
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen
and foreign troops from Jerusalem, and had
2 brought them to Babylon. The one basket had
very good figs, like the figs that are lirst ripe ;
and the other basket had very bad figs, which
3 eould not be eaten, they were so bad. And
Jehovah said unto me. What seest thou, Jere
miah? And I said. Figs; the good figs, very
good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot he
4 eaten, they are so bad. And the word of Jeho
vah came unto me, saying,
5 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like
these good figs, so Vt'ill I regard the captives of
Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into
the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
^ For I will set mine eyes upon them for good,
And I will bring them again unto chis land ;
And I will build them, and not overthrow
them.
And I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
7 And I will give them a heart to know me.
That I am Jehovah :
And they shall be my people
And I will be their God ;
If they will return unto me
With their whole heart.
8 And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten,
they are so bad ;
IFoV] thus says Jehovah, So will I regard^
Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and
the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this
land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
9 /or misfortune: and I will make them a con
sternation * to all the kingdoms of the earth ; a
reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in
10 all places whither I .shall drive them. And I
will send the sword, the famine, and the pesti
lence, among them, till they be consumed from
off the land tha' I gave to them and to their
fathers.

-^r" 1 The word that came unto Jere- P%*,,^*'
7*-) miah concerning all the people „'?';,
^^'^ of Judah in the fourth year of sots, c'
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of , „ ,
Judah; [the same was the first year of Nebu-
2 eliadrezzar king of Babylon ;] which he spoke
[Jeremiah the prophet] unto all the people of
Judah, and unto all the inhabitants of Jeru-
3 salem, saying. From the thirteenth year of Josiah
the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this
day, a period of three and twenty years, [the
word of Jehovah has come unto me, and] I have
spoken unto you, rising early aud speaking ;
4 [but ye have not hearkened], and I have sent
unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
early and sending them ; but ye have not heark
ened, nor inclined your ear [to hear] ;
5 saying. Return ye now every one from bis evil
way, and from the evil of your doings, and
dwell in the laud that Jehovah has given to you
and to your fathers, from of old and even for
6 evermore : and go not after other gods to serve
them and to woi-ship them, that ye may not vex
me with the work of your hands, and that I
7 bring no misfortune to you. But ye have not
bearkened unto me, [says Jehovah ; that ye
might vex me witb the work of your bands to
your own hurt] .
8 Therefore, thus says Jehovah of hosts: Be-
9 cause ye have not heard my words. Behold, I
will send and take [all] the family from tbe
north, says Jehovah, [and unto Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, my servant], and will bring
them against this land, and against the inhabit
ants thereof, and against all the[se] nations
round about ; and I will utterly devote them to
destruction, and make them a fright, and a hiss-
10 ing, and an everlasting reproach. And I will
take from them the sound of joy and the sound
of gladness, tbe voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride, the clatter of the millstones,
11 and the ligbtof the candle ; and the whole ter
ritory shall be [a waste] a fright: and the [se]
nations shall serve [the king of Babylon] for
seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years
are accomplished, that I will punish [the king
of Babylon, and] that nation, [says Jehovah, for
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans ;]
and I will make it everlasting desolations.
13 And I will brine upon that land all my words
which I have spoKen against it, all that is writ
ten in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied
concerning all the nations.
14 For they themselves shall be held in subjection
by many nations and great kings: and I will
recompense them according to their deeds, and
accorciing to the work of their bands.
15 For thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto
me :
Take this cup of fermented wine at my
hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send
16 thee, to drink it. And they shall driuk, and reel
to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword
17 that I will .send among them. And I took the
cup from Jehovah's hand, and made all the
nations drink it, unto whom Jehovah had sent
18 me : namely, Jerusalem, and the citiesof Judah,
and the kings thereof (and) the princes thereof,
to make them a waste, a fright, (and) a hissing,
19 [and a curse, as it is this day] ; Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and his servants, and bis princes, and all
20 hispeople; and all the foreign population, and all
the kingsof [the land of Uz, and all the kings of
the land of] the Philistines, [and] Ashkelon, and

26

Chap. 25, ver. 20]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 26, ver. 20

Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod ;
21 Edom, and Moab, aud the sous of Ammon ;
2'^ and [all] the kiugs of Tyre, and [all] the kings
of Zidon, and the kjngs of the coast land which
23 is beyond the sea; (and) Dedan, aud Tema,
and Buz, and all that have the corners of their
24 hair shorn; and all [the kings of the] Arabians,
[and all the kin^s of the foreign population] that
25 dwell in the wilderness; aud all the kings of
Zirari, aud all the kings of Elam, and all the
26 kings of the Medes; and all the kings of the
north, far and near, one with another ; and all
the kingdoms [of the world], which are upon
the face of the earth.

And the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus says Jeho
vah of hosts, [the God of Israel] : Drink ye, aud
he drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no
more, because of the sword which I will send
28 among you. And it shall be, if they refuse to
take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt
thon say unto them, Thus says Jehovah [of
29 hosts] : Ye shall surely drink. For, lo, I begin
to bring misfortune at the city which is called
hy my name, and should ye be altogether un-
punislied? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I
will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of
the earth, [says Jehovah of hosts].
30 And do thou prophesy unto them [all] these
words, and say unto them,
Jehovah shall roar frora on high,
And utter his voice from his holy habitation ;
Ee shall mightily roar over his dwelling place.
He shall answer with a shout as they that
tread the grapes.
Unto all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 An uproar shall come even to the end of the
earth :
For Jehovah has a controversy with the
nation.s.
He will enter into judgment with all flesh :
As for the wicked, he will give them, to the
sword, [says Jehovah].
32 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts],
Behold, misfortune shall go torth
From nation to nation.
And a great tempest shall be stirred np,
From the recesses of the earth.
33 And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day
from one end of the earth even unto the other
end of the earth : they shall not be bewailed,
neither gathered, nor be buried; they shall be
as dung upou the face of the ground.
34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry out.
And wallow in ashes, ye principal of the
flock:
For the days for your slaughter have fully
come.
And ye shall [be broken in pieces and]
fall like choice Iambs.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee,
Nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 Hark ! the cry of the shepherds,
And the howling of the principal of the
flock;
For Jehovah lays waste their pasturage,
37 And the peaceful pastures are destroyed.
[Before the fierce anger of Jehovah].
38 [As] the young lions forsake their thicket,
For their land has become a fright ;
Before the oppressing sword.
And before the tierce anger of JebOTah.^

1 With Ter. 37.

2 With Ter. 9, 11, 16.

'^Z' 1 In the beginning of the reigu Part Vil.
Xo of Jehoiakim the son of Jo- '^^'^ Resuita
*^^ siah, king of Judah, came this ofJeremiah-s
woi-d from Jehovah, saying, mTT
2 Thus says Jehovah: Stand in the ' '
court of Jehovah's house, and speak unto all
ithe cities of] Judah, which come to worship in
ehovah's house, all the words that I have com
manded thee to speak unto them ; keep not back
3 a word. It may be they will hear, and turn
every man from his evil way, and I may repent
concerning: the misfortune, which I purpose
to do to them because of the evil of their doings.
4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus says Je
hovah : If ye will not liearken unto me, to walk
5 in my law, which I have set before you, to
hearken unto the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I sent unto you, [and] rising
early and sending them, but ye have not heark-
6 ened; then will I make this house like Shiloh,
and will make this city a curse to all the nations
of the earth.
7 And the priests and the prophets and all the
people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in
8 the houseof Jehovah. And it came to pass when
Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that
Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all
the people, that the priests and the prophets
[and all the peoplep laid hold of him, saying,
9 Thou shalt surely die. Wherefore hast thou
prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying.
This house shall be like Shiloh, and this" city
shall be wasted, without inhabitant? And all
the people gathered together unto Jeremiah in
the house of Jehovah.
10 And the princes of Judah heard these things,
and they came up from the king's house to the
house of Jehovah ; and they sat in the entry of
11 the new gate of Jehovah's (house).^ And said
the priests and the prophets unto the princes and
unto all the people, saying. This man is worthy
of death, for he has prophesied concerning
this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
12 And said Jeremiah unto [all] the princes and
unto all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to
prophesy concerning^ this house and con
cerning* this city all the words that ye have
13 heard. And now amend your ways and your
doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah
your God ; that Jehovah may repent ofthe mis-
14 fortune that he spoke concerning you. But as
for me, behold, I am in your hand : do to me as
15 is good and right in your eyes. Only know ye
for certain that if ye put me to death, innocent
blood ye will bring upon yourselves, and upon
this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof:
for in truth Jehovah has sent me unto you to
speak all these words in your ears.
16 And said the princes and all the people unto
the priests and unto the prophets : This man is
not worthy of death, for he has spoken unto us
17 in the name of Jehovah our God. And rose up
certain of the elders of the land, and said unto
18 all the assembly of the people, saying, Micaiah
the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah ; and he said unto all
the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Jehovah
of hosts :
Zion shall be plowed like a field.
And Jerusalem shall become heaps.
And the mountain of the house as the high
place of a forest.
19 Did Hezekiah [king of Judah] andall Judah put
him at all to death ? did they not fear Jehovah,
and entreat the favor of Jehovah ? and Jehovah
repented of the misfortune which he had
spoken concerning them : and we are about to
work great misfortime upon ourselves.
20 And there was also a man that prophesied in
the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah
3 WlUi GGTeral ancient Trss.; 36 : 10.

27

Chap. 26, ver. 20]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 28, ver. 14-

of Kiriath-jearim ; and he prophesied [concern
ing this city and] concerning this land accord-
21 ing to all the words of Jeremiah : and heard
Jehoiakim the king, and all his mighty men,
and all the princes, his words, and the king
sought to put bim to death ; but Uriah heard it,
22 and was afraid, and fled , and went to Egypt : and
[Jehoiakim] the king sent men to Egypt, Elna
than, the son of Achbor, and certain men with
23 him, into Egypt : and they brought forth Uriah
out of Egypt, and caused him to eome unto
[Jehoiakim] the king ; and he smote him witb
tlie sword, and cast his dead bodv unto the graves
21 of the common people. Only the hand of Ahi-
kim the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah,
that they should not give hini into the hand of
the people to put him to death.
'%»7 1 [In the beginning of the I'nrt nil.
/, 1 reign of Jehoiakim the son of Baijjionian
L Jo-^iah, king of Judah, came lZ'S,tZl
this word uuto Jeremiah from Je- §i.
2 hovah, saying,] Thus said Jehovah Kebuchadnez-
unto me : Make thee bands and zar's victories,
bars, and put them upon thy neck ; *'^ =• >=¦
3 and send [tliem] unto the king of Edom, and
unto the king of Moab, and unto the king of the
sons of Ammon, and unto the king of Tyre, and
unto the king of Zidon, by the hand of (tlieir)
messengers which have come to Jerusalem unto
4 Zedekiah king of Judah ; and give them a charge
unto their masters, saying. Thus says Jehovah
of hosts, the God of Israel : Thus shall ye say unto
5 your masters : 1 have made the earth, the man
and the beast tbat are upon the face of the earth,
by my great power and by my outstretched arm ;
and I give it unto whom "it seems right unto me.
6 And now have I given all [these] lands into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant ; and the beasts of tbe field also have
I given him to serve him.

7 And all thenationsshall serve him, and his son,
and his son's son, until the time of his ouii land
come: and then he shall be held in subjection
by many nations and great kings.
8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and
the kingdom [which will not serve the same
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and] that will
not put their neck under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says
Jehovah, with tbe sword, and with the famine,
and with the pestilence, until they are completely
9 in his hand. But as for you, hearken ye not
unto your prophets, nor unto your diviners, nor
unto your dreamers, nor unto your soothsayers,
nor nnto j'our sorcerers, who speak unto yon,
saying. Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon :
10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far
from your land ; [and that I should drive you
11 out and ye should perish]. But the nation that
shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, and serve him, (that nation) will I
let remain in their own land, says Jebovah ;
and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
12 And I spoke unto Zedekiah king of Judah ac
cording to all these words, saying. Bring your
necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
13 and serve him and his people, and live. Why
will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah
has spoken concerning the nation that will
14 not serve the king of Babylon ? And hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that speak
unto you, saying. Ye shall not serve the king of
15 Babvlon : for thev prophesy a lie to you. For I
have not sent them, sa.vs Jehovah, but they
prophesy falsely in my name, that I might drive
you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the
prophets that prophesy to you.
16 Also I spoke unto the priests and unto all this

people, saying, Thus says Jehovah : Hearken
not unto the words of your prophets that proph
esy to yon, saying. Behold, the vessels of Jeho
vah's house shall now shortly be brought again
from Babylon : for they prophesy a lie to you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of
Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city
become a waste?
18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Je
hovah be with them, let them now make inter
cession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels.
which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in
the house of the king of Judah. and at Jerusa-
19 lem, go not to Babylon. For thus says Jehovah
of hosts concerning the columns, and concern
ing the sea, and concerning the pedestals, and
concerning the residue of tbe vessels that are left.
20 in this city, ivhich [Nebuchadnezzar] the king
of Babvlon took not, when he carried away cap
tive Jc'coniah [the son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah], from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the
21 nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; yea, thus says
Jehovah ot hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that are left in the houseof Jehovah,
and in the houseof the king of Judah, and at
22 Jerusalem : they shall be carried to Babylon, and
there shall they be, until the day that I visit
them, says Jehovah, and bring them up, and
restore them unto this place.

28

1 And it came to pass in the

§2

same year, [in the beginning Jeremiah

28

^}i^^ y^^C^*^-^^ in the fourth HaDaDi^ih,
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in 593 b. c.
the fifth month, that Hananiah. the
son of Azzur, the prophet who was of Gibeon^
spoke [unto me] in the house of Jehovah, in the
presence of the priests and of all the people,
2 saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying, i have broken the yoke of the
3 king of Babylon. Within two years' time will I
bring again "unto this place all the vessels of Je
hovah's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took away from this place, and carried
4 them to Babylon : and I will bring again unto-
this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king
of Judah, and [all] the captives of Judah, that
went to Babylon, says Jeho rah : for I will break
5 the yoke of the king of Babylon. Then Jere
miah [the prophet] said unto Hananiah [the
prophet] in the presence of the priests, and in
the presence of all the people that stood in the
6 house of Jehovah, and Jeremiah [the prophet]
said, Amen : Jehovah do so : Jehovah perform
thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring-
again the vessels of Jehovah's house, and all
them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this
7 place. Nevertheless hear thou now this word
that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all
8 the people : The prophets that have been befcire
me and before thee of old prophesied coneorn-
ing- many countries, and concerning great king
doms, of war, [and of misfortune, and of pesti-
9 lence]. The prophet who prophesies of peace^
when his word shall come to pass, then shall
the prophet be known, that Jehovah hastrulv
10 sent him. Then Hananiah [the prophet] took
the bar from off [the prophet] Jeremiah's neck,.
H and broke it. And Hananiah spoke in the pres
ence of all the people, saying. Thus says Jeho
vah ; Even so will I break the yoke of [Nebu
chadnezzar] the king of Babylon within two full
years from off the neck of ail the nations. And
Jeremiah [the prophet] went his way.
12 Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jere
miah, after that Hananiah [the prophet] had
13 broken the bar from off liis neck, saying. Go
and tell Hananiah, saying. Thus savs Jehovah •
Thou hast broken the hars of wood, but I will
14 make in their stead bars of iron. For thus says

Chap. 28, ver. 14]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 29, ver. 32

Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel : I have put
a yoke of iron upon the neck of all the[se] na
tions, that they may serve [Nebuchadnezzar] the
king of Babylon ; and they shall serve him : aud
I have given him the beasts of the field also.
15 And said Jeremiah [the prophet] unto Hana
niah [the prophet], Hear now, Hananiah; Je
hovah has not sent thee ; but thou makest this
16 people to trust in a lie. Therefore, thus says Je
hovah, Betaold, I will send thee away from off
the face of the earth : this year thou shalt die,
because thou hast spoken rebellion against Je-
17 hovah. So Hananiah [the prophet] died the
same year iu the seventn month.
^f\ 1 Now these are the words of §3
/ V the letter that Jeremiah [the Communica-
^^ ^ prophetj sent from Jerusalem exuIs
unto the residue of the elders of 595 b. c.
the exiles, and unto the priests, aud
unto the prophets, and unto all the people,
whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile
2 frora Jerusalem to Babylon : after the going
forth of Jeconiah the king, and the queen-
mother, and the eunuchs, (and) the princes of
Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and
3 the foreign troops, from Jerusalem ; by tlie hand
of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah
the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Ju
dah sent to Babylon unto [Nebuchadnezzar] the
king of Babylon, saying,
A Thus says Jehovsdi [of hosts], the God of Is
rael, to all the exiles, whom I have caused to be
taken into exile from Jerusalem [to Babylon] :
5 Build ye houses, and dwell (iu themj ;
And plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them :
6 Take ye wives,
And beget sons and daughters :
And take wives for your sons.
And give your daughters to husbands.
That they may bear sons and daughters ;
And multiply ye there, and be not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the land
Whither I nave caused you to be taken into
exile.
And pray unto Jehovah for it :
For in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
8 For thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of
Israel] :
Let not deceive you your prophets that are in
the midst of you.
And your diviners,
Neither hearken ye unto tlieir ^ dreams
Which they 1 are dreaming ;
9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name:
I have not sent them, [says Jehovah].
10 For thus says Jehovah,
After seventy years are accomplished for
Babylon,
I will visit you.
And perform my good word toward you,
In causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts
That I think toward you, [says Jehovah],
Thoughts of peace, and not respecting mis
fortune,
To give you a promising future.
12 And ye shall call upon me, and I will deliver
you;
And ye shall pray unto me, and I will hearken
unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me,
When ye shall search for me with all your
heart.

• 14 And I will appear to you, says Jehovah,
And I will change your fortunes,
And I will gather you from all the nations.
And from all the places whither I have driven
you, says Jehovah ;
Aud I will bring you again unto the place
Whence I caused you to be taken into exile,
15 In that ye have said,
Jehovah has raised us up prophets in Babylon.
16 For thus says Jehovah concerning- the king
that sits upon the throne of David, and con
cerning all the people that dwell in this city,
your brethren that have uot gone forth with you
17 into exile, thus says Jehovah of hosts: Behold,
I will send amoug them the sword, the famine
and the pestUence, aud will make them like vile
18 figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. And I
will pursue after them with the sword, with the
famine, aud with the pestilence, and will make
them a consternation to all the kingdoms of tlie
earth, to be an execration, and a fright, and a
hissing, aud a reproach, among all the nations
19 whither I have driven them : because they have
not hearkened unto my words, says Jehovah,
wherewith I sent unto them my servants the
prophets, rising early and sending them ; but
20 they did not hear, says Jehovah. Hear ye
therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye exiles,
whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
21 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of Israel] ,
concerning; Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and
concerning- Zedekiah the sou of Maaseiali,
who prophesy a lie to you in my name : Behold,
I will deliver them into the hand of [Nebuchad
rezzar] the king of Babylon, and he shall slay
22 them before your eyes; and of them shall be
taken up a curse for all the exiles of Judah
which are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make
thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the
23 king of Babylon roasted with fire : because they
wrought folly in Israel, and committed adultery
with the wives of their fellows, and spoke words
in my name [falsely] , which 1 commanded them
not ; "and I myself know, and am witness, says
Jehovah.
24 And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt
25 speak, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying. Because thou didst send
letters in thine own name unto all the people
there are at Jerusalem, and unto Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, and unto all the
26 priests, saying, Jehovah has- made thee priest in
the stead of Jehoiada the priest, to be an ofiicer
in the house of Jehovah for every man that is
mad, and makes himself a prophet, that thon
shouldest put him in the stocks and in the collar.
27 Now, therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jere
miah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet
28 to you. forasmuch as he has sent unto us to
Babylon, saying, (The captivity) is long: Build
ye houses and dwell (in them); And plant
29 gardens and eat the fruit of them. And Zeph
aniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
30 Then came the word of Jehovah nnto Jere-
31 miah, saying, Send unto all the exiles, saying,
Thus says Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite: Becausethat Shemaiah has prophe
sied unto you, and I sent hira not, and he has
32 caused yon to trust in a lie ; Therefore, thus
says Jehovah, Behold, I will punish Shemaiati
the Nehelamite, and his seed ; he shall not have
a man to dwell among this people, neither shall
he behold the good that I will do for my people,
says Jehovah : because he has spoken rebellion
against Jehovah.

1 With ver. 9.

29

Chap. 30, ver. 1]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 31, ver. 5

O/^ 1 The word that eame unto Part IX.
^M Jeremiah from Jehovab, say- ^he Boot of
^^ —^ ins CoQsolalion.
2 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Is- ^'"^' **'¦ "' "¦
rael, sayiug. Write thee all the words that I have
3 spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days
come, says Jehovah, that I will change the
f(M-tuues of my people Israel aud Judah, says
Jehovah : and I will cause them to return uuto
the land that I gave to their fathers, aud they
shall possebis h.
i And these are the words that Jehovah spoke
concerning^ Israel and concerning Judab ;
6 [For] thus says J ehovah :
We have heard a sound of trembling,
Fear without peace.
6 Ask ye now, aud see.
Whether a male is in travail ?
Wherefore do I see every niau
With his hands on his loins [as a woman in
travail].
And all faces are turned
To paleness?
7 Alas ! for that day is great.
So that none is like it :
Aud it is a time of trouble for Jacob,
But he shall be saved out of it.
8 And it shall come to pass iu that day.
Says Jehovah of hosts.
That I will break his yoke from off bis neck,
And will burst his thongs ;
And they shall no more serve strangers [of
him],
9 But they shall serve Jehovah their God,
And David their king.
Whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore, do not thou fear, 0 Jacob my servant,
says Jehovah ;
Neither be dismayed, 0 Israel :
For, lo, I will save thee in the distant territory,
And thy seed in the land of their captivity ;
And Jacob shall return, and shall be at rest, and
at ease.
With none to make him afraid.
11 For I am with thee to save thee,
Says Jehovah.
For I wil! make a fnll end of all the nations
whither I have scattered thee.
But of thee I will not make a full end ;
But I will correct thee according to judgment.
Though 1 cannot altogether hold thee guiltless.
12 [For] thus says Jehovah,
Thine injury is incurable for me.
Thy wound is grievous:
13 There are no [pleading thy cause] remedies for
(thy) sore.
There is no healing for thee.
14 All thy lovers forget thee,
They care not for thee :
For I have smitten thee with ferocious blows,
With cruel chastisement ;
For the greatness of thine iniquity.
Because thy sins were increased.
15 Why criest thou concerning the injury
That thy pain is incurable ?
For the greatness of thine iniquity,
[Because thy sins were increased] , '
I have done these things to thee.
16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be
devoured,
And all thine adversaries, every one of them,
shall go into captivity ; 1 Repeated from ver. 14.

And they that spoil thee shall be a spoil.
And all that prey upon thee will I give for a
prey.
17 For I will make new flesh grow for thee.
And I vvill heal thee of thy wounds, says
Jehovah ;
Because they have called thee, Zion, an out
cast.
Whom no one cares for.
18 Thus savs Jehovah,
Behold,'! will change the fortunes of Jacob's
tents.
And have compassion on his dwelling places ;
Aud the city shall be built upon her own
mound,
Aud the citadel shall be inhabited upon its
customary place.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving.
And the voice of them that make merry :
And I will multiply them, and they shall not be
few ;
And I will glorify them, and they shall not be
small.
20 Their sons also shall be as aforetime.
And their congregation shall be established
before me,

And I will punish all that oppress tbem.
21 And their prince shall be of themselves.
And their ruler shall proceed from the midst
of them.

3\

And I will cause him to draw near, and he shall
approacb unto me : for who theu is he that risks
bis life in order to approach unto me? says
Jehovah.
22 And ye shall become my people,
And I will be your God.
23 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah,
His fury goes forth,
(And) ^ a cyclone
Whirls over the head of the wicked.
24 Tbe fierce anger of Jehovah will uot return.
Until he have executed.
And till ye have performed the purposes of his
heart :
In the latter days ye shall understand it.
1 At that time, says Jehovah,
1 will become tbe God of all the families of
Israel,
And they shall be my people.
2 Thus says Jebovah, shall find favor
The people in the wilderness :
Those who are left of the sword shall go
To secure themselves rest.
3 They shall perceive God in the distant place.
Jehovah shall appear to thens (saying),
[Yea], I love thee with the old love :
Therefore, with kindness do I draw thee.
4 Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be
built,
O virgin Israel ;
Again shalt thou be adorned with thy tambour
ines, and shalt go forth
In the dances of them that make merry.
5 Again shalt thou plant vineyards
Upon the mountains of Samaria:
The planters shall plant (and shall bold
rest! val).
And shall enjoy their produce.
2 Wltll 23 ; 19.

30

Chap. 31, ver. 6]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 31, ver. 33

6 For there shall be a day, when the watchman
will cry
Upon the hill-country of Ephraim,
Arise ye and let us go up to Zion
Uuto Jehovah our God.
7 [For] thus says Jehovah,
Exult [with gladness] for Jacob,
Aud cry aloud at the top of the mountains,^
Publish ye, praise ye, and say,
Jehovah has saved bis people,
The remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will briug them from the north [coun
try].
And gather them from the recesses of the
earth,
Among them the blind and the lame, [the
woman with child] aud her that travails
with child [together] :
A great company shall they return.
9 Behold, they irent forth with weeping,
But with consolations will I lead them:
I will bring them unto streams of water,
In a smooth way wherein they shall not
stumble :
For I have become a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is my tirst-born.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye rations,
Aud declare it iu the coast-lands afar off ;
And say.
He that scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him, as a shepherd his flock.
11 For Jehovah has ransomed Jacob,
And redeemed him from the hand of him that
was stronger than he.
X2 And they shall come * to the height of Zion,
And shall exalt [and flow together] about the
bounty of Jehovah,
About grain, and about new wine, and aboutoil,
And about sheep and oxen :
And their soul shall be as a watered garden,
And they shall not languish any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men aud the old shall be
glad:
And I will turn their mourning into joy,
[And will comfort them], aud make them re
joice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness.
And my people shall be satisfied with my
bounty, [says Jehovah].
15 Thus says Jehovah :
A voice is heard iu Ramah, lamentation.
Bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her sons ;
She refuses to be comforted [for her sons, be
cause they are no more].
16 Thus says Jehovah :
Refrain thy voice from weeping,
And thine eyes from tears :
For there is a reward for thy work, [says Jeho
vah],
And they shall return from the land of the
enemy.
17 And there is hope for thy latter end, says Jeho
vah,
And (thy) sons shall return to their own
border.

18 I have surely heard
Ephraim bemoaning himself :

Thou hast corrected me, and I let myself be
corrected,
As an untrained calf ;
Bring me back, tuat I may return
For thou art Jehovah my God.
19 [For having turned and] having been instructed^
I have repented,
I have smitten upon my thigh :
1 am put to shame, yea, even disgraced,
Because I do bear [the] reproach [of my youth].
20 Is Ephraim my dear son ?
Or a delightsome child?
For as often as I speak of him,
I do earnestly remember him [still] :
Therefore, my bowels yearn for nim,
I must surely have compassion upon him, says
Jehovah.
21 Set thee up waymarks.
Make [thee] guide-posts:
Set thine heart toward the high way.
By the way by which thou wentest, return ;
O virgin Israel, return
To these thy cities ;
22 How long wilt thou go hither and thither,
O thou loitering^ daughter?
For Jehovah has created a new thing in the
earth,
A woman goes about like a man.
23 Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel :
Yet again shall they use this speech in the land
of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when IshaU
change their fortunes :
Jehovah blesses thee, O seat of righteousness,
O holy mountain,
24 And the inhabitants of [in it] Judah, and all
the cities thereof,
Together the husbandmen, and they that go
about with flocks ;
25 For I have satiated weary souls.
And every languishing soul have I replen
ished.
26 Upon this I awoke, and beheld ; and my sleep
was sweet to me.
27 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will
sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah
with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have
been wakeful over them [to pluck up and to
break down, and] to overthrow [and to destroy],
and to afflict, so will I be wakeful over them U>
build and to plant, says Jehovah.
29 In those days, they shall say no more. The
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the sons'
30 teeth are set on edge ; but every one shall die
for his own iniquity ; every man that eats the
sour grapes, his teeth shall be set ou edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I
will make with the house of Israel and with
32 the house of Judah a new covenant : not ac
cording to the covenant which I made with their
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; because
they broke my covenant, and I rejected them,
33 says Jehovah. For this is the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel after those
days, says Jehovah ;
I will put my law in their inward parts,
And upon their heart will I write it ;
And I will be their God,
And they shall be my people :

1 with Isa. 42 : 11.

31

Chap. 31, ver. 34]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 32, ver. 35

34 And they shall teach no more a man his
friend, aud a man his brother, saying. Know 13
Jehovah : for they shall all know me, from the 14
least of them uuto tbe greatest of them, [says
Jehovah] :
For I will forgive their iniquity,
Aud their sin will I rememher no more. 15
55 Thus says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a
light by day, [the ordinances of the] moon and
tlie stars for a light by night, who stirs up the 16
sea, so that the waves thereof roar, Jehovah of
56 hosts is his name: if these ordinances depart 17
from before me, says Jehovah, then the seed of
Israel also shall cease from being a nation before
me for ever. 18
¦37 Thus says Jehovah : If heaven above can be
measured, aud the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off 19
hiil] the seed of Israel for all that they have
done, says Jebovah.
38 Behold, the days (come), says Jehovah, that 20
the city shall be built to Jehovah from the touer
39 of Hananel unto the gate of the corner ; and
further the measuring line shall go out straight
onward as far as the hill Gaveb, and shall turn 21
40 about to Goah. And the whole valley, the dead
bodies and the ashes, and all the tields unto the
brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate 22
toward the east, shall be holy to Jehovah ; it
shall not be plucked up, nor overthrown any
more for ever. 23

PartX. The
Betura. §1.

'^'^ 1 The word that came unto
Jr%/^ Jeremiah from Jehovah in the
tenth year of Zedekiah, king
of Judah, which was the ita 24
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez- Certainty,
2 zar. Now at that time the king of 587 b. c.
Babylon's army besieged Jeru
salem : and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up
in the court of the guard, which was in the king
3 of Judah's house, where Zedekiah the king [of 25
Judah] had shut him up, saying. Wherefore dost
thou prophesy, and say, Thus says Jehovah, Be
hold, I will give this city into the hand of the
¦4 king of Babylon, and he shall take it; and
Zedekiah [king of Judah] shall not escape out 26
of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely
be delivered into the hand of the king of Bab- 27
ylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, 28
5 and his eyes shall behold his eyes ; and to Bab
ylon shall he lead Zedekiah, and there shall he
be until I visit him, says Jehovah : if ye fight
with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. 29
6 And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah
7 came unto me, saying. Behold, Hanamel the
son of ShaUum thine uncle shall come unto
thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Ana
thoth : for the right of redemption is thine to 30
8 buy it. So Hanamel mine uncle's son came
unto me [according to the word of Jehovah],
nnto the court of the guard, and said unto me.
Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, 31
[whicH is in the land of Benjamin :] for the
right of inheritance is thine, and the redemp
tion is thine ; buy it for thyself. Then I knew
9 that this was the word of Jehovah. And I 32
bought the field [that was in Anathoth] of
Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed hira
[the money, even] seventeen shekels of [the]
10 silver. And I wrote it upon a paper, and sealed
it, and called witnesses, and weighed out the 33
11 money with the scales. And I took the deed of
the purchase, that which was sealed, [the com
mandment and the statutes, and that which was
12 open :J and I delivered it [the deed of the pur- 34
chase] unto Baruch the son of Keriah, the son
of Manseiah, in the presence of Hanamel mine 35
uncle's (son) and in the presence of the wit
nesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, 32

(and) in the presence of all the Jews that
sat in the court of the guard. And I charged
Baruch before them, saying, Thus says Jehovah
of hosts, [the God of Israel :] Take [these deeds,]
this deed of the purchase, J^both that which is
sealed,] and tlic public notice, and put them in
an earthen vessel ; that they may continue many
days. For thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God
of Israel], Houses aud flelds and vineyards shall
yet again be bought in this land.
And I prayed unto Jehovah after I had de
livered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch
the son of Neriah, saying. Ah ! Jehovab God ;
behold, thou hast made the heaven and the
earth by thy great power and hy thy stretched
out arm; there is nothing too hard for thee:
who showest mercy to thousands, and recom-
pensest the iniquity of fathers unto the bosom
of their sons after them : the great, the mighty
God, Jehovah of hosts is bis name ; great in
counsel, and mighty in work : whose eyes are
[open] upon [all] the ways of the sons of men,
to give every one according to his ways, ["and
according to the fruit of his doings] : who bast
set signs and wonders from the land of Egypt
and unto this day,* in Israel and among man
kind ; and hast made thee a name, as at this
day ; and didst bring forth thy people Lsrael out
of the land of Egypt with signs, and with
wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and w ith great terror ; and
gavest them this land, wbich thou didst swear
to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with
milk and honey ; and they came in and pos
sessed it ; but they bearkened not to thy voice,
neither walked in thy law ; they have done
nothing of all that thou commandest them to do :
therefore thou hast caused all this misfortune to
come upon them : behold the mounds have
reached the city to take it: and the city must
fall into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight
against it, because of the sword, and of the
famine, and of the pestilence : and what thou
hast spoken has come to pass ; and, behold, thou
seest It. And thou sayest unto me, O Jehovah
God, Buy thee the field for money, and call wit
nesses ; whereas the city must fall into the band
of the Chaldeans.
Then came the word of Jehovab unto me,
saying. Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh : is
there anything too hard for me ? Therefore thus
says Jehovah : Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the [Chaldeans, and into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar] king of Babylon, and he
shall take it: and the Chaldeans, that flght
against this city, shall come and set this city on
fire, and burn it. with the houses, upon whose
roofs they have hurned sacrifice to Baal, and
poured out drink offerings to other gods, to pro
voke me to anger. For the sons of Israel and
the sons of Judah have done only that which
was evil in my sight from their youth : for the
sons of Israel have only provoked me to anger
with the work of their hands, savs Jehovah. For
this city has been to me the object of mine anger
and of my fury from the day that thev built it
even unto this day ; that I shonld remove it
from before my face : because of all the evil of
the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah
which they have done to provoke me to anger'
they, their kings, their princes, their priests'
and their prophets, [and] the men of Judah'
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And thev
have turned unto me the back, and not th'e
face: and though I taught them rising earlv
and teaching them, yet thev have not heark'-
ened to receive discipline. But thev set their
detestable things in the house which i's called bv
my name, to defile it. And thev built the
high places of Baal, which are in the vallev of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their

Chap. 32, ver. 35]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 34, ver. 3

daughters to pass (thronsli the fire) to
Molech ; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my mind, that they should do this
35 a'Dominatiou, to cause Judah to sin. And now
[therefore] thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel,
concerning; this city, whereof ye say. It must
fall into the hand of the king of Babylon by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pesti-
37 lence : Behold, I will gather them out of all the
countries, whither I have driven them in mine
anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and
I will bring them again unto this place, and I
38 will cause them to dwell safely : and they shall
39 be my people, and I will he their God : and I
will give them one heart and one way, that they
may fear me forever; to the end that good may
40 come to them, and to their sons after them : and I
will make an everlasting covenant with them,
that 1 will not turn away from after them, [to
do them good] ; and I will put my fear in their
41 heart, that it may not depart from me. And I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I
will plant them faithfully iu this land, with my
42 whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus
says Jehovah : According as I have brought all
this great misfortune npon this people, so will
I bring upon them all the good that I have
43 promised them. And (again) fields shall be
bought in this land, whereof ye say. It is
desolate, without man or beast, it must fall into
44 the hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields
for monev, and subscribe the deeds, and seal
them, and call witnesses, in the land of Ben
jamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and
in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the
hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the south : for I will change
their fortunes, says Jebovah.
¦^^1 And the word of Jehovah §2.
"3"S came unto Jeremiah the sec- fTha"^
'""^'"^ ond time, while he was yet mmim
shut up in tbe court of the guard, ssi a. „'.
saying,
2 Thus says Jehovah who made tlie earth, Je
hovah that formed it to establish it, Jehovah
3 is his name ; Call uuto me, and I will answer
thee, and will tell thee great things, and hitl-
4 den,i which thou knowest not. For thus says
Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the
houses of this city, and concerning the houses
of the kings of Judah, which are to be torn
down for mounds, and for the barricade,
5 when they begin to fight with the Chaldeans, and
which are to be fllled with the dead bodies of
men, whom I liave smitten in mine anger and
in my fury, and from whom I have hid my face,
6 because of all their wickedness. Behold, I will
make new flesh grow to it and (will induce)
healing, [and I will heal them] ; and I will re-
7 veal to them ways of abiding peace. And I
will change the fortunes of Judah and the for
tunes of Israel, and will build them as at the
S first; and I will cleanse them from all their in
iquity, whereby they have sinned against me,
and I will pardon all their iniquities, [whereby
they have sinned against me, and] whereby they
9 have rebelled against me. And Jerusalem
shall be for joy, for praise, and for glory, to all
the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all
the good that I do [them], and shall fear aud
tremble concerning all the good and concerning
all the peace tbat I procure for it.
10 Thus says Jehovah : Again there shall be heard
in this place, whereof ye say. It is waste, with
out man and without beast, even in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are
devastated, without man [and without inhabit-
11 ant] , and without beast, the sound of joy and
the sound of gladness, the voice of tbe bride

groom and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that say. Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts,
for Jehovah is good, for his mercy (endures) for
ever: (and) of them that bring thank offerings
into the bouse of Jehovah ; for 1 will change the
fortunes of the land as at the first, says Jehovah.
12 Thus says Jehovah of hosts : Again there shall
be in this place which is waste, without men and
without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a
pasturage for shepherds causiug their flocks to
13 lie down ; in the cities of the hill-country, in the
cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the
south, and in the laud of Benjamin, and in tlie
places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, shall the flocks again pass by the bauds
of him that counts them, says Jehovah.
14 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I
will perform thatgood word which 1 havespokeu
concerning; the bouse of Israel and concern-
15 ing the house of Judah. In those days, and at
that time, will I cause a shoot of righteousness
to grow up for David, and he shall execute
judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days Judah shall be saved.
And Jerusalem shall dwell safely :
And this is (her name) by wbich she shall
he called,
Jehovah is our righteousness.
17 Forthus says Jehovah: David shall never lack
a man to sit upon the throne of the house of
18 Israel ; neither shall the priests the Levites lack
a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to
burn oblations, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of Jehovah came nnto Jeremiah,
20 saying. Thus says Jehovah: If can be broken
the covenant of the day, and the covenant of
the night, [and] that there should not be day
21 and night in their seasou ; then can also my
covenant be broken with David my servant, that
he should not have a son to reign upon his throne,
and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As 2 the host of heaven cannot be numbered.
Neither the sand of the sea measured ;
So will I multiply the seed of David my servant,
And the Levites that minister to me.
23 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah,
saying,
24 Considered thou not what this people have
spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovab
chose, be has cast them off? Thus do they de
spise my people, that they should be no more a
25 nation before me.^ Thus says Jehovah : If I
have not created day and night, if I bave not
26 flxed the ordinances of heaven and earth ; then
will I also cast away [the seed of Jacob, and of]
David my servant, so as not to take of his seed
to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob : for I will change their fortunes, and
will have compassion on tbem.

34

1 The word that carae unto Part XI.
Jeremiah from Jehovah, Prophecy of the

1 With Isa. is : 6.

2 Cf. Isa. Si : 9.
33

when Nebuchadrezzar king j-anoi
of Babylon, and all his army, and Jerusalem,
all [the kingdoms of] the land of 587 b. o.
his dominion, [and alithe peoples],
fought against Jerusalem, and against all the
cities thereof, saying :
2 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go aud
speak unto Zedekiah king of Judah, and say
unto him. Thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, (and tie shall take it) and burn it
3 with fire : and thou thyself shalt not escape out
of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and de
livered into his hand ; and thine eyes shall be-
3 With several authoritlea.

Chap. 34, ver. 3]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 35, ver. 18

hold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and thou '
shalt speak with him i mouth to mouth, and
4 thou Shalt go to Babylon. Only hear the word
of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah : Thus
says Jehovab concerning thee. Thou shalt not
5 die by the sword, thou shalt die in peace; and
lihe the burnings of thy fathers, [the former
kings who were] before thee, so shall they make
a burning for thee, and they shall wail for thee,
(saying). Ah! lord, for I have given a promise,
eays Jehovah.
6 Then Jeremiah [the prophet] spoke all these
words unto Zedekiah the king [of Judah] in Jeru-
7 salem, when the king of Babylon's army fought
against Jerusalem, [and against all the cities of
Judah that were left], ag^ainst Lachish and
ag-ainst Azekah ; for tbese remained of the
cities of Judab as fortified cities.
8 The word that came unto Jere- Port XII.
miah from Jehovah, after that the The Slaves.
king Zedekiah had made a cove- "- "'
nant with all the people which were at Jerusa-
9 lem, to proclaim liberty [unto them] ; that every
man should let his manservant, and every man
bis maidservant, being a Hebrew ora Hebrewess,
go free ; that nofne of them] Jew should be held
10 in subjection I by his brother [ : and all the
princes and all tbe people hearkened, who had
entered into tbe covenant, that every one should
let his manservant, and every one his maid
servant, go free, that they should not be held in
subjection any more; tliey hearkened, and let
11 them go : but afterward they turned and caused
the manservants and the maidservants, whom
they had let go free, to return, and brought
them into subjection for servants and for hand-
12 maids: therefore the word of Jehovah came
unto Jeremiah [from Jehovah] , saying,
13 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel : I made
a covenant with your fathers in the day tliat I
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
14 out of the house of bondmen, saying. At the
end of seven years ye shall let go every man his
brother that is a Hebrew, who has sold himself
to thee, and has served thee six years, thou shalt
let him go free from thee: but your fathers
hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
15 ear. And ye had turned, and bad done tbat
which is right in mine eyes, iu proclaiming
liberty every man to his fellow ; and ye had
made a covenant before me in tbe house over
16 which my name has been called : but ye turned
and profaned my name, and caused every man
bis manservant and every man his maidservant,
whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to re
turn; and ye brought thera into subjection, to
37 be to you for servants and for handmaids. There
fore, thus says Jehovah : Ye have not hearkened
unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his
brother, and every man to his friend : behold, I
proclaim to you a liberty, says Jehovah, unto the
sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine ;
and I will make you a consternation to all the
18 kingdoms of the earth. And I will give the
men that have transgressed my covenant, [who
have not performed thewordsof the covenant],
which tbey made before the calf, [which they
cut in twain] , between whose parts they passed ;
19 the princes of Judab, and [the princes of Jeru
salem] the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the
people [of the land], who passed between the
20 parts of the calf, I will even give them into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
them tbat seek their life : and their dead bodies
shall be for food to the birds of heaven, and to
21 the beasts of the earth. And Zedekiah king of
Judah, and his princes, will I give into the hand
of their enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek their life, and into the hand of the
Mng of Babylon's army, who have gone up from

22 you. Behold, I will command, says Jehovah,
and cause them to return to this city ; and they
shall flght against it, aud take it, and burn it
with fire : and I will make the cities of Judah a
desolation, without inbabitant.
-^ r- 1 The word that came unto Part XIII.
-S^ Jeremiah from Jehovah in the uechaMtes
^^ days of Jehoiakim the son of SiTo
Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
2 Go unto the house of tbe Recbabites, [and
speak with them], and bring them into the
house of Jehovah, unto one of the chambers,
3 aud give them wine to drink. Then I took
Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Ha-
bazziniah, and his brethren, and [all] his sons,
4 and the whole houseof the Recbabites; and I
brought them into the house of Jehovah, nnto
the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of
Igdaliah, tbe man of God, which was by the
chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the
5 keeper of the threshold : and I set before
(them) [the sons of the house of the Recba
bites] jugs full of wine, and cups, and I said
6 nnto them. Drink ye wine. But thev said, We
will drink no wine : for Jonadab the son of
Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye
shall drink no wine, neitlier ye, nor your .'¦ons,
7 for ever : neither shall ye build house, nor sow
seed, nor shall [ye plant] vineyard [nor shall it]
be yours : but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents ; that ye may live many days in the land
8 wherein ye sojourn. And we have hearkened
1x1 the voice of Jehonadab the son of Rechab
our father [in all that he commanded us], to
drink no wine all our days, we, our wives,
9 our sons, and our daughters ; nor to build bouses
for us to dwell in ; and that we should have
10 neither vineyard, nor fleld, nor seed : and we
have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and
done according to all that Jonadab our father
11 commanded us. But it came to pass, whcii
Kebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into
the land, that we said, Come aiid let us goto Jt-rn-
salem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans,
and for fear of the army of Aram ; so we settled
in Jerusalem.
12 Theu came the word of Jehovah unto me,
saying,
13 Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel :
Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabi
tants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive disci-
cipline to hearken unto my words? says Je-
14 hovah. The words of Jehonadab the son of
Rechab, in which he commanded his sons not to
drink wine have been performed, and unto this
day they have drunk none, for they bave heard
their father's commandment : but I have spoken
unto you, rising early and speakii ig, and ye have
15 not hearkened [unto me]. I have sent also unto
you all my servants the prophets, rising early and
sending them, saying. Return ye now every
man frora his evil way, and araend your doings,
and go not after other gods to serve them, and
dwell in the land whieh I have given to you
and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined
16 your ear, nor hearkened unto me. For the sons
of Jehonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father (which he
commanded them], but this people have not
17 hearkened nnto me ; therefore, thus says Jeho
vah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel : Be
hold, I will bring upon Judah and npon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the misfortune that
I bave pronounced upon them : because I have
spoken unto them, but they have not heard
and I bave called to them, but tbey have not
answered.
18 And to the house of the Recbabites Jeremiah
said:

1 With some aacieat Vrss.

34

Chap. 35, ver. 18]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 37, ver. 6

Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel :
Because ye have hearkened unto the command
ment of Jehonadab your father, [aud kept all
his precepts] , and done according to all that he
19 commanded you ; therefore, thus says Jehovah
of hosts, tbe God of Israel : Jonadab the son of
Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before me
for ever.
O /" 1 And It came to pass in the Part XIV.
3(5 fourth year of Jehoiakim the Jeremiai
son of Josiah, king of Judah, jchSim
that this word came unto Jeremiah joi, 603, b. o.
2 from Jehovah, saying. Take thee a
roll of a tiook, aud write npon it all the words
that I bave spoken unto thee concerning Jeru
salem, and concerning Judah, and concern
ing all the nations, from the day 1 spoke unto
thee, from the days of Josiah (king' of Ju-
S dah), even unto this day. It may be that the
house of Judah will hear all the misfortune
which I purpose to do to them ; that they may
return every man from his evil way, and that I
may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 And Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah,
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah
all tbe words of Jehovah, which he had spoken
5 unto him, upon a roll of a book. And Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I ara restrained, I
6 cannot go into the house of Jehovah : but go
thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast writ
ten from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the
ears of tbe people iu Jehovah's house upon a
fast day ; and also thou shalt read them in the
ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be that their supplication will fall before
Jebovah, and that they will return every one
from his evil way : for great is the auger and the
fury that Jehovah has pronouuced upon this
8 people. And Baruch [the son of Neriah] did
according to all that Jeremiah [the prophet]
commanded him, reading in the book the words
of Jehovah in Jehovah's house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoia
kim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the
ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem,
and all the people that came from the cities of
Judah, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah [in
10 Jerusalem]. Then read Baruch in the book the
words of Jeremiah in the bouse of Jehovah, in
the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
the secretary, in the upper court, atthe entrance
of the new gate of Jehovah's house, in the ears
11 of all the people. And heard Micaiah the son
of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, all the words
12 of Jehovah out of the book, and he went down
to the king's house, unto the secretary's cham
ber ; and, lo, all the princes sat there, Elishama
the secretary, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah,
aud Ehiathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah
the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of
13 Hananiah, and all the princes. Then Micaiah
declared to them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
14 people. Thereupon all the princes sent Jehudi
the son of Nethaniah, the sou of Shelemiah, the
son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying. Take in thy
hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears
of the people, and come down. So Baruch
the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand,
15 and went unto them. And they said unto him,
sit down now, and read it in our ears. SoBaruch
16 read it in their ears. And it came to pass, when
they bad heard all the words, they looked upou
one another in terror, and said [unto Baruch] ,
We must surely tell the king of all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying. Tell us now,
how didst thou write all these words [at his
18 mouth] ? Then Baruch answered them, Jere
miah pronounced all these words unto me with
his mouth, and I wrote them upon the book with

19 my hand. Then said the princes unto Baruch,
Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah, and let no
man know where ye are.
20 And they went in unto the king to his cham
ber,! i)ut they had laid up the roll in the cham
ber of Elishama the secretary, and they told all
21 the(se) words in the ears of the king. And the
king sent Jehudi to bring the roll : and he took
it out of the chamber of Elishama the secretary.
And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and
in the ears of all tbe princes who stood beside
22 the king. Now the king sat in the winter house
[in the ninth month] : and the lire of the brazier
23 was burning before him. Aud it came to pass,
when Jehudi had read three or four columns,
that (the king) cut it with the penknife, aud
cast it into tbe flre that was upon the brazier,
until all the roll (had been thrown) into the
24 flre that was upon the brazier. And they were
not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
king, nor [any of] his servants that heard all
25 these words. Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah
and Gemariah had entreated the king that lie
would not burn the roll, but he did not hearken
26 unto them. And the king commanded Jerah-
meel the king's son, and Seraiab the son of
Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take
Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet,
but Jehovab hid them.
27 Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jere
miah, after tbat the king had burned the roll,
all the words which Baruch wrote at the moutb
of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and write [upon
it] all the [former] words that were upon the
[first] roll, which Jehoiakim the king [of Judah]
29 burned. And concerning Jehoia,kim king of
Judah thou shalt say. Thus says Jehovah : Thou
hast burned this roll, saying. Why hast thou
written upon it, saying. The king of Babylon
shall certainly come and destroy this land, and
shall cause to cease from theuce man and beast ?
30 Therefore, thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoia
kim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit
upon the throne of David ; and his dead body
shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in
31 the night to the frost. And I will punish him,
and his seed, and his servants, for their iniquity ;
and I will bring upon them, and upou the in
habitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of
Judah, all tbe misfortune that I have spoken
concerning them, and they hearkened not.
32 And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it
uuto Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, and
he wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king
of Judah bad burned in the fire : and there were
added besides to them mauy like words.
•^ »7 1 And Zedekiah the sou of Part XV.
"S / Josiah reigned [as king] , in- , Ji"*
'-''' stead of Coniat the son of ''j^'f^^f/m
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar and the
king of Babylon made king in the Deportation.
2 land of Judah ; but neither did he, 5'-
nor his servants, nor the people of , ?^^
the land, hearken unto the words ^^j^I^'eS
of Jehovah, which he spoke by sav a. c. '
Jeremiah tbe prophet.
3 And the king Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
the priest, unto Jeremiah [the prophet], saying,
4 Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us. Now
Jeremiah came in and went out among the
people, for they had not put him into prison.
5 And Pharaoh's army bad come forth out of
Egypt, and the Chaldeans that besieged Jeru
salem had heard tidings of them and had reliu-
6 quished the siege of Jerusalem. Then came tbe

' See 1 Kings 1 : 15.
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JEREMIAH

[Chap. 38, ver. 24

word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah [tbe prophet] ,
saying,
7 Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel : Thus
shalt thou say unto the king of Judah, who
sent [you] unto thee to inquire of me : Behold,
Pharaoh's army, which came forth to help you,
8 shall return to the[ir] land of Egypt. And the
Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against
this city, and tbey shall take it, and burn it with
9 fire. Thus says Jehovah : Deceive not your
selves, saying. The Chaldeans shall surely de-
10 part from us: for they shall not depart. For if
had been smitten i the whole army of the Chal
deans that fight against you, and there remained
but wounded men among thera each in his tent,
then would (these) arise and burn this city
with fire.
11 And it came to pass that when the army of the
Chaldeans had relinquished the siege of Jeru-
12 salem for fear of Pharaoh's army, then Jeremiah
went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive bis portion there, iu the
13 midst of the people. And when he was in tlie
gate of Benjamin, a sentinel was there, wliose
name was Irijah, the sonof Shelemiah, the sou
of Hananiah ; and he laid hold on Jeremiah [the
14 prophet], saying. Thou fallest away unto the
Chaldeans. Then said Jeremiah, It is false ; I
fall not away unto the Chaldeans. But Irijah
hearkened not unto [him and laid hold ou]
Jeremiah, but had him go unto the princes.
15 And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and
smote him, and sent bim [to the house of bonds] ,
to the house of Jonathan tbe scribe ; for they
16 had made tbat tbe prison. And so Jeremiah
came unto the well-house, and unto the vaults,
and [Jeremiah] remained there many days.
17 And [the kiugj Zedekiah sent, and brought
bim, and the king asked him secretly [in his
bouse], and said. Is there any word from Jeho
vah? And Jeremiah said. There is. [He said
also,] Thon shalt be delivered into the hand of
18 the king of Babylon. Aud Jeremiah said unto tbe
king [Zedekiah] , Wherein have I sinned respect
ing thee, or respecting thy servants, or respecting
this people, that ye bave put me in prison?
19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied
to you saying. The king of Babylon shall not
20 come unto you, nor unto this land ? And now
hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, fall before thee ; that
thou cause me not to return to tbe house of
21 Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. And the
king [Zedekiah] commanded, and they cora-
mittetl Jeremiah inro the court of the guard,
and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of
the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city
was gone. Aud Jeremiah remained in the court
of the guard.
-^ O 1 And Shephatiah the son of §2.
¦^O Mattan, and Gedaliah the son Jereaiiah
'^^^ of Pashhur, and Jucalthesou zcdekiah
of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son sge b. c'
of Malchiah, heard the words that
2 Jeremiah spoke uuto all the people, saying. Thus
says Jehovah, He that abides in this city shall
die by the sword, by the famine, and ijy the
pestilence : but he that goes forth to the Chal-
deaus shall live, and his life shall be to him for
3 a prey, [and he shall live] .'¦' Thus says Jehovah,
This city shall surely be given into the hand of
the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall
4 take it. Then the princes said uuto the king.
Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death ;
forasmuch as he weakens the hands of tbe men
of war that remain in this city, and the hands
of all the people, in speaking such words unto
them : for this man seeks not the welfare of this
5 people, but the hurt. Aud the king [Zedekiah]
1 Third person demanded by context.

said. Behold, he is in your hand : for the king
was not oue that could do anything with them.
6 Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the
cistern of Malchiah the king's son, that was in
the court of the guard : and they let (him)
[Jeremiah] dowu with cords. And in the cistern
there was no water, but mire : and he [Jeremiah]
sank in the mire.
7 Novv Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,' a eunuch,
who was in the king's house, heard that they
had put Jeremiah into the cistern ; and since the
king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,
8 Ebed-melech went forth out of tbe king's house,
9 and spoke unto the king, saying, My lord the
king, these men have done evil in [all] that
which they bave done to Jeremiah the prophet,
whom they have cast into the cistern, iu order
to put him to death with hunger in the place
where he is, because there is no more bread in the
10 city. Then the king commanded Ebed-melech
[the Ethiopian], saying. Take from hence
three ^ men with thee, and take [Jeremiah the
prophet] (him) up out of the cistern before he
11 die. So Ebed-melech took the men [with him] ,
and went to the house of the king unto the place
underneath the store room, and took thence old
rags frora draggled and tattered garments, and
let them down by cords into the cistern uuto
12 Jeremiah. And [Ebed-melech the Ethiopian]
said [unto Jeremiah] , Put now the old rags from
draggled and tattered garments under thine
armpits, under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13 Then they drew him with tbe cords, and took
him up out of the cistern.
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the
14 guard. And the king [Zedekiah] sent, and took
(him) [Jeremiah the prophet] unto him unto
the entrance of the body guards that is in the
bouse of Jehovah : and tbe king said unto iiim,
I will ask thee a thing ; bide nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare
it to thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death ?
and if I give thee counsel, thou wiltnot hearken
16 unto me. Then the king [Zedekiah] swore
[secretly] nnto Jereraiah, saying. As Jehovah
lives, who has procured for us this life, I will
not put thee to death, neither will I give thee
into the hand of these men [that seek thy life].
17 Then said Jereraiah unto Zedekiah, Thus says
Jehovab, [the God of hosts, the God of Israel] :
If thou wilt indeed go forth unto the king of
Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and
this city shall not be burned with flre ; and tbou
18 shalt live, and thy house : but if thou wilt not
go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then
shall this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with flre, aud
19 thou Shalt not escape out of their hand. And
the king [Zedekiah] said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of tne Jews tbat have fallen away to the
Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
20 and they mock me. And Jeremiah said, They
shall not deliver thee. Hearken, I pray thee, to
the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto
thee ; that it may be well with thee, and that
21 thy soul may live. But if thou refuse to go
forth, this is the word that Jehovah has showed
22 me : And behold, all the women that were left
in the king of Judah's house brought forth unto
the king of Babylon's princes, while behold they
say.Have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee.
Thy familiar friends :
They have sunk thy feet in the bog.
They have turned backward.
23 And they shall bring out [all] thy wives and thy
sons unto the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not
escape out of their hand, but shall he taken bv
the hand of tbe king of Babvlon ; and this city
24 shall be burned with flre. Then said Zedekiah
unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words

2 With 21 : 9.

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3 With context.

Chap. 38, ver. 24]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 40, ver. 13

25 that thou die not. But if the princes hear that
I have talked with thee, and they come unto
thee, and say uuto thee, Tell us now what thou
hast spoken unto the king, hide it not from us,
"that we put thee uot to death ; also what the
26 king spoke unto thee : then thou shalt say unto
them, I caused my supplication to fall before
the king, that he would not cause me to return
27 to Jonathan's house to die there. And all the
princes came unto' Jeremiah and asked him:
and he told them according to all these words
that the king had commanded. And they
silently departed from him. for the conversation
28 had uot been overheard. And Jeremiah re
mained in the court of the guard until the day
that JeVusalem was taken. §3.
And it came to pass when Jeru- '^^^ Captured
salem was taken, 586 sfc.
^Q 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
^y ill the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar
¦^ king of Babylon, and all his army, unto
2 Jerusalem, and besieged it; in the eleventh year
of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth
of the month, a breach was made in the city.
3 that all the princes of the king of Babylon
came in and sat in the interior gate, even [Ner-
gal-sharezer, Shamgar,] Nebusliazban, the
chief chamberlain, Nergal-sharezer, the chief
magician, and [all] the rest of the princes of
the king of Babylon ;
4 And it came to pass that when Zedekiah, the
king of Judah, and all the men of war saw thera,
then they fled, and went forth out of the city by
night, by the way of the king's garden, by the
gate between the two walls; and tliey went i
5 the way of the Arabah. Aud the army of the
Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the steppes of Jericho; and they
took him, and brought him up uuto Nebuchad
nezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of
Hamath, aud he executed judgment against
€ him. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes ; also the
king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah,
7 And he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him
8 with fetters, to carry him to Babylon. And the
Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and broke down
9 the walls of Jerusalem. And the residue of the
people that remained in the city, the deserters
also, that fell away unto him, and the residue of
the master- workmen [that remained], Neb-
uzaradan the chief of the guards carried iuto
10 exile to Babylon. But some of the poor people,
who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the chief of the
guards left in the land of Judah, and gave them
vineyards and tields.
11 At that time Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
commanded concern ing Jeremiah through Nebu-
12 zaradan the chief of the guards, saying, Take
him, and look well to him, and do him no harm ;
but do with him even as he shall speak unto
13 thee. So Nebuzaradan the chief of the guards
sent, and Nebushazban, the chief chamberlain,
aud Nergal-sharezer, the chief magician, and all
the chief ofl5cers of the king of Babylon,
14 and they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the
court of the guard, and committed him unto
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Sha-
Ehan, that he shonld carry him unto his (own)
ouse ; and he dwelt among the people.
15 And unto Jeremiah came the word §*•
of Jehovah, whilehe wasshutupin fii>ed-meiceh,
the court of the guard, saying, °* '''

16 Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,
saying. Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel : Behold, I will briug my words upon
this city for misfortune aud not for good ; and
17 they shall be before thee in that day. But I will
deUver thee in thatday, says Jehovah : and thou
shalt not be given into the hand of the men of
18 whom thou art afraid. For I will surely save
thee, and thon shalt not fall by the sword, but
thy life shall be for a prey to thee ; because thou
hast put thy trust in me, says Jehovah.
Af\ 1 The word that came unto AppeiwilxA
cl\ I Jeremiah from Jehovah, after .:f"*^^?
* ^^ that Nebuzaradan the chief of Fall
the guards had let him go from
Ramah, when he had taken him ^J-
being bound in chains among all coioDvat
the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah, Mizpah,
who were carried into exile to Baby- 586-582 v. c.
2 lon. And the chief of the guards
took Jeremiah, and said uuto him, Jehovah thy
God pronounced this misfortune upon this
3 place; and Jehovah has [brought it, and] done
according as he spoke; because ye have sinned
against Jehovah, aud have not hearkened to
his voice, therefore this thing has come upon
4 you. [And now] behold, I loose thee this
day from the chains which are upon thy
hand. If it seem good to thee to come with
me to Babylon, [come], then I will look well to
thee ; but if it seem ill [to thee to come with me
to Babylon], forbear: [behold, all the land is
before thee: whither it seems good and right to
5 thee to go, thither go. And when he did not yet
go back] and go back to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
Babylon has ^iven charge in the cities of Judah,
and dwell with him among the people: or go
whithersoever it seems right to thee to go.
(And be said to lijm, 1 will s** back).
And the chief of the guards gave him a portion
6 of food and a present and let him go. Then
went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah [the son of A hikam]
to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people
that were left in the land.
7 And all the captains of the forces that were
in the field, even tliey and their men, heard that
the king of Babylon had given Gedahah the son
of Ahikam charge in the land, and had entrusted
to him men, and women, aud children, and of
the poor of the land, of such as were not carried
8 into exile to Babylon ; and they came unto Ged
aliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Netha
niah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sous of
Kareah, and Seraiah thesonof Tanhuraeth, and
thesonsof Ephai theNetophathite, and Jezaniah
the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
9 And Gedaliah [the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan], swore to them and to their men, say
ing. Fear not the servants of the Chaldeans:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Baby-
10 lon, that it may be well with you. As for me,
behold, I will sit (before you) at Mizpah, to
stand before the Chaldeans that may come unto
ns ; bnt ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits,
and oil, and pnt them in your vessels, and dwell
in your cities that ye shall have taken,
11 And also all the Jews that were in Moab, and
among the sons of Ammon, and in Edom, and
that were in all the countries, heard that the king
of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and
that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of
12 Ahikam [thesonof Shaphan]; and all the Jews
returned out of all places whither they were
driven, and came to the land of Judah, unto
Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and
summer fruits in great abundance,
13 Now Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the

1 Wifh 52 : 7.

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[Chap. 42, ver. 18

captains of the forces that were in the field,
14 came nnto Gedaliah to Mizpah, and said unto
him. Dost thou indeed know that Baalisthe king
of the sons of Ammon has sent Ishmael [the son
of Nethaniah] to take thy life? But Gedaliah
15 [the son of Ahikam] believed them not. And
Johanan [the son of Kareah] spoke unto Geda
liah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray
thee, and smite Ishmael [the son of Nethaniah] ,
unbeknown to any one: wherefore should he
take thy life, and (why) should be scattered all
the Jews that are gathered unto thee, and the
16 remnant of Judah perish? But Gedaliah [the
son of Ahikam] said unto Johanan [the son of
Kareah] , Do not this thing ; for thou speakest
falsely of Ishmael.
yj ¦if 1 Now it came to pass in the 52
^ I seventh month, that Ishmael l^iiniaei and
* ^ the sonof Nethaniah, the sou 532^^0'
of Elishama, of the seed royal, [and
the chief otficers of the king] , and ten men with
him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah, and there they did eat bread together
2 [in Mizpah]. Theu arose Ishmael thesonof Neth
aniah, and the ten men that were with him, and
smote Gedaliah [the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan, with tne sword, and slew him], whom
the king of Babylon had given charge in the
3 land, and all the Jews that were with him [with
Gedaliah] at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that
were found there [the men of war, Ishmael slew] .
4 And it came to pass the second day after he
5 had slain Gedaliah, unbeknown to any one, that
there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh,
and from Samaria, even eighty men, havingtheir
beards shaven and their clothes rent, and hav
ing cut themselves, with oblation and frank
incense in their hand, to bring them to the house
6 of Jehovah. And Ishmael [tlie son Nethania*h]
went forth [from Mizpah] to meet them, while
(they) wept continually as they went: and it
came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them,
7 Come uuto Gedaliah, [the son of Ahikam]. And
it was so. when they came uuto the midst of the
city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew
them, by [the midst of] the cistern, he, and the
8 men that were with him. But ten men were
found among them who said unto Ishmael, Slay
us not : for we have hidden stores in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.
So he forbore, and slew them, not among their
9 brethren. Now the cistern wherein Ishmael cast
all the dead bodies of the men whom he had
slain, a g-reat cistern., which Asa the king
had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel, Ish
mael [the son of Nethaniah] fllled it with slain
10 men. Then Ishmael carried away captive [all
the residue of the people that were in Mizpah]
the king's daughters, and all the people that re
mained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief
of the guards had entrusted to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam : [and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
carried them away captive], aud departed to go
over unto the sons of Ammon.
11 And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, heard
of all the misfortune that Ishmael [the son of
12 Nethaniah] had caused, and they took [all] the
(ir) men, and went to fight with (liim) [Ish
mael the son of Nethaniah], and found him by
13 the great pool that is in Gibeon. And it came to
pass that when all the people that were with
Ishmael saw Johanan [the son of Kareah], and
all the captains of the forces that were with him,
14 then thev were glad. [So all the people that
Ishmael liad carried away captive from Mizpah
turned about], and they returned, [and went],
15 unto Johanan [thesonof Kareah], But Ishmael
[the son of Nethaniah] escaped from Johanan with
eight men, and went unto the sons of Ammon.
16 Then took Johanan [the son of Kareah] , and

all the captains of the forces that were with him,
alltheremnantof the people whom Ishmael [the
son of Nethaniah] had carried away cap
tive [from Mizpah, after that he had slain Geda
liah the sou of Ahikam] , men [men of war] , and
women, and children, and eunuchs, whom he
17 had brought again from Gibeon ; and they de
parted, and came to a halt in Gideroth Chim-
ham, which is by Beth-lehem, to make a journey
18 to come into Egypt, because of the Chaldeans: for
they were afraid of them, because Ishmael [the
son of Nethaniah] had slain Gedaliah [the son
of Ahikam], whom the king of Babylon gave
charge in the land.
y| /^ 1 Then all the captains of the 53.
£\/ forces, and Johanan the son Journey to
^^^ of Kareah, and Azariab the Egypt.
son of Hoshaiah, and all the people ^^^ =¦ ^¦
from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
2 and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let our sup
plication fall before thee, we pray thee, and pray
for us uuto Jehovah thy God, even for [all] this
remnant ; for we are left but a few of many, as
3 thine eyes do see [us] : that Jehovah thy God
may show us the way wherein we should walk,
4 and the thing that we should do. Then Jeremiah
[the prophet] said unto them, I have heard
(you) : behold, I will pray unto Jehovah yonr
God according to your words ; aud it shall come
to pass that the whole answer which Jehovah
shall make you, I will declare to you; I will
5 keep nothing back from you. And they on their
part said unto Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and
faithful witness against us, if we do not even ac
cording to all the message wherewith Jehovah
6 thy God shall send thee uuto us. Whether it be
good, or whether it be bad, we will hearken to
the voice of Jehovah our God, unto whom we
send thee ; that it may be well with us, because
we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.
7 Aud it came to pass after ten days., that the
8 word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.' And he
called unto Johanan [the son of Kareah], and
uuto all the captains of the forces that were
with him, and unto all the people from the least
9 even to the greatest, and said unto them,
Thus says Jehovah, [the God of Israel], unto
whom ye sent me to lay your supplication before
10 him; If ye will abide quietly in this land, then
will I build you. and not overthrow you, and I
will plant you, and not pluck you up : for I am
sorry for the misfortune that I have brought to
11 you. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of
whom ye are afraid, be not afraid of him, says
Jehovah : for I am with you to save you, and to
12 deliver you from his hand. And I will grant
you compassion, and he will have compassion
upon you, and cause you to dwell npon your
13 own land. But if ye say. We will not dwell in
this land, so that ye hearken not to the voice of
14 Jehovah your God, saying. No ; but we will go
into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no
war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have
15 hunger of bread ; and there will we dwell : [and
now] therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah O
remnant of Judah ; thus says Jehovah [of hosts,
the God of Israel], If ye wholly set your faces to
16 enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there ; then
it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye
fear, shall overtake you there in the land of
Egypt, and the faraine, whereof ye are afraid
shall (pursue) after (and) cleave (to) you there
17 (iu) Egypt; and there ye shall die. And it shall
come to pass that all the men that set their faces
to go into Egypt to sojourn there shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence ;" and
none of them shall remain or escape from the
18 misfortune that I will bring upon them. For
thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of Israel] :
As mine anger and my fury were poured forth
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my
fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall

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[Chap. 44, ver, 19

enter into Egypt : and ye shall become an exe
cration, and a fright, and a curse, aud a re
proach; and ye shall see this place no more.
19 (This) is the word of Jehovah unto you, O rem
nant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt : (and now)
ye must know certainly, for I testify against
20 you this day, that ye would have injurecl
your own selves, if ye had sent me unto Jehovah
your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah onr
God ; and according to all that Jehovah [onr
God] shall say, so declare to us, aud we will do
21 (it) ;* and then, [and] I declare to you this day,
had not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah your
God even in all wherewith he sent me unto you.
22 Now therefore must ye know certainly that ye
shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to
go to sojourn there.
il O 1 And it came to pass that when Jeremiah
-^^ had made an end of speaking unto [all]
the people all the words of Jehovah [tneir
God], wherewith Jehovah [their God] had sent
2 him unto them, even all these words, then said
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the
son of Kareah, and all the [proud] rebellious
men, unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely : Je
hovah our God has not sent thee to say, Ye
3 shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there : but
Baruch the son of Neriah sets thee on against
us, so as to deliver us iuto the hand of the
Chaldeans, xhat they may put us to death, and
4 carry us into exile to Babylon. So Johanan
[the son of Kareah] , and all the captains of the
forces, and all the people, hearkened not to the
voice of Jehovah, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5 But Johanan [the son of Kareah], and all the
captains of the forces, took all the remnant of
Judah, that had returned from all the nations
whither they had been driven to sojourn iu the
6 land [of Judah], the men, and the women, and
the children, and the king's daughters, and [all]
the persons that Nebuzaradan the chief of the
fuards had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahi-
am, [the son of Shaphan], and Jeremiah the
7 prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah ; and
they came into the land of Egypt ; for they did
not hearken to the voice of Jehovah : and they
came as far as Tahpanhes.
8 Then came the word of Jehovah 5*.
unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, say- „ "^.^^
: -g. ^ ' ¦' Predicted
9 Take great stones in thy hand and ''sgi s. ^J.^ '
bury them secretly in the pave
ment which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of
10 Judah, and say unto them. Thus says Jehovah
[of hosts, the God of Israel] : Behold, I will
send and take Nebuchadrezzer the king of Bab
ylon, [ray servant], aud lie shall set his throne
above these stones which thou hast hidden ;
and he shall stretch his glittering pavilion over
31 them. And he shall come, aud shall smite the
laud of Egypt; (delivering) such as are (in
tended) for death to death, and su<jh as are for
captivity to captivity, and such as are for the
12 sword to the sword. And he shall khidle a fire
in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall
burn them, and he shall carry them away cap
tive : and he shall array himself with the land
of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment;
13 and he shall go forth from theuce in peace. He
shall also break the obelisks of Beth-shemesh,
[that is in the land of Egypt]; and the houses of
the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
1 The word that came unto Appendix B
Jeremiah concerning all TheLast
the Jews that dwelt in the .r^'???^"^'".
land of Egypt, who dwelt at ^"^-^^^tOB.o.

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Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, aud iu
the country of Pathros, saying,
2 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts], the God of Is
rael : Ye have seen all the misfortune that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, aud upon [all] the
cities of Judah ; and, behold, they are [this day]
3 a waste, no one dwelling therein; because oi
their wickedness which they have done, to pro
voke me to anger, in that they went to burn sacri
fice to [serve] other gods, whom they knew not,
4 neither they, [nor yel nor their fathers. And
I sent unto them [alf] my servants the prophets,
rising early ajid sending (them), sayiug. Oh, do
5 not this abominable thing that! hate. But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no sacrifice to
6 other gods. And so my fury and mine anger
were poured forth, and kindled iu the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ; and they
became a waste (and) a desolation, as it is this
7 day. And now thus says Jehovah [the God] of
hosts, [the God of Israel] : Wherefore do ye great
injury uuto yourselves, to cut off from you man
and woman, infant and suckling, out of the
8 midst of Judah, to leave to you no remnant ; in
that ye provoke me to anger with the works of
your hands, burning sacrifice to other gods in the
land of Egypt, whither ye have come to sojourn ;
that ye may be cut off, and that ye may become
a curse and a reproach amoug all the nations of
9 the earth? Have ye forgotten the wicked acts
of your fathers, and the wicked acts of the kings
of Judah, and the wicked acts of their princes
[and your own wicked acts and the wicked acts
of your wives] which they committed in the
land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled even unto this day,
neither have they feared, nor walked in my law,
nor in my statutes, that I set [before you and]
11 before their fathers. Therefore, thus says Jeho
vah I of hosts, the God of Israel : | Behold, I will
set my face | against you for misfortune, even | to
12 cut off all I Judah. And I will take ] the rem
nant of Judah I that have set their faces to go
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and
they shall all be consumed ; ( in | the land of |
Egypt, (and) they shall fall by the sword (and)
bythe famine; (and) they shall be consumed,
from the least even unto the greatest, | by the
sword and by the famine they shall die: j and
they shall become an execration, (and) a fright,
13 and a curse, and a reproach. For T will punish
them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have
punished Jerusalem, bythe sword, by the famine,
14 and by the pestilence : and none of the remnant
of Judah, that have come to sojourn there [in
the land of Egypt], shall escape or remain [and]
to return into the land of Judah, whither they
long to return [to dwell] : for none shall return
save (a few) fugitives.
15 Then gave answer to Jeremiah all the men
who knew that their wives burned sacrifice to
other gods, and all the women that stood by,
with a loud voice [even all the people that
dwelt in the land of Egypt, (and) in Pathros],
16 saying. As for the word that thou hast spoken
nnto us in the narae of Jehovah, we will not
17 hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do the
whole thing that has gone forth out of our mouth,
to burn sacrifice to the queen of heaven, pouring
out drink offerings to her. as we did, we and our
fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities
of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem : and
had plenty of bread and were well, and saw no
18 misfortune. Butsince we ceased to burn sacrifice
to the queen of heaven, pouring out drink offer
ings to her. we have lacked everything, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19 And (the women said) ^ When we burned
sacrifice to the queen of heaven, pouring out
drink offerings to her, did we apart from our

1 Accordinc; to Syr. Vrs.
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[Chap. 46, ver. 15

husbands make for her cakes to portray her, and
pour out drink offerings to her?
20 Then said Jeremiah unto all the people, unto
the men, and unto the women, [and unto all
the people], that had given him answer, saying,
21 The sacrificial smoke that ye made in the cities
of Judah, and in thestreetsof Jerusalem, ye and
your fathers, your kings and your princes, and
the people of the land, did not Jehovah remem-
22 ber it, and carae it (not} to his mind? and
Jehovah could no longer bear (it), because of
the evil of your doings, (and) because of the
abominations which ye have committed ; there
fore your land has become a waste, and a fright,
and a curse [without inhabitant], as it is this
23 day ; because ye have burned sacrifice (to other
gods), aud because ye have sinned against Jeho
vah, and have not hearkened to the voice of
Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his
statutes, nor in his testimonies ; therefore this
misfortune has happened to you [as it is this
day].
24 And Jeremiah said unto [all] the people, and
unto all the women. Hear tne word of Jehovah
[all Judah that are in the land of Egypt] :
25 Thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying] : Ye [and your] wives have both spoken
with your mouths, and with your hands have
fulfilled (it), saying. We will surely perform our
vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifice to
the queen of heaven, pouring out drink offerings
to her : establish indeed your vows, and perform
26 [your vows] thein. Therefore hearye the word
of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of
Egypt : Behold, I have sworn by my great narae,
says Jehovah, that my name shall no more be
[named] in the mouth of any man of Judah,
saying, As Jehovah God lives, in all the land of
27 Egypt. (For) behold, I am wakeful over them
for misfortune, and not for good : and all the
men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall
be con.sumed by the sword, and by the famine,
28 until there be au end nf them. And they that
escape the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, few iu number;
and all the remnant of Judah, that came into
the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know
29 whose word shall stand, mine or theirs. And
this shall be the sign to you. says Jehovah, that
I will punish you in this place, that ye may
know tnat my words shall surely be fulfilled
30 npon vou for 'misfortune : thus says Jehovah:
Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his eneraies. and into the
hand of them that seek his life, as I gave Zede
kiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchad
rezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that
sought his life.
A ^ \ The word that Jeremiah the Appendix O
ZL*^ prophet spoke uuto Baruch Promise to
"^ the son of Neriah. when he ^""l^^l ^J'"
wrote these words upon a book [at
the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah],
saving,
2 Thus said Jehovah [the God of Ismel], con-
3 cerning thee, O Baruch : (Because) thou hast
said,Woe to rae now, (w^oe to me) !
That Jehovah has added sorrow to my pain ;
I am weary with my groaning,
And I find no rest.
4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus says Jeho
vah: Behold, that which I have built will I
overthrow, aud that which I have planted I will
pluck up,
even all the earth, to me it belongs.
5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? do

not seek them : for, behold, I will bring misfor
tune upon all flesh, says Jehovah : but thy life
I will give to thee for a prey iu all places whithei
thou goest.

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1 *The word of Jehovah that
came unto Jeremiah the
prophet concerning the nations,

Appendix O
The Nations.

2 Respecting Egypt : concerning §1-
the army of Pharaoh-neco king of ..7'Eo^'
Egypt, which was by the river Eu- ^^^-^^^ »¦ c-
phrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezziir
king of Babylon smote in the fourth year ol
Jehoiakim, the sou of Josiah, king of Judah.
3 Arrange ye the buckler and shield,
And draw near to battle,
4 Harness the horses and mount the chargers.
And stand forth with (your) helmets;
Furbish the spears.
Put on the coats of mail.
5 Wherefore [have I seen] are they dismayed and
are turned backward?
And their mighty men are broken up.
And fled apace, and turned not :
Terror is on every side, says Jehovah.
6 The swift could not flee away,
Nor the mighty man escape ;
In the north by the river Euphrates
They stumbled and fell.
7 Who is this that rose up like the Nile,
Whose waters tossed themselves like the
streams ?
8 Egypt rose up like the Nile,
And (his) waters tossed themselves like the
streams :
And he said,
I will rise up, I will cover the (dry) land ;
I will destroy [the city and] those that dwell
upon it.
9 Go up, ye horses ; and rage, ye chariots ;
And let the mighty men go forth :
Cush and Put, that handle the shield,
And the Ludim, that [handle] bend the bow.
10 For that day is to the Lord, Jehovah of hosts,
A day of vengeance, that he may avenge
himself upon his adversaries :
And his sword shall devour and be satisfied,
And shall be satiated with their blood :
For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, has a sacrifice
In the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm,
O virgin daughter Egypt :
In vain dost thou use niany remedies.
There is no healing for thee.
12 The nations have heard thy voice.
And the earth is full of thy cry :
For the mighty man has stumbled against the
mighty.
They have fallen both of them together.
13 The word that Jehovah spoke unto Jeremiah
[the prophet], how that [Nebuchadrezzar] the
king of Babylon should come and smite the land
of Egypt.
14 Declare ye [in Egypt, and publish] in Migdol,
And publish in Noph [and in Tahpanhes] :
Say ye, stand forth, and prepare ye,
For the sword has devoured round about thee,
15 Whv has Apis fled,
(Why) has thy bull (deity) not stood?
Because Jehovah thrust him away.

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[Chap. 48, ver. 9'

16 Thy- foreign population ^ stumbled, yea
they fell :
And they said, one to another,
*Arise and let us go again unto onr own people.
And unto the land of our nativity,
Before the oppressing sword.
17 Call ye the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt
Uproar which the seasou stills.
18 As I live, says the king, [whose name is] Jehovah
[of hosts] ,
[For] like Tabor among the mountains.
And like Carmel by the sea shall he come.
19 Prepare for thyself articles for exile
O inhabitress, daughter E^ypt :
For Noph shall become a fright,
And shall be burnt, without inhabitant.
20 Egypt is a fairish heifer,
Gadflies from the north have pierced her.
21 Also her hired men in the midst of her
Are like calves of the stall ;
For they also turned, they fled together.
They did not stand:
For the day of their calamity came upon them,
The time of their visitation.
22 Their sound rings like bronze.
When they march with a host ;
And they have come with axes to her,
As hewers of wood.
23 Cut down her forest, says Jehovah,
For it is impenetrable ;
Because they are more than the locusts.
Being innumerable.
24 The daughter Egypt shall be put to shame ;
She shall be delivered into the hand of the
people of the north.
25 [(Thus) says Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel] :
Behold, I will visit [unto] Amon of No, [and]
upon Pharaoh, [and upon Egypt, aud upou
her gods, and upon her kings, and upon
Pharaoh], and upon them that trust in hiin :
26 and I will deliver them into the hand of
them that seek their lives, and into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of his servants; and afterwards
it shall be inhabited, as iu the days of old,
says Jehovah.
27 Therefore do not thou fear, O Jacob my servant,
Neither be dismayed, O Israel :
For, lo, I will save thee in the distant territory,
And thy seed in the land of their captivity ;
And Jacob shall return, aud shall be at rest, and
at ease.
With none to make him afraid.
28 Fear thon not, 'OJacobmyservant, says Jehovah ;
For I am with thee :
For I will make a full end of all the nations
whither I have driven thee.
But of thee I will not raake a full end ;
But I will correct thee according to judgment,
Though I cannot altogether hold thee guiltless.
1 *The word of Jehovah that 52.
came unto Jeremiah the T,v,J'*r
prophet concerning: the 576-332=!^.
Philistines

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53.
After 300 B. c„

before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus says Jehovah :
Behold, waters shall rise up out of the north,
And shall heoome au overflowing stream.

And shall overflow the (dry) land and all that
is upou it,
The city and them that dwell therein :
And mankind shall cry.
And all the inhabitants of the earth shall howl.
3 At the sound of the beating hoofs of his steeds.
At the rattling of his chariots, the rumbling ol
his wheels,
Fathers turned not unt« sons
For feebleness of hands ;
4 Because of the day that comes to spoil all the
Philistines,
To cut off for Tyre and Zidon every surviving
helper:
For Jehovah will spoil the Philistines,
Tbe remnant of the maritime land of Caphtor.
5 Baldness came npon Gaza ;
Ashkelon was brought to nought.
O remnant of theAnaliiin,
How long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 Ha! thou sword of Jehovah,
How long will it be ere tliou be at rest?
Put up thyself into thy scabbard,
Rest and be still.
7 How can it be at rest,
Seeing Jehovah has given it a charge?
Unto Ashkelon, and unto the sea shore.
There has he appointed it.
il Q 1 Eespecting Moab : Thus
^O says Jehovah [of hosts, the
¦^'^ God of Israel] :
Ha ! upon Nebo, for it is laid waste ;
Kiriathaim [is put to shame it] is taken ; [the-
height is put to shame and broken down].
2 There is no more (healing;) for Moab,
Nor praise in Heshbon :
The^ have devised evil against her,
(Saying), Come, and let us cut her ofl from being a-
nation ;
Also, O Madmen, thou shalt be brought to-
silence.
The sword shall go after thee.
3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
Spoiling and great destruction I
4 Moab is broken iu pieces ;
They have caused a cry to be heard untc Zoar.
5 For the ascent of Luhith
With weeping they climb it ; ^
For in the descent to Horonaim
They hear [the distresses of] the cry of de
struction.
6 Flee, save your life.
And preserve it as the juniper in the wildern ess.
7 For, because thou hast trusted in thy strong
holds [and in thy fortifications] ,
Thou also shalt be taken :
And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity.
His priests and his princes together.
8 And a devastator shall come unto every city.
No city escaping ;
The valleys also .<ihall be destroyed.
And the table-land shall be wasted.
As Jehovah has said
9 Give wings to Moab
For she will iudeed fly :
And her cities shall become a fright.
Without any to dwell iu them.

1 with context ; 25 ;

2 With Isa. 15 : 5.

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[Chap. 48, ver. 46

10 Cursed be he that does the work of Jehovah
negligently,
And [cursed be he] that keeps back his sword
from blood.
11 Moab has been at ease from his youth,
And he is at rest upon his lees.
And he has not been emptied from vessel to

Neither has he gone into captivity :
Therefore his taste remains iii him.
And his fragrance has not changed.
12 Therefore, behold the days come, says Jeho
vah, that I will send to him them that tilt
(liquors) and they shall tilt him ; and they shall
empty his vessels, and dash his jars in pieces.
13 And Moab shall be put to shame on account of
Chemosh, as the house of Israel was put to
shame on account of Beth-el their confidence.
14 How say ye. We are mighty men, and valiant
15 men for war? Moab is laid waste, and de
molished [it goes up] , and his chosen young
men have gone down to the slaughter,
says the king, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
10 The calamity of Moab is near to come,
And his misfortune hastens fast.
17 Commiserate him, all ye that are round about
him,
And all ye that know his name ;
Say,
How is the strong staff broken.
The beautiful rod 1
18 Come down from thy glory, and sit in the thirsty
(land),
O thou inhabitress [daughter] Dibon ;
For the devastator of Moab shall come up
against thee.
He shall destroy thy strong hold.
19 Stand upon the way, and watch,
O inhabitress Aroer:
Ask him that flees, and him that escapes.
Say, what has been done ?
20 Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down,
Howl ye and cry ;
Tell ye it on the Arnon,
That Moab is laid waste
21 And judgment has come npon the table-land,
upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon
22 Mephaath, and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo,
23 and upon Beth-diblathaim, and upon Kiriath
aim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-
24 meou, and upon Keriyyoth, and upon Bozrah,
and upon all the cities of [the land of] Moab,
2.5 far and near. The horn of Moab is cut ofl, and
26 his arm is broken, says Jehovah. Make ye him
drunken, for he magnified himself against Je
hovah : and let Moab splash into his vomit, and
27 let him also be in derision. Or was not Israel a
derision to thee, orwashefound among thieves?
that as often as thou didst speak of him, thou
didst shake thyself.
28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the crags,
O inhabitants of Mnab ;
And be like the dove that makes her nest
In the clefts of [Pi] Pahath
29 We have heard of the pride of Moab,
An excessive pride ;
His loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogaucy.
And the haughtiness of his heart.
SO I know, says Jehovah, his boasting,
And his pratings are not true,

He does not do right.
31 Therefore must one howl over Moab,
And for all Moab must one cry out :
Over the men of Kir-heres must one moan.
32 With' the weeping of Jazer must one weep
for thee,
O vine of Sibmah :
Thy branches passed over to the sea.
They reached even to [the sea of] Jazer :
Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
The (battle) shout^ has fallen ;
33 And gladness and joy are taken away [from the
fruitful fleld and]
From the land of Moab ;
And wine in the presses * the treader shall
not tread.
The (vintage) shout [no shout] " I have made to

34 Heshbon and ^ Elealeh are crying out
As far as Jahaz they have uttered their voice,
Horonaim (aud) the third Eglath do cry out*
For also the waters of Nimrim shall become
desolations.
35 And I will cause to cease to Moab, says Jeho
vah, him that ascends the high place, and him
that burns sacrifice to his god,
36 Therefore, his heart sighs for Moab like pipes.
And his heart sighs for the men of Kir-heres
like pipes.
Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has
disappeared.
37 For every head is bald,
And every beard clipped :
Upon all hands are cuts.
And upon (all) loins Is sack cloth.
38 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in her
squares, every one wails ; For I have broken
Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, says
39 Jehovah. How he is broken down [they howl] !
how he has turned the back ! Moab is put to
shame ; and Moab shall become a derision and
a dismay to all that are round about him.
40 For thus says Jehovah : Behold, one like an
eagle shall swoop, and shall spread out his
wings over Moab.

41 Keriyyoth is taken and the strongholds cap
tured.

And shall be the heart of the mighty men of
Moab iu tliat day as the heart of a woman in
her throes.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a
people, because he magnified himself against
43 Jehovah. Fear, and the pit, and tlie trap, are
upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, says Jehovah :
44 he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit ;
and he that gets upout of the pit shall be taken
in the trap; For I will bring misfortune
upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says
Jenovah.

45 Under the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand
powerless ;
For a fire has gone forth out of Heshbon,
And a flame from the bouse of Sihon,
And it has devoured the temples of Moab's head.
And the crown of the head of the turbulent
(warriors).
46 Woe to thee, 0 Moab !
Ttaou hast' perished, O people of Chemosh :

1 With Isa. 16 ; 9.

2 With Isa. 16 : 10.

3 With Isa. 15 : 4.

i With context and Isa. 15 : 5.

5 With Num. 21 : 29.

42

Chap. 48, ver. 46]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 49, ver. 27

49

§4.
AmmoQ,
After 500 B. (

For thy sons are taken away [captive],
And thy daughters iuto captivity.
47 But I will change the fortunes of Moab in the
latter days, says Jehovah.
To this point is the judgment of Moab.
1 Eespecting the sons of Am
mon. Thus says Jehovah :
Are there no sons to Israel ?
Or heir is there none to him?
Why has Milcom possessed Gilead,
And (vvhy) have his people dwelt in the cities
thereof?
2 Therefore, behold the days come, says Je
hovah, that I will cause to be heard over Rab
bah [of the sons of Ammon] a shout of battle,
and It shall become a desolate heap ; and her
daughters shall be burned with fire; then shall
Israel possess them that did possess him, says
Jehovah.
3 Howl, O inhabitants, that tbe city is laid
waste,
Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah ;
Gird you with sack cloth, wail,
And run to and fro with cuts;
For Milcom shall go into exile.
His priests and his princes together.
4 In what dost thou glory [in the valleys there]
in thy valley,
O lofty daughter ?
That trusts in her stores (and says),
Who can come unto me ?
5 Behold, I will bring fear upon thee, says the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
From all thy surroundings ;
And ye shall be driven out every man for himself,
Without any oue to gather [the wanderer].
6 And afterwards I will change the fortunes of
the sons of Ammon, says Jehovah.
7 Respecting Edom. Thus says Je- 55.
hovah [of hosts] : «/.^,T= .
There is no more wisdom in Teman[?] »^'^^'' »• "•
Counsel has perished from the prudent,
Their wisdom has vanished.
8 They have fled, turned (the back), dwelt deep,
The inhabitants of Dedan ;
For I bave brought the calamity of Esau upon it.
The time of its visitation.
9 For grapegatherers shall come to thee.
They shall leave no gleanings ;
For thieves by night
Shall destroy as much as they will.
10 For I have made Esau bare, I have disclosed
his places of concealment, and he shall not be
able to hide himself : he shall be laid waste by
the power of [and] his brethren and his
neighbors, and he snail not be.
11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve
them alive ;
And let thy widows trust in me.
12 For thus says Jehovah : Behold, they to whom
it pertained not to drink of the cup shall surely
drink, and shouldest thou thyself be altogether
unpunished? thou shalt not be unpunished, but
13 thou shalt surely drink. For I swear by myself,
says Jehovah, that a fright, a reproach, [a
waste] and a curse, Bozrah shall become ; and
all her cities shall become everlasting ruins.

14 Tidings I have heard from Jehovah,
That an ambassador has been sent among the
nations, f saying),
Gather yourselves together and come against
him,i
[And] rise up to the battle :
15 For, behold, I have made thee small among the
nations,
Despised araong men.
16 [Thy terror] 2 the pride of thy heart has deceived
thee,
O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the crags.
That boldest the height of the hill :
Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as
the eagle,
From thence would I bring thee down, says
Jehovah.
17 And Edom shall become a fright :
Every one that passes thereby shall be astounded,
Aud shall hiss over all her blows.
18 According to the overthrow of Sodom and Go
morrah, aud the neighbor-cities thereof, says
Jehovah,
No man shall dwell there,
Neither shall auy son of man sojourn therein.
19 Behold, as a lion who comes up from the thicket
of the Jordan unto the fold of rams :
So will I suddenly chase them away from it ;
And who is the young man that may be appointed
ag-ainst me?
For who is like me? and who will rouse
me?
And who then is the shepherd
That may stand before me?
20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah
That he has taken concerning- Edom ;
And his purposes that he has purposed
Concerning the inhabitants of Teman :
Surely shall be dragged away the young shep
herds of the flock ;
Surely shall be astounded over them their
fold.
21 At the sound of their fall the earth trembles ;
their cry is heard on the Red Sea [the sound of
it].
22 Behold, one like an eagle [shall mount up, and]
shall swoop, and shall spread out his wings over
Bozrah : and shall be the heart of the mighty
men of Edom at that day as the heart of a
woman in her throes.

Daniascus,
After 300 b. c.

23 Respecting Damascus.
Hamath is put to shame, and
Arpad,
For they have heard evil tidings:
They are melted away, are anxious.
As the sea* which cannot rest.

24 Damascus is waxed feeble, she has turned (the
back) to flee,
[And] terror has taken hold of her :
Anguish and pains have seized ou her.
As of a woman iu travail.
25 Ha ! to thee, forsaken is the celebrated city,
The [my] joyous fortress.
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her
squares, and all the men of war shall be brought
to silence [in that day], says Jehovah [of hosts].
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall devour the citadels of Ben-hadad.

1 With context and Syr, Vrs.

2 With Obadiah 3.

43

Chap. 49, ver. 28]

JEEEMIAH

[Chap. 50, ver. 18

Elam,
536-332 B. c.

28 Respecting Kedar, [and] respect- 5t.
ing the kingdom of Hazor, wnich Kedar,
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon A"" 500 b.c.
smote. Thus says Jenovah :
Arise ye, go up ag-ainst Kedar,
And spoil the sons of the east.
29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take,
Their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels, shall they carry away for them
selves.
And they shall call out over them,
Terror is ou every side.
30 Flee ye, wander far ofT, dwell deep,
O ye inhabitants of Hazor, [says Jehovah],
For [Nebuchadrezzar] the king of Babylon has
taken counsel against you,
And conceived a purpose [t^ainst them]
31 Arise, get you up unto a nation that is tranquil.
That dwells in confidence, [says Jehovah] ,
That has neither gates nor bars.
That dwells alone.
32 And their camels shall becorae a booty.
And the multitude of their cattle a spoil :
And I will scatter to every quarter them that
have the corners of their hair shorn ;
And from all sides of them I will bring their
calamity, says Jehovah.
33 And Hazor shall become a dwelling place of
jackals,
A desolation for ever :
No man shall dwell there,
Neither shall a son of raan sojourn therein.
34 * The word of Jehovah that came
unto Jeremiah the prophet con
cerning Elam in the beginning
of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Jehovah of hosts :
Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
The chief (weapon) of their strength.
36 And I will bring upon Elam four winds from
the four corners of heaven.
And will scatter them to all these winds ;
And there shall be no nation whither shall not
come
The outcasts of Elam.
37 And I will cause them to be dismayed before
their enemies,
And before them that seek their life :
And I will bring misfortune upon them.
Even my fierce anger, says Jehovah ;
And I will send after them the sword,
Till I have consumed them :
38 And I will set my throne in Elam,
Aud will destroy from thence kings and
princes, says Jehovah.
39 But it shall come to pass in the latter davs,
that I will change the fortunes of Elam, says
Jehovah.
Zrr\ ^ '^^^ word that Jehovah
iDvJ spoke concerning Bab-
^"^ ylon, concerning the land
of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare ye among the nations, | and publish ;
And set np a standard ; |
Publish, and conceal not :
Say,
Babylon is taken,
Bel has been put to shame,
Merodach is broken down ;
I Her images are put to shame,
Her idols are broken down. |
3 For has come up against her
A nation out of the north.
Which shall make her land a fright
And no one shall dwell therein :

Babylon,
586-332 B. c.

From man nnto beast,
They have fled, they have gone.
4 In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah,
the sons of Israel shall come, they aud the sons of
Judah together ; they shall go on their way weep-
5 ing, and shall seek Jehovah their God, For Zion
they shall ask with their faces hitherward ;
(and) they shall come and join themselves to
Jehovah in an everlasting covenant, that shall
6 not be forgotten. My people have been lost
sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go
astray, they have turned them away on the
mountains : they have gone from mountain unto
7 hill, they have forgotten their resting place. All
that found them devoured them ; and their ad
versaries said, We are not guilty, because they
have sinned against Jehovah, the seat of right
eousness, the hope of their fathers [Jehovah].
8 Flee out of the midst of Babylon,
And go forth out of the laud of the Chal
deans ;
And be as the he-goats
Before the flocks.
9 For, lo. I will stir up [and cause to come up]
against Babylon an assembly of [great] nations
from the north country ; and they shall set thera
selves in array s^ainst her : by this means she
shall be taken : its arrow is like (that of) a suc-
10 eessful hero, that returns not empty. And
Chaldea shall become a spoil ; all that spoil her
shall be satisfled, says Jehovah.
11 Although ye are glad, although ye rejoice,
O ye that plunder my heritage,
Although ye leap as a calf of the meadow.
And neigh as steeds ;
12 Your mother shall be sore ashamed,
She that bore you shall be confounded :
Behold, the lastone of the nations,
A wilderness, a dry land, and a steppe.
13 Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be
inhabited,
But it shall be wholly desolate :
Every one that passes by Babylon shall be
astounded.
And shall hiss, over all her blows.
14 Set yourselves in array round about Babylon,
All ye that bend the bow ;
Shoot at her, spare no arrows :
For she has sinned against Jehovah.
15 Shout round about her,
She has given her hand ;
Her pillars have fallen, her walls are over
thrown.
For it is the vengeance of Jehovah :
Take vengeance upon her ; as she has done.
Do to her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon,
And him that handles the sickle in the tirae of
harvest.

44

On account of the oppressing sword they shall
turn every one unto his people.
And they shall flee every one to his land.
17 Israel is a scattered flock,
The lions have driven (him) away :
First the king of Assyria devoured hini,
And then last [Nebuchadrezzar] the king of
Babylon has gnawed his bones.
18 Therefore thus says .Tehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel : Behold, I will punish the king of Bab
ylon, and his land, as I have punished the king
of Assyria.

Chap. 50, ver. 19]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 51, ver. 3

19 And I will bring Israel again unto his fold.
And he shall feed on Carmel [and Bashan] ,
And upon the hills of Ephraim aud in Gilead,
His soul shall be satisfied.
20 In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah,
the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and
there shall be none ; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found ; for I will pardon them
whom I leave as a remnant.
21 Go up to the land of Marratim,
Go up against it ;
And against the inhabitants of Pekod,
Slay and utterly destroy [after them] ,
says Jehovah ; and do according to all that I
have commanded thee.
22 A din of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.
23 How has been cut asunder and broken
The hammer of the whole earth !
How has become a fright,
Babylon among the nations !
24 I laid a snare for thee and also thou wast taken,
O Babylon,
Without being aware (of it) ;
Thou wast found, and also caught.
Because thou hadst striven with Jehovah.
25 Jehovah opened his armoury.
And brought forth the weapons of his indig
nation ;
For a work (to do) has [the Lord] Jehovah of

In the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come to her from every quarter.
Open her granaries :
Cast her np as heaps and destroy her utterly,
Let nothing be left to her.
27 Slay all her bullocks.
Let them go down to the slaughter :
Ha ! upon them ; for their day nas come,
The time of their visitation.
28 The sound of them that flee and escape
Out of the land of Babylon,
To declare in Zion
The vengeance of Jehovah [our God],
[The vengeance of his temple] .
29 Call together against Babylon archers,
All them that bend the bow ;
Camp round about her.
Let no one escape :
Recompense her according to deeds.
According to all that she has done [do to her] :
For a|;ainst Jehovah was she proud.
Against the holy one of Israel.
30 Therefore her young men shall fall in her
squares, and all her men of war shall be brought
31 to silence, [in that day] , says Jehovah. Behold,
I am against thee, O thou proud one, says the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts :
For thy day has come,
The time of thy visiiiation
32 And the proud one shall stumble and fall,
Without any one to raise him up ;
And I will kindle a flre in his forest.
And it shall devour all that is round about him.
33 Thus says Jehovah of hosts : The sons of Israel
and the sons of Judah are oppressed together ;
and all that took them captive hold them fast :
34 they refuse to let them go. Their redeemer is
strong, Jehovah of hosts is his name ; he shall

thoroughly maintain their contention : that he
may set the earth at rest, and throw into com-
35 motion the inhabitants of Babylon. A sword
upon the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and upon
the inhabitauts of Babylon ; and upon her
36 princes, and upon her wise men. A sword
upon tier charmers, and they shall become
fools ; a sword upon her mightymen, and they
37 shall be dismayed. A sword upon her horses
and upon her chariots, and upon all the
foreign people that are in the midst of her, and
they shall become women. A sword upon her
38 stores, and they shall be robbed, A sword upon
her waters, and they shall be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images.
And upon terrors they are mad.
39 Therefore wild beasts of the desert with howling
creatures shall dwell there.
And young female ostriches shall abide in it :
And it shall be no more inhabited for ever,
Neither shall it be occupied to all generations.
40 According to the overthrow by God of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the neighbor-cities thereof,
says Jehovah,
No man shall dwell there
Neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
41 Behold, a people comes
Out of the north.
And agreat nation, and great kings, arestirred up
From the recesses of the earth.
42 They lay hold on bow and javelin.
They are cruel and have no compassion ;
The noise of them roars like the sea.
And they ride upon horses ;
Prepared as a man for the battle.
Against thee, O daughter Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of
them,
And his hands waxed feeble ;
Anguish has taken hold of him.
Pangs as of a womau in travail.
44 Behold, as a lion, who comes up from the thicket
of the Jordan unto the folcl of rams.
So will I suddenly chase them away from it :
And who is the young man that may be ap
pointed against me ?
For who is like me ? and who will rouse me ?
And who then is the shepherd
That may stand before me ?
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah,
That he has taken concerning Babylon ;
And his purposes that he has purposed.
Concerning the land of the Chaldeans :
Surely shall be dragged away the young shep
herds of the flock,
Surely shall be astounded over them their'
fold.
46 At the call : Babylon is taken, the earth trem
bles ; and their cry is heard among the nations.
^¦11 Thus says Jehovah : Behold, I will rouse
J I against Babylon, and against them that
' dwell in Chaldea, the spiritof adestroyer ;
2 and I will send to Babylon fanners, and they
shall fan her, and they shall empty her land :
for they shall be round about her. In the day of
(her) misfortune.
3 Let not the archer lay down [bend] his bow.
Nor hang up [with] his coat of mail :
And spare ye not her young men ;
Destroy ye utterly all her host.

1 With 49 : 20.

45

Chap. 51, ver. 4]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 51, ver. 35

4 And shall fall slain raen in the land of Chaldea,
And those that are thrust through in her
streets.
5 For the widowhood of Israel and Judah is not
from their God,
Frora Jehovah of hosts ;
But (for the reason that) their land was full of
guilt
Before the holy one of Israel.
6 Flee out of the raidstof Babylon, and save every
raan his life;
Be not brought to silence in her iniquity :
For it is a time of vengeance for Jehovah,
A recompense he will render to her.
7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Jehovah's
hand,
That made all the earth drunken :
The nations have drunk of her wine,
Therefore they [nations] are mad.
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen aud broken in
pieces.
Howl over her ;
Take balm for her pain,
Perhaps she may be healed.
9 We have treated (the injury of) Babylon
But she has not let herself be healed :
Forsake her, and let us go
Every one to his own country :
For her judgment reaches unto heaven,
And is lifted up even to the skies.
10 Jehovah has brought forth our righteousness :
corae, aud let us declare in Zion the work of
Jehovah our God.
11 Make sharp the arrows ; arm yourselves with
the shields : Jehovah has roused the spirit of the
king- of the Medes ; because his purpose is
against Bablyon, to destroy it:
For it is the vengeance of Jehovah,
The vengeance of his temple.
12 Against the walls of Babylon set up a stand
ard, make the watch strong, set the watchmen,
prepare the ambushes: for Jehovah has both
purposed and done that which he spoke con
cerning: the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 O thou that dwellest upon great waters,
Abundant in stores,
Thine end has come,
The cubit at which thou art to be cut off.
14 Jehovah of hosts has sworn by hiraself; I will
fill thee with men, as with the cankerworm, and
they shall lift up a shout against thee.

15 He made the earth by his power,
He established the world by his wisdom,
And by his understanding he stretched out the
heavens :
16 When he utters his voice, there is a roar of
waters in the heavens.
And he causes the vapors to ascend from the
end of the earth ;
He makes lightnings at the time of rain,
And brings forth lig'ht out of his store
houses.
17 Every raan becomes senseless, losing knowl
edge ;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven
image :
For his molten image is falsehood,
Having no breath in thera.

18 They are vanity, a work of mockery :
In the time of their visitation they will perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like these,
For the former of all thiugs is [and the tribe of] ^
his inheritance,
Jehovah of hosts is his name.
20 A maul art thou to rae, an implement of war :
and with thee I shattered nations, and with thee
21 I destroyed kingdoms, aud with thee I shattered
the horse and his rider, and with thee I shat-
22 tered the chariot and its driver, and with thee
I shattered man and woman, and with thee I
shattered old man and youth, aud with thee I
23 shattered young man and maiden, and with thee
I shattered the shepherd and his fiock, and with
thee I shattered the husbandman and his yoke
(of oxen), and with thee I shattered governors
and prefects.
24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea, ali their evil that they
have done in Zion in your sight, says Jehovah.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O mountain of de
struction, says Jehovah, that has destroyed all
the earth : ahd I will stretch out my hand over
thee, and roll thee down frora the cliffs, and will
26 raake thee a mountain for burning. And they
shall not take from thee a stone for a corner,
nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt
become everlasting desolations, says Jehovah.
27 Set ye up a standard in the earth,
Blow the trumpet among the nations,
Prepare the nations against her.
Call together agaiust her the kingdoms of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz:
Appoint a marshal against her,
Bring up horses as the rough cankerworm.
28 Prepare against her the nations,
The king of the Medes,
His governors, and all his prefects,
And all the land of his dorainiou.
29 And the earth trembles and is in pain :
For the plan of Jehovah stands against Bab
ylon,
To make the land of Babylon a fright,
Without inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to
fight,
They remain in their strongholds :
Their might has failed,
They have becorae woraen :
Her dwelling places are set on fire, her hars
31 are broken. One runner hastens to meet
another, and one messenger to meet another ;
to make known to the king of Babylon that his
32 city is taken at every quarter, and that the pas
sages have been captured, and the citadel they
have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.
33 For thus says Jehovah [of hosts, the God of
Israel] : The daughter Babylon is like a thresh
ing floor at the time when (the owner) hiis it
trodden ; yet a little while, and shall come the
tirae of harvest to her.
34 Has devoured me, has discomfited me,
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon ;
He has set me an empty vessel,
He has swallowed me like a dragon,
He has filled his maw with my delicacies,
He has driven me away.
35 The violence and spoiling- 1 have suffered be
upon Babylon,
Says the inhabitress Zion ;

46

Chap. 51, ver. 35]

JEREMIAH

[Chap. 52, ver. 4

And my blood be npon the inhabitants of
Chaldea,
Says Jerusalem.
36 Therefore thus says Jehovah :
Behold, I will maintain thy contention.
And take vengeance for thee ;
And I will dry up her sea.
And make her fountain dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps,
A dwelling place for jackals ;
A fright and a hissing.
Without Inhabitant.
38 Together like young lions [they roar] they
roar,
39 As lions' whelps in their heat.
I will prepare their feast, and will make them
drunken ; that they may become stupid, aud
may sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says
Jehovah.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to be slaugh
tered.
Like rams with he-goats.
41 How is I Sheshach | taken and captured,
The praise of the whole earth !
How has become a fright,
Babylon among tne nations.
42 Has come up over Babylon the sea.
With the multitude of its waves she is covered.
43 Her cities have become a fright,
A laud of drought and of steppes,
[A land] wherein not a mau shall dwell.
And through which shall pass no son of
man.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will
bring forth out of his mouth that which he swal
lowed ; and the nations shall not flow together
any more unto him.
45 Also the wall of Babylon shall fall. Go ye out
from the midst of her, O my people, and save
every raan his life from the fierce anger of Jeho-
46 vah. And let not your heart faint, neither fear
ye [in the rumor] the reports in tlie land ; when
comes [in the] year [a rumor and] after [it in
the] year a rumor, and one ruler after another
does violence [in the land] .
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will
punish the graven images of Babylon, and her
whole land shall be pnt to shame ; and all her
48 slain shall fall in the midst of her. Then shall
exult over Babylon heaven and earth, and all
that is in them ; for from the north shall come
to her the destroyers, says Jehovah.
49 [also Babylon is to fall (with) the slain of Is
rael], also Bel must fall (among) the slain
of all the earth.
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye.
Stand not still ;
Kemember Jehovah in the distant place.
And let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We have beeu ashamed, because we heard re
proach ;
Confusion has covered our faces ;
For strangers have come upon the sanctuaries
Of Jehovah's house.
52 Therefore, behold, the days come,
Says Jehovah,

That I will punish her graven images ;
And through all her land the wounded shall
groan.
53 Though Babylon mount up to heaven,
Aud though it fortify her strong (hold) to the
height.
From me .shall destroyers come to her.
Says Jehovah.
54 Hark ! a cry from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans.
55 For Jehovah lays waste Babylon,
And destroys out of her the loud noise,
[And their waves roar] (wliicli roared) like
great waters.
Whose sound is transferred to slieol.
56 For shall come [upon her] upon Babylon the de
stroyer,
And her mighty men shall be taken, their
bows broken in pieces :
For a God of recompenses is Jehovah,
He will surely repay.
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her
wise men. her governors, and her prefects, and
her mighty men ; and they shall sleep a per
petual sleep, and not wake, says the king, whose
name is Jehovah of hosts.
58 Thus says Jehovah of hosts :
The broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly de
molished.
And her high gates shall be burned with fire ;
And so peoples labor for nought,
And nations [and] weary themselves for the
fire.
59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet com
manded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king
of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his
60 reign, Seraiah being quarterniabter. Aud Jere
miah wrote npon a book all the misfortune
that shonld come upon Babylon, even all
these words that are written concerning
Bl Babylon. And Jeremiah suid unto Seraiah :
When thou comest to Babylon, then shalt thou
62 see and read all these words, and thou shalt say,
O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this
place, to cut it off, that none may dwell therein,
neither man nor beast, for it shall become ever-
63 lasting desolations. And it shall be, when thou
hast made an end of reading this book, thou
shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst
64 of the Euphrates: and thou shaltsay, Thusshall
Babylon sink, and shall not rise (again), because
of the misfortune that I will bring upon her.
[And] weary themselves, as far as this are the
words of Jeremiah.
1 Zedekiah was twenty-one Appendix E
years old when he began to 'h,'',™ [™"
reign, and he reigned eleven sources,
years in Jerusalem ; and his After 636 b. c.
mother's name was Hamutal the
2 daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. | And he did
that which was evil in the sight ot Jehovah,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 Surely ' through the anger of Jehovah did it
come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he
had cast them out from his presence : and Zede
kiah rebelled against the king of Babylon | .
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the
month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem,
and encamped against it ; and they built siege-

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5 towers round about it. And the citv was be
sieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 In the fourth mouth, in the ninth of the month,
the famine was severe in the city, and there was
7 no bread for the people of the land. Then a
breach was made in the city, and all the men of
war I fled, and | went forth [out of the city] by
night by the way of the gate betweeu-the two
walls, which was by the king's garden, while the
Chaldeans surrounded the city, and they went
.8 by the way of the Arabah. And the army of the •
Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the steppes of Jericho, all his army
9 having been scattered from him. And they
captured the king, and brought him up unto the
king of Babylon to Eiblah | in the land of Ha
math I ; and he executed Judgmentagainst him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zede
kiah before his eyes ; and also he slew all the
11 princes of Judah in Riblah. And the eves of
Zedekiah he put out ; and the king of Babylon
bound him in fetters, and carried him to Baby
lon, and put him in prisou till the day of lus
death.
12 And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the
month, j which was the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon | , came Ne
buzaradan the chief of the guards, (ivho) stood
13 before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem : and
he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's
house ; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all
the houses of the district he burned with fire.
14 And all the walls of Jerusalem round about, all
the army of the Chaldeans that were with the
-15 chief of the guards broke down. | [And some of
the poor of the people], and the residue of the
people that were left in the city, and the desert
ers, that fell away to the king of Babylon, and
the residue of the master workmen, Nebuzaradan
the chief of the guards carried into exile | .
16 But some of the poor of the land, Nebuzaradan
the chief of the guards left for vinedressers and
17 husbandmen. And the columns of bronze that be
longed to the house of Jehovah, and the pedestals,
and the bronze sea that was in the house of Jeho
vah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and they
18 carried all the bronze of them to Babylon. And
the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the basins, and the saucers, and all the vessels
of bronze with whieh they ministered, they took.
19 And the mugs, and the lire trays, and the bowls,
and the pots, and the lamp-stands, and the
saucers, and the sacrificial pitchers, all which
were of gold, and all which were of silver, the
20 chief of the guards took. The columns [two],
the sea [one and the twelve bulls of bronze, that
were under] (and) the pedestals, (articles)

which king Solomon had made for the house of
Jehovah : the bronze of them [all these vessels]
21 was without weight. And the columns were
eighteen cubits in height [the one column], and
a thread of twelve cubits did compass them,
and tbeir thickness was four fingerbreadths,
22 (they being) hollow. And capitals of bronze
were upon them : and the height of the [one]'
capital was five cubits, with a network and pom
egranates round about the capital, the whole
of bronze: and the second column had (orna-
23 ments) like these [and pomegranates].' And
there were ninety and six pomegranates towards
the wind : all the pomegranates were a hundred
round about the network.
24 And the chief of the guards took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
25 and the three keepers of the threshold : and out
of the city he took an official who was officer
over the men of war ; and seven men of those
that saw the king's face, who were found in the
city ; and the general [of the prince] of the
army, who mustered the people of the land ;
and sixty men of the people of the land, that
26 were found in the midst of the city. And took
them Nebuzaradan the chief of the guards, and
brought them unto the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put
them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.
And so Judah was carried iuto exile out of his
land.

28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar
carried into exile: in the seven (teenth) year
29 three tliousand and twenty and three Jews ; in
the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar from
Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons ;
30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchad
rezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guards
carried iuto exile of Jews seven hundred forty
and tive persons : all (the) persons were four
thousand and six hundred.
31 And it came to pass in the thirty and seventh
year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah,
in the twelfth month, in the twenty and tifth of
the month that Evil-merodach king of Babylon,
in the year of his accession, lifted up the head
of Jehoiachin king of Juc^ah, and brought him
32 forth out of the prison ; and spoke kindly to
him, and set his throne above the throne of
(the) kings that were with him in Babylon.
33 And he changed his prison garments, and ate
bread before him continually all the days of his
34 life. And his portion of food, a continual por
tion, was furnished to him by the king of
Babylon, as the daily need demanded, until the
day of his death | all the days of his life. |

1 With 2 Kings 25 : 17.

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