God's wrath CHAP. VI. proclaimed. of Jerusalein, and blow the trumpet the daughter of my people slightly in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in saying, Peace, peace: when there is nc Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth peace. out of the north, and great destruction. 15 Were they ashamed when they nay, 2 I bave likened the daughter of Zion had committed abomination ? to a coniely and delicate woman. they were not at all ashamed, neither 3 The shepherds with their flocks could they blush: therefore they shall shall come unto her; they shall pitch|fall among them that fall: at the time their tents against ber round about; that I visit them they shall be cast they shall feed every one in his place. down, saith the Lond. 4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye ir and let us go up at noon. Wo unto the ways, and sec, and ask for the oli us for the day goeth away, for the paths, where is the good way, and shadows of the evening are stretched walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will out. 6 Arise, and let us go by night, and [not walk therein. let us destroy her palaces. 6 T For thus hath the LonD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this is the city to be visited; she is wholly op pression in the midst of her. 17 Also I set watchmen over yoù, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. 18 11 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among 7 As a fountain casteth out her wa-them. ters, so she casteth out her wickedness violence and epoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they bave not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest 20 To what purpose cometh there to make thee desolate, a land not inhab-me incense from Sheba, and the sweet ited. cane from a far country? your burnt9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, offerings are not acceptable, nor your They shall thoroughly glean the rem-sacrifices sweet unto me. nant of Israel as a vine: turn back 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Bethy hand as 2 grape-gatherer into the hold, I will lay stumbling blocks be. baskets. fore this people, and the fathers and 10 To whom shall I speak, and give the sous together shall fall upon them; warning, that they may hear? behold, the neighbour and bis friend shall their ear is uncircumcised, and they perish. cannot hearken: behold, the word of 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a the LORD is unto them a reproach;[people cometh from the north counthey have no delight in it. try, and a great nation shall be raised 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of from the sides of the earth. the Lond; I am weary with bolding 23 They shall lay hold on bow and in: I will pour it out upon the chil-spear; they are cruel, and have no dren abroad, and upon the assembly mercy; their voice roareth like the of young men together: for even the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in husband with the wife shall be taken, array as men for war against thee, O the aged with him that is ful' of days, daughter of Zion, 12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 24 We have beard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. 26 T O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thy. self in asbes: make thee mourning, aa 14 They have healed also the hurt of ] for an only son, most bitter lamenta Jeremiah exhorteth JEREMIAH. to repentance. tion: for the spoiler shall suddenly to it for the wickedness of my ƒ cople come upon us. Israel. 27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corruptors. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. CHAP. VII. HE word that came to Jeremiah 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lond, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lono, and 1 spake unto you, rising up early ané speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And 1 will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your breth. ren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16 Therefore 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 their dough, to make 3 Thus saith the Loun of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to cakes to the queen of heaven, and to dwell in this place. pour out drink-ollerings unto other 4 Trust ye not in lying words, say-gods, that they may provoke me to ing, The temple of the Loun, The anger. temple of the LORD, The temple of 19 Do they provoke me to anger? the LORD, are these. Baith the LORD: do they not provoke 5 For if ye thoroughly amend your themselves to the confusion of their ways and your doings: if ye thorough-fown faces? ly execute judgment between a man 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord and his neighbour; Goo; Behold, mine anger and my fury 6 Iye oppress not the stranger, the shall be poured out upon this place, fatherless, and the widow, and shed upon man, and upon beast, and upon not invocent blood in this place, nei-the trees of the field, and upon the ther walk after other gods to your fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. burt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. ST Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and born Incense unto Baal, and walk after oth cr gods whom ye know not; 10 Aud come and stand before me in the house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have scen it, saith the Lond. 21 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burntofferings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: 3 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that. I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the 12 But go ye now unto my place counsels and in the imagination of which was in Shiloh, where I set my their evil heart, and went backward, name at the first, and see what I did land not forward. Jews' impenitence CHAP. VIII. upbraided. 25 Since the day that your fathers, 2 And they shall spread them before came forth out of the land of Egypt the sun, and the moon, and all the unto this day, I have even sent untoj bost of heaven,whom they have loved, you all my servants the prophets, daily and whom they have served, and after rising up early and sending them: whom they have walked, and whom 26 Yet they hearkened not cuto me, they have sought, and whom they nor inclined their ear, but hardened have worshipped; they shall not be their neck: they did worse than their gathered, norbe buried; they shall be fathers. for dung upon the face of the earth. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all 3 And death shall be chosen rather these words unto them; but they will than life by all the residue of them not hearken to thee: thou shall also that remain of this evil family, which call unto them; but they will not an-remain in all the places whither I have swer thee. driven them, saith the Lond of hosts. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, 4 T Moreover, thou shalt say unto This is a nation that obeyeth not thej them. Thus saith the LORD, Shall they voice of the LORD their God, nor re-fall, and not arise? sball he turn ceiveth correction: truth is perished, away, and not return? and is cut off from their mouth. 5 Why then is this people of Jerusa 29 T Cut oll thy hair, O Jerusalem, lem slidden back by a perpetual backand cast it away,and take up a lamen-sliding? they hold fast deceit, they retation on, high places; for the LORD fuse to return. hath rejected and forsaken the genera- 6 I hearkened and heard, but they tion of his wrath. spake not aright: no man repented 30 For the children of Judah bave him of his wickedness, saying, What done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: have I done? every one turned to his they have set their abominations iu tnej course, as the horse rusheth into the house which is called by my name, to battle. pollute it. 7 Yea, the stork in the beaven know31 And they have built the high eth her appointed times; and the turplaces of Tophet,which is in the vultle, and the crane, and the swallow, ley of the son of Hinnom, to burn observe the time of their coming; but their sons and their daughters in the my people know not the judgment of fire; which 1 commanded them not, the Lord. neither came it into my heart. 32 T Therefore,behold,the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none sball fray them away, 34 Then will 1 cause to cease from ne cities of Judah, and from the streels of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,and the voice of the bride; for the land shall be desolate. CHAP. VIII. T that time, saith the LORD, they 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,they have rejected the word of the LoRD; and what wisdom is in them? 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that eball inherit them: for every one, from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they A Suit te bones of the had committed abomination ? way, kings of Judal, and the bones of bis they were not at all ashamed, neither princes, and the bones of the priests, could they blush: therefore shall they and the bones of the prophets, Rad the fall among them that fall; in the time bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,¦of their visitation they shall be cast out of their graves: down, saith the LORD. Jeremiah Lamenteth JEREMIAH. for the Jetus. 13 T I will surely consume them,saith for they proceed from evil to evil, and the LORD: there shall'e no grapes on they know not me, saith the Lord. the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and 4 Take ye heed every one of his the leaf shall fade; and the things neighbour, and trust ye not in any that I have given them shall pass brother: for every brother will utterly away from them. supplant, and every neighbour will 14 Why do we sit still? assemble walk with slanders. yourselves, and let us enter into the 5 And they will deceive every one defenced cities, and let us be silent his neighbour, and will not speak the there; for the Lord our God hath put truth; they have taught their tongue us to silence, and given us water of to speak lics,and weary themselves to gall to drink, because we have sinned commit iniquity. against the LORD. behold trouble ! 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of 15 We looked for peace, but no good deceit; through deceit they refuse to came; and for a time of health, and know me, saith the Lord. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lonn o. 16 The snorting of his horses was hosts, Behold I will melt them, and heard from Dan: the whole land try them; for how shall I do for the trembled at the sound of the neighing daughter of my people? of his strong ones; for they are come, 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot and bave devoured the land, and all out; it speaketh deceit: one speakcia that is in it; the city, and those that peaceably to his neighbour with his dwell therein. mouth, but in beart he layeth his wait. 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, 9 T Shall I not visit them for these cockatrices, among you, which will things saith the LORD: shall not my not be charmed, and they shall bite soul be avenged on such a nation as you, saith the LORD. this? 18 T When I would comfort myself 10 For the mountains will I take up ngainst sorrow, my heart is faint in a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamen me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the tation, because they are burned up, so duughter of my people, because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not herKing in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. that none can pass through them; nerther can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. 21 For the hurt of the daughter of 12 1 Who is the wise man, that may my people am I hurt; I am black; understand this? and who is he to astonishment hath taken hold on me.[whom the mouth of the LORD hath 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is spoken, that he may declare it, for there no physician there? why then is what the land perisheth and is burned not the health of the daughter of my up like a wilderness,that none passeth people recovered? through? CHAP. IX. H that my head were waters, and 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set be On my weta, of tears, fore them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my peo- 14 But have walked after the imagiple! nation of their own beart, and after Baalin, which their fathers taught 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that them: 1 might leave my people, and go from 15 Therefore thus saith the Louv of them for they be all adulterers, aufhosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I assembly of treacherous men. will feed them, even this people, with And they bend their tongues like wormwood, and give thein water of their bow for lies: but they are not gall to drink. valiaut for the truth upon the earth; 16 I will scatter them also among the The vanity CHAP. X. of idole. heathen, whom neither they nor their] 2 Thus saith the Lond, Learn not fathers have known; and I will send a the way of the heathen, and be not sword after them, till I have consumed dismayed at the signs of heaven: for them. the heathen are dismayed at them. 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, 3 For the customs of the people are Consider ye, and call for the mourning vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the women, that they may come; and forest, the work of the bands of the send for cunning women, that they workman, with the axe. may come: 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our 5 They are upright as the palm-tree, eyelids gush out with waters. but speak not: they must needs be 19 Fo a voice of wailing is heardborne, because they cannot go. Be out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we not afraid of them; for they cannot are greatly confounded, because we do evil, neither also is it in them to do have forsaken the land, because our dwellings bave cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation: 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our pal aces, to cut off the children from withbut, and the young men from the streets. good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lonn; thou art great,and thy name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it apper tain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 22 Speak,Thus saith the LonD,Even 9 Silver spread into plates is brought the carcases of men shall full as dung from Tarshish, and gold from Upház upon the open field, and as the hand-the work of the workman, and of the fel after the harvest-man, and none hands of the founder: blue and purshall gather them. ple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. 23 ¶ Thus saith the Lono, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the miglity man glory in bis might, let not the rich man glory in his riches. 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be 24 But let him that glorieth, glory able to abide his indignation. m this, that he understandeth and 11 Thus sball ye say unto them,] knoweth me, that I am the LORD gods that have not made the heavens which exercise loving-kindness, judg-and the earth, even they shall perish ment, and righteousness, in the earth: from the earth, and from under these for in these things I delight, saith the heavens. LORD. The 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by bis discretion. 25 T Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 13 When he uttereth his voice, there 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom,and is a multitude of waters in the heathe children of Ammon, and Moab, vens, and he causeth the vapours to and all that are in the utmost corners, ascend from the ends of the earth; that dwell in the wilderness: for all he maketh lightnings with rain, and these nations are uncircumcised, and bringeth forth the wind out of bis all the house of Israel are uncircum-treasures. cised in the heart. CHAP. X. 14 Every man is brutish in his know. ledge: every founder is confounded by HEAR re the word which the LORD the graven image: for his molten in speaketh unto you, O house of age is falsehood, and there is no breath Israel: in them. |