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The judgment of

JEREMIAH,

Damascus, &c.

15 For, lo, I will make thee small of Damascus, and it shall consume the Among the heathen, and despised palaces of Ben-hadad. among men. 28 Concerning Kedar, and concern16 Thy terribleness hath deceived ing the kingdoms of Hazor, which thee, and the pride of thy heart, O Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall Chou that dwellest in the clefts of the smite, thus saith the Lonn, Arise ye rock, that holdest the height of the go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of hill: though thou shouldest make thy the east. nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lond.

29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: vessels, and their camels; and they every one that goeth by it shall be as-shall cry unto them, Fear is on every tonished, and shall hiss at all the side. plagues thereof.

30 T Flee, get you far off, dwell 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith and Gomorrahi and the neighbour ci-the Lond; for Nebuchadrezzar king ties thereof, saith the LORD, no man of Babylon hath taken counsel against shall abide there, neither shall a son of you, and hath conceived a purpose inan dwell in it. against you.

19 Behold, he shall come up like a 21 Arise,get you up unto the wealthy lion from the swelling of Jordan nation, that dwelleth without care, against the habitation of the strong: saith the LouD, which have neither but I will suddenly make him run gates nor bars, which dwell alone. away from her: aud who is a chosen 32 And their camels shall be a booty, man, that I may appoint over her? and the multitude of their cattle a for who is like me? aud who will ap-spoil: and I will scatter into all winds point me the time? and who is that them that are in the utmost corners; shepherd that will stand before me? and I will bring their calamity from 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the all sides thereof, saith the Lond. LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants ofTe. man: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise there

of was heard in the Red Sea.

22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 23 T Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall

33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

34 T The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 35 Thus vaith the Lond of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and 1 will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till X have consumed them:

38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

39 T But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lon.

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HE word that the Lono spake
against Babylon and against the
land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the
prophet.

of Babylon founded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

13 Because of the wrath of the LORD

2 Declare ye among the nations, and it shall not be inhabited, but it shall publish, and set up a standard; pub-be wholly desolate: every one that lish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach and hiss at all her plagues. is broken in pieces; her idols are con- 14 Put yourselves in array against founded, her images are broken in Babylon round about: all ye that bend pieces. the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lond. 15 Shout against her round about. she hath given her hand; her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the Lond: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her, 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall fles every one to his own land.

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3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lond their Ged.

5 They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the 17 T Israel is a scattered sheep; the Loup in a perpetual covenant that¦lions have driven him away: first the shall not be forgotten.

6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place.

7 All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the Lond, the hope of their fathers.

8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

king of Assyria hath devoured him;
and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon bath broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
punish the king of Babylon and his
land, as I have punished the king of
Assyria.

19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judab, and they shall not be found: for 1 will pardon

9 ¶ For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly|them whom I reserve. of great nations from the north coun- 21 Go up against the land of Metry: and they shall set themselves in array against her: from thence she shall be taken; their arrowe shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all] that spoil ber shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my herit age, because ye are grown fat as the beifer at grass, and bellow as bulls ;

12 Your mother shall be sore con

rathaim, even against it, and against
the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and
utterly destroy after them, saith the
Lond, and do according to all that 1
have commanded thee.
22 A sound of battle is in the land,
and of great destruction.

23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations !

24 1 have laid a snare for thec, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and

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zhou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

27 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: Let nothing of her be left.

27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: wo unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

23 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

of Israe 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

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

39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert, with the wild beasts of the islands, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; nei ther shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, 41 Behold, a people shall come from camp against it round about: let none the north, and a great nation, and thereof escape: recompense her ac-many kings shall be raised up from cording to her work; according to all the coasts of the earth. that she hath done, do unto her: for 42 They shall hold the bow and the she hath been proud against the LORD, lance; they are cruel, and will not against the Holy One of Israel. show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, agamst thee, O daughter of Babylon.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her iñen of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Loud.

31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou 43 The king of Babylon hath heard inost proud, saith the Lord Gov of the report of thein, and his hands waxhosts; for thy day is come, the time[ed feeble: anguish took hold of him,

that I will visit thee.

and pangs, as of a woman in travail. 32 And the most proud shall stumble 44 Behold, he shall come up like a and fall, and none shall raise him up: lion from the swelling of Jordan unto and 1 will kindle a fire in his cities, the habitation of the strong; but I and it shall devour all round about him.

33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast: they refused to let thein go.

will make them suddenly run away from ber: and who is a chosen man, that 1 may appoint over her? for who jis like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of 34 Their Redeemer is strong; The the LORD, that he hath taken against LORD of hosts is his name: he shall Babylon, and his purposes that he hath thoroughly plead their cause, that he purposed against the land of the Chal may give rest to the land, and dis-Ideans: Surely the least of the flock quiet the inhabitants of Babylon. shall draw them out; surely he shall 35 ¶ A sword is upon the Chaldeans, make their babitation desolate with saith the LORD, and upon the inhabit them. auts of Babylon, and upon her prinCes, and upon her wise men.

46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry 36 A sword is upon the liars; and is heard among the nations. they shall dote; a sword is upon her

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CHAP. of Babylon. Against them that dwell in the midst end is come, and tne measure of thy of them that rise up against me, a de-covetousness. stroying wind;

14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by 2 And will send unto Babylon fan-himself, saying, Surely 1 will fill thre ners, that shall fan her, and shall with men, as with caterpillars; and empty her land: for in the day of they shall lift up a shout against ther. trouble they shall be against her round 15 He hath made the earth by his about. power, he hath established the world 3 Against him that bendeth let the by his wisdom, and bath stretched out archer bend his bow, and against him the heaven by his understanding. that lifteth himself up in his brigan- 16 When he uttereth kis voice there dine and spare ye not her young is a multitude of waters in the bea men; destroy ye utterly all her host.vens; and he causeth the vapours to 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land ascend from the ends of the earth: of the Chaldeans, and they that are he maketh lightnings with rain, and thrust through in her streets. bringeth forth the wind out of his

5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, treasures. nor Judah of his God, of the LORD 17 Every man is brutish by his of hosts; though their land was filled knowledge: every founder is conwith sin against the Holy One of Is-founded by the graven image: for his rael. molten image is falsehood,and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man big soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; be will render unto her a recompense. 19 The Portion of Jacob is not like 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in them; for he is the former of all the Lord's hand, that made all the things: and Israel is the rod of his earth drunken: the nations have inheritance: The LORD of hosts is lus drunken of her wine; therefore the name. nations are mad.

20. Thou art my battle-ax and wen

8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and de-pons of war: for with thee will stroyed: bowl for her; take balm for[break in pieces the nations, and with her paio, if so be she may be healed. thee will destroy kingdoms;

9 We would have healed Babylon, 21 And with thee will 1 break in but she is not healed; forsake her,and pieces the horse and his rider; and let us go every one into his own coun-with thee will I break in pieces the try: for her judgment reacheth unto chariot and his rider; heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

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

11 Make bright the arrows: gather the shields: the Lond hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of bis temple.

12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make tlie watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD bath bota devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old aud young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces. captains and rulers.

24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Ziou in your sight, saith the Lond. 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth; and i will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and 13 0 thou that dwellest upon many will make thee a burnt mountain. waters, abundant in treasures, thine] 26 And they shall not take of thee

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Q/ Babylon. a stone for a corner, nor a stone forjons: they shall yell as hons' whelpa. foundations; but thou shalt be deso- 39 In their heat I will make their late forever, saith the Lond. feasts, and 1 will make them drunken, 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, that they may rejoice, and sleep a blow the trumpet among the nations, perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith prepare the nations against her, call the Lonv.

together against her the kingdoms of 40 1 will bring them down like Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz: ap-lambs to the slaughter, like rams with point a captain against her; cause the he-goats.

horses to come up as the rough cater- 41 How is Sheshack taken! and bow pillars. is the praise of the whole earth sur28 Prepare against her the nations prised how is Babylon become an aswith the kings of the Medes, the cap-Louishment among the nations! tains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of bis dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a deso tion without an inhabitant.

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

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land whereir. no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby,

30 The mighty men of Babylon have 44 And I will punish Belin Babylon; forborne to night, they have remained and I will bring forth out of his in their holds: their might hath fail-mouth that which he hath swallowed ed; they became as women; they up: and the nations shall not flow tohave burned her dwelling-places; her gether any more unto him: yea, the bars are broken.

31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end.

32 And that the passages are atop ped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are af frighted.

wall of Babylon shall fall.

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

46 And lest your heart faint, and, ve fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another 33 For thus saith the LonD of hosts, year shall come a rumour, and viothe God of Israel; The daughter of lence in the land, ruler against ruler. Baby lon is like a threshing-floor, it is 17 Therefore, behold, the days come, time to threal her: yet a little while, that I will do judgment upon the graand the time of her harvest shall come. ven images of Babylon; and her whole 31 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Bab- land shall be confounded, and all her ylon hath devoured me, he hath crush-slaiu shall fall in the midst of her. ed me, he hath made me an empty 48 Then the heaven and the earth, vessel, he hath swallowed me up like and all that is therein, shall sing for a dragon, he hath filled his belly with Babylon: for the spoilers shall come iny delicates, he bath cast me out. unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

35 The violence done to me and in my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the Inhabitant of Žion say; and, My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the Loan; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

49 As Babylon hath caused the slair of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of the earth.

50 Ye that have escaped the sword go away, stand not still remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

61 We are confounded because we bave heard reproach: shame hath 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, covered our faces: for strangers are a dwelling-place for dragons,an aston-come into the sanctuaries of the ishmeut, and a hissing, without an in- LORD's house. habitant.

38 They shall roar together like

62 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lono, that I will do judg

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