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Jerusalem besieged

shall groan.

CHAP. LII

and taken, ment upon her graven images: and Babylon sink, and shall not rise from through all her land the wounded the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far 53 Though Babylon should mount are the words of Jeremiah. up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yctEDEKIAH was one and twenty from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lond.

51 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

55 Because the Load hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar ike great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

CHAP. LIL.

years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libual.

2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the Lond it came to pass in Jerusalem and Ju56 Because the spoiler is come upon dah, till he had cast them out from her, even upon Babylon, and her bis presence, that Zedekiah rebelled mighty men are taken, every one of against the king of Babylon. their bows is broken: for the LORD 4 T And it came to pass, in the ninth God of recompenses shall surely re-year of his reign, in the tenth month quite. in the tenth day of the month, that

57 And I will make drunk her prin- Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ces, and her wise men, her captains, came, he and all his army, against and her rulers, and her mighty men: Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, built forts against it round about. and not wake, saith the King, whose 6 So the city was besieged until the name is the LORD of hosts. eleventh year of king Zedekiab.

53 Thus saith the LonD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be

weary.

50 ¶ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekial the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's gar den; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about;) and they went by the way of the plain.

8 T But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and the evil that should come upon Baby-all his army was scattered from him. lon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off,that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall he desolate for ever.

63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that chou shalt bind a stone to it,and cast it into the midst of Euphrates :

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the song of Zedekiah before bis eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 ¶ Now in the fifth mouth, in the tenth day of the month, (which was 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrez

The number

JEREMIAH.

of captives. zar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-[pomegranates on a side; and all the adan, captain of the guard,which serv-pomegranates upon the net-work were ed the king of Babylon,intoJerusalem, a hundred round about.

13 And burned the house of the 24 And the captain of the guard took Lono, and the king's house; and all Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephathe houses of Jerusalem, and all the niah the second priest, and the three houses of the great men, burned he keepers of the door: with fire.

14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

15 Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remain ed in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers, and for hus bandinen.

25 He took also out of the city a eunuch, which had the charge of the meu of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought thein to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were In the house of the Load, and the pases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LonD, the Chaldeans 28 This is the people whom Nebubrake, and carried all the brass of chadrezzar carried away captive: In them to Babylon. the seventh year three thousand Jews 18 The caldrons also, and the shov-and three and twenty: els, and the snuffers, and the bowls, 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuand the spoons, and all the vessels of chadrezzar, he carried away captive brass wherewith they ministered, took from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty they away. and two persons:

19 And the basons, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candle-sticks, and the spoons, and the cups: that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard

away.

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were uuder the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all the vessels was without weight.

30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive of the fews even hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. 31 T And it came to pass, in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twenti eth day of the month, that Evil-me rodach king of Babylon, in the firsı year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judab, and brought

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cu-him forth out of prison, bits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers; it was hollow.

32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon 33 And changed his prison-garments: it; and the height of one chapiter was and he did continually eat bread befive cubits, with net-work and pome-fore him all the days of his life. granates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass: the second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

23 And there were ninety and six

34 And for his diet, there was a con tinual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion, unul the day of his death, all the day of his life.

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The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH.

CHAP. I.

11 All her people sigh, they scek row doth the city sit solitary that bread; they have given their pleasant was full of people! how is she things for meat to relieve the soul: see, become as a widow she that was O LORD, and consider; for I am begreat among the nations, and princess come vile. among the provinces, horo is she become tributary!

12 ¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and any sorrow like unto my sorrow, her tears are on her cheeks; among which is done unto me, wherewith all her lovers sbe hath none to com- the LORD bath afflicted me in the day fort her; all her friends have dealt of his fierce anger. treacherously with her; they are be-13 From above hath he sent fire into come her enemies. my bones, and it prevaileth against

the straits.

3 Judah is gone into captivity be them he hath spread a net for my cause of affliction, and because of feet, he hath turned me back he great servitude; she dwelleth among bath made me desolate and faint all the heathen, she findeth no rest: all the day. ner persecutors overtook her between 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreath4 The ways of Zion do mourn, be-ed, and come upon my neck: he cause none come to the solemn feasts: hath made my strength to fall, the all her gates are desolate; her priests Loan hath delivered me into their sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she hands, from whom I am not able to 18 in bitterness. rise up.

5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath aflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

6. And from the daughter of Zion all ner beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jérusalem remembered in the days of her affliction, and of her miseries, All her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

15 The LORD bath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winë-pro 89. 16 For these things I weep: mme eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me ; my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her bands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should bë round about him: Jerusalem is as a S Jerusalem hath greviously sinned; menstrous woman among them. therefore she is removed: all that hon- 18 T The LORD is righteous; for 1 oured her despise her, because they have rebelled against his commandhave seen her nakedness; yea, she ment: hear, I pray you, all people, sigheth, and turneth backward. and behold my sorrow; my virgins 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she and my young men are gone into cap remembereth not her last end; there-tivity.

fore she came down wonderfully: she 19 I called for my lovers, but they • had no comforter. O Lond, behold deceived me; my priests and mine my affliction; for the enemy hath mag- elders gave up the ghost in the city, nified himself. while they sought their meat to relieve 10 The adversary hath spread out their soulo. his hands upon all her pleasant things: 20 Behold, O LORD, for I am in disfor she hath seen that the heathen en-tress; my bowels are troubled; mine tered into her sanctuary, whom thou beart is turned within me; for I have didst command that they should not greviously rebelled: abroad the sword enter into thy congregation. bereaveth, at home there is as dċatu

The misery of

LAMENTATIONS.

Jerusaæm. 21 They have heard thatI sigh; there|bath_stretched out a line, he hath not is none to comfort me: all mine ene- withdrawn his hand from destroying: inies have heard of my trouble; they therefore he made the rampart and are glad that thou hast done it thou the wall to lament; they languished wilt bring the day that thou hast call- together.

ed, and they shall be like unto me. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground: 22 Let all their wickedness come be- he hath destroyed and broken her fore thee; and do unto them as thou|bars; ber king and her princes are Last done unto me for all my trans among the Gentiles: the law is no gressions: for my sighs are many, and more; her prophets also find no vision iny heart is faint. from the Lond.

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CHAP. II.

OW hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep si lence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all bowels are troubled, my liver is poured the habitations of Jacob, and hatli not upon the earth, for the destruction of pitied he bath thrown down in his the daughter of my people; because wrath the strong holds of the daughter the children and the sucklings swoon of Judah; he hath brought them down in the streets of the city. to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is com and wine? when they swooned 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger as the wounded in the streets of the all the born of Israel: he hath drawn city, when their soul was poured out back his right hand from before the into their mother's bosom. enemy, and he burned against Jacob 13 What thing shall I take to witnes like a flaming fire, which devoureth for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem ? what

round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an ene-shall I equal to thee, that I may commy: he stood with his right hand as fort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? ar adversary, and slew all that were for thy breach is great like the sea; pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle who can heal thee?

of the daughter of Zion: he poured 11 Thy prophets have seen vain and out his fury like fire. Foolish things for thee; and they have 5 The LORD was as an enemy; he not discovered thine iniquity, to turn bath swallowed up Israel, he hath away the captivity; but have seen swallowed up all her palaces; he hath for thee false burdens, and causes of destroyed his strong holds, and bath banishment. increased in the daughter of Judah nourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the assembly; the Lono bath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and bath despised, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priest.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty,The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee; they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar; he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the 17 The Loxo bath done that which enemy the walls of her palaces; they he had devised; he hath fulfilled his have made a noise in the house of the word that he had commanded in the LORD,as in the day of a solemn feast. days of old: he hath thrown down, 8 The Lond hath purposed to destroy and hath not pitied: and he bath the wall of the daughter of Zion; he caused thine enemy to rejoice over

Complaint of

CHAP. III. thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

the captive Jews. 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered

19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of theme with ashes. LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 20 T Behold, O LORD, and consider 19 Remembering mine affliction and to whom thou hast done this. Shall my misery, the wormwood and the the women eat their fruit, and chil-gall.

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dren of a span long? shall the priest 20 My soul hath them still in rememand the prophet be slain in the sanctu-brance, and is humbled in me. ary of the Lʊnd?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and iny young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast elain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that 1 have swaddled and brought up bath mine enemy consumed.

CHAP. III.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 ¶ It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lono is my portion,saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both

I AM the man that hath seen affic. hope and quietly wait for the salva

tion by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his Land against me all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin bath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 6 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as that they be dead of old.

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made any chain heavy.

S Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet wili he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. 34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, 36 To subvert a man in bis cause,the LORD approveth not.

37 ¶ Who is he that saith, and it comes to pass, when the Load commandeth it not?

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