Iht <mcied"s -prosperity. Chap

Is The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the clinches of it are broken.

17 For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for die evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou fhewedst me their doings.

19 But I -was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the (laughter; and I knew not that they had deviled devices against me, faying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off trom the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

to But, O Lo R D of hosts, that judgest righteously, that trieft the reins and the heart, let me fee thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

11 Therefore thus faith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that leek thy life, i>.ying, Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:

i»Therefore thus faith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men (hall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters (hall die by fa■inei

%i And there (hall be no remnant of them; for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

CHAP. XII. 1 Jeremiah complaining of the "wicked's

prosperity, by faith feeth their ruin. 14

God's promise to the penitent.

RIG HTL O U S art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prospers tuherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

1 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken, root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reinC.

3 But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like lhcep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day os (laughter.

+ How long (nail the land mourn, and the herbs-of every fierd wither,, for the wickedness, of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He (hall not see our lift end.

xii. God''J premise to the penitent.

5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the (welling of Jordan?

6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

0 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, aiiemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my plea(ant portion a desolate wilderneJs.

11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mournetli unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

lx-TIie spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the (Word of the Lord lhall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no titlii lhall have peace.

13 They have sown wheat, but sltall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but (hall not profit: and they (hall be ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

14. *J Thus faith the Lor O against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I hare caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

15 And it (hall come to pals, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have companion on them, ami will bring them again every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

r6 And it (hall come to p:iss, if they will diligently learn the ways of my peo

file, to swear by my name, The Lor » iveth; « they taught my people to swear by-Baal; then lhall they be built ia the midst of my people.

17 But-if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, iaith the Lord.

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CHAP. XIII \ln a type of a linen girdle the people's destruction is prefigured. \%By the bottles filled with naine, their drunkenness in misery foretold.

THUS faith the Lor D unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

i So I got a girdle according to the word of theLORD,and puwr on my loins.

3 And the word ot the Lord came \into aie the second time, saying,

4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lo ri D commanded me.

6 And it came to pals after many days, that the Lord said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where 1 had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

S Then the word of the Lor D came unto me, faying,

9 Thus taith the Lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

io This evil people, which refuse to hear ray words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, (hall even be as this girdle, Which is good for nothing.

u For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and thewholehouse of Judah, faith theLoRD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

1» f Therefore thou (halt speak unto them this word; Thus faith the Lor D God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they (hall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle (hall be filled with wine? ■ 13 Then (halt thou lay unto them, Thus faith the Lo R D, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that fit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. .

14. And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons

your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it'into the shadow of death, mi make it gross darkness. -'<i

17 But if ye will not hear it, my foul (hall weep in secret places forjwxr pride; and mine eye (hall weep sore, and mo down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, fit down: for your principalities (hall comedown, even the crown of your glory.

19 The cities of the south (hall be shift up, and none (hall open/>&«*: Judah-fliall be carried away captive all of it, it (hall be wholly carried away captive.

20 Lift up your eyes, ana behold them that come from the north: where ii the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

xi What-wilt thou fay when he (hall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: (hall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail'?

11 And if thou fay in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy neeu made bare.

13 Can the Ethiopian change his stun, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

14 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that pafTeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

25 This is tuy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, faith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

«6 Therefore will I discover thy fort' upon thy face, that thy (hame may appear. . ,

27 I have seen thine adulteries, arm thy neighing*, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee,

0 Jerusalem! wilt thou not be male clean? when shall it once be?

CHAP. XIV. .

1 A grievous famine, 7 eaustth Jerrm"

to pray. loThe Lord will not bur.!"*ed. 13 Lying prophets an no ejjjg'g

T'HE word of the Lo R n that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

t Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground: and the ay of Jerusalem tfgoaeuny:

; And their nobles have sent their l.ttle ones to the waters: they came to tbt pits, and found no water; they retwsed.with tlieir vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered tl>eir heads.

♦Because the ground ischapt, for there "as oio rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grafs. ,..

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind 'i-'.coragons ; their eyes did fail, because ikirivuxi no grass.

7'ijolord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's lake: for our backslidings are many) we have sinned against thee.

t 0 the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and »»» wayfarings man that turneth aside »tarry sera night?

9- Why stiQuldest thou be as a man aftonied, as a mighty man that cannot swiveMliou, QLoRD.orfinthemidst otus, and we are called by thy name; leayo us not.

'a f Thus faith the Lor □ unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept then!} he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

ii Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not fur this people for their good.

uWheh they fast, I will not heartheir cryt and when they offer burnt offering andanoblation, I- will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ms Then (aid I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets fay unto them, Ye fliill not fee the sword, neither shall ye hivefamine; but I Will give you assured peace in this place.

H Then the Lo R O said unto me, The P/ophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commandwthem, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and dilation, and a thing of nought, and «k deceit'of their heart.

> S Therefore thu vsaitli the Lo R D con

cerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I lent them not; yet they fay, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By 1'wprd and famine wall those prophets be consumed: •■«

16 Ana the people to whom they prophesy shall be calt out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they lhr.il have none to bury them, than, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

17 Therefore thou flialt fay this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the

firophet and the prieit go about into a ana that they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah t hath thy soul lothed Zion? why haft thou smitten us, and there it no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there it no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's fake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. . .1 .

aa Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain' or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

CHAP. XV. 1 The utter rejeQion and manifold judgements of they evu. 1 ojeremiali complaining, 10 receiveth a gracious promise. THEN said the Lord unto me. Though Moses aud Samuel stood before me,yet my mind could not he to-, ward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

■i And it (hall come to pass, if they fay unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shah tell them, Thus faith the Lor D ; Such as are for death, to death; and such.as are for the sword, to the sword j and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such;as tri. for the captivity, to the captivity. .

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, faith the Loa»: the l'word to . 61 slay,

The Jews rejeSed.

stay,, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

4. A nd I will cause them tobe removed intoall kingdoms of the earth, because of Manaffeh the son of Hezekiah kingof J udah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

5 For who (hall have pity upon thee, O Jerufstm? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doeft?

6 Thou halt forsaken me, faith the Lord, thou art gone backward ^therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, fitter they return not from their ways.

8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas :Thave brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given ■upthe ghost; her sun is gone down while it ivas yet day: she hath, been asiiamed and confoundedV and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, faith the'Lord.

10 % Woe is me, my inother, that thou host borne me a man of strife and a man ■df contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them dbth curse me.

11 TheLoRD said, Verily it shall be-well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the e'nemv to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

iz Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

T 1 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thv sins, even in all thy borders. • 14. An<i I will make thee to pass with thine enemies, into a land 'which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, whish shall burn upon you.

15OL08D, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longfuffering: know that for thy Jake I hr.ve suffered rebuke.

16 Thy words were found, and I did er.t them; and rliy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart • for I am called by thy name, O Loe n Ood of host*. , ".'"• ' '

i7 I set-not frithr assembly of the

mockers, nor rejoiced; I fat alone because of thy hand: for thou haft filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

19 % Therefore thus faith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou malt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

10 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they stall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee'to save thee and to deliver thee, faith the Lord.

11 And I will-deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

CHAP. XVI. 1 Tfie utter ruin of the Jews fore/hewt. • 14 Their return from captivity strongr than their deliverance out of Egypt.

TH E word of the Lo R D came also unto me, faying, I iThou shalt not take thee a wife, neiJther shalt thou have sons or daughters in tills place.

3 For thus faith the Lou D concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning theirfathers that begat them in this land;

4.They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they (hall be consumed by the sword, and fc)' •famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls cf heaven, and for the beasts of the earth,.

5 For thus faith the Lor D, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, faith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

6 Both (he great and the small shall xlie in this land: they (halt not be bulled, neither-shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

7 Neither (hall men tear themselves for

them in mourning, to comfort them far

the dead: neither shall men give them the

cup os consolation to drink for thorn

.tfter or for their mother.

% Tfaau lhalt not also go into .the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

9 For thus faith the Lp R, D of hosts, the God of Israel j Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice or mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bride? groom, and the voice ot" the bride.

loAnditihall come to pass,, when thou siiait shew this people all these words, and they (hall fay unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lor D pronounced all this great evil apinit us? or what is our iniquity? or what u our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

Ii Then shalt thou say unto them, Bec;use your fathers have forsaken me, laith the Lor D, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worihipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

ii And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one alter the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

15 Therefore will I cast yon out of this land into a land that ye kn^w not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there (hall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew.you favour.

H«J Therefore, behold, thedays come, faith the Lor,d, that it fliall.no moreJle said, The Lo R D liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land os £S)pt;

isBut.TheLoRDlivetl^thatbrauglit up the children of Krael from the land of the north, and from all the lands whi ther he had <h-iven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

i6Behold, I will send for many fishers, fsiththeL.OR.D, and they (hall Slh them; and after will I send for many hunters, Mil they (hall hunt them from every niQUntain, and from every hill, ami out of the holes of the rocks. .,.

'7For mine eyes are upon all their ways-, they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mineevesi

18 And first I will recompense their inijptyand.thtir sin double; because .they we defiled my land, they have filled wine inheritance ,with the carcases of *« detestable and abominable things;

'9 QioRD, my strength,and roy.for*TMs, and my refrige in the day of affection, the Gentiles (hall come unto ''"* from the.ends of the earth, .and

ii **?' ^xdy our fatoer* hatfe inhered hes, vanity, .and things .wherein ifxre u no profit.

Id Shall a man make gods' unto himself, and they are no gods?

Ii Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they (hall know that my namew The Lord.

CHAP. XVII. i The capt'vvity ofjudahforfn. e Trust in

man is cursed, 7 in God is blessed. 9 The

deceitful heart cannot deceive God. 1 z

The salvation of God.

TH E sin of Jud ah is written with a pen of iron, aWwith the point of a diamond : z/Mgraven upon the tableof their heart,and upon the horns of your altars; » Whilst theirchildren remember their altars and thtir groves by the green trees upon the higli hills.

3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the (poil, and thy high places for sm, throughout all thy borders.

4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine- heritage that I gave .thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in thelfind which thou knoweft not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, 'which (hrdl burn for ever.

. • 5 f Thus faith Khe Lord; Cursed he .the man that trusteth in man, and mak,eth .flesti his arm, r.nd whose heart departeth from the Lord.

,6 For he (hallJjelike the heath in the desert, and sliall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land, and not inhabited.

7 <f Blessed is the-man that trusteth in the Lor D, and whose hope the Lo>r D is.

8 For he (hall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth otit her roots by the river, and (hall not see when heat cometh, but her'leaf sliall be green; and (hall not be careful in the year of drought, neif her (hall cease from yielding fruit.

. .£,<fl.The..heart «> deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: ,who can know it?

10 I the Lo Rb search the heart, /try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,: and according to the fruit.of his <J«mg;s.

.11 As the partridge fitteth o« «j$-/, and siatcheth them not; tb he that getteth riches, and notnby right; (hall leave them in the midlr of his days, and at his end lhallUeatifoot.

■ is.Hs A'gloriohfchigh throne from the

beginning is the plaoeof our sanctuary.

13 O Lor D, the hope of Israel, all that

forsake thee Jhall bfcasliamed, and they

S s * that