• Chap. 18 Then faid they, Come, and let us Lev. 10. devite devices against Jeremiah: P for the law fhall not perish from the priest, nor counfel from the wife, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us fmite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Mal. 2.7. John 7. 48,49. Or, for the

congue.

Pfal.

109. 10. + Heb.

19 Give head to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

20 Shall evil be recompenfed for good? for they have digged a pit for my foul: remember that I ftood before thee to fpeak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

21 Therefore 9 deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the Your them force of the fword, and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows, and let their men be put to death, let their young men be flain by the fword in battle.

for their fins.

and have filled this place with the blood of inno- Before

cents;

5 They have built alfo the high places of Baal, to burn their fons with fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor fpake it, neither came it into my mind:

6 Therefore behold, the days come, faith the LORD, that this place fhall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of flaughter.

Christ

circa

605.

Chap. 7.

31, 32.& 32.35.

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerufalem in this place, and I will caufe them to fall by the fword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that feek their lives: and their carcafes will I give to be meat for the fowls of d Chap. the heaven, and for the beafts of the earth.

7.33.&

16.4.&

Chap.

8 And I will make this city defolate, and an 3420. hiffing every one that paffeth thereby fhall be 18.16.& aftonished and hifs, because of all the plagues 49. 13. & thereof.

50.13.

9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh off Lev. 26. their fons, and the flesh of their daughters, and Deut. 28% they fhall eat every one the flesh of his friend in 53. the fiege and ftraitnefs, wherewith their ene- 10. mies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

10 Then fhalt thou break the bottle in the fight of the men that go with thee,

Lam.4

11 And fhalt fay unto them, Thus faith the LORD of hosts, & Even fo will I break this peo- g Ifai. 39. ple and this city, as one breaketh a potters veffel 4m.4.2. that cannot be made whole again, and they + Heb. fhall h bury them in Tophet, till there be no bed place to bury.

12 Thus will I do unto this place, faith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet.

healed.

7.32.

13 And the houses of Jerufalem, and the houfes of the kings of Judah fhall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whofe roofs they have burnt incenfe unto ; 2 Kingall the hoft of heaven, and have poured out 32.12. drink-offerings unto other gods.

Chap. 32

29.

* 7.18.

14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, Chap. whither the LORD had fent him to prophefie, and he ftood in the court of the LORDS house, and faid to all the people,

15 Thus faith the LORD of hosts, the God of Ifrael, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have hardned / Chap their necks, that they might not hear my words, 17.23-7 CHAP. XX.

Pahur (miting Jeremiah, receiveth a new name, and a fearful doom. 7 Jeremiah complaineth of contempt, 10 of treachery, 14 and of his birth.

Now

2 Then Pafhur fmote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the ftocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

3 And it came to pafs on the morrow, that Pafhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then faid Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath That is, not called thy name Pafhur, but Magormiffabib.

for round about. Chap. 6.

5.

4 For thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will 25.46. make thee a terror to thy felf, and to all thy friends, and they fhall fall by the fword of their enemies, and thine eyes fhall behold it, and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he fhall carry them captive into Babylon, and fhall flay them with the fword.

2 King. 20.17.

Or, enticed.

€ Chap. 6.7.

5 Moreover, I b will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall fpoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

6 And thou Pashur, and all that dwell in thine houfe, fhall go into captivity, and thou shalt die,

fhalt come to Babylon, and there thou all thy

friends, to whom thou haft prophefied lies.

790 LORD, thou haft deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art ftronger than I, and haft prevailed: I am in derifion daily, every one

mocketh me.

8 For fince I fpake, I cried out, I cried violence and fpoil, because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derifion daily.

d

9 Then I faid, I will not make mention of him, nor fpeak any more in his name. But his Job 32. word was in mine heart as a burning fire fhut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearJob 32. ing, and I could not stay.

18,19.

Pfal. 39.3..

18.

13.

+ Heb.

10 For I heard the defaming of many, f Pfal. 3 .31. fear on every fide: Report, fay they, and we will report it:& all my familiars watched for of my reate, my halting, faying, Peradventure he will be enJob 19. ticed, and we fhall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

every man

19.

peace.

Pfal.41. 9.& 55.

Chap.

h

11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty ter13, 14. rible one therefore my perfecutors fhall 15.20. & ftumble, and they fhall not prevail, they fhall be greatly afhamed; for they fhall not profper, their everlafting confusion fhall never be for

17.18.

Chap. 23.40.

Chap. gotten. 11.25.& 17.10.

k

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that trieft the

16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and mi Gen. let him hear the cry in the morning, and the 19.25. fhouting at noon-tide:

17 Because he flew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 n Wherefore came I forth out of the womb Job 3. to fee labour and forrow, that my days should 20. be confumed with fhame ?

2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for (for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us) if fo be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

3 Then faid Jeremiah unto them, Thus fhall ye fay to Zedekiah,

4 Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which befiege you without the walls, and I will affemble them into the midst of this city.

+ Heb. inhabitress.

+ Heb.

f J.

tions?

14. But I will punish you according to the Prof fruit of your doings, faith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the foreft thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

31.

. Chap.

21. 12.

Chap. 17.25.

CHAP. XXII.

this word,

2 And fay, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that fitteft upon the throne of David, thou, and thy fervants, and thy people that enter in by thefe gates;

3 Thus faith the LORD, a Execute ye judgment and righteoufnefs, and deliver the fpoiled out of the hand of the oppreffor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the ftranger, the fatherlefs, nor the widow, neither fhed innocent blood in this place.

4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then fhall there enter in by the gates of this houfe, kings Heb. fitting upon the throne of David, riding in Dachariots, and on horfes, he, and his fervants, tkrane, and his people.

5 But if ye will not hear thefe words, I fwear

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6 For thus faith the LORD unto the kings 609. houfe of Judah, Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet furely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

every one with his weapons, and they fhall cut 7 And I will prepare deftroyers against thee, down thy choice cedars, and caft them into the Chap fire.

C

8 And many nations fhall pass by this city, and they fhall fay every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto great city?

this

C

21.14.

d Deut. 29.24.

1 King

9 Then they fhall anfwer, Because they 9.8. have forfaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and ferved

them.

II For thus faith the LORD, touching Shallum, the fon of Jofiah, king of Judah, which 3. 15. reigned in ftead of Jofiah his father, which went f 2 King. forth out of this place, He fhall not return 23.34. thither any more:

12 But he fhall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

138 Wo unto h him that buildeth his houfe by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that ufeth his neighbours fervice without wages, and giveth him not for his work: and large chambers, and cutteth him out 14 That faith, I will build me a wide houfe, windows, and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

15 Shalt thou reign because thou clofeft thy felf in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, doms. and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

16 He judged the caufe of the poor and needy, then it was well with him: was not this to know me? faith the LORD.

17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetoufnefs, and for to fhed innocent blood, and for oppreffion, and for violence to Or, do it.

18 Therefore thus faith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the fon of Jofiah king of Judah, They fhall not lament for him, faying, Ah my brother, or ah fifter: they fhall not lament for him, faging, Ah lord, or ah his glory.

24 As I live, faith the LORD, though Coniah the fon of Jehoiakim king of Judah n were the fignet upon my right hand, yet would Hag. 2. 23. I pluck thee thence,

24. 6, 8. " Cant. 8.6.

• 2 King. 24.15.

+ Heb.

mind.

25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that feek thy life, and into the hand of them whofe face thou feareft, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26° And I will caft thee out, and thy mother that bare thee into another country, where ye were not born, and there fhall ye die.

27 But to the land whereunto they + defire lift up their to return, thither fhall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a defpifed broken idol? is he P a veffel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore Hof.8.8. are they caft out, he and his feed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Chap. 48.38.

Chap. 10.21.&

22. 22.

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

30 Thus faith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not profper in his days: for no man of his feed fhall profper, fitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

CHAP. XXIII.

I He prophefieth a reftauration of the fcattered flock, 5 Chrift fhall rule and fave them. 9 Against falfe prophets, 33 and mockers of the true prophets.

W%

Ezek. 34. LORD.

2.

O be unto the paftors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pafture, faith the

2 Therefore thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael against the pastors that feed my people, Ye have fcattered my flock, and driven them away, Exod. and have not vifited them; b behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, faith the

32. 34.

LORD.

3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock, out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they fhall be fruitful and increase.

Pfal. 339.7,

&c.

22 But if they had flood in my counfel, and had caufed my people to hear my words, then they fhould have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23 Am I a God at hand, faith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

24 Can any hide himself in fecret places that I fhall not fee him? faith the LORD: ddo Amos 9. not I fill heaven and earth? faith the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets faid, that prophefic lies in my name, faying, I have Pfal. 139. dreamed, I have dreamed.

2,3.

di King. 8.27.

26 How long fhall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophefie lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

27 Which think to caufe my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every Judg. 3. man to his neighbour, as their fathers have for7.& 8.33, gotten my name, for Baal.

34.

Heb.

28 The prophet + that hath a dream, let him with whom tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him fpeak my word faithfully: what is the chaff to the wheat? faith the LORD.

js.

mockers of the true.

Chrift

8 their lightnefs; yet I fent them not, nor com- Before manded them: therefore they fhall not profit this people at all, faith the LORD.

599.

8 Zeph.

33 And when this people, or the prophet, 3.4." or a priest fhall ask thee, faying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou fhalt then fay unto them, What burden? I will even forfake you, faith the LORD.

34 And as for the prophet, and the prieft, and the people that fhall fay, The burden of the LORD, I will even † punish that man and + Heb. his houfe.

35 Thus fhall ye fay every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD anfwered? and, What hath the LORD fpoken?

36 And the burden of the LORD fhall ye mention no more: for every mans word fhall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

37 Thus fhalt thou fay to the prophet, What hath the LORD anfwered thee? and, What hath the LORD fpoken?

38 But fith ye fay, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus faith the LORD, Because you fay this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have fent unto you, faying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD:

39 Therefore behold, I, even I will utterly forget you, and I will forfake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and caft you out of my presence.

h

vifit upon

40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach Chapupon you, and a perpetual fhame, which fhall 20.11. not be forgotten. CHAP. XXIV.

I Under the type of good and bad figs, 4 beforesheweth the reftauration of them that were in captivity, 8 and the defolation of Zedekiah and the reft.

4

&c.

He LORD fhewed me, and behold, two 598. baskets of figs were fet before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar a king 2 King. of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah 24.12, the fon of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the 2 Chron. princes of Judah, with the carpenters and fmiths 36. 1. from Jerufalem, and had brought them to Ba- Chap. 22. bylon.

2 One basket bad very good figs, even like the figs that are firft ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were fo bad.

b See

24. &c.

+ Heb.

3 Then faid the LORD unto me, What feeft for adeft thou, Jeremiah? and I faid, Figs: the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are fo evil.

4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,