frame, or, workmanShip of heaven. Ifai. I. 19 Do they provoke me to anger? faith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confufion of their own faces? 20 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, mine anger, and my fury fhall be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the Chap. 6. fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and fhall Amos 5. not be quenched. 11. 20. 21. See Hof. 21 Thus faith the LORD of hosts the God of Ifrael, 9 Put your burnt-offerings unto your Hol. 6.6. facrifices, and eat flesh. + Heb. 8.13. concerning the matter of. 22 For I fpake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, † concerning burnt15.26. offerings or facrifices. s Exod. Deur. 6.3. # Exod. 19.5. Lev. 26. 12. 23 But this thing commanded I them, faying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye fhall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may Chap. 11. be well unto you. 12. 8. Pfal. 81. 24 But they hearkned not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counfels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and +x went backward, and not forward. X 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have y 2 Chron. even y fent unto you all my fervants the proChap. 25. phets, daily rifing up early, and fending them. Verf. 13. 26 a Yet they hearkned not unto me, nor inChap. clined their ear, but hardned their neck, they 11.8. Neh. 9. 87,29. Chap. 16. 12. & 17. did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee : 2.3.& 19. thou shalt alfo call unto them, but they will not 15.& 25. anfwer thee. 3. 33 And the & carcafes of this people fhall be pr.79.2. meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the Chap. 12. beafts of the earth, and none fhall fray them & 34. 20. away. 34 Then will I caufe to h ceafe from the cities Chap. 16. of Judah, and from the streets of Jerufalem, the 9. & 25. voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the Ezek. 26. bride: for the land fhall be defolate. 2 And they fhall fpread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the hoft of heaven whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have fought, and whom they have worfhipped: they fhall not be gathered, nor be buried, they fhall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death fhall be chosen rather than life, by all the refidue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, faith the LORD of hosts. 4 Moreover, thou fhalt fay unto them, Thus faith the LORD, Shall they fall, and not arife? fhall he turn away, and not return? viij, ix. Jeremiah lamenteth for them. 1 18 When I would comfort my felf against Before forrow, my heart is faint † in me. Chrift irca + Heb. 19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daugh- 600. ther of my people, because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? pon. not her king in her? why have they provoked because of me to anger with their graven images, and with ftrange vanities? 20 The harvest is past, the fummer is ended, and we are not faved. 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people, am I hurt, I am black: astonishment hath taken hold on me. + Heb. the country of them that are far off g Gen. 37. 25. 8. 22 Is there no 1 balm in Gilead, is there no Chip. 46. phyfician there? why then is not the health of!!.&s. the daughter of my people † recovered? CHA P. IX. 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold fins, 9 and for their judgment. 12 Difobedience is the caufe of their bitter calamity: 17 He exhorteth to mourn for their deftruction, 23 and to trust not in themselves, but in God: 25 He threatneth both Jews and Gentiles. of what greateft is given to covetoufnels, from the OF thing. d Deut. 28.30 Chap. 6. 12. prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falfly. 11 For they have fhealed the hurt of the Amos 5. daughter of my people flightly, faying, & Peace, peace, when there is no peace. 11. Zeph. I. 13. 11. 12 Were they hafhamed when they had Ifai. 56. committed abomination? nay they were not at Chap. 6. all afhamed, neither could they blush: therefore fhall they fall among them that fall, in the time Chap. 6 of their vifitation they fhall be caft down, faith 13. ƒ 6. 14. g Ezek. the LORD. 13.10. Or, b Chap. 3. 13 I will furely confume them, faith the .& 6.15. LORD; there fhall be no grapes on the vine, In gathering nor figs on the k fig-tree, and the leaf fhall fade, I will con- and the things that I have given them fhall pafs Ifaiah 5. aways from them. fame. 1,&c. Matth. 21.19. 14 Why do we fit ftill? affemble your felves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and Luke 13. let us be filent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to filence, and given us m water of gall to drink, because we have finned against m Chap. 9.15.& the LORD. 6, &c. / Chap. 4.5. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came: and for a time of health, and behold trouble. 16 The fnorting of his horfes was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the found of the neighing of his ftrong ones, for they are come and have devoured the land, and all that is in the fulness it, the city and thofe that dwell therein. thereof. Heb. 17 For behold, I will fend ferpents, cock-Pfal. 58. atrices among you, which will not be P charmed, and they fhall bite you, faith the Ecclef. 10. LORD. 4.5. Hof. 4. 3. are gone. Or, pastures. Or, defolate. + Heb. from the fowl even Ifa. 34. B, &c. 13. Chap. 1o. 22. Heb. defolation. circa + Heb. Judith 25 Behold, the days come, faith the LORD, vifit upon. that I will + punith all them which are circum- 14. 10. cifed with the uncircumcifed; + Heb. en' off into corners of 11 And I will make Jerufalem heaps, and 1a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Ju- 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the corners, or dah defolate, without an inhabitant. children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are having the 129 Who is the wife man that may un-t in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wil- their hair derftand this, and who is he to whom the mouth dernefs: for all these nations are uncircumcifed, pulled. of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare and all the house of Ifrael are y uncircumcised in 25.23.& it, for what the land perifheth and is burnt up the heart. like a wilderness that none paffeth through? 13 And the LORD faith, Because they have Pfal. forfaken my law which I fet before them, and 107.43 have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; imagination of 15 Therefore thus faith the LORD of hosts, the God of Ifracl, Behold, I will feed them, even Chap. 8. this people, with wormwood, and give them 14.& 23. water of gall to drink. 15. Lam. 3. 15, 19. Lev. 26. 16 I will P fcatter them alfo among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will fend a fword after them, till Deut. 28. I have confumed them. 33. 64. 17 Thus faith the LORD of hosts, Con2 Chr. fider ye, and 9 call for the mourning-women, that they may come, and fend for cunning women that they may come. 35.25, Job 3.8. Ecclef. 12.5. Amos 5. 16. 18 And let them make hafte, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye-lids gufh out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled? we are greatly confounded, , Lev. 18. because we have forfaken the land, because our 18. & 20. dwellings have cast us out. 22. Ecclef. 9.11. # I Cor, 1.31. 2 Cor. 10, 17. 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 entred into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus faith the LORD, Even the carcafes of men fhall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvest-man, and none fhall gather them. 23 Thus faith the LORD, Let not the wife man glory in his wifdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches. 24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, inhabitant of the fortrefs. 18 For thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will Ezek. 12. fling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find inhabitress. it fo. Heb. 1 Sam. 25.29. 10. X 19 Wo is me for my hurt, my wound is Pfal. 77. grievous: but I faid, Truly this is a grief, and Friev I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is fpoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to ftretch forth my tent any more, and to fet up my curtains. 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not fought the LORD: therefore they fhall not profper, and all their flocks fhall be fcattered. 22 Behold, the noife of the bruit is come, y Chap. 1. and a great commotion out of the north-country, to make the cities of Judah defolate, and a & 6.22. z den of dragons. 15. & 4.6. & 5.15. z Chap. 9.11. 23 O LORD, I know that the a way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walk16.1.& eth to direct his steps. a Prov. 20.24. b Pfal. 6. b 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judg1. & 38.1. ment; not in thine anger, left thou + bring me to nothing. Chap. 30. 11. + Heb. diminish me. 6. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that Pfal. 79. call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and confumed him, and have made his habitation defolate. CHAP. XI. Ieremiah proclaimeth Gods covenant, 8 rebuketh the Jews disobeying thereof, 11 prophefieth evils to His covenant proclaimed. come upon them, 18 and upon the men of Anathoth, Before for confpiring to kill Jeremiah. He Chrift circa The word that came to Jeremiah from the 608. TH LORD, faying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem, a 3 And fay thou unto them, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Curfed be the man that a Deut. obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 27.26. Gal. 3.10. 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, faying, Obey Deut. my voice, and do them, according to all which 4.20. I command you: fo fhall ye be my people, and 1. I will be your God: d 1 Kings 8. c Lev. 26. 3, 12. 5 That I may perform the oath which I a Dour, have fworn unto your fathers, to give them a 7.12. land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then anfwered I, and faid, † So be it, + Heb. O LORD. Amen. Deut. 27. 6 Then the LORD faid unto me, Proclaim 15 — 26. all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerufalem, faying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protefted unto your fathers, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, e rifing early and protelting, faying, Obey my voice. Chap. 7. 13,25. 26. 24. & 9. 8 f Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their f Chap. 7 ear, but 8 walked every one in the imagination Chap. 3. of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon 17.& 7. them all the words of this covenant, which I 14. commanded them to do, but they did them not. Or. 9 And the LORD faid unto me, h A confpi- nefs. racy is found among the men of Judah, and Ezek. among the inhabitants of Jerufalem. Stubborn h 22.25. Hof. 6. 9. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to ferve them: the house of Ifrael and the houfe of Judah + Heb. have broken my covenant which I made with to go forth their fathers. of. i Pfal. 18. Prov.1.28. 12. 11 Therefore thus faith the LORD, Be- 41. hold, I will bring evil upon them which they rai. 1.15. fhall not be able to escape; and i though they Chap. 14. fhall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. Ezek. 8. 12 Then fhall the cities of Judah, and inha- 18. bitants of Jerufalem go, and k cry unto the gods Zech. 7. unto whom they offer incenfe; but they hall 13. not fave them at all in the time of their + trouble. 17 For the LORD of hofts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Ifrael, and of the houfe of • Chap. Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger, in offering incenfe unto Baal. 2.21. 18.18. 18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it, then thou fhewedft me their doings. 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the flaughter, and I knew not that Chap P they had devised devices against me, faying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, 9 and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more rememg Pfal. 27. bred. 13.& 83. 4. & 116. + Heb. the ftalk with his bread. 5. 20 But, O LORD of hofts, that judgeft 9.& 142. righteously, that trieft the reins and the heart, 1 Sam. let me fee thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 16.7. 1 Chron. 28.9. Pfal. 7.9. Chap. 17. S 21 Therefore thus faith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that feek thy life, faying, 10. & 20. Prophefie not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: 12. Rev. 2.23. s Chap. 12.5,6. * 10. t 22 Therefore thus faith the LORD of hosts, Ifai. 30. Behold, I will punish them; the young men fhall die by the fword, their fons and their daugh Amos 2. 12.87. ters fhall die by famine. 13Mic. 2. 6. + Heb. 23 And there fhall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, ifit upon. even the year of their vifitation. Jeremiahs complaint. defolate, it mourneth unto me; the whole land Heb. 11 They have made it defolate, and being! Chap. 7. heart. is made defolate, because no man layeth it to portion of 12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the fword of the LORD fhall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh fhall have peace. defire. 26.16. thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but Deut. 28. 13m They have fown wheat, but fhall reap m Lev. fhall not profit: and they fhall be ashamed of 38: your revenues, because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 14 Thus faith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance n Mic. 6.15. Hag. 1. 6. n Or, je which I have caused my people Ifrael to inherit, them. 15 And it fhall come to pafs after that I have plucked them out, I will return, and have com paffion 30.3. 37. |