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God's judgment on her.

JEREMIAH 51

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

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him; yea, the 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 4lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

1 Or, made naked.

a Hab. 2. 13.

6 ch. 50. 2.

Eur. 1. 7.

ver. 31. 2 Or, on the behalf of. 3 Or, prince of Menucha, or, chief chamberlain 4 Or, let not. d ch. 50. 1

51. 58.

ver. 52.

47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will 5 do judgment upon theech. 50, 2. graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

49 7 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all 8 the earth.

5 Heb.
visit upon.
6 Heb.
desolations.
Iss. 44. 23.

Rev. 18. 20, g ch. 50. 3.

7 Or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel, and with Babylon, fo.

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

51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: k for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

country. h ch. 45. 47. iTo ver. 27. 2 Ki. 21. 18

25. 21.

j Pa. 44. 15, 16 & 79, 4 9 Heb. reigned.

k Lam. 1. 10.

ch. 49. 16.

53 Though Babylon should mount up (Isa. 11. 13. to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

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

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

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is, the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 10 The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly

m To ver. 7, ch. 39. 1, 2. n ch, 50. 22.

o Ps. 94. 1 & 137. 8.

Isa. 59. 18. p To ver. 16, ch. 39. 4-10. ver. 39.

10 Or, The walls of broad Babylon.

The siege of Jerusalem.

1 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.

59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went 2 with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a 3quiet prince.

60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even dall 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 be 6 desolate for ever.

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

64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from. the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

CHAPTER 52

EDEKIAH was

one and twenty

Zyears 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 Libnah.

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 LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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, P 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 garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook

Jerusalem taken and

JEREMIAH 52 Judah carried away captive.

Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

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 a1 Ki. 7. 20. sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

blinded.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zede-1 Heb. kiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in 2 chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in 3 prison till the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, 5 captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he 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 remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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2Or, fetters. ch. 20. 1.

3 Heb. house of the wards. ch. 35. 4 4 Heb. 2 Ki. 25. 19. threshold. 5 Or, chief

d

6

marshal.
Heb.
chief of the
executioners,
or, slaughter-
men.
And so
ver. 14, &c.

Heb. saw
the face of
the king.

7 Heb. stood before.

8

9

Or, acribe of the captain of the host.

2 Ki. 24. 2,

12.

Dan. 2. 1.

ch. 37. 5.

9 Heb. souls.

10 Or.

instruments

ashes.

16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the fch. 37. 13. guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also the pillars of brass that wereh ch. 27. 19. in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. 18 The caldrons also, and the 10 shovels, to remove the and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the 11 Or, basons. spoons, and all the vessels of brass where-i To ver. 34, with they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basons, and the 12 firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, 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 under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: 14the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

2 Ki 25.
27-30.

12 or,

censers.

ch. 37. 1. Cp. ch. 22 13 Heb. good 24-30.

things with him. k ch. 27. 3.

14 Heb.
their brass.

1 Ki. 7. 15
(Heb.).

15 Heb.

thread.

16 Heb.

the matter

of the day in his day.

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23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and dseven men of them were found in the city; and the principal that were near the king's person, which 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 them 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. 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

29 9 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two 9 persons:

30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thou sand and six hundred.

31 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 twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

32 And spake 13 kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, 16 every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

How

THE LAMENTATIONS

CHAPTER 1

OF JEREMIAH.

OW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! "how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

a Isa. 47. 9. Jer. 15. 8.

Eze. 12. 13

& 17. 20.

Ezr. 4. 20.

d Deu. 28. 48.

Job 40. 17.

& 30. 14. Jer. 52. 27. 1 Heb. for the greatness of Jer. 8. 16. servitude.

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among aller, 22, 22 /her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. 39 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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

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

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her 5 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.

8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

i Ina 63, 2.

20r, the winepress of the virgin, fe. jch. 2. 6. 3 Heb. bring back.

k Deu. 28. 13, 41.

Jer. 4. 31.

Jer. 30. 14,

15.

Eze. 18. 6. 4 Heb, mouth.

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or

desirable.

o Jer. 30. 14. ver. 2.

ver. 11.

q ch. 2. 11. Cp. Job 30.

27.

Isa. 16. 11. Jer. 4. 19. 6 Heb, is become a

removing, or,

wandering.
Eze. 16. 37.
Hos. 2. 10.
Deu. 32. 25.
Eze. 7. 15.

Jer. 12. 14
& 25. 21.
u Isa. 47. 7.
So Deu. 32.
29,

7 Or, proclaimed.

v Ps. 109. 15. 8 Or, desirable.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she "remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her 8 pleasant things: for she hath seen that "the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst Or, command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat 9 to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. 1210 Is it nothing to you, all ye that 11 pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is

w Ps. 79. 1. Jer. 51. 51. r Deu. 23. 3. Ne. 13. 1. y ch. 1. 1.

to make the soul to come again.

Isa. 14. 15. 10 Or. It is

11 Heb.

pass by

the way?

19.

61 Ch. 28. 2.

done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: the hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

15 The Lord hath 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 2the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, be cause the comforter that should 3 relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as "a menstruous woman among them.

18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: 'all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast 7called, and they shall be like unto me.

22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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LAMENTATIONS 2

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4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew 3all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the 2 Heb. by daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

the way.

k Job 27. 23.

3

Heb. all the

desirable of the eye. P. 48. 2. ch. 3. 46 48, 49-51 & 4. 16, 17. P. 35. 21.

Lev. 26. 16,

&c. Deu. 28. 15, &c.

6 And he hath violently taken away his 4 tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the P. 80. 12 solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and "hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath 5 given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: "he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: 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 bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings 8swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

& 89. 10.
Isa. 5. 5.

40r, hedge.

9 ch. 1. 7. r Ps. 74. 4, 8. Isa. 1. 13. t ver. 3. Deu. 32. 19.

Jer. 22. 29. w Ps. 17. 8.

5 Heb.

y

shut up.
Ps. 74

Isa. 7. 6. a 2 Ki. 21. 13. ver. 11. 6 Heb. swallowing up Jer. 19. 9.

Ex. 14. 24

e Jer. 14. 2.

7

ch. 4 10.

Or,

mraddled
with their
hands?

2 Ch. 36. 17.

Jer. 6. 11.

Deu. 28, 36,

g2 Ch. 15. 3. P. 74. 9. ich. 3. 43.

Isa, 3. 26, k Jos. 7. 6.

ch. 3. 48.

8 Or, faint.

m Jer. 20. 18. n Ps. 2. 9. o Isa. 5, 30.

the daughter of Zion.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

15 All that pass 2by kclap 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.

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over 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.

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

street.

20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; ithou hast slain 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 I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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4 My flesh and my skin "hath he made a Job 16. 8. old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travel.

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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

b Isa. 38. 13. So Ps. 51. 8. 1 Or, a

superior.

e Ps. 143. 3. So Ps. 88.

5, 6.

2 Or,

seeth not.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shut-d Ps. 88. 8. teth out my prayer.

9 He hath inclosed 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.

11 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.

13k 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 5 bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath 6 covered me with ashes.

e Ps. 33. 9. f Ps. 22. 2.

30r, murmur.

9 Mi. 7. 9.

Hos. 13. 8.

i Ps. 25. 1 & 119. 48. Job 16. 12. k Job 6. 4. 4 Heb. sons.

ch. 2. 21.

m Job 30. 9. Ps. 69. 12. 5 Heb. bitternesses. n ver. 8.

o Jer. 9. 15. pl Co. 4. 13. Pro. 20. 17. 6 Or, rolled me in the ashes.

r ch. 2. 16, 17 & 4. 16, 17. 7 Heb. good.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat 7prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and my hope, P. 119. 138. is perished from the LORD:

19 8 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is 9 humbled in me.

21 This I 10 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 LORD is "my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them d that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

8 Or, Remember.

9 Heb. bowed.
10 Heb.
make to

return to
my heart.

t ver. 21.
11 Heb.

my soul.

u Mal. 3. 6. 12 Or, more than all. v Ps. 11. 1.

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Job 7. 18.

x Ps. 35. 19. y Ps. 36. 5. Jer. 37. 16

& 3. 6, 9, 10. a Ps. 16. 5.

b Dan. 6. 17. Op. Job 12. 14.

c Ps. 69. 2.

27 It is good for a man that he beard the yoke in his youth.

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 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 east off for ever:

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

33 For he doth not afflict 13 willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Ps. 150. 6.

Isa. 30. 18.

e Ps. 88. 5.

Ps. 37. 7.

9 Ex. 8. 15. Jas. 4. 8.

i Ps. 91. 12 & 119. 71,

Mt. 11. 29. k Job 42 6. Pa. 9. 4 & 35. 23. m Isa. 50, 6. Mt. 5. 39.

n Jer. 11. 19. He. 12. 10. 13 Heb. from his heart.

p Ps. 139. 2.

g ver. 14.

yown affliction.

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 his cause, the Lord 2approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man 3complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, "that our prayer should not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as Pthe offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth 11 mine heart 12 because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all " their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the

day.

63 Behold their Psitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

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