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The rebellion of Zedekiah.

CHAP. LII. be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. CHAP. LII.

EDEKIAH was one and twenty years

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.

Jerusalem taken and spoiled.

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

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 husbandmen.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen 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 shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the 4 ¶ And it came to pass in the ninth spoons, and all the vessels of brass where. year of his reign, in the tenth month, in with they ministered, took they away. the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad- 19 And the basins, and the fire-pans, and rezzar king of Babylon came, he and all the bowls, and the caldrons, and the canhis army, against Jerusalem, and pitched dlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; against it, and built forts against it round that which was of gold in gold, and that about. which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

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

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth brazen bulls that were under the bases, day of the month, the famine was sore in which king Solomon had made in the the city, so that there was no bread for house of the LORD: the brass of all these the people of the land. vessels was without weight.

7 Then the city was broken up, and all| 21 And concerning the pillars, the height the men of war fled, and went forth out of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a of the city by night by the way of the fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and gate between the two walls, which was by the thickness thereof was four fingers: it the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans was hollow.

were by the city round about:) and they 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; went by the way of the plain." and the height of one chapiter was five 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pur-cubits, with net-work and pomegranates sued after the king, and overtook Zede- upon the chapiters round about, all of kiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his brass. The second pillar also and the army was scattered from him. pomegranates were like unto these. 9 Then they took the king, and carried 23 And there were ninety and six pomehim up unto the king of Babylon to Rib- granates on a side; and all the pomelah, in the land of Hamath; where he granates upon the net-work were a hungave judgment upon him. dred round about.

10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and which had the charge of the men of war; put him in prison till the day of his death. and seven men of them that were near the 12 Now in the fifth month, in the king's person, which were found in the tenth day of the month, which was the city; and the principal scribe of the host, nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king who mustered the people of the land; and of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain threescore men of the people of the land, of the guard, which served the king of that were found in the midst of the city. 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.

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

Misery of Jerusalem.

LAMENTATIONS. Her complaint and confession.

year three thousand Jews and three and that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the twenty: first year of his reign lifted up the head of 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchad-Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him rezzarle carried away captive from Jerusa- forth out of prison,

lem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set 30 In the three and twentieth year of Ne-his throne above the throne of the kings buchadrezzar,Nebuzar-adan the captain of that were with him in Babylon,

the guard carried away captive of the Jews 33 And changed his prison garments: seven hundred forty and five persons: all the and he did continually eat bread before persons were four thousand and six hundred. him all the days of his life.

31 And it came to pass in the seven 34 And for his diet, there was a conand thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoi-tinual diet given him of the king of Babyachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, lon, every day a portion until the day of in the five and twentieth day of the month, his death, all the days of his life.

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I The Lamentations of JEREMIAH.

CHAP. I.

10 The adversary hath spread out his OW doth the city sit solitary, that was hand upon all her pleasant things: for she full of people! how is she become as hath seen that the heathen entered into her a widow! she that was great among the na-sanctuary, whom thou didst command that tions, and princess among the provinces, they should not enter into thy congregation. how is she become tributary! 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread;

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her they have given their pleasant things for tears are on her cheeks: among all her meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her and consider; for I am become vile. friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sor3 Judah is gone into captivity because row like unto my sorrow, which is done of affliction, and because of great servi- unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicttude: she dwelleth among the heathen, ed me in the day of his fierce anger. the findeth no rest: all her persecutors 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he

overtook her between the straits.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turnnone come to the solemn feasts: all her ed me back: he hath made me desolate gates are desolate her priests sigh, her and faint all the day.

virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her ene-bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and mies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted come up upon my neck: he hath made my her for the multitude of her transgressions: strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered her children are gone into captivity before me into their hands, from whom I am not the enemy. able to rise up.

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her 15 The LORD hath trodden under foot beauty is departed: her princes are be- all my mighty men in the midst of me: he come like harts that find no pasture, and hath called an assembly against me to they are gone without strength before the crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as

pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of in a wine-press. her affliction and of her miseries all her 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, pleasant things that she had in the days of mine eye runneth down with water, beold, when her people fell into the hand of cause the comforter that should relieve my the enemy, and none did help her: the ad- soul is far from me: my children are desoversaries saw her, and did mock at her late, because the enemy prevailed. sabbaths. 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath therefore she is removed: all that honour- commanded concerning Jacob, that his aded her despise her, because they have seen versaries should be round about him: Jeher nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turn-rusalem is as a menstruous woman among eth backward. them.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she re- 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have membereth not her last end; therefore she rebelled against his commandment: hear, came down wonderfully: she had no com- I pray you, all people, and behold my sorforter. O LORD, beheld my affliction: for row: my virgins and my young men are the enemy hath magnified himself. gone into captivity.

Jerusalem's misery lamented.

CHAP. II.

Jeremiah's complaint.

19 I called for my lovers, but they de- 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; ceived me my priests and mine elders he hath destroyed and broken her bars: gave up the ghost in the city, while they her king and her princes are among the sought their meat to relieve their souls. Gentiles: the law is no more: her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

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 called, and they shall be like unto me.

22 Let 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. CHAP. II..

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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 swoon 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 mother's bosom.

[OW hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, 13 What thing shall I take to witness for and cast down from heaven unto the earth thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O the beauty of Israel, and remembered not daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal his footstool in the day of his anger! to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: like the sea: who can heal thee? he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong 14 Thy prophets have seen vain and holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath foolish things for thee: and they have not brought them down to the ground: he hath discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy polluted the kingdom and the princes captivity; but have seen for thee fals: burthereof. dens and causes of banishment.

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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?

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: 16 All thine enemies have opened their he stood with his right hand as an adver- mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the sary and slew all that were pleasant to the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of up: certainly this is the day that we lookZion: he poured out his fury like fire. ed for; we have found, we have seen it. 5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath 17 The LORD hath done that which he swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong he had commanded in the days of old: he holds, and hath increased in the daughter hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: of Judah mourning and lamentation. and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and wall of the daughter of Zion, Let tears run sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath down like a river day and night: give thydespised in the indignation of his anger the self no rest; let not the apple of thine eye king and the priest.

cease.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the behath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given ginning of the watches pour out thine heart up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her like water before the face of the LORD: lift palaces; they have made a noise in the house up thy hands toward him for the life of of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. thy young children, that faint for hunger in 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the top of every street.

the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath 20 T Behold, O LORD, and consider to stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn whom thou hast done this. Shall the women his hand from destroying therefore he eat their fruit, and children of a span long? made the rampart and the wall to lament; shall the priest and the prophet be slain in they languished together. the sanctuary of the LORD!

Jeremiah bewuils

LAMENTATIONS.

his own calamitres. 21 The young and the old lie on the hope and quietly wait for the salvation of ground in the streets; my virgins and my the LORD. young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; yoke in his youth. thou hast killed, and not pitied.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the

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 re- so be there may be hope. mained: those that I have swaddled. and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed. CHAP. III.

lence, because he hath borne it upon him. 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth si29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if

smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 30 He giveth his cheek to him that 31 For the LORD will not cast off for

I AM the man that hath seen affliction by ever:

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 hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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

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

he have compassion according to the mul32 But though he cause grief, yet will titude 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 his cause, LORD approveth not.

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37 Who is he that saith, and it com

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. eth to pass, when the LORD commandeth 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shut- it not? teth 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.

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.

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 me with ashes.

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:

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

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

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

plain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
39 Wherefore doth a living man com-
turn again to the LORD.
40 Let us search and try our ways, and

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 not pitied. persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast

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

ing and refuse in the midst of the people.
45 Thou hast made us as the off-scour-
mouths against us.
46 All our enemies have opened their

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

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

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

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

22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compas-cause of all the daughters of my city. sions fail not.

51 Mine eye affecteth my heart be

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like

23 They are new every morning: great a bird, without cause. is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my -soul; therefore will I hope in him.

geon, and cast a stone upon me.
53 They have cut off my life in the dun-

25 The LORD is good unto them that I
wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both out of the low dungeon.

said, I am cut off.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then

55 TI called upon thy name, O LORD,

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The complaint to God,

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it 57 Thou drewest near in the day that hath devoured the foundations thereof. I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes inhabitants of the world, would not have of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. believed that the adversary and the enemy 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: should have entered into the gates of Jejudge thou my cause. rusalem.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O the blood of the just in the midst of her, LORD, and all their imaginations against me; 14 They have wandered as blind men 62 The lips of those that rose up against in the streets, they have polluted themme, and their device against me all the day. [selves with blood, so that men could not 63 Behold their sitting down, and their touch their garments. rising up; I am their music.

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; 64 ¶ Render unto them a recompense, it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: O LORD, according to the work of their when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV.

OW dim! how is

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

How is the gold becom changed! the our vain help: in our watching we have 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for

stones of the sanctuary are poured out in watched for a nation that could not save us. the top of every street. 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot

2 The precious sons of Zion, compara-go in our streets: our end is near, our ble to fine gold, how are they esteemed as days are fulfilled; for our end is come. earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of 19. Our persecutors are swifter than the the potter! eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

3 Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their 4 The tongue of the sucking child pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: we shall live among the heathen. the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of 22¶ The punishment of thine iniquity is the daughter of my people is greater than accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that no more carry thee away into captivity: was overthrown as in a moment, and no he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of hands stayed on her. Edom; he will discover thy sins. CHAP. V.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come

upon us: consider, and behold our

reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyp tians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; 11 The LORD hath accomplished his and we have borne their iniquities:

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