Pr.3.25,26. denounced against Babylon. should fortify the height of her strength, yet, from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. 54 A sound k 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 of their voice is uttered: how is the praise of the whole 15 or, let not, do roar like great waters, a noise earth w surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! a Mar. 13.7. 16 visit. 42 The sear is come up upon Ba-b Re. 18.20. bylon she is covered with the c ch.50.3.41. multitude of the waves thereof. 17 or, Both 43 Her cities are a desolation, a Baby'on is dry land, and a wilderness, a land to fall, O wherein no man dwelleth, neither ye stain of doth any son of man pass thereby. Israel, and 11 And I will punish Bel in Baby- with Baby lon, 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 wally of Babylon shall fall. 15 My people, go ye out z of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. lon. 18or, country, d ch.44.28. e Ps. 122.6. 137.5,6. f La, 1.10. g ver.47. i h Is. 13. 15,16. Is. 14. 13. k ch.50.22-29. 46 And 15 lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumoura 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. 47 Therefore behold, the days 1 1Sa.2.4. come, that I will 16 do judgment upon the 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 b for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, c saith the LORD. 49 17 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the 18 earth. 50 Ye that have escaped d the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem e come into your mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces; for strangers fare come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house. m Ps.94.1. 137.8. n ch.25.27. Hab.2.16. o ch.46. 18. 48.15. 19 or, walls of broad Babylon. 20 or, made naked. p Hab.2.13. 21 or, on the behalf of. 22 or, prince of Menu cha, or, chief chamberlain. 23 desola tions. r ver.58. Ps.76.12. 52 Wherefore, behold, the days 9 Re. 18.21. come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: g and through all her land the wounded h shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mounti up to heaven, and though shel (CHAP. 52.) a 2Ki.24.18. 1 reigned. 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 recompenses shall surely requite.m 57 And I will make drunk n 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, o whose name is the LORD of hosts. 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The 19 broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly 20 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 21 with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Baby lon, in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a 22 quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all 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 23 desolate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone q 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.r Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. CHAPTER LII. 1 Zedekiah rebelleth. 4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken. EDEKIAH a was one and twen Z ty years old when he 1 began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mo Jerusalem is taken JEREMIAH, LII. ther's name was Hamutal the B. C. 595. daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil b ch.39.1,&c. and burned. deans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the cap in the eyes of the LORD, according 2Ki. 25. 1,&c. tain of the guard carried away cap to all that Jehoiakim had done. c ch.32.4,5. 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them d Eze. 12. 13. out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of 2 blinded. Babylon. 3 or, fetters. house of the wards. 4 And b it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the teuth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched e Zec.7.5. 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. 8.19. f ver.29. 5 chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen; or, chief marshal; and so v. 14,&c. and Da.2.14. stood before. 7 Then the city was broken up, 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 g ch.39.10. plain. IKI.7.15, &c. 8 But the army of the Chal-h ch.27.19-22. deans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Thenc 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. i Ex.27.3. 7 or, instru ments to remove the ashes. tive 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. 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor g of the land, for vine-dressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also h 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 i caldrons also, and the 7 shovels, and the snuffers, and the 8 bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basins, and the 9 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 brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: 10 the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a 11 fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. 22 And a chapiter k of brass was 10 And the king of Babylon slew 8 or, basons.upon it; and the height of one chathe sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. death. 12 Now in the fifth e month, in m ch.21.1. the tenth day of the month, (which 29.25. was the nineteenth ƒ year of Nebu-| chadrezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan, 5 captain of the guard, which 6 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 Chal piter was five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the net-work were an hundred round about. 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and m Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the 12 door: 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that 13 were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the 14 principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of The Jews LAMENTATIONS, 1. the people of the land, that were B. C. 595. found in the midst of the city. 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captainn La.1.1,3. of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon, to 02Ki.24.1,&c. Riblah. 15 souls. p 2Ki.25.27, &c. 20. 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 n of his own land. 28 This o is the people whom Ne- q Ge.40.13, buchadrezzar carried away captive in the seventh year, three thousand Jews and three and Twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Ne-r Zec.3.3-5. buchadrezzar he carried away caps 2Sa.9.13. tive from Jerusalem eight hundred IKI.2.7. thirty and two 15 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 16 good him. 17 the matter of the day taken captive. the persons were four thousand and six hundred. 31 And p 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 q of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32 And spake 16 kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed r his prison-garments: and he did continually eat breads before him all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a in his day. continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, 17 every dayt a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. t Lu. 11.3. Year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 19....Of Zedekiah, last king of Judah, 11. ОПАРТЕК І. The miserable estate of Jerusalem by reason of her sin. HOW doth the city sit solitary, a that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!b she that eas great among the nations, and princess c among the provinces, how is she become tributary! B. C. 588. a Je.52.27. Ezr.4.20. d Je.4.30. 30.14, 15. 1 for the greatness 2 She weepeth sore in the night, of. and her tears are on her cheeks: e De.28.64. among all her lovers d she hath f De.28.43,44. uone to comfort her: all her friends g Da.9.7,16. have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. h Je.52.8,11. 3 Judah is gone into captivity be- 2 or, desira cause of affliction, and 1 because of ble, ver. 10. great servitude: she dwelleth ei Ps. 137.3. among the heathen, she findeth nok 1Ki.8.46. rest: all her persecutors overtook 3 become a reher between the straits. moving,or, wandering. 1 Eze.16.37. Ho.2.9.10. m De.32.29. 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 af flicted, and she is in bitterness. 5 Her adversaries are the chief, for, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: g her child- 52.13. ren are gone into captivity before o De.23.3. the enemy. desira ble. 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes h 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 2 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 i at her sabbaths. 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sin ned; therefore k she is 3 removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her na kedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;m 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 pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen n entered into her sanctu ary, whom thou didst 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 to 5 relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become pvile. 126 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if Jeremiah lamenteth. B. C. 588. before thee; and do unto them asf thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is g faint. CHAPTER II. 5 or,make the soul to come again. p Job 40.4. 6 or, It is. Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Je there be any a sorrow like unto my by the way. Ha q Da.9.12. r Eze. 17.20. Ho.7.12. sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he sent fires De.28.48. into my bones, and it prevaileth Ho.5.14. against them: he hath spread au Is.63.3. net for my feet, he hath turned s me back he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke s of my transgressions v 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 t 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 8 the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press. 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from ine: my w children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. or,the wine press of the bring back. w Ho.9.12. ver.2,9. 4 H.8.8. z Ne.9.33. Da.9.7,14. 10 mouth. a Je.2.28. 30. 14. b Ps.51.3,4. c De.32.25. e F's. 137.7-9. 17 Zion spreadeth forth a her hands, and there is none to comfort f Lu.23.31. her: the LORD hath commanded g ch.5.17. concerning Jacob, that his adver- (CHAP. 2.) saries should be round about y him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous wo-28a. 1.19. a Joel 2.2. man among them. c. 1Ch.23.2. 18 The LORD is righteous; z for I have rebelled against his 10 commandment hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow; my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. a 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; forb I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaveth, c 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 d that thou hast 11 called, and they shall be like unto me. 22 Lete all their wickedness come Ps. 132.7. d Je. 13. 14. made to touch. e Ps.89.39. f Ps.74.11. & Ps.89.46. h Is.63. 10. Je.30.14. 2 the desiraable of. i Is.5.5. 3 or, hedge, Job 1.10. k ch. 1.4. Le.26.31-44. shut up. m Ps.74.4,&c. n 2Ki.21.13, 14. 5 swallowing rusalem. TOW hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloude in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty b of Israel, and remembered not his footstool c in the day of his anger! 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not d pitied: he hath throwa down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hatle 1 brought them down to the ground:e he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 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 flarning g fire, which devoureth round about. 4 He hath bent his bow like an h enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all 2 that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the 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 her strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And he hath violently taken away i his 3 tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the 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 4 given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise m 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,n he hath not withdrawn his hand from 5 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 o bars: her kingp and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her pro Jeremiah complaineth. LAMENTATIONS, III. Lamentation of the faithful. phets also find no vision from the B. C. 588. thy young children, that faint for LORD. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit q 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 6 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 mothers' bosom. q Is.3.26. 6 or, faint. r Je.27.14, 15. & Is.58.1. Je.23.22. by the way. t Ps.35.21. u Le.26.16, &c. De.28.15, &c. Je. 18.11. Mi.2.3. v Ps.89.42. w Je. 14. 17. x Ps.62.8. 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, y Eze.5. 10, 16. that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? z De.28.53. Je. 19.9. 8 or, swad ded with their hands. 14 Thy prophets r have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovereds thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; a 2Ch.36.17. but have seen for thee false bur-b Je.6.25. dens, and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jeru- (CHAP. 3.) salem, saying, Is this the city that a Am.5.20. men call The perfection of beauty, b Job 16.8,&c. The joy of the whole earth? c Ho.9.12, 13. 16 All thine enemies have opened c Ps.51.8. their mouth t against thee: they. Je.50.17. hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, d Ps. 143.3. We have swallowed her up cer tainly this is the day that wee Ho.2.6. looked for; we have found, we ƒ Job 30.20. have seen it. 17 The LORD hath done that g Ho.5.14. which he had devised; u he hath 13.7,8. fulfilled his word that he hadh Ho.6.1. commanded in the days of old: hel hunger y in the top of every street. 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, z and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slam in the sanctuary of the LORD! 21 The young a and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my vir gins and my young men are falen by the sword; thou 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, b so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up c hath mine enemy consumed. CHAPTER III. 1 The prophet bewaileth his own calamities: 37 His humble confession of sins. AM the man that hath seen af fliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, a but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh b and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken c my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark d places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged e ine about, made my chain heavy. that I cannot get out: he hath 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth 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 o lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled h me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark i 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 k 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, I he hath 3 covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat 4 prosperity. 18 And I said, m My strength and |