God's justice acknowledged. LAMENTATIONS, IV. my hope is perished from the LORD: 19 5 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood n and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is 6 humbled in me. 21 This I 7 recall to my mind, therefore o have I hope. 22 It is p of the LORD's mercies Prayer for deliverance. B. C. 588. with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 5 or, Remem- n Je.9.15. 6 bowed. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fearf and a snare is come upon us, desolation g and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with that we are not consumed, be- Ps.77.5, &c. rivers of water for the destruction cause his compassions fail not. 24 The LORD is my portion, r saith my soul; therefore will I hope s in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait t 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. p Ezr.9.8,9. q Mal.3.6. 8 Ps. 130.7. Is.30.18. Mi.7.7. u Mat.11.29. v Je. 15.17. 27 It is good for a man that her Ps.94.14. bear the yoke u in his youth. y Ps.30.5. 23 He sitteth alone v and keepeths from his silence, because he hath borne it heart. upon him. 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 30 He w giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: z Je.31.20. of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the LORD look down, h and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth 12 mine heart 13 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 i upon me. 51 Waters k flowed over mine head; then, I said, I am cut off. 55 TI called upon thy name, O Eze.33.11. LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. He. 12. 10. 9 or, a supe- 10 seeth not, Hab.1.13. 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 9 the Most High, 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD 10 approveth 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 a and good? e 2Ch.36.17. ƒ Is.24.17. g Is.51.19. h Is.63.15. 12 my soul. than. i Da.6. 17. 39 Wherefore b doth a living man 11 complain, a man for the punish-m Is.43. 1,2. ment of his sins? n Je.51.36. 40 Let us search c and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. o Ps.35.1,23. 41 Let us lift up our heart with p Je.11.19,20. our hands unto God in the heavens. 14 or, obsti 42 We have transgressed d and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain,é. thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself nacy. (CHAP. 4.) 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes n of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge o thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations p 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 sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 T Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65 Give them 14 sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAPTER IV. 1 Zion's pitiful estate bewailed: 13 She confesseth her sins. HOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones a of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, b how are Zion's pitiful cstate. LAMENTATIONS, V. îney esteemed as earthen pitchers, B. C. 588. the work of the hands of the pot-, ter! 3 Even the 1 sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like thee ostriches c in the wilderness. 1 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and nod 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.e 6 For the 2 punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, f and no hands stayed on her. 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 3 blacker g than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin h 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 4 pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The of pitiful wo 1 or, sca calves. Ro.7.13. f Ge. 19.25. 3 darker than ch.5.10. i Is.49.15. 57. k De.28.56, m Je.21.14. Zep.3.4. p Je.2.34. 5 not but. Nu. 19. 16. or, ye polluted. 7 or, face. Zion is comforted. 16 The 7 anger of the LORD bath divided them; he will no more regard them they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured. not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vainr help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. 18 They hunt our steps, that we 'cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end s is come. 19 Our persecutors are swifter t than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. 21 Rejoice v and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also w shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. 22 8 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, x O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; y he will 9 discover thy sins. CHAPTER V. A pitiful complaint of Zion, in prayer. unto God. EMEMBER, a O LORD, what men; have soiden their own childr Is.30.6.7. Ris come upon us: consider, and ren: they were their meat k in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 31.1.3. Je.37.7,8. Eze.7.2,3,6. De.28.49. Je.4. 13. Je.52.9. 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled mu a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured v Ec.11.9. the foundations thereof. u Ob. 10, 15. 12 The kings of the earth, and all 8 or, Thine the inhabitants of the world, would iniquity. not have believed that the adver-x Is.40.2. sary and the enemy should have y Ps. 137.7. entered into the gates of Jerusa-or, carry lem. 13 For n the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that o have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they p have polluted themselves with blood, 5 so that q men could not touch their garments. thee cap- (CHAP. 5.) necks are 15 They cried unto them, Departe Ne.9.36,37. ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, d Ne.5.15. touch not: when they fled away, 3 or, terrors, and wandered, they said among or storms of. the heathen, They shall no more e Zec.14.2. sojourn there. behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance b 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 1 is sold unto us. 5 2 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, c and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants d have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven, because of the 3 terrible famine. 11 They ravished e the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their From the Creation, 3409.... From the foundation of Solomon's Temple, 409....From the captivity of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 126... Year of Zedekiah, last king of Judah, 4....Year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 12. B. C. 595. four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. captivity. a ch.3.15,23. b Re.19.11. in the fifth day of the month, as I 2 In the fifth day of the month, d 2Ki.24.12, which was the fifth year of king d Jehoiachin's captivity, 15. 3 The word of the LORD came ex-2 Jehezkel. pressly unto 2 Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of e 1Ki.18.46. the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hande of the LORD was 3 catching. there upon him. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were their faces and their wings were 5 stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered i their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spi turned not when they went. 4 And I looked, and, behold, af Re.4.6,&c. rit was to go, they went; and they whirlwind came out of the north, g ch. 10.8,&c. a great cloud, and a fire 3 infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four f living creatures. And this g was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; the sole of their feet was likek the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled h like the colour of burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their a straight h Da. 10.6. 5 or, divided i Is.6.2. Ps. 147.15. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went k up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Ezekiel's commission. 1 Ezekiel's commission: 6 His in- turned not when they went. 6 or, strakes. A stand a upon thy feet, and I 18 As for their rings, they were son ch. 10.12. high m that they were dreadful; Pr. 15.3. and their 6 rings were full of eyes no ver. 12. round about them four. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 1Co.14.32. p Job 37.22. will speak unto thee. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious 1 nation that hath rebelled against me: they and 20 Whithersoever o the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their Job 37.2-5. their fathers c have transgressed spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of 7 the living creature was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went ; and when those stood, these stood and when those were lifted up from! the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of 7 the living creaturewas in thewheels. 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible p crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. Ps. 29.3,4. $ 2 Ki.7.6. t Ps.45.6. v Re.3.21. Re.4.3. 10.1. against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are 2 impudent children and stiff-hearted. I do send d thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whethere they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house.) yet f shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 T And thou, son of man, be g not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though 3 briers and thorns h be with thee, and thou x Ex. 16.7,10. dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 24. 16,17. 1 Ki.8.10,11. 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two, which y ch.3.23. covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. Da.8.17. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like q the (CHAP. 2.) noise of great waters, as the voice r a Da. 10.11. of the Almighty, the voice of speech, b ch.3.24. as the noise of an host :s when they 1 nations. stood, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their Je.3.25. heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26 And above the firmament | that was over their heads was the c ch.20. 18-30, Ac.7.51. 2 hard of face. likeness of a throne, t as u the ap- e ch.3.11,27. Lu. 12.4. 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are 4 most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat / that I give thee. 9 And when I looked, behold, an hand m was sent unto me; and, lo, a n roll of a book was therein; 10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and 1 Ezekiel eateth the roll. 3 God encourageth him. OREOVER he said unto me, And I saw as the colour of am- 3 or, rebels. M Son of man, eat that thou ber, as the appearance of fire round h 2Sa.23.6,7. about within it, from the appearIs.9.18. ance of his loins even upward, and Mi.7.4. from the appearance of his loins i 1Pe.3.14. even downward, I saw as it were 4 rebellion. the appearance of fire, and it had k Is.50.5. brightness round about. 1 Re. 10.9, 10. 28 As the appearance of the bow wm ch.8.3. that is in the cloud in the day of n ch.3.1. rain, so was the appearance of the (CHAP. 3.) brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory z of the LORD. And when I saw it, I felly upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. b Je. 15.16. 119.103. findest; eat this a roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and b it was in my mouth as honey c for sweetness. 4 T And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 6 Not to many people 1 of a strange speech and of an hard lan-2 guage, whose words thou canst not understand. 2 Surely, hadd 1 sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; fore they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are 3 impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than f funt have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their g looks, though they be a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive h in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. 11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. of prophecy. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickeddeep of lip,ness, nor from his wicked way, he and heavy shall die in his iniquity; but thou q of tongue. hast delivered thy soul. or, if I had sent thee not. d Mat.11.23. 12.41. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his 7 righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lays a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require 3 stiff of fore-at thine hand. head, and hard of heart. f Is.50.7. Mi.3.8. e Jno. 15.20. g 2Ti.2.3. i ch.8.3. IK. 18. 12. 2Ki.2.16. k ver. 12. 6 hot anger. n Is.52.8. 21 Nevertheless if thon warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; t also thou hast delivered thy soul. 22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 26 And I will make thy tongue u 12 Then the spirit i took me up, 4 touched one another, and the nesses. 15 Then I came to them of the s 1Pe.2.6-8. raptivity at Telabib, that dwelt byt Ps. 19.11. the river of Chebar, and I satmu Lu. 1.20,22. where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. 16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman n unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. v Am.8. 11, 12. 8 a man re proving. w Ps.38.13, 14. (CHAP. 4.) a Lu. 19.43, 1 44. or, chief or, a flat the hardness of the famine. HOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege a against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set 1 battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee 2 an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou o givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his 2 wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his p iniquity; but his blood will I re- b ch. 12.6,11. lay siege against it. This shall be a quire at thine hand. plate, or, sign b to the house of Israel. |