Chap. xlix.

39 They shall howl, saying, How 19 it bro- 9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would ken down! how hath Moab turned the back they not leave some gleaning grapes? If with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and thieves by night, they will destroy till they a dismaying to all them about him. have enough.

40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

46 Wo be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives. and thy daughters captives.

47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabit-man in travail. ants of Dedan: for I will bring the calamity 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of Esau upon him; the time that I will visit of my joy!

The judgment of Hazor,

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her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

Elam, and Babylon.

4 ¶ In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrez-faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us Zar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual coLORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil venant that shail not be forgotten. the men of the east.

29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

6 My people hath been lost sheep their shepherds have caused them to go a tray. they have turned them away on the morn tains: they have gone from mountain to hill. they have forgotten their resting-place.

7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We oftend not, be cause they have simed against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope

30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a pur-of their fathers. pose against you.

31 Arise, get ye up unto the wealthy na tion, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which hath neither gates nor bars, which dwelleth alone.

32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds thein that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

9 For lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dra-spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. gons, and a desolation for ever: there shall 11 Because ye were glad, because ye reno man abide there, nor any son of man dwelljoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage; bein it.

34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

37 For I will cause Ela to be dismayed before their enemies, and efore them that seek their life and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LoRD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

CHAP. L.

cause ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass.
and bellow as bulls;

12 Your mother shall be sore confounded;
she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold.
the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilder-
ness, a dry land, and a desert.

13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she bath done, do unto her.

16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that.ndleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for ear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall dee every one to his own land.

17 Israel is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadrezzar king ef Babylon hath broken his Ba-bones.

1, 9, 21, 35 The judgment of Babylon. 4, 17,
33 The redemption of Israel.
Thy word that
HE word that the LORD spake against

deans by Jeremiah the prophet.

18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the 2 Declare ye among the nations, and pub-king of Babylon and his land, as I have pulish, and set up a standard; publish, and con-nished the king of Assyria.

ceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is con- 19 And will bring Israel again to his babi-
founded, Merodach is broken in pieces; bertation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Ba-
klols are confounded, her images are broken shan, and his soul shall be satisɓed upon wount
in pieces.
Ephraim and Gilead.

3 For out of the north there cometh up a 26 In those days, and in that time, saith the nation against her which shall make her land LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought desolate, and bone simti dwell therein; they for, and there shall be none; and the sins of shall remove, they shall depart, both man Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will.

and beast.

21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken. O Babylon, and thou wast not aware thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Babylon threatened.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

41 Benold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the re25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and port of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anbath brought forth the weapons of his indigna-guish took hold of him, and pangs as of a wotion for this is the work of the Lord Gou of man in travail. hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

26 Come against her from the utmost border, upon her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be

left.

27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: wo unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Load our God, the vengeance of his tele.

41 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from ner: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her! for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least 29 Call together the archers against Baby-of the dock shall draw them out; surely lon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it he shall make their habitation desolate with round about; let none thereof escape: recom-them. pense her according to her work; according 45 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the to all that she hath done do unto her for she earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the hath been proud against the LORD, against the nations. Holy One of Israel.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GoD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

32 And the most proud shail stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

34 Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon ber mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

CHAP. LI.

God's severe judgment against Babylon in revenge of Israel.

THUS saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me. a destroying wind;

2 And will send unto Babylon fauners, that shall fan ber, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend is bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts: though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon vengeance; he will render unto her a recom-their chariots, and upon all the mingled peo-pense.

ple that are in the midst of her; and they shall 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the become as women: a sword is upon her trea-LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: sures; and they shall be robbed.

38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever: neither shall it be dreit in from gencration to tecoration.

the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: bowl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but sbe is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for ber judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is luted up even to The shies

Babylon threatened

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in ravenge of Israel. 10 The LORD hath brought forth our right- the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashche eousness: come, and let us declare in Zion naz; appoint a captain against her; cause the the work of the LORD our God. horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of bis

11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is dominion. the vengeance of the LonD, the vengeance of his temple.

12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong; set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 0 thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his trea

gures.

17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The Portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

20 Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will 1 break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

23 And the land shall tremble and sorrow:

for every purpose of the LORD shall be per
formed against Babylon, to make the land of
Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have for
born to fight, they have remained in their
holds: their might hath failed; they became
as women: they have burned her dwelling.
places; her bars are broken

31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of ber harvest shall come.

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath rushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, be hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zico say and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roår together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

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

25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroy-thereby. ing mountain, saith the LORD, which de- 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I stroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out will bring forth out of his mouth that which mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall the rocks, and will make thee a burnt moun- not flow together any more unto him; yea, fain. the wall of Babylon shall fall.

26 And they shall not take of thee a stone) 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; and deliver ye every man his soul from the but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the fierce anger of the Loan. LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for 27 Set ye up a standard in the land. blow the rumour that shall be heard in the land: a the trumpet among the nations, prepare the rumour shall both come one year, and after nations against ber, call together against her that in another year stall come a rumour,

Babylon threatened.

Chap. lii.

Zedekiar taken.

CHAP. LII.

and taken. 8 Zedekiah's sons killed, &c.

and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. [ 47 Therefore behold, the days come, that I1 Zedekiah rebelleth. & Jerusalem is besieged will 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 for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

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

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

ZEDEKIAH was one and twenty years 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 51 We are confounded, because we have of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth heard reproach: shame hath covered our day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king faces: for strangers are come into the sanctua-of Babylon came, he and all his army, against ries of the LORD's house. Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

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

53 Though Babylon should mount up 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 soun 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 recompenses shall surely requite.

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, 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 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.

57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of her mighty men: and they shall sleep a per-Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all petual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, the princes of Judah in Riblah. whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burnt with Gre; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth 59 The word which Jeremiah the pro-year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, phet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Ze-which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusadekish the king of Judah into Babylon in the lem,

fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah 13 And burnt the house of the LORD, and was a quiet prince. the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire.

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 desolate for ever.

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.

€3 And it shall be, when thou hast made an 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind guard left certain of the poor of the land for a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of vine-dressers and for husbandmen. 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.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were 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