The utter ruin of

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 601.

■ Ezek. 3. 1, 3.

Rev.10.9,10. b Job 23. 12. Ps. 119. 72,

111.

2 Heb. thy

name is called upon

me.

c Ps. 1.1. & 26.4, 5. d ch. 30. 15.

• See ch. 1. 18, 19. f Job 6. 15, &c.

3 Heb. be not sure?

16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

d

18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that 3 fail?

19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I 8 Zech. 8.7. bring thee again, and thou shalt hstand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

h ver. 1. i Ezek. 22. 26. & 44. 23.

k ch.1.18. & 6. 27.

I ch. 20. 11,

12.

cir. 601.

a ch. 15. 2.

b ch. 22. 18,

19. & 25. 33.

Ps. 83. 10.

ch. 8. 2. & 9. 22.

d P8. 79. 2. ch. 7. 33. & 34. 20.

. Ezek. 24. 17, 22, 23.

4 Or, mourning feast.

HE word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

4 They shall die of a grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

the Jews foreshewn.

this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 601.

6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, fneither shall men lament ch. 22. 18. for them, nor & cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7 Neither shall men 2 tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

10 T And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto | thee, 1Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

12 And ye have done "worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of 30r, stubhis evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

14 T Therefore, behold, the "days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

bornness.

Deut.4.20,

27, 29. & 28. 36,63,64,65.

ach. 15. 14.

r Is. 43. 18. ch. 23.7,8.

15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their ch.24.6. land that I gave unto their fathers.

& 30. 8.

& 32.37.

Hab. 1. 15.

16 ¶ Behold, I will send for many tfishers, saith the LORD, and they Amos 4.2. shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt

Judah's captivity for sin.

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 601.

u Job 31. 21. Prov. 5. 21. & 15. 3. ch. 32. 19.

x Is. 40. 2. ch. 17. 18.

y Ezek. 43. 7,9.

2 Ps. 18. 2.

them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

17 For mine "eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

19 O LORD, "my strength, and my a ch. 17. 17. fortress, and amy refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things bwherein there is no profit.

b Is. 44. 10. ch. 2. 11. & 10. 5.

c Is. 37. 19. ch. 2. 11. Gal. 4. 8.

d Ex. 15. 3. ch. 33. 2. Amos 5. 8. 2 Or. JEΠΟΥΛΗ. Ps. 83. 18.

■ Job 19. 24.

20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

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21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that "my name is 2 The LORD.

CHAPTER XVII.

1 The captivity of Judah for her sin. 5 Trust

in man is cursed, 7 in God is blessed. 9 The deceitful heart cannot deceive God. 12 The

salvation of God. 15 The prophet complaineth of the mockers of his prophecy. 19 He is sent to renew the covenant in hallowing the

sabbath.

THE

THE sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the 3 Heb. nail. 3point of a diamond: it is graven bg upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

b Prov. 3. 3. 2 Cor. 3. 3.

2 Whilst their children remember Judg. 3.7. their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

2 Chr. 24.18. & 33. 3, 19. Is. 1. 29. & 17. 8.

ch. 2. 20.

d ch. 15. 13.

4 Heh. in thyself.

3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy

borders.

4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land ch. 15. 14. which thou knowest not: for f ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

e ch. 16. 13.

g Is. 30. 1, 2. & 31. 1.

g

5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and h See Is. 31. maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

3.

1 ch. 48. 6. k Job 20. 17. 1 Deut. 29. 23.

m Ps. 2. 12. & 34. 8. & 125.1.x

146. 5.

Prov. 16. 20. Is. 30. 18.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, 'in a salt land and not inhabited.

7 " Blessed is the man that trusteth

8 For he shall be "as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out Pa. 1.8. her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither 2 or, shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, Peven to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

3

restraint.

olSam.16.7.

1. Chr. 28.9. Ps. 7. 9. & 130. 23, 24.

Prov. 17.3.

ch. 11. 20. & 20. 12.

Rom. 8. 27.

Rev. 2. 23.

ch. 32. 19. sorgather

Rom. 2.6.

11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that get-Ps. 62. 12. teth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12 ¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

8

130 LORD, the hope of Israel, tall that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be "written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

15 ¶ Behold, they say unto me, z Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

4

eth young which she

hath not forth.

brought

q Ps. 55. 23.

Luke12.20. Pa. 73. 27. Is. 1. 25.

☐ ch. 14. 8.

u See Luke 10. 20.

ch. 2. 13.

y Deut. 10. 21.

Ps. 109. 1.
Is. 5. 19.

& 148. 14.

Ezek. 12.22. Amos 5. 18.

2

Pet. 3. 4. ch.1.4, &c. after thee.

4 Heb.

16 As for me, a I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17 Be not a terror unto me: bthou bch. 16. 19. art my hope in the day of evil.

• Ps. 35. 4. & 40.14.870.2. d Ps. 25. 2.

18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them them with double destruction.

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5 Heb. with a double

breach.

19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the chil-ch. 11. 20. dren of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

ye

20 And say unto them, f Hear the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

fch. 19. 3. & 22. 2.

Num. 15.

32, &c.

21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no bur-Neh. 13. 19. den on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

observation of the sabbath.

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 601.

b Ex. 20.8. & 23. 12. & 31. 13. Ezek.20.12.

I ch.7.24,26. & 11. 10.

k ch. 22. 4.

1 ch. 32. 44. & 33. 13.

Zech.7.7.

a Zech.7.7.

o Pa. 107. 22.

& 116. 17.

p ch. 21. 14. & 49. 27. Lam. 4. 11. Amos 1.4,7, 10, 12. & 2. 2,5. q 2 Kings 2.5. 9.

ch. 52. 13.

cir. 605.

2Or frames,

or, seats. 3 Or, that he made was marred, as

your

22 Neither carry forth a burden out of houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

23 'But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from 'the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.

27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

CHAPTER XVIII.

1 Under the type of a potter is shewed God's absolute power in disposing of nations. 11 Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt. 18 Jeremiah prayeth against his conspirators.

THE

HE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the "wheels.

4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the clan in the potter: so he 'made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

potter.

4 Heb. returned and made.

■ Is. 45. 9.

b Is. 64. 8.

5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

6 O house of Israel, cannot I do Rom. 9. 20, with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, bas the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Judah is threatened.

7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 605.

c ch. 1. 10.

d Ezek. 18. 33. 11.

21.

8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that Iech. 26. 3. thought to do unto them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

11 ¶ Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: 'return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

12 And they said, "There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

14 Will a man leave 2 the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flow-Lebanon? ing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

15 Because my people hath forgot ten me, they have burned incense to 'vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the m ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Pashur's fearful doom.

said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but 2 Magor-missabib.

4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

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7 TO LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

8 For since I spake, I cried out, 'I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. 4k All of my peace. my familiars watched for my halting, P. 41.9.& saying, Peradventure he will be en55. 13, 14. ticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

k Job 19. 19.

Luke 11. 53, 54.

Jeremiah's complaint.

2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. 3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

& 37. 3.

ch.37.3,7.

4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assembled Is. 13. 4. them into the midst of this city.

5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and Ex. 6. 6. with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies,

fch. 37. 17.

& 39. 5. &

52.9.