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Jeremiah's complaint. Before hands of them that seek their lives; and their car-ceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: cases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence 8 And I will make this city 'desolate, and a hissing: {and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made rch. 49, 13. every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.

12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD,sion shall never be forgotten.

and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this

16 And let that man be as the cities which the towns, all the evil that I have pronounced against it; { LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear e Gen. 29, & 17, 23. because they have hardened their necks, that they e Deut. 6, 3. might not hear my words.

the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon-tide; fJob 15, 21
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or Hos
that my mother might have been my grave, and her Zeph. 1, 16

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Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receiveth a new name, and a fear- womb to be always great with me.

Nowe Pashur, the son of Immer the priest, see labour and sorro

of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these

6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both i Hosea 4, 8. 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 de-people, and such as are left in this city from the

9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but

The judgment of Shallum, &c.

11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the Before son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead CHRIST of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more :

12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

u 2 Kings 23, 30.

Ezek. 19, 4

13 Wo unto him that buildeth his house by un-x Hab. 2, a righteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

y Lev. 19, 13.

14 That saith, I will build me a wide house, and James 5, 4

ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion!

n ch. 38, 2. he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that { large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it
besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be untois
• Rev. 18,4. him for a prey.

p Lev. 17, 10.

10 For I have set my face against this city, for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD; it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he 72 Chr. 36, shall burn it with fire.

19.

r Zech. 7, 9.

11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

15 Shalt thou reign because thou closest thyself 22 Kings in cedar? Did not thy father beat and drink, and do 14,3,4 judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? Pr. 16, 12 16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Ps. 128, 2.

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then it was well with him: was not this to know me? 1 Cor. 10, saith the Lord.

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17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy e Isa. 3, 10 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD, Exe-covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and deh. 9, S.

Ps. 101, 8. Cute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, Oking of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people thatenter in by these gates; 3 Thus saith the LORD, Execute ye judgment and d Ps. 72,2, righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs P.Pr. 1, 28. come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! Hosea 5, 6. 24 As I s I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the 92 Kings son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon chap. 37,1. my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; r Song 3, 6. 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that Hag. 2, 23.

24, 6.

Titus 1, 16. fenter in by the gates of this house kings, sitting upon } seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face s ch. 21, 7. f Ps. 81, 11. the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses,

g Isa. 1, 20.

he and his servants, and his people.

5 But if ye will not hear these words, I h swear

& 34, 20.

thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that 12 Kings

h Heb. 6, 13. by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall be-bare thee, into another" country, where ye were not
¡Num. 32, come a. desolation.

n Ps. 74, 56. every one with his weapons; and they shall cutland which they know not?
ch. 46, 26. down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD:

• Lam. 4,12

24.

24, 12.

Isa. 22, 17,

u 2 Chr. 36, 10.

x Ps. 31, 12. Hosea 8, 8.

ch. 48, 38. Luke 16, 14.

8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and 30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man child-Chr 3,

Deut. 29, they shall say every man to his neighbour, Where-less, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no 56,302

q Dan. 9, 12.

fore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

9 Then they shall answer, Because they have 12 Chr. 34, forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

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8 2 Kings 22, 10.

10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away: for 233. & 24, he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

12 Kings

5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that Isa 3,7. will raise unto David a righteous & Branch, and ha King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute 'judgment and justice in the earth.

Ps. 722

Isa. 11, 25.

k Rom. 11,

25.

False prophets threatened. and hath † perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

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Heb.

19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall heard, grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Amos 1, 1

20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until m Nah. 1,8. he have executed, and till he have performed, the n Ho6.11,6. thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall och. 30,24 consider it perfectly.

Ezek. 2,

q Mat. 7,15

r1 Kings

21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they 22, 19 should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

ch. 1 R

t Ps. 103,

23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not. God afar off?

24 Can any hide himself " in secret places that I

6 In his days * Judah shall be saved, and 'Israela
shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he
shall be called, THE LORD "OUR RIGHT-shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I
EOUSNESS.

heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

25 1 have heard what the prophets said, that

7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that they shall no more say, The Lord liv-phesy lies in my name, saying, I have

eth, which brought up the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt;

8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up, and which led, the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had • Isa. 27,12. driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 9 My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake: I am like a drunk

& 65, 10. Obad. verse. 15, 19, 20.

p Ps. 51, 17. en man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

q Lam. 2,

14.

r Hab. 3,16.

15.

have dreamed.

fill

u Ps. 139, 7.

x 1 Kings

8, 27.

y Nuin. 12,

pro- &

dreamed, I

6.

z Psal. 4,2 a Eph. 4, 14.

26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of b Acts 13, the deceit of their own heart;

8.

c Judg. 3,

27 Which think to cause my people to forget my, name by their dreams, which they tell every man to di Pet. 4, his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my 11. name for Baal.

28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?

10 For the land is full of 'adulterers; for because { saith the LORD.

• 2 Chr. 36, of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is 1 ch. 5, 7, 8. evil, and their force is not right.

u Hos. 4, 2.

14

11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, John 2, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith

y Ps. 35, 6.

2 Hosen. 7,

1.

the LORD.

e 2 Cor. 2, 17.

f 2 Cor. 6,

g Luke 24, 32.

16.

29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; h Rom. 1, and like a hammer that 'breaketh the rock in pieces? 2 Cor. 10, 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, 45. saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from i Ps. 23, 5, his neighbour.

8.

k Deut. 18.

31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the 20. 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as (LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 1 Abts 20, slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false 27. on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause m Isa. 30, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. my people to err by their lies, and by their "lightness; 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Sama-yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore ria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

■ Isa. 9, 16. Israel to err.

bActs 20,

35.

c1 Tim. 4,

2.

n Zeph. 3,4.

o Lam. 2,

14.

33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a 2 Pet. 2, 1.

14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusa-priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden P2 Pet 3, lem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What

walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of d Ezek. 13, evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and Isa. 1,2 the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, & ch. 51,34 and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken ?

36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye 'mention : Hos. 2, 16 no more; for every man's word shall be "his burden: u ch. 5, 14, for ye have perverted the words of the living God, is of the LORD of hosts our God.

37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

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JEREMIAH.

The type of the two baskets of figs. The destruction of Babylon, CHRIST you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and Before you and your fathers, and cast you out of my pre-hdwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto z Ps. 89, 39. sence: chap. 15, 1. & 18, 14.

cir. 599.

40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon Hosca 4, 6. you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be fora ch. 20, 11. gotten.

cir. 598.

a ch. 11,18.

Amos 7, 1,

4. & 8, 1.

b 2 Kings

24, 12.

chap. 29, 2.

c 2 Kings

21,8.

ch. 22, 24.

d ver. 5, 8.

Micah 7, 1.

Heb.

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The restoration of them that were in captivity foretold.

a

you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

CHRIST cir. 606.

h Ps. 37,27

Exod. 20, ch. 32, 30.

6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Deut. 32. LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the Ps. 78, 40.

THE LORD shewed me, and, behold, two bas-works of your hands to your own hurt.

kets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I † acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have Mat. 7, 23. sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans

know them, Ps. 1, 6. & $7, 18.

e Ps. 94, 12.

f Ps. 34, 15.

g Neh. 5, 19.

* for their good.

6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will

h ch. 12, 15. plant them, and not pluck them up.

& 42, 10.

7 And I will give them a heart to know me, i Jam. 1.17. that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people, k Deut. 30, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto Ch. 32, 39. me with their whole heart.

6.

8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt;

9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all 1 the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a re-them. proach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of
Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, (that is the
three and twentieth year,) the word of the LORD hath

chap. 7, 13. come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising
e ch. 29, 19. early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
fch. 11, 7, 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his scr-{
vants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but
2 Kings ye have 'not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from

17 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and * made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me :

Ezek. 23,

34.

och 19,

10. & 27, 4.

b Ezek. 9,6,

i Pet 4, 17.

c Deut. 4,

18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a his-20 sing, and a curse; (as it is this day;)

1 Kings 8,

24.

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, d Gen. 12, and his princes, and all his people;

15.

chap. 46, 2.

20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings e Ezek. 30, of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of 5. the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, fch. 49, 7. and the remnant of Ashdod,

21 'Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the & kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

g ch. 17, 20.

h Ps. 72, 10.

i Gen. 10,

k Gen. 22,

21.

23 Dedan, and Tema, and * Buz, and all that are 12 Chr. 9, in the utmost corners,

14.

2

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings m Gen. 25, of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

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CHRIST which are upon the face of the earth: and the king

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and of all nations foreshewn. Jeremiah apprehended. one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, & prophets, whom I sent unto you, both 'rising up early, CHST and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; 6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city ha curse to all the nationsof the earth.

p ch. 51, 41.

of Sheshach shall drink after them.

27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Drink ye, and 9. Ps. 37,36. be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, Rev. 18, 21. because of the sword which I will send among you.people, heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the

Micah 7, 8.

28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ye shall certainly

rch. 40, 10. drink.

31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth: a Isa. 34, &. for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations; bhe will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

22

b Ezek. 58, Joel S, 2

7 So the priests, and the prophets, and all the house of the LORD.

8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets and all the people, took him, saying, Thou shalt surely 1 die.

f ch. 7, 13.

11,7. hisa. 65, 15.

g ch. 7, 12.

1 ch. 5, 31.

k Gen. 19,4. Mat. 27, 20.

9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the 1 Mat. 26, LORD, saying, This house shall be " like Shiloh, and Acts 22, 21. this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah 14. in the house of the LORD.

10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.

die;

11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto
the princes, and to all the people, saying, This man
is worthy to
this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes, and

m Ps. 132,

Mat. 26, 61. n Acts 4, 1

243, 45.

o ch. 36, 10.

Kings

q Mat. 23, 29.

for he hath prophesied against Rev. 116, 13. 22

r Deut. 21,

32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall c Isa. 30, 28. go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirl-to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to John 16, 2.

d Zeph. 2,

12

wind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33 And the 'slain of the LORD shall be at that day the words that ye have heard.

prophesy against this house, and against this city, all Acts 4,19.

& 23, 3.

Acts 13, 46.

from one end of the earth even unto the other end of
13 Therefore now amend your ways and your
the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gath-doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; tch. 18, 8.
ground.

• Ps. 83, 10. ered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the

2 Thus saith the LORD, Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them: diminish not a word:

3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man d Gen. 6, 6. from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, Shah which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil Jonah 3, 8, of their doings.

4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lev. 26, LORD, If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my Peal 81, 18. law which I have set before you,

15.

5 To hearken to the words of my servants the

and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath
pronounced against you.

14 As for me, behold, "I am in your hand; do
with me * as seemeth good and meet unto you:

u ch. 38, 5.

x 2 Sam. 15,

24.

15 But know ye for certain, that, if ye put me to 26. death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon y Judges 3, yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabit- Ezek. 7,3,4 ants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you, to speak all these words in your ears.

14.

16 - Then said the princes and all the people unto z Gen. 22, the priests and to the prophets, This man is not 1 Sam. 23, worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

26.

a Pr. 21, 1. verse 11.

b Psal. 115,

17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 15. 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days e Micab 1,1. of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem 4 Micah 3, shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

11.

e 2 Kings

Isa. 37, 14.

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, 22, 16. and besought the LORD, and the LORD 'repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. Num. 16,

20 And there was halso

a man that prophesied in

f Isa. 37,35

38.
Ps. 106, 15.
Luke 3, 20.

h Acts 5, 37

the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah
of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city,
and against this land, according to all the words of 14.
Jeremiah:

i Josh. 18,

Judg. 18,12.

21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and * fled, and went into 1 King Egypt;

19, 3.