a Rom. 9. 24, 25, 26, 30. & 10. 20.

Eph. 2. 12,
13.

bch. 63. 19.

e Rom, 10, 21.

d Deut. 33.21.

e ch. 1. 29. &

66. 17.

Sce Lev. 17.

5.

† Heb. upon

bricks.

f Deut. 18. 11.

g ch. 66. 17.

See Lev. 11.

7.

Or, pieces.

Sce Matt. 9. 11.

Luke 5.30. &

18. 11.

Jude 19.

CHAPTER LXV.

:

1 The calling of the Gentiles. 2 The Jews, for their incredulity, idolatry, and hypocrisy, are rejected. 8 A remnant shall be saved. 11 Judgments on the wicked, and blessings on the godly. 17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem.

I

a AM sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that b was not called by my name.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

3 A people d that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense † upon altars of brick;

4 f Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments; & which eat swine's flesh, and || broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my || nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

6 Behold, iit is written before me: kI will not keep silence, but will i Deut. 32. 34. recompense, even recompense into

|| Or, anger.

Mal. 3. 16.

k Pa. 50. 3.

1 Ps. 79. 12.

Jer. 16, 18.

Ez 11. 21.

m Ex. 20. 5.

n Ez. 18. 6.

o Ez. 20.27,28.

p Joel 2. 14.

q ver. 15, 22. Matt. 24. 22. Rom. 11.5,7. rch. 33.9. & 35.2.

their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

81 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not for Pa blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a Josh.7.24.26. place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Hos. 2. 15.

tch, 56. 7. &

57. 13.

ver. 25.

u Ez. 23. 41.

1 Cor. 10. 21

Or, Gad.

Or, Meni.

x 2Chr. 36.15.

t

11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare "a table for that || troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that || number. 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: * because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat,

15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and bcall his servants by another name: 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the bch. C2. 2, God of truth; and dhe that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor † come into mind.

a joy.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people aj 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the & voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old; hbut the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 And ithey shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for kas the days of a tree are the days of my people, and 1mine elect tshall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not labour in vain, mnor bring forth for trouble; for "they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall come to pass, that • before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25 The Pwolf and the lamb shall pch. 11.6,7,9. feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: 9and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Lev. 2. 2.

[Or, devices.

g Prov. 1. 24.

ch, 65, 12.

Jer. 7. 13.

h ver. 2.

ich. 5. 19.

:

4 I also will choose their || delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did || answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I de- | lighted not.

517 Hear the word of the LORD, hye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: butkhe

k2 Thess.1.10. shall appear to your joy, and they

Tit. 2. 13.

Or, beget.

Or, bright

shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not || cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the || abundance of her glory. glory.

12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, 1 ch. 43. 18. & 1I will extend peace to her like a

60. 5.

river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye msuck, ye shall be "borne upon nch. 49.22. & her sides, and be dandled upon her

mch. 60.16.

60. 4.

together into one church.

ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and "your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

Before CHRIST about 698.

o See Ez. 37,1, & c.

15 P For, behold, the LORD will pch. 9.5.

come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

2 Thess.1. 8.

16 For by fire and by his sword qch. 27. 1. will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens || behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

rch. 65.3, 4.

Or, onsafter

another.

s Luke 2. 31.

18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; tand they shall declare my glory Mal. 1. II.

among the Gentiles.

u Rom. 15.16.

20 And they shall bring all your brethren "for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in || lit-10r, coaches. ters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

21 And I will also take of them for * priests and for Levites, saith the x Ex. 19. 6. LORD.

22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another,

shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

ch. 61.6.
1 Pet. 2.9
Rev. 1. 6.

y ch. 65. 17. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rev. 21. 1.

Zech. 14.16. Heb. from

new moon to: his new

Before

about 629.

CHAPTER 1.

CHRIST 1 The time, 3 and the calling of Jeremiah. 11 His prophetical visions of an almond rod and a seething pot. 15 His heavy message against Judah. 17 God encourageth him with his promise of assistance. HE words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that a Josh. 21. 18. were in Anathoth in the land of

1 Chr. 6. 60, ch.32.7,8,9.

Matt. 28. 20.

1 Ex.2.6. & 3.9.

ver, 17.

m Ex. 3. 12.

Josh 1. 5.

T

Benjamin:

2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, bin the thirteenth year of his reign.

3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, Cunto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, dunto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

5 Before I fformed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb Ihsanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Thên said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

8 Be not afraid of their faces: for mI am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

to me, saying,

2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I

ch. 15. 20.

Acts 26. 17.

Heb. 13. 6.

n Is. 6. 7.

o Is. 51. 10.

ch. 5. 14.

pl Kin. 19.17.

qch. 18. 7.

2 Cor. 10.4,5.

† Heb. from

the face of the north.

0

put my words in thy mouth.

10 P

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to 9 root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see Ta seething pot; and the face thereof is & toward the north.

r

14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the snorth an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

God expostulateth with the Jews,

Before

Or, the land

of Camet.

k Num. 13.27.

& 11. 7, 8.

drought, and of the shadow of death, CHRIST through a land that no man passed about 629. through, and where no man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into || ka plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye I defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 'The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the mlaw knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, "and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and ch. 3.1. & 16. walked after things that do not

Deut. 8. 7, 8, 9.

1 Lev. 18. 25, 27, 28.

Num, 35.33, 34.

Ps. 78, 58, 59, & 106. 38.

18.

m Mal. 2. 6.7.

Rom. 2, 20.

n ch. 23, 13.

o ver. 11.

Hab. 2. 18.

p Ez. 20.35,36.

Mic. 6. 2.

q Ex. 20. 5.

Lev. 20. 5.

Or, over to.

r Mie. 4. 5.

s Ps. 115. 4.

Įs. 37, 19.

ch. 16. 20,

t Ps. 106. 20.

Rom. 1. 23.

u ver, 8,

x Is. 1. 2.

ch. 6. 19.

у Р%. 36. 9.

ch. 17. 13. &

18. 14,

John 4. 14.

z See Ex.4.22:

† Heb. be

como a spoil?

als. 1. 7.

cu. 4. 7.

† Heb. gave out their

voice.

profit.

91 Wherefore PI will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass || over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for "that which doth not profit.

and reproveth them of idolatry.

thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

Before CHRIST about 629.

o Deut. 32 34. Job 14 17. Hos. 13. 12.

23 P How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: || thou art a swift dromedary traversing her p Prov. 30.12. ways;

24 || A wild ass † used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at ther pleasure; in her occasion who can || turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, || There is no hope: no; for I have loved tstrangers, and after them will I go.

26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast

q ch. 7.31.

Or, O swift dromedary. 1 Job 39.5, &c, ch. 14. 6.

Or, O wild ass, fe. +Heb. taught.. + Heb. the desive of her heart.

Or, reverse it.

sch. 18.12.

Or, Is the case desperate?

t Deut. 32. 16.

ch. 3. 13,

me.

13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

14 T Is Israel "a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he † spoiled?

15 The young lions roared upon him, and † yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16 Also the children of Noph and

turned & their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their "trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy ftrouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

29 a Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

† Heb. the hinder part of the neck.

u Judg. 10.10.

Ps. 78. 34.
18. 26. 16.

x Deut. 32.37. Judg. 10. 14,

y Is. 45. 20.

† Heb. evil.

z ch. 11. 13.

a ver, 23, 35.

18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of f Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and h thou saidst, I will not || transgress; when i upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, k playing the harlot.

21 Yet I had I planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerIs. 1.21. 45. ate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet

4.

33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. 34 Also in thy skirts is found the hPs 106.38. blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by † secret search, but upon all these.

35i Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, I because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

36 m Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? "thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

+ Heb,

Saying.

prosper in them.

CHAPTER III.

1 God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom. 6 Judah is worse than Israel. 12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent. 20 Israel reproved, and called by God, maketh a solemn confession of their sins.

T THEY say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, a Deut. 24. 4. and become another man's, "shall he return unto her again? shall not that bland be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; dyet return again to me, saith the LORD.

bck. 2.7.

cch. 2.20.

Ez. 16. 26,28, 29.

d ch. 4. 1.

Zech. 1. 3.

e See Deut, 12.2

2 Lift

e

up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. fIn the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polEz. 16. 24,25. luted the land with thy whoredoms

ch. 2. 20.

f Gen. 38. 14.

Prov. 23. 28.

g ch. 2. 7.

ver. 9.

Deut. 23. 23, 24.

and with thy wickedness.

3 Therefore the h showers have been h Lev. 26. 19. withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a i whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

ch. 9, 12, &

14. 4.

& 103. 9.

Із. 57. 16.

ver. 12.

about 612.

n ver. 11, 14.

ch. 7. 24.

o ch. 2. 20,

p2 Kin.17.13.

6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up

The people confess their sins.

Before CHRIST about 612.

b Ps. 86. 15. & 103.8, 9. ver. 5.

b merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast discattered thy ways to the strangers funder every green tree, and ye have Lev. 26. 40, not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you hone of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

15 And I will give you i pastors according to mine heart, which shall kfeed you with knowledge and understanding.

16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: I neither shall it t come to mind; nei-1 ther shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall || that be done any more.

17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, im to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the || imagination of their evil heart.

7 P And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her

q Ex. 16. 46. & treacherous sister Judah saw it. 23. 2, 4.

r Ez. 23. 9.

s 2 Kings 17. 6, 18.

8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; t Ex.23.11, &c. tyet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

& c.
Deut. 30, 1,
2, &c.

Prov. 28. 13.

d ver. 2.

Ez. 16, 15,24, 25.

e ch. 2. 25,

f Deut. 12. 2.

gch. 31. 32. Hos. 2.19,20,

h Rom. 11.5.

1 ch. 23. 4. Ez. 34. 23. Eph. 4. 11.

k Acts 20, 28.

Is. 65. 17.
Heb. come

upon the
heart.

Or, it be maynified.

m Is. 60.9.

u ch. 11. 8.

Or, stub

bornness,

See Is.11.13.

Ez. 37, 1622.

Hos. 1. 11.

| Or, to.

pver. 12. ch. 31. 8.

1 Amos 9.15.

Or, caused your fathers

18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk || with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have || given for an inheritance unto your fathers. 19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee age of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away f from me. 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her thusband, so thave ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and + Heb. from they have forgotten the LORD their God.

to possess. r Ps. 106. 24. Ez. 20. 6. Dan. 8. 9. & 11. 16, 41, 45. † Heb, land of desire. + Heb. a heritage of glory, or, beauty.

s Is, 63. 16.

25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and dhavedch. 22. 21.