The calling of the Gentiles. Before ISAIAH. 12 t Wilt thou refrain thyself for CHRIST these things, O LORD? "wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very about 698. tch, 42. 14. u Pa. 83. 1. a Rom. 9. 24, b ch. 63. 19. d Deut. 32.21. e ch. 1. 29. & 66. 17. See Lev. 17. 5. sore? CHAPTER LXV. of the new Jerusalem. Before CHRIST about 698. but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing 1 The calling of the Gentiles. 2 The Jews, for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for for their incredulity, idolatry, and hy-sorrow of heart, and shall howl for y Matt. 8. 12. pocrisy, 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. 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 by was not called by my name. IAM sought of them that asked C 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; 4f Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments; which f Deut. 18. 11. eat swine's flesh, and || broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5 h Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. + Heb. upon bricks. g ch. 66. 17. See Lov, 11. 7. 6 Behold, it is written before me: k I will not keep silence, 1 but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and m 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. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and beall his servants by another name: 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the ch. 2. 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 T For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the 8 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; h but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 And they 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 mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 8 T Thus saith the LORD, As the 10 And "Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a sJosh.7.24.26. place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. 11 T 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. tch, 56, 7. & u Ez. 23. 41. 1 Cor. 10. 21 Or, Gad. Or, Meni. 16. Prov. 1, 21, &c. 12 Therefore will I number you. to the sword, and ye shall all bow 2 Chr. 36.15. 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, ch, 66. 4. The gathering of all nations Before about 698. that ye build unto me? and where is | ye shall be comforted in JerusaCHRIST the place of my rest? fem. 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have bch, 57. 15. & been, saith the LORD: bbut to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and à trembleth at my word. 61. 1. c Pa. 34, 18. & 51. 17. d Ezra 9. 4. & 10. 3. ver. 5. e ch. 1. 11. | Or, kid. с 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. 2 Thess.1. 8. 15 PFor, 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 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he Prov. 28. 14. slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he fcut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that I burn-flames of fire. eth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. f Deut, 23. 18. Heb.maketh a memorial of, Lev. 2. 2. [Or, devices, g Prov. 1. 24. ch, 65, 12. Jer. 7. 13. h ver. 2. i ch, 5. 19. k2 Thess.1.10. Tit. 2. 13. Or, beget. ¡Or, bright88, 60. 5. 4 I also will choose their || delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; 8 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 delighted not. 5 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: but k he shall appear to your joy, and they 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. 12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, 1 ch, 48. 18. & I will extend peace to her like a 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 knees. m ch. 60. 16. 60. 4. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and 16 For by fire and by his sword q ch. 27. 1. will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, rch. 65. 3, 4. and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating | [Or, one after swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. S another. 8 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. 20 And they shall bring all your brethren "for an offering unto theu Rom. 15,16, LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in lit-Or, 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. Before about 629. a Josh, 21, 18. 1 Chr. 6. 60, ch.32.7,8,9. about 629. bch, 25, 3. e cli. 39. 2. deh. 52.13,15. e2 Kin. 25. 8. f Is. 49. 1, 5. THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH. CHAPTER I. 15 For, lo, I will call all the fam Before about 629. tch. 5. 15. & 6. 22. & 10. 22. & 25. 9. 1 The time, 3 and the calling of Jeremiah.ilies of the kingdoms of the north, CHRIST saith the LORD; and they shall come, THE 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 formed thee in the g Ex.33 12,17. belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I h sanctified thee, and I fordained thee a prophet unto the nations. h Luke 1. 15, 41. Gal, 1. 15,16. + Heb. yave. i Ex. 4. 10. & 6. 12, 30. 13. 6. 5. k Num.22.20, 38. Matt. 28. 20. 1 Ez.2.6.& 3.9. m Ex. 3. 12. o Is. 51. 16. 6 Then said I, i Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 T 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. m 81 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 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 2 Cor. 10.4,5. build, and to plant. pl Kin. 19.17. q ch. 18. 7. r Ez. 11.3,7.& 24. 3. + Heb. from the face of the north. sch.4.6.& 6.1 + Heb. shall be opened. 11 T 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 r a seething pot; and the face thereof is t toward the north. 1 God, having shewed his former kind- M LORD came to me, saying, OREOVER the word of the sake. 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy Or, for thy youth, the love of thine espousals, bwhen thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and d the firstfruits of his increase: * all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. 4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: a Ez, 16, 8, 22, 19. b Deut. 2. 7. d James 1. 18. Mic. 6. 3. 5 T Thus saith the LORD, f What | fls. 5. 4. 6 Neither said they, Where is the the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of Jonah 2, 8. 1 Is. 63. 9, 11, 13, Hos. 13. 4. i Deut. 8. 15, & 32, 10, God expostulateth with the Jews, Before of Ca met. k Num.13.27. & 11. 7, 8. JEREMIAH. and reproveth them of idolatry. "thine iniquity is marked before me, im? Before CHRIST about 629. o Deut. 32 34. Job 14 17.Hos. 13. 12. drought, and of the shadow of death, CHRIST through a land that no man passed about 629. through, and where no man dwelt? 23 P How canst thou say, I am not 7 And I brought you into || ka plen-polluted, I have not gone after BaalOr, the land tiful country, to eat the fruit thereof See thy way in the valley, and the goodness thereof; but when know what thou hast done: ye entered, ye defiled my land, and Deut. 8. 7, 8, 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 walked after things that do not profit. thou art a swift dromedary traversing her p Prov. 30. 12. ways; 9. 1 Lev. 18. 25, 27, 28. Num. 35.33, Ps. 78. 58, 59, m Mal. 2. 6,7. 9 T 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 Chitp Ez. 20.35,36. tim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. Hab. 2. 18. Mic, 6, 2. q Ex. 20. 5. Lev. 20. 5. Or, over to. r Mic. 4. 5. s Ps. 115. 4. Is. 37, 19. ch. 16. 20. t Ps. 106. 20. Rom. 1. 23. u ver, 8, xls. 1. 2. cli. 6. 13. r q ch. 7. 31. 1 Job 39.5, &c, ch. 14. 6. Or, O wild ass, fe, +Heb. taught. 24 | A wild ass † used to the wilder-Or, O swift dromedary. ness, 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 + Heb. the unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. desire of her heart. || Or, reverse it. s ch. 18. 12. Or, Is the case desper ute? 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their 11 Hath a nation changed their princes, and their priests, and their t Deut. 32. 16. gods, which are yet no gods? but prophets, $ my people have changed their glory for "that which doth not profit. 12* Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and ch. 17. 13. & hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. y Ps. 36. 9. 18. 14, John 4. 14. z See Ex.4.22: † Heb. be- ↑ Heb. gave Ich. 43,7,8,9. | Or, feed on thy crown, Deut. 33. 20. Is. 8. 8. 15 The young lions roared upon him, and fyelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and b Tahapanes [[ have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when dhe d Deut. 32.10. led thee by the way? ech. 4. 18. 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 Judg. 10, 15 bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by † secret search, but upon all these. 35 i Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, 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. g Ps. 106. 21. ch. 13, 25, Hos. 8. 14. hPs 106, 38. I ver, 23, 29. 1 Prov. 28. 13. m ver. 18. u Is. 30. 3. o 2 Chr. 28.16, 20, 21. 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from +Heb. Saying. CHAPTER III. 1 God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom. 6 Judah is worse than Is rael. 12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent. 20 Israel reproved, and called by God, maketh a solemn confession of their sins. 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. c ch. 2. 20. d ch. 4. 1. ch, 2, 20. с e 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In 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 and with thy wickedness. f Gen. 38. 14. Prov. 23. 28. g ch. 2. 7. vor. 9. Deut. 25. 23, 24. 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. i ch, 5.3, & 6. 15. & 8. 12. Ex. 3. 7. Zeph. 3. 5. k Prov. 2, 17. 1 ch. 2. 2. 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry m 5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done m P4.77.7,&c. evil things as thou couldest. Hos. 2. 15. & 103.9. 13. 57. 16. ver. 12. about 612. n ver. 11, 14. ch. 7. 24. o ch. 2. 20, p2 Kin.17.13. 23. 2, 4. r Ez. 23. 9. The people confess their sins. b merciful, saith the LORD, and I Before CHRIST about 612. b 103.8, 9. ver. 5. &c. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed P. 86. 15. & against the LORD thy God, and hast d scattered thy ways to the "strangers funder every green tree, and ye havec 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: Deut. 30, 1, 2. &c. Prov. 28. 13. d ver. 2. e ch. 2. 25, f 15 And I will give you ipastors Deut. 12.2. geh. 31. 32. Hos. 2.19,20, h Rom. 11. 5. 1ch, 23. 4. Ez. 34. 23. 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, Thek Acts 20. 28. ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it † come to mind; nei- | 1Is. 65. 17. 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, in to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they "walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 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 Pthe north 6 T The LORD said also unto me in to the land that I have given for the days of Josiah the king, Hast an inheritance unto your fathers. thou seen that which "backsliding 19 But I said, How shall I put thee Israel hath done? she is gone up among the children, and give thee upon every high mountain and un-ra t pleasant land, fa goodly heritder every green tree, and there hath age of the hosts of nations? and I played the harlot. said, Thou shalt call me, s My father; P. 106, 24. and shalt not turn away † from me. 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, 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: fors they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her q Ex. 18. 46. & treacherous 9 sister Judah saw it. 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. Ez. 20. 6. + Heb. land beauty. after me. t Is. 48. 8. ch. 5. 11. I ver. 11. 9 And it came to pass through the 22 Return, ye backsliding chil- 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. 12 T Go and proclaim these words a 2 Kin. 17. 6. toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am |