The vanity of idols Chap. xi. thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations for to thee doth it appertain: foraf. much as among all the wife men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolith the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 9 Silver fpread into plates is brought from Tarthith, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the found. er: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. Jo But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth fhall tremble, and the nations fhall not be able to abide his indignation. 11 Thus thall ye fay unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they thall perish from the earth, and from under thefe heavens. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath eftablished the world by his wifdom, and hath ftretched out the heavens by his difcretion. 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he caufeth the vapours to afcend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 14 Every man is brutish in bis knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falfehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their vifitation they thall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things: and Ifrael is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hofts is his name. 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will fling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will diftrefs them, that they may find it so. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is gricus: but I faid, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is fpoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone fort of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to fet up my curtains. 21 For the paftors are become brutish, and have not fought the LORD: therefore they fhall not profper, and all their flocks hall be feautered. 22 Behold, the noife of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah defo. late, anda den of dragons. 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himfelf: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 24 O Lok, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, left thou bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have God's covenant proclaimed. eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and 1 Jeremiah proclaimeth God's covenant, 8 r2. T HE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, faying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and fpeak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem; 3 And fay thou unto them, Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael; Curfed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, faying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: fo fhall ye be my people, and I will be your God. 5 That I may perform the oath which I have fworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, Sø be it, O LORD. 6 Then the LORD faid unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerufalem, faying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protefted unto your fathers in the day that i brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rifing early and protetting, faying, Obey my voice. & Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagina tion of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not. 9 And the LORD faid unto me, A confpiracy is found among the men of Judah, and a mong the inhabitants of Jerufalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to ferve them: the houfe of Ifrael and the houfe of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. 11 Therefore thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to efcape; and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then fhall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerufalem go, and ery unto the gods unto whom they offer incenfe: but they thall not fave them at all in the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerufalem have ye fet up altars to that shameful thing even altars to burn incenfe unto Baal, 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: "for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. 15 What hath my beloved to do in mine houfe, jeeing the hath wrought lewdnefs with miany, and the holy flesh is paled from thee? When thou doeft evil, then thou rejoiceft. 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the God's promises to the penitent. come ye, affemble all the bearts of the field come to devour. The wicked's profperity. JEREMIAH. 17 For the LORD of hofts, that planted 18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou fhew edit me their doings. 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the flaughter; and I knew not that they had devifed devices against me, say ing, Let us deftroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgeft righ. teoudy, that trieft the reins and the heart, let me fee thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 21 Therefore thus faith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that feek thy life, faying, Prophely not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus faith the LORD of hosts, 23 And there shall be no remnant of them : CHAP. 1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prof- Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I 2 Thou hait planted them; yea, they have 3 But thou, O LORD, knoweft me: thou hait feen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like theep for the flaughter, and prepare them for the day of laughter. 4 How long thall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickednefs of them that dwell therein? The beafts are confumed, and the birds; because they faid, He fhall not fee our last end. 5¶If thou haft run with the footmen, and hey have wearied thee, then how canft thou contend with horfes? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou truftedft, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the fwelling of Jordan? For even thy brethren, and the houfe of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee; believe them not, though they 1peak fair words unto thee. 7I have forfaken mine houfe, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my foul into the hand of her enemies. 8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the foreft; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. 9 Mine heritage is unto me as a fpeckled hird, the birds round about are against her, 10 Many paitors have defiroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleafant portion a defolate wilderness. They have made it defolate, and being defolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made defolate, because no man layeth it to heart. 12 The fpoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the fword of the LORD fhall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh thall have peace. 13 They have fown wheat, but shall reap theras: they have put themfelves to pain, but shall not profit; and they shall be afham. ed of your revenues, becaufe of the fierce anger of the LORD. 14 Thus faith the Lon against all mine evil neighbours, that to the inheritance which I have caufed my people Ifrael to in herit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the houfe of Judah from among thein, 15 And it shall come to pafs, after that I have plucked them out will return, and have compaffion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. 16 And it thall come to pafs, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to fwear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to fwear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midit of my people. 17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, faith the LORD. CHA P. XIII. By the type of a linen girdle, the people's de Jtruction is prefigured. 12 By the bottles filled with wine, their drunkenness in mifery foretold. THUS faith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the fecond time, faying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hatt gor, which is upon thy loins, and arife, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. 5 So I went and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And it came to pats after many days, that the LORD faid unto me, Arife, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girale was marred, it was profitable for nothing. 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 9 Thus faith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerufalem. 10 This evil people, which refufe to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to ferve them, and to worthip them, thall even The type of a linen girdle! Chap. xiv. be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, fo have I caufed to cleave unto me the whole houfe of Ifrael and the whole houfe of Judah, faith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praife, and for a glory but they would not hear. 12 Therefore thou shalt fpeak unto them this word; Thus faith the LORD God of Ifrael, Every bottle thall be filled with wine: and they fhall fay unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle fhall be filled with wine? 13 Then thalt thou fay unto them, Thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that ɓt upon David's throne, and the priefts, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of jerufalem, with drunkennefs. 14 And I will dath them one against another, even the fathers and the fons together, faith the LORD: I will not pity, nor fpare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he caufe dark nefs, and before your feet ftumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it grofs darkness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my foul thall weep in fecret places for your pride; and mine eyes thall weep fore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive. 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, fit down; for your prin cipalities thall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The cities of the fouth fhall be shut up, and none thall open them: Judah fhall be carried away captive all of it, it thall be wholly carried away captive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 21 What wilt thou fay when he fhall punith thee? For thou haft taught them be captains, and as chief over thee: Shall not forrows take thee, as a woman in travail? 22¶And if thou fay in thine heart, Wherefore come thefe things upon me? For the greatnefs of thine iniquity are thy skirts difcovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his fkin, or the leopard his fpots then may ye alfo do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I fcatter them as the Bubble that paffeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, faith the LORD; becaufe thou had forgotten me, and trufted in falfehood 26 Therefore will I difcover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy fhame may appear. 27 I have feen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerufalem! wilt thou not be made clean! when ball it once be? CHAP. XIV. A The grievous famine, 7 caufeth Jeremiah to A grievous famine. pray. 10 The Lord will not be entreated, 13 Lying prophets are no excufe. THE word of the LORD that came to Je remiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerufalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have fent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their veffels empty; they were athamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Becaufe the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Yea, the hind alfo calved in the field, and forfook it, because there was no grafs. 6 And the wild affes did ftand in the high places, they fnuffed up the wind like dra gons; their eyes did tail, because there was no grafs. 7. O LORD, though our iniquities teftify againit us, do thou i for thy name's fake: for our backflidings are many; we have finned against thee. 8 O the hope of Ifrael, the faviour thereof in time of trouble, why thouldeft thou be as a ftranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth ande to tarry for a night? 9 Why thouldeft thou be as a man aftonied, as a mighty man that cannot fave! Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not. 10 Thus faith the LORD unto this peo. ple, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not retrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and vifit their fins. 11 Then faid the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they faft, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will confume them by the fword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 13 Then faid I, Ah, LORD GOD! behold, the prophets fay unto them, Ye shall not fee the word, neither thall ye have tamine; but I will give you affured peace in this place. 14 Then the LORD faid unto me, The prophets propl.efy lies in my name: I fent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither fpake unto them: they prophesy unto you a falfe vifion and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. 15 Therefore thus faith the LORD con. cerning the prophets that prophefy in my name, and I fent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine fhall not be in this land; By fword and famine shall those prophets be confumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophefy fhall be caft out in the streets of Jerufalem because of the tamine and the fword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their fons, nor their daugh ters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the flain with the fword! and if I enter into the city, ther behold them that are fick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the A priet go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hart thou utterly rejected Judah! Hath thy foul lothed Zion? Why hail thou fmitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have finned against thee. 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's fake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee for thou haft made all these things. CHAP. XV. The utter rejection, and manifold judgments and prayer. with thy remnant; verily I will caufe the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shail iron break the northern iron and the fleel? 13 Thy fubftance and thy treafures will I give to the fpoil without price, and that for all thy fins, even in all thy borders. 14 And I will make thee to pafs with thing enemies into a land which thou knoweft not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you. 15 O LORD, thou knoweft: remember me, and vifit me, and revenge me of my perfecutors; take me not away in thy longfuffering: know that for thy fake I have fuffered rebuke. 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 hofts. 17 I fat not in the affembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I fat alone, because of thy hand: for thou hatt filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be heal Hood before ed: unto me yet my mind could not be toward this people: caft them out of my fight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pafs, if they fay unto thee, Whither thall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus faith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and fuch as are for the fword, to the fword; and fuch as are for the famine, to the famine; and fuch as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3. And I will appoint over them four kinds, faith the LORD: the fword to flay, and the dogs to tear, and the fouls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will caufe them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manaffch the fon of Hezekiah king of Judan, for that which he did in Jerufalem. 5. For who all have it upon thee, or Jerufalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go afide to ask how thou doeft? 6 Tnou haft forfaken me, faith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will i ftretch out my hand against thee, and deAroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will defroy my people, fince they t return not from their ways. 8 Their widows are increased to me above the fand of the feas: 1 have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at nocnday: I have caufed him to fall upon it fuddenly, and terrors upon the city. 9 She that hath born feven languisheth: the hath given up the ghost; her fun is gone down while it was yet day: the hath been ashamed and confounded: and the refidue of them will I deliver to the word before their enemies, faith the LORD. to Woe is me, my mother, that thou haft born me a man of ftrife and a man of contention to the whole earth! 1 have neither Tent on ufury, nor men have lent to me on ufury; yet every one of them doth curfe me. 11 The LORD faid, Verily it shall be well liar, and as waters that fail? 19 Therefore thus faith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt ftand before me: and it thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou halt be as my month: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brafen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail a. gainft thee: for! am with thee to fave thee, and to deliver thee, faith the LORD. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. CHAP. XVI. 1 The utter ruin of the Fews fare fpern: 14 their return from captivity franger than their deliverance out of Egypt. THE word of the LORD came alfo unto me, faying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither fhalt thou have fons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus faith the LORD, concerning the fons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mo thers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They hall die of grievous deaths; they fhall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they thall be confunied by the fword, and by famine; and their carcafes fhall be meat for the fowls of hea ven, and for the bearts of the earth. 5 For thus faith the LORD; Enter not into the houfe of mourning, neither go to la ment nor bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, faith the LORD, even loving kindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the fmail thall die in this land: they halt not be buried, neither thall men lament for them, nor cut them. felves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7 Neither thall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither thall men give them the cup The ruin of the Jews. Chap. xvil confolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8 Thou shalt not alfo go into the house of feafting, to fit with them to eat and to drink. 9 For thus faith the LORD of hofts, the God of Ifrael; 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 gladnefs, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 10 And it shall come to pafs, when thou fhalt thew this people all thefe words, and they shall fay unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us! or what is our iniquity! or what is our fin that we have committed against the LORD our God ! II Then fhalt thou fay unto them, Because your fathers have fortaken me, faith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have ferved them, and have worthipped them, and have forfaken me, and have not kept my law; 12 And ye have done worfe than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 13 Therefore will I caft you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there fhall ye ferve other gods day and night, where I will not thew you favour. 14 Therefore, behold, the days come, faith the LORD, that it fhall no more be faid, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Ifrael out of the land of Egypt; 15 But the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Ifrael from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16 Behold, I will fend for many fishers, faith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I fend for many hunters, and they shall hunt 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 recompenfe their ini. quity and their fin double because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcafes of their detestable and abominable things. 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortrefs, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles fhall come unto thee from the ends. of the earth, and thall fay, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. zo Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 21 Therefore, beho'' them to know, I w mine hand and my know that my na will this once caufe e them to know and they thall .. LORD. XVII. The captivity of Judab. it is graven upon the table of their heart and upon the horns of your altars; 2 Whilft their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy fubfiance and all thy treasures to the fpoil, and thy high places for fin, throughout all thy borders. 4 And thou, even thyfelf, fhalt difcontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to ferve thine enemies in the land which thou knoweft not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 Thus faith the LORD; Curfed be the man that trufteth in man, and maketh fieth his arm, and whofe heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the de. fert, and shall not fee when good cometh; but thall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a falt land and not inhabited; 7 Bleffed is the man that trufteth in the LORD, and whofe hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and thall not fee when heat cometh, but her leaf fhall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither fhall ceafe from yielding fruit. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and defperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD fearch the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11 As the partridge fitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; fo he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end thall be a fool. 12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our fanctuary. 12 O LORD, the Hope of Ifrael, all that forlake thee fhall be afhamed, and they that depart from me thall be written in the earth, becaufe they have forfaken the LORD the fountain of living waters. 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; fave me, and I fhall be faved: for thou art my praise. 15 Behold, they fay unto me, Where the word of the LORD? Let it come now. 16 As for me, 1 have not hattened from being a paftor to follow thee, neither have I defred the woeful day, thou knoweft: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18 Let them be confounded that perfecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be difmayed, but let me not be difmayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and deftroy then with double deftruction. 19 Thus faid the LORD unto me; Go and ftand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerufalem; 20 And fay unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerufalem, that enter in by these gates: 21 Thus faith the LORD; Take heed to |
