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JEREMIAH.

dekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. which was of gold in gold, and that which
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year was of silver in silver, took the captain of
of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth the guard away.
day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve of Babylon came, he and all his army, against brasen buils that were under the bases, which Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was withforts against it round about.

5 So the city was besieged unto the ele-out weight. venth year of king Zedekiah.

6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon

7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the gate between the chapiters round about, all of brass: the the two walls, which was by the king's garden; second pillar also and the pomegranates were (now the Chaldeans were by the city round a-like unto these. bout ;) and they went by the way of the plain.

23 And there were ninety and six pomegra8 But the army of the Chaldeans pur-nates on a side; and all the pomegranates upsued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah on the net-work were an hundred round about. 24 And the captain of the guard took Sein the plains of Jericho; and all his army was raiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the sescattered from him. 9 Then they took the king, and carried cond priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath; where he gave judg-which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the ment upon him. king's person, which were found in the city'; and the principal scribe of the host, who mus tered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

26 So Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

12 ¶ Now, in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, (which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrez-
zar carried away captive: In the seventh year,

13 And burned the house of the LORD, and
the king's house; and all the houses of Jeru-three thousand Jews, and three and twenty:
salem, and all the houses of the great men,
burned he with fire:

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez-
zar he carried away captive from Jerusalem
eight hundred thirty and two persons:

30 In the three and twentieth year of Ne

14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that
were with the captain of the guard, brake
down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. buchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the captain of
the guard, carried away captive of the Jews
seven hundred forty and five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred.

31 ¶ And it came to pass, in the seven and

15 Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the
guard, carried away captive certain of the
poor of the people, and the residue of the
people that remained in the city, and those
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the
that fell away, that fell to the king of Ba-thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
bylon, and the rest of the multitude.
five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first
year of his reign, lifted up the head of Je-
hoiachin king of Judah, and brought him
forth out of prison,

16 But Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the
guard, left certain of the poor of the land for
vine-dressers, and for husbandmen.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in
the house of the LORD, and the bases, and
the brasen sea that was in the house of the
LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all
the brass of them to Babylon.

32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his
the kings that
were with him in Babylon,
throne above the throne

33 And changed his prison-garments; and
18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, he did continually eat bread before him all
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they the days of his life.
ministered, took they away.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual

19 And the basons, and the fire-pans, and diet given him of the king of Babylon, every the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candle- day a portion, until the day of his death, all sticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that the days of his life.

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¶ The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH.

CHAP. I.

fall; the LORD hath delivered me into their
hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

HOW
TOW doth the city sit solitary that was
full of people! how is she become as
a widow she that was great among the
nations, and princess among the provinces,
how is she become tributary!

15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin,the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press.

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; comforter that should relieve my soul is far they are become her enemies. from me: my children are desolate, because

16 For these things I weep: mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the

3 Judah is gone into captivity because of the enemy prevailed. affliction, and because of great servitude; she 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath rest all her persecutors overtook her be- commanded concerning Jacob, that his adtween the straits. versaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow; my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her chil- 19 I called for my lovers, but they dedren are gone into captivity before the enemy.ceived me; my priests and mine elders gave

6 And from the daughter Zion all her up the ghost in the city, while they sought beauty is departed: her princes are become their meat to relieve their souls. like harts that find no pasture; and they are 20 Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, gone without strength before the pursuer. my bowels are troubled: mine heart is turn7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her ed within me; for I have grievously rebelaffliction, and of her miseries, all her pleasant led: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home things that she had in the days of old, when there is as death.

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her people fell into the hand of the enemy, 21 They have heard that I sigh; there is and none did help her: the adversaries saw none to comfort me: all mine enemies have her, and did mock at her sabbaths. heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; there- hast done it thou wilt bring the day that fore she is removed: all that honoured her thou hast called, and they shall be like unto despise her, because they have seen her na-me. kedness; yea, she sigheth, and turneth back- 22 Let all their wickedness come before ward. thee; and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. CHAP. II.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I am become vile.

HOW hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 From above hath he sent fire into my 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy; bones, and it prevaileth against them: he he stood with his right hand as an adversary, hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turn- and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in ed me back; he hath made me desolate and the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he faint all the day. poured out his fury like fire.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong

5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up

LAMENTATIONS.

down like a river day and night; give thyself holds, and hath increased in the daughter of wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away his no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night; in the betabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: ginning of the watches pour out thine heart the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and like water before the face of the LORD: lift sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath up thy hands toward him for the life of thy despised, in the indignation of his anger, the young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. king and the priest.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar; he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. the sanctuary of the LORD?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath in the streets: my virgins and my young men stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them his hand from destroying: therefore he made in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed the rampart and the wall to lament; they and not pitied. languished together.

22 Thou hast called, as in a solemn day, 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he my terrors round about; so that in the day hath destroyed and broken her bars; her of the LORD's anger none escaped nor reking and her princes are among the Gentiles: mained: those that I have swaddled and CHAP. III. the law is no more; her prophets also find no brought up hath mine enemy consumed. vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads: they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

20 T Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in

AM the man that hath seen affliction by

the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee; and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens, and causes of banishment.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out; he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuttech out my prayer.

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiv. er to enter into my reins.

14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gra vel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18 And I said, my strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them still in remem-
brance, and is humbled in me.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore
have I hope.
22 ¶ It is of the LORD's mercies that we are

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: be hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O

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not consumed, because his compassions fail,

not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach,O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before How is the gold become dim! how is the face of the most High,

the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not?

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

3 Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleav eth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

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42 We have transgressed, and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as the off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, deso-was of sapphire: lation and destruction.

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of are not known in the streets: their skin water for the destruction of the daughter of cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is my people. become like a stick.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets : they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persous of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help. in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets : our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O'daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

CHAP. V.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyp tians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilder. ness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14 The elders have coased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these

21 ¶ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of E-things our eyes are dim. dom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, also shall pass through unto thee; thou shalt which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it. be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou

Renus: Consider, and beholdour reproach. art very wroth against us.

EMEMBER, OLORD, what is up

The Book of the Prophet EZEKIEL.
CHAP. I.

likeness of four living creatures. And this

in the fourth month, in

fifth of of a man.

NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, was their appearance; they had the likeness the month, as I was among the captives by 6 And every one had four faces, and every the river of Chebar, that the heavens were one had four wings. opened, and I saw visions of God.

7 And their feet were straight feet; and

2 In the fifth day of the month, (which was the sole of their feet was like the sole of a the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity) calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour

3 The word of the LORD came expressly of burnished brass.

into Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in 8 And they had the hands of a man under the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Che-their wings on their four sides; and they bar; and the hand of the LORD was there four had their faces and their wings. upon him.

4 T And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness nas about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the

fire.

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the

9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they wen every one straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of lion on the right side; and they four had also had the face of an eagle. the face of an ox on the left side; they four

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