+ Or, perhaps, lation of the enemy is meant. the circumval away. no bread for the people of the land. | sers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took 20 And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which things king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which articles was 'without weight. Aler. omits And as for the pillars, the negative. height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness ness. 8 7 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king's garden; and the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way of the plain. +or, leading But the host of the Chalto the wilder- deans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the country beyond Jericho; and all his servants of it all round was four fingers. 22 And were dispersed from about him. And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha. "And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died. 13 12 And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem; and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire. 14 And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about. 16 But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen. And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon. 18 Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered; + Or, lamp- 19 and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the cen stands. + + he took out + there was a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the height of one chapiter; and there were on the chapiter round about 'network and pomegranates, all of Gr. a net. brass: and correspondingly the second pillar had eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits. 23 And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pome- + Gr. part. granates on the network round about were a hundred. 24 And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way; 25 and one eunuch, who was over the men of Heb. & Alex. war, and seven men of re- of the city. nown, who were in the king's presence, that were found in Gr. face. the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 26 And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha. "And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Æmath. 31 And it came to pass in the thirtyseventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth day of the month, that Ulamadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to + Or, cut his reign, raised the head of hair; not in Joakim king of Juda, and 'shaved him, Alex. and brought him out of the house ate bread continually before him all where he was kept, 32 and spoke kindly the days that he lived. 34 And his to him, and set his throne above appointed portion was given him con+ Aler. + the the kings that were with tinually by the king of Babylon from thrones of. him in Babylon, 33 and day to day, until the day when he changed his prison garments: and he died. + THE FOLLOWING TABLE IS USEFUL TO SHOW THE POSITION OF SEVERAL CHAPTERS AND VERSES IN JEREMIAH, AS THEY APPEAR IN THE HEBREW AND SEPTUAGINT RESPECTIVELY, THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-13. 1. [AND it came to pass, after Israel | suer. brackets not + 8 E. V. her sab + + Alex. ἐσχά Twv. More lit. last things. 7 ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered + Words in was taken captive, and Je- the days of her affliction, and her in Heb. rusalem made desolate, that rejection; she thought on Gr. plural. Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented all her desirable things which were with this lamentation over Jerusalem, from the days of old, when her people and said] ALEPH. How does the city fell into the hands of the oppressor, that was filled with people sit solitary! and there was none to help her: when she is become as a widow: she that her enemies saw it they laughed at was magnified among the nations, and her habitation. HETH. + Heb. q. d. princess among the provinces, has be- Jerusalem has sinned a great her sabbatism; come tributary. 2BETH. She weeps sin; therefore has she come baths; Alex. sore in the night, and her tears are on into tribulation, all that used her captivity. her cheeks; and there is none of all her to honour her have afflicted her, for lovers to comfort her: all that were they have seen her shame: yea, she her friends have dealt deceitfully with herself groaned, and turned backward. her, they are become her enemies. 9 TETH. Her uncleanness is before her 3GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity feet; she remembered not her last by reason of her affliction, and by rea- end; and she has lowered son of the abundance of her servitude: her boasting tone, there is she dwells among the nations, she has none to comfort her. Benot found rest: all her pursuers have hold, O Lord, affliction: my overtaken her between her oppressors. for the enemy has magnified himself. DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, 10 JOD. The oppressor has stretched out See use of because there are none that his hand on all her desirable things: for come to the feast: all her she has seen the Gentiles entering into gates are ruined: her priests groan, her sanctuary, concerning whom thou her virgins are led captive, and she is didst command that they should not in bitterness in herself. HE. Her op- enter into thy congregation. "CHAPH. pressors are become the head, and her All her people groan, seeking bread: enemies have prospered; for the Lord they have given their desirable things has afflicted her because of the mul- for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Gr. ungod- titude of her sins: her Lord, and look; for she is become dislinesses. young children are gone honoured. 12LAMED. All ye that pass by. into captivity before the face of the the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow, oppressor. UAU. And all her beauty like to my sorrow, which has happened has been taken away from the daugh- to me. The Lord who spoke by me ter of Sion: her princes were as rams has afflicted me in the day of his fierce finding no pasture, and are gone away anger. 13 MEM. He has sent fire from in weakness before the face of the pur- his lofty habitation, he has brought it Tapà, 1 Cor. 12. 15, 16. + Gr. plural. face; and strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: for my groans are many, and my heart is grieved. into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning yoke, all the day. "NUN. 'He read by LXX. as upon. has watched over my sins, 2. ALEPH. How has the Lord they are twined about my hands, they darkened in his wrath the daughter of have come up on my neck: my Sion! he has cast down the glory of strength has failed; for the Lord has Israel from heaven to earth, and has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be not remembered his footstool. BETH. able to stand. 15 SAMECH. The Lord In the day of his wrath the Lord has has cut off all my strong men from the overwhelmed her as in the sea, and not midst of me: he has summoned against spared: he has brought down in his me a time for crushing my choice men: fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; the Lord has trodden a wine-press for he has brought down to Lit. glued to. the virgin daughter of Juda: for these the ground the strong-holds of the things I weep. 16 AIN. Mine eye has daughter of Juda: he has profaned poured out water, because he that her king and her princes. GIMEL. should comfort me, that should restore He has broken in his fierce anger all my soul, has been removed far from the horn of Israel: he has turned back me: my sons have been destroyed, be- his right hand from the face of the cause the enemy has prevailed. "PHE. enemy, and has kindled a flame in Sion has spread out her hand, and Jacob as fire, and it has devoured all there is none to comfort her: the Lord things round about. DALeth. He has commanded concerning Jacob, his has bent his bow as an opposing oppressors are round about him: Jeru- enemy: he has strengthened his right salem has become among them as a 're-hand as an adversary, and has de+ Gr. sitting moved woman. 18 TSADE. stroyed all the desirable things of my apart. The Lord is righteous; for I eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray of Sion: he has poured forth his anger ✦ Or, peoples. you, all 'people, and behold as fire. "HE. The Lord is become as my grief: my virgins and my young an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel men are gone into captivity. 19 KOPH. as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her I called my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city; for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found it not. 20 RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned + Or, have within me; for I have provoked and been grievously rebellious: abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death has bereaved me at home. 21 CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of mine afflictions, and rejoice because thou hast done it: thou hast brought on the day, thou hast called the time: they are become like to me. 22 THAU. Let all their wickedness come before thy been in turn. lit. her that is + Gr. spread palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the + Gr. & Alex. daughter of Juda. 6UAU. and has been And he has scattered his brought low. tabernacle as a vine, he has abroad. marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince. ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day. HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out the measur 8 + Gr. were out. + down. thine eyes be ing line, he has not turned back his | have seen it. "PHE. The Lord has hand from afflicting her: therefore the done that which he purposed; he has bulwark mourned, and the wall was accomplished his word, even the things weakened with it. TETH. Her gates which he commanded from the ancient *are sunk into the ground: days: he has thrown down, and has fixed into. he has destroyed and broken not spared: and he has caused the to pieces her bars, and her king and enemy to rejoice over thee, he has her prince among the Gentiles: there exalted the horn of him that afflicted is no law, nay, her prophets have seen thee. 18 TSADE. Their heart cried to no vision from the Lord. 10JOD. The the Lord, Ye walls of Sion, pour elders of the daughter of Sion have down tears like torrents day + Gr. bring sat upon the ground, they have kept and night: give thyself no silence: they have cast up dust upon rest; let not the apple of thine eyes their heads; they have girded them- cease. 19 KOPH. Arise, re- + Gr. the selves with sackcloths: they have joice in the night at the be- daughter of brought down to the ground the chief ginning of thy watch: pour silent. virgins in Jerusalem. "CHAPH. Mine out thy heart as water before the face eyes have failed with tears, my heart of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him is troubled, my glory is cast down to for the life of thine infants, who faint Gr. poured the ground, for the destruc- for hunger at the top of all the streets. tion of the daughter of my 20 RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, Gr. outlets. people; while the infant and suckling and see for whom thou hast gathered swoon in the streets of the city. thus. Shall the women eat the fruit 12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, of their womb? the cook trap cook, Where is corn and wine? while they has made a gathering: shall rean, for handfainted like wounded men in the streets the infants sucking at the breadth. of the city, while their souls were breasts be slain? wilt thou slay the poured out into their mother's bosom. priest and prophet in the sanctuary of 13 MEM. What shall I testify to thee, the Lord? 2CHSEN. The child and or what shall I compare to thee, O old man have 'lain down in † se. died. daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save the street: my virgins and my young and comfort thee, O virgin daughter men are gone into captivity: thou of Sion? for the cup of thy destruc- hast slain them with the sword and with tion is enlarged: who shall heal thee? famine; in the day of thy wrath thou 14NUN. Thy prophets have seen for hast mangled them, thou Heb. ma thee vanities and folly: and they have hast not spared. 22 THAU. ambiguous. not discovered thine iniquity, to turn He has called 'my sojourn- ings. back thy captivity; but they have seen ers round about to a solemn Gr. feast day. for thee vain burdens, and worthless day, and there was not in the day of the + Lit. burdens. + visions. 15 SAMECH. All wrath of the Lord any one that escaped that go by the way have clapped or was left; whereas I have strengththeir hands at thee; they have ened and multiplied all mine enemies. hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the 3. ALEPH. I am the man that sees city, they say, the crown of joy of all poverty, through the rod of his wrath the earth? 16 AIN. All thine enemies upon me. 2 He has taken me, and led have opened their mouth against thee: me away into darkness, and not into they have hissed and gnashed their light. Nay, against me has he turned teeth, and said, We have swallowed his hand all the day. He has made her up: moreover this is the day which old my flesh and my skin; he has we looked for; we have found it, we broken my bones. BETH. He has + 5 Gr. sojourn |