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shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: 14 behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit. 15 For ye shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name, 16 which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God: for they shall forget the former affliction, and it shall not come into their mind.

a nation, who called not on my name. "I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins. 3 This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not. 4 They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled: "who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom, their sins and the sins of their fathers, says the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom. 8 Thus says the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy them all. 9 And I will lead forth the seed that came of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and mine elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there. 10 And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor shall be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me. 11 But They shall by no means build, and ye are they that have left me, and for- others inhabit; and they shall by no get my holy mountain, and prepare a means plant, and others eat: for as table for the devil, and fill up the the days of the tree of life shall be the + Gr. mixture. *drink-offering to Fortune. days of my people, they shall long 12 I will deliver you up to the sword, enjoy the fruits of their labours. 23 My ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I chosen shall not labour in vain, neither called you, and ye hearkened not; I shall they beget children to be cursed; spoke, and ye refused to hear; and for they are a seed blessed of God, and ye did evil in my sight, and chose their offspring with them. 24 And it the things wherein I delighted not. shall come to pass, that before they 13 Therefore thus says the Lord, Be- call, I will hearken to them; while hold, my servants shall eat, but ye they are yet speaking, I will say,

17 For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind. 18 But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying. 20 Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed: 21 and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof. 22

What is it? 25 Then wolves and lambs the Lord: behold, have not I made

shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, says

the Lord.

the bearing and barren woman? says thy God. 10 Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her: 11that ye may suck, and be satisfied

that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory. 12 For thus says the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them se. myself. as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees. 13 As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14 And ye shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones, shall thrive +Gr.spring up. like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.

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66. Thus says the Lord, Heaven with the breast of her consolation; +Acts 7.49,50. is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest? 2 For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at my words? 3 But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer: yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not. 5 Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble Alex at his word; speak ye, 'our Vat. 'your.' brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may + Or, your. appear *their joy; but they shall be ashamed. A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompense to his adversaries. Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male. Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children? But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, says

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15 For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire. 16 For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord. 17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord. 18 And I know their works and their imaginations. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. 19 And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. 20 And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a

gift to the Lord with horses, and cha- and your name continue. 23 And it riots, in litters drawn by mules with shall come to pass from month to awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, month, and from sabbath to sabbath, said the Lord, as though the children that all flesh shall come to worship beof Israel should bring their sacrifices fore me in Jerusalem, says the Lord. to me with psalms into the house of 24 And they shall go forth, and see the the Lord. 21 And I will take of them carcases of the men that have transpriests and Levites, says the Lord. gressed against me: for their worm 22 For as the new heaven and the new shall not die, and their fire shall not earth, which I make, remain before be quenched; and they shall be a me says the Lord, so shall your seed spectacle to all flesh.

JEREMIAS.

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-15.

1. THE word of God which came | stretched forth his hand to me, and to Jeremias the son of Chelcias, of the touched my mouth: and the Lord said priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the to me, Behold, I have put my words land of Benjamin: 2 accordingly as the into thy mouth. 10 Behold, I have word of God came to him in the days appointed thee this day over nations of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, and over kingdoms, to root out, and in the thirteenth year of his reign. to pull down, and to destroy, and to 3 And it was in the days of Joakim rebuild, and to plant. son of Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. 4And the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the nations. And I said, O Lord, thou See Hebrew. that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child. And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all to whomsoever I shall send thee, and according to all the words that I shall command thee, thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid before them: for I am with thee to deliver thee, says the Lord. And the Lord

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11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A rod of an 'almond + or, rather, tree. 12 And the Lord said nut-tree. to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them. 3 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north. 14 And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land. 15 For, behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, says the Lord; and they shall come, and shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all the

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cities of Juda. 16 And I will speak to and the prophets prophesied by Baal, them in judgment, concerning all their and went after that which iniquity, forasmuch as they have for-profited not. saken me, and sacrificed to strange will yet plead with you, of gods, and worshipped the works of and will plead with your their own hands. And do thou gird children's children. 10 For up thy loins, and stand up, and speak go to the isles of the Chettians, and all the words that I shall command thee: see; and send to Kedar, and observe be not afraid of their face, neither be accurately, and see if such things have thou alarmed before them; for I am been done; if the nations + Or, will the with thee to deliver thee, says the will change their gods, nations, &c. + Gr. set. Lord. 18 Behold, I have made though they are not gods: but my thee this day as a strong city, and as people have changed their glory, for a brazen wall, strong against all the that from which they shall not be prokings of Juda, and the princes thereof, fited. 12 The heaven is amazed at this, and the people of the land. 19 And and is very exceedingly horror-struck, they shall fight against thee; but they says the Lord. 13 For my people has shall by no means prevail against thee; committed two faults, and evil ones: because I am with thee, to deliver thee, they have forsaken me, the fountain of says the Lord. water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water. 14 Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil? 15 The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited. 16 Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known thee, and mocked thee. 17 Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? says the Lord thy God. 18 And now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers? 19 Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, says the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, says the Lord thy God. 20 For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, E.V. follows I will not serve thee, but see margin will go upon every high with LXX. hill, and under every shady Lit. Be spread tree, there will I indulge live loosely. in my fornication. 21 Yet I planted

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2. And he said, Thus says the Lord, + Gr. mercy. I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine q.d. dedica espousals, 3 in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord. Israel was the holy people to the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord. Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel. 5 Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain? 6 And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land † Gr. οὐθὲν. which no man 1 at all went through, and no man dwelt there? And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me,

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thee a fruitful vine, 'entirely of the right wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and we will not come to thee any more? 32 Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people +Gr.the girdle has forgotten me days with- of her bosom. out number. 33 What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways; and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak. 35 Yet thouq.d. by dili

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+ Gr. all true. sort: how art thou a strange vine turned into bitterness! 22 Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, says the Lord. 23 How wilt thou I am not polluted, and have not +Note fem. gone after 'Baal? behold thy ways in the burialground and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening: 24 she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her. 25 Withdraw thy foot from a rough way, and thy throat Gr. act like from thirst: but she said, 'I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them. 26 As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. 27 They said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: and they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 And where are thy gods, which thou madest for thyself? will they arise and save in the time of thine affliction? for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal. 29 Wherefore do ye speak to me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, says the Lord. 30 In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.

31 Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a

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saidst, I am innocent, only gent search.
let his wrath be turned away from me.
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whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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ceedingly contemptuous as thou hast ex-
to repeat thy ways; but scorned to re-
thou shalt be ashamed of
Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.
For thou shalt go forth thence also,
with thine hands upon thine head; for
the Lord has rejected thine hope, and
thou shalt not prosper in it.

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3. If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, says the Lord. 2 Lift up thine eyes to look Gr. eis evocïav. straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness. And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore's face, thou didst become shameless towards all. 4 Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time? See Heb. also Will God's anger continue passages. for ever, or be preserved to the end?

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