to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that not ceased even to this day, and are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire. of this pollution. 4 + Heb. and Alex. + 'to they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers. 11 Therefore thus says the Lord; Be51. THE WORD THAT CAME TO hold, I do set my face against you 12 to JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling destroy all the remnant that are in in the land of Egypt, and for those Egypt; and they shall fall by the settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, sword, and by famine, and shall be and in the land of Pathura, saying, consumed small and great: and they 2 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; shall be for reproach, and for deYe have seen all the evils which I struction, and for a curse. 13 And I have brought upon Jerusalem, and will visit them that dwell in the land upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, they are desolate without inhabitants, with sword and with famine:* 14 and 3 because of their wickedness, which there shall not one be pre- Alex. + and they have wrought to provoke me, by served of the remnant of pestilence." going to burn incense to other gods, Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, whom ye knew not. Yet I sent to return to the land of Juda, to which to you my servants the prophets early they hope in their hearts to return: in the morning, and I sent, saying, they shall not return, but only they + Gr. the thing Do not ye + this abomin- that escape. 15 Then all the men that able thing which I hate. knew that their wives burned 'incense, 5 But they hearkened not to me, and and all the women, a great inclined not their ear to turn from multitude, and all the peo- other gods.' their wickedness, so as not to burn ple that dwelt in the land Lit.assembly. incense to strange gods. So mine of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jereanger and my wrath dropped upon mias, saying, 16 As for the word which them, and was kindled in the gates thou hast spoken to us in the name of of Juda, and in the streets of Jeru- the Lord, we will not hearken to thee. salem; and they became a desolation 17 For we will surely perform every a waste, as at this word that shall proceed out of our day. And now thus has mouth, to burn incense to the queen the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings do ye commit these great evils against to her, as we and our fathers have done, your souls? to cut off man and woman and our kings and princes, in the of you, infant and suckling from the cities of Juda, and in the streets of midst of Juda, to the end that not Jerusalem: and so we were filled with one of you should be left; by pro- bread, and were well, and saw no evils. voking me with the works of But since we left off to burn Gr.as. hands, to burn incense to other gods incense to the queen of heaven, we in the land of Egypt, into which ye have all been brought low, and have entered to dwell there, that ye might been consumed by sword and by be cut off, and that ye might become a famine. 19 And whereas we burned curse and a reproach among all the incense to the queen of heaven, and nations of the earth? Have ye for- poured drink-offerings to her, did we gotten the sins of your fathers, and make cakes to her, and pour drinkthe sins of the kings of Juda, and the offerings to her, without our husbands? sins of your princes, and the sins of 20 Then Jeremias answered all the peoyour wives, which they wrought in ple, the mighty men, and the women, +See verse 6. the land of Juda, and in and all the people that returned him the streets of Jerusalem? 10 And have these words for answer, saying, 21 Did +Lit. inacces- and sible. 9 your 18 + + you * for + not the Lord remember the incense | sign to you, that I will visit which ye burned in the cities of Juda, evil. 30 Thus said the Lord; sc. for punand in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, Behold, I will give Uaphres ishment. and your fathers, and your kings, and king of Egypt into the hands of his your princes, and the people of the enemy, and into the hands of one land? and came it not into his heart? that seeks his life; as I gave + Aler. 'them 22 And the Lord could no longer bear Sedekias king of Juda into that seek.' you, because of the wickedness of your the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of doings, and because of your abomina- Babylon, his enemy, and who sought tions which ye wrought; and so your his life. land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day; because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not + Lit. taken walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you. hold of you. 23 + 2 concerning THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda. Thus has the Lord said to thee, O +Or, for, or, Baruch. 3 Whereas thou thee. hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest; say thou to him, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will pull down those whom I have built up, and I will pluck up those whom I have planted. And wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the+Gr. for a Lord: but I will give to thee finding. thy life for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go. 4 + 5 24 And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord. 25 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drinkofferings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed them. 26 Therefore hear ye the + Gr. Juda. Word of the Lord, all Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Be- 52. It was the twenty-first year of hold, I have sworn by my great name, Sedekias, when he began + Gr. more lit. says the Lord, my name shall no longer to reign, and he reigned it being the be in the mouth of every Jew to say, eleven years in Jerusalem. Sedekias in his + Gr. Juda, or, The Lord lives, in all the And his mother's name was one of Juda. land of Egypt. 27 For I Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, have watched over them, to hurt them, of Lobena. 4 And it came to pass in and not to do them good: and all the the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth Gr. all Juda. Jews dwelling in the land month, on the tenth day of the month, of Egypt shall perish by sword and by that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon famine, until they are utterly con- came, and all his host, against Jerusasumed. 28 And they that escape the lem, and they made a rampart round sword shall return to the land of Juda it, and built a wall round + Or, forts. few in number, and the remnant of about it with large stones. 5 So the Aler. who Juda, 'who have continued city was besieged, until the eleventh 6 in the land of Egypt to year of king Sedekias, on the ninth dwell there, shall know whose word day of the month, and then the famine shall stand. 29 And this shall be a was severe in the city, and there was go down to." + 21st year of reigning. 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. + 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 + Or, perhaps, lation of the enemy is meant. the circumval ness. 8 9 21 + + Alex. omits they went by the way of the plain. And as for the pillars, the negative. Or, leading But the host of the Chal-height of one pillar was thirty-five to the wilder- deans pursued after the cubits; and a line of twelve cubits king, and overtook him in the country compassed it round; and the thickness beyond Jericho; and all his servants of it all round was four fingers. 22 And were dispersed from about him. And there was a brazen chapiter upon them, they took the king, and brought him and the length was five cubits, even the to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, height of one chapiter; and there were and he judged him. 10 And the king on the chapiter round about 'network of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias and pomegranates, all of Gr. a net. before his eyes; and he slew all the brass: and correspondingly the second princes of Juda in Deblatha. "And pillar had eight pomegranates to a he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and cubit for the twelve cubits. 23 And bound him in fetters; and the king of the pomegranates were ninety-six on a Babylon brought him to Babylon, and side; and all the pome- Gr. part. put him into the grinding-house, until granates on the network round about the day when he died. were a hundred. 24 And the cap12 And in the fifth month, on the tain of the guard took the chief priest, tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan and the second priest, and those the captain of the guard, who waited that kept the way; 25 and one eunuch, on the king of Babylon, came to Je- who was over the men of Heb. & Alex. rusalem; and he burnt the house of war, and seven men of re- of the city. the Lord, and the king's house; and nown, who were in the king's preall the houses of the city, and every sence, that were found in Gr. face. great house he burnt with fire. 14 And the city; and the scribe of the forces, the host of the Chaldeans that was who did the part of a scribe to the with the captain of the guard pulled people of the land; and sixty men of down all the wall of Jerusalem round the people of the land, who were found about. 16 But the captain of the guard in the midst of the city. 26 And Naleft the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen. 17And 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. 13 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 stands. snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the cen + + + he took out + buzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha. 27 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. 34 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. And his to him, and set his throne above appointed portion was given him con+Alex. + 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. brackets not 1 CHAPTER I. 1. [AND it came to pass, after Israel + Words in was taken captive, and Jein Heb. rusalem made desolate, that Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said] ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! she is become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary. 2BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they are become her enemies. 3GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude: she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors. DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, +See use of because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself. HE. Her oppressors are become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the mul+ Gr. ungod- titude of her sins: her VERSES 1-13. + 8 + Gr. plural. E. V. her sab + Alex. ἐσχά last things. suer. 7 ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation. HETH. + Heb. q. d. Jerusalem has sinned a great her sabbatism; sin; therefore has she come baths; Alex. into tribulation, all that used her captivity. to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward. TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; and she has lowered her boasting tone, there is Twv. More lit. none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: * Gr. plural. for the enemy has magnified himself. 10 JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things: for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. "CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she is become disyoung 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. linesses. 795 52 |