Jeremiah drawn out of the dungeon.

JEREMIAH.

Zedekiah's eyes put out

and be is like to die for hunger in the place where all these words that the king had commanded. he is: for there is no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the ter was not perceived. So they left off speaking with him; for the matEthiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and thence clouts and old

23 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and be was there when Jerusalem was taken. CHAP. XXXIX. Jerusalem besieged and taken. N ninth year of Zedekiah

Judah, in

ten rags, and let them down by cords into the Ithe tenth mouth, came Nebuchadrezzar king of

dungeon to Jeremiah.

Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and

12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto they besieged it. Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rot-2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the ten rags under thine arm-holes under the cords. fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the And Jeremiah did so. city was broken up.

13 8o they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, 14 1 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third en- of the princes of the king of Babylon.

try that is in the house of the LORD: and the 4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of hide nothing from me. war, then they fled, and went forth out of the 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah. If I de- city by night, by the way of the king's garden, clare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not out the way of the plain. hearken unto me 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made and when they had taken him, they brought him us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Ribwill I give thee into the hand of these men that lah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judg seek thy life. ment upon him.

17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Is-Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the rael; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon siew all the nobles of Judah. king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. and thou shalt live, and thy house: 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalein.

18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shal! burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their band, and they mock me.

20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave the captain of the guard, saying, charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan

12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

22 And behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those wo- 13.So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard men shall say, Thy friends have set thee ou, and sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergalhave prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's in the mire, and they are turned away back.

princes;

23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy 14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not the court of the prison, and committed him unto escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt that he should carry him home: so he dwelt cause this city to be burned with tire.

among the people.

24 1 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let 15 Now the word of the LORD came unto no man know of these words, and thou shalt Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of not die. the prison, saying,

25 But if the princes hear that I have talked 16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, with thee, and they come unto thee, and say saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall will not put thee to death; also what the king be accomplished in that day before thee. said unto thee:

26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. 18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a

27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah,
and asked him: and he told them according to me, saith the LORD.

The Jews repair to Gedaliah

CHAP. XL.

Jeremiah set at liberty.

CHAP. XL, XLI

Johanan recovereth the captivcè I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: whereTHE word which came to Jeremiah from the fore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when the remnant in Judah perish?

TH

he had taken him being bound in chains among 16 But Gedaliah the son of Alikam said unto all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem. Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not d and Judah, which were carried away captive this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael. unto Babylon. CHAP. XLI. Ishmael slayeth Gedaliah, &.c. it came to pass in the seventh month,

2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah,

and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath proNthat Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son

nounced this evil upon this place.

3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done ac-of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes cording as he hath said: because ye have sinned of the king, even ten men with him, came unto against the LORD, and have not obeyed his Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

And now, behold, I loose thee this day from 2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaninh, the chains which were upon thy hand. If it seem and the ten men that were with him, and smote good unto thee to come with ine into Babylon, Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of seem ill unto thee to come with me into Baby-Babylon had made governor over the land. lon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: 3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the to go, thither go. Chaldeans that were found there, and the mea

5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, of war. Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him ainong the people: or go wheresoever it seeineth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

4 And it came to pass the second day after he
had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
5 That there came certain from Shechem, from
Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men,
having their beards shaven, and their clothes
rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings
and incense in their hand, to bring them to the
house of the LORD.

6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as 7 Now when all the captains of the forces he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, which were in the fields, even they and their he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Ahikam.

Gedaliah the son of Alikam governor in the 7 And it was so, when they came into the midst land, and had committed unto him men, and of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah women, and children, and of the poor of the slew thein, and cast them into the midst of the land, of them that were not carried away cap-pit, he, and the men that were with him. tive to Babylon; 8 But ten men were found among them that

8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, Jonathan the sons of Kareali, and Seraiah the and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the slew them not among their brethren. Netophathite, and Jezanial the son of a Maacha-9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the tbite, they and their men. dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain be9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of cause of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and that were slain. it shall be well with you.

10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikan the son of Shaphan;

10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedanah the son of Àhikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and de parted to go over to the Aminonites. 11 But when Jolanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places 12 Then they took all the men, and went to whither they were driven, and came to the land fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gather-found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. ed wine and summer fruits very much. 13 Now it came to pass, that when all the peo

13 Moreover, Johanan the son of Kareah, ple which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the and all the captains of the forces that were in son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, that were with him, then they were glad.

14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly 14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites away captive from Mizpah cast about and rehath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay turned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kathee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believ-reah.

ed them not.

15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go,] Ammonites.

Johanan assured of safety.

JEREMIAH.

He is reproved for hypocrisy 16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and 17 So shall it be with all the men that set their all the captains of the forces that were with him, faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall all the remnant of the people whom he had re-die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pescovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, tilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah from the evil that I will bring upon them. the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of and the women, and the children, and the eu-Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been nuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habita-so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, tion of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be go to enter into Egypt, an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Netha- more. niah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land. CHAP. XLII.

Johanan, &c. promise obedience. THEN all the captains of 1, and Jees and the hanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us :) 3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your

19 T The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye for us to the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so de clare unto us, and we will do it.

21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn. CHAP. XLIII.

Jeremiah, &c. carried into Fgypt. that when Jeremiah

It on your God according whatsoever thing the A made an end of speaking unto alliah pad

LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God. 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

ple all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud inen, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: 3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.

9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to pre-captains of the forces, took all the remnant of sent your supplication before him; Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebu11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of zar-adan the captain of the guard had left with whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, the LORD: for I am with you, to save you, and and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son to deliver you from his hand. of Neriah.

12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

13 T But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,neither obey the voice of the LORD your God, 14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread: and there will we dwell:

7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tabpanhes.

8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

9 Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, which is at the en try of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

15 And now therefore hear the word of the 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to so-my servant, and will set his throne upon these journ there; stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, royal pavilion over them. which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the 11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to afraid, shail follow close after you there in Egypt; death; and such as are for captivity to captiviand there ye shall die. ty; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Obstinate idolaters threatened.

CHAP. XLIV.

Egypt's destruction foreshewn 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the 15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that their gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and wives had burned incense unto other gods, and carry them away captives: and he shall array all the women that stood by, a great multitude, himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd even all the people that dwelt in the land of putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, from thence in peace. 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto 13 Ile shall break also the images of Beth-she-us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken mesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the unto thee. houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he buru with fire.

THE

CHAP. XLIV.

Judah's desolation foreshewon.

17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we,

HE word that came to Jeremiah concerning and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in all the Jews which dwell in the land of the cities of Judah, and in the streets of JorusaEgypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tabpan-lem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and hes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, were well, and saw no evil. saying, 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is-qucen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings rael; Ye have seen all the evil that I have unto her, we have wanted all things, and have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities been consumed by the sword and by the famine. of Judah; and behold, this day they are a deso- 19 And when we burned incense to the queen lation, and no man dwelleth therein; of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto

3 Because of their wickedness which they have her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and committed to provoke me to anger, in that they pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, men? whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your

fathers.

4 Howbeit, I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the peopie which had given him that answer, saying, 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind? 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day. 7Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off 23 Because ye have burned incense, and because from you man and woman, child and suckling, ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; works of your hands, burning incense unto other therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone this day.

to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and 24 Moreover, Jeremiah said unto all the people, that ye might be a curse and a reproach among and to at the women, Hear the word of the all the nations of the earth? LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fa- 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Isthers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, rael, saying: Ye and your wives have both spoand the wickedness of their wives, and your ken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your hand, saying; We will surely perform our vows wives, which they have committed in the land that we have vowed, to burn incense to the of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that Egypt, saying, The Lord GoD liveth. have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt 27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, not for good: and all the men of Judah that are and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the consumed by the sword and by the famine:sword and by the famine, until there be an end they shall die, from the least even unto the of them.

greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, shail return out of the land of Egypt into the and a curse, and a reproach. land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah,

13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the there, shall know whose words shall stand, sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: mine, or theirs.

14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which 29 1 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, shall escape or remain, that they should return that ye may know that any words shall surely into the land of Judah, to the which they have stand against you for evil:

a desire to return to dwell there: for noue shail 30 Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will give return but such as shall escape. Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of

Baruch is dismayed.

JEREMIAH.

The conquest of Egypt. his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek 16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into another: and they said, Arise, and let us go the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, again to our own people, and to the land of our his enemy, and that sought his life. nativity, from the oppressing sword.

CHAP. XLV.

17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but anoise; he hath passed the time appointed. 18 As I ive, saith the King, whose name is The LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall

Jeremiah comforteth Baruch. THE word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim he come. the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

3 Thou didst say, Wo is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

41 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted will pluck up, even this whole land.

5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Loxp: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest. CHAP. XLVI.

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

The defeat of Pharaoh's army. THE word of the LORD which came to Jere- 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded miah the prophet against the Gentiles; she shall be delivered into the hand of the peo2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-ple of the north.

necho king of Egypt, which was by the river 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrez-Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and zar king of Babylon sote in the fourth year of Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in 3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw him: near to battle. 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horse- those that seek their lives, and into the hand of men, and stand forth with your helmets; fur-Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the bish the spears, and put on the brigandines. hand of his servants, and afterward it shall be 5 Wherefore have I seen then dismayed and inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. turned away back? and their mighty ones are 27 1 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not and be not dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD. save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, man escape: they shall stumble, and fall toward and be in rest and at ease, and noue shall make the north by the river Euphrates. him afraid.

7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith waters are moved as the riveis? the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a

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8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters full end of all the nations whither I have driven are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave the city and the inhabitants thereof. thee wholly unpunished. 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Ethio- The destruction of the Philistines. pians and the Libyans, that handle the shield: IE word of the LORD that came to Jereand the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.miah the prophet against the Philistines, 10 For this is the day of the Lord GoD of hosts, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters risc his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing it shall be satiate and made drunk with their flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that blood: for the Lord GoD of hosts hath a sacrifice is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein the north country by the river Euphrates. in: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabi11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, tants of the land shall howl. the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots. 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man shall not look back to their children for feebiehath stumbled against the mighty, and they are ness of hands; fallen both together.

13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanies: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

6 Ŏ thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.