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He was in his whole life, according to the signification of his +name, Great before the Lord; and a special figure of Jesus Christ, in +the persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty; in his charity +for his persecutors; and in the violent death he suffered at their +hands: it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he was stoned +to death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into Egypt. + + +Jeremias Chapter 1 + +The time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his prophetical visions. God +encourages him. + +1:1. The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were +in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin. + +1:2. The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the +son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign. + +1:3. And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king +of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias +king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the +fifth month. + +1:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +1:5. Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and +before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made +thee a prophet unto the nations. + +1:6. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am +a child. + +1:7. And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go +to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou +shalt speak. + +1:8. Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver +thee, saith the Lord. + +1:9. And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord +said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth: + +1:10. Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, +to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to +build, and to plant. + +1:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, +Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching. + +1:12. And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch +over my word to perform it. + +1:13. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What +seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof +from the face of the north. + +1:14. And the Lord said to me: From the north shall an evil break forth +upon all the inhabitants of the land. + +1:15. For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms +of the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every +one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all +the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda. + +1:16. And I will pronounce my judgments against them, touching all their +wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, +and have adored the work of their own hands. + +1:17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all +that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make +thee not to fear their countenance. + +1:18. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a +pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of +Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of +the land. + +1:19. And they shall fight against them, and shall not prevail: for I am +with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee. + +Jeremias Chapter 2 + +God expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and infidelity. + +2:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +2:2. Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: +I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy +espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not +sown. + +2:3. Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all +they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord. + +2:4. Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families +of the house of Israel: + +2:5. Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, +that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are +become vain? + +2:6. And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out +of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land +uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of +death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt? + +2:7. And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit +thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you +defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination. + +Carmel... That is, a fruitful, plentiful land. + +2:8. The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the +law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the +prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols. + +2:9. Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, +and I will plead with your children. + +2:10. Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, +and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like +this. + +2:11. If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: +but my people have changed their glory into an idol. + +2:12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be +very desolate, saith the Lord. + +2:13. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the +fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken +cisterns, that can hold no water. + +2:14. Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a +prey? + +2:15. The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have +made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none +to dwell in them. + +2:16. The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, +even to the crown of the head. + +2:17. Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the +Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way? + +2:18. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the +troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, +to drink the water of the river? + +2:19. Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall +rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing +for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with +thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts. + +2:20. Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, +and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under +every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself. + +2:21. Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art +thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange +vineyard? + +2:22. Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the +herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord +God. + +Borith... An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt. + +2:23. How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after +Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift +runner pursuing his course. + +2:24. A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his +heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all +that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her. + +2:25. Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But +thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved +strangers, and I will walk after them. + +2:26. As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of +Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their +priests, and their prophets. + +2:27. Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast +begotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and +in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us. + +2:28. Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and +deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number +of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda. + +2:29. Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken +me, saith the Lord. + +2:30. In vain have I struck your children, they have not received +correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is +like a ravaging lion. + +2:31. See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, +or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are +revolted, we will come to thee no more? + +2:32. Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but +my people hath forgotten me days without number. + +2:33. Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou +who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways, + +2:34. And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and +innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I +mentioned before. + +2:35. And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and +therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend +with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned. + +2:36. How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over +again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of +Assyria. + +2:37. For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy +head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing +prosperous therein. + +Jeremias Chapter 3 + +God invites the rebel Jews to return to him, with a promise to receive +them: he foretells the conversion of the Gentiles. + +3:1. It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from +him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not +that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself +to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will +receive thee. + +3:2. Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted +thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the +wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and +with thy wickedness. + +3:3. Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward +rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush. + +3:4. Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my +father, the guide of my virginity: + +3:5. Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue unto the end? +Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able. + +3:6. And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen +what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every +high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot +there. + +3:7. And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and +she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw, + +3:8. That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put +her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister +Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself. + +3:9. And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and +played the harlot with stones and with stocks. + +3:10. And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned +to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord. + +3:11. And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her +soul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda. + +3:12. Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt +say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn +away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be +angry for ever. + +3:13. But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed +against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers +under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord. + +3:14. Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your I +husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and +will bring you into Sion. + +3:15. And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they +shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine. + +3:16. And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in +those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the +covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither +shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that +be done any more. + +3:17. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord: and +all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the +Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their +most wicked heart. + +3:18. In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, +and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land +which I gave to your fathers. + +3:19. But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee +a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And +I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me. + +3:20. But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of +Israel despised me, saith the Lord. + +3:21. A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the +children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have +forgotten the Lord their God. + +3:22. Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. +Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God. + +3:23. In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the +mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. + +3:24. Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, +their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. + +3:25. We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, +because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from +our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of +the Lord our God. + +Jeremias Chapter 4 + +And admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart, +with threats of grievous punishment to those that persist in sin. + +4:1. If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if +thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not +be moved. + +4:2. And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in +judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall +praise him. + +4:3. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up +anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns: + +4:4. Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your +hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my +indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can +quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts. + +4:5. Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem: speak, and +sound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble +yourselves, and let us go into strong cities. + +4:6. Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I +bring evil from the north, and great destruction. + +4:7. The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath +roused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land +desolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an +inhabitant. + +4:8. For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the +fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us. + +4:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the +heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the +priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed. + +4:10. And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived +this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the +sword reacheth even to the soul? + +4:11. At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A +burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the +daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse. + +4:12. A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will +speak my judgments with them. + +4:13. Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: +his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste. + +4:14. Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be +saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee? + +4:15. For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the +idol from mount Ephraim. + +4:16. Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that +guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against +the cities of Juda. + +4:17. They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she +hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. + +4:18. Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: +this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched +thy heart. + +4:19. My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are +troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the +sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle. + +4:20. Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is +laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a +moment. + +4:21. How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the +sound of the trumpet? + +4:22. For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and +senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have +no knowledge. + +4:23. I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the +heavens, and there was no light in them. + +4:24. I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the +hills were troubled. + +4:25. I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds of the air +were gone. + +4:26. I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its cities +were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the +wrath of his indignation. + +4:27. For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I +will not utterly destroy. + +4:28. The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: +because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither +am I turned away from it. + +4:29. At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is +fled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all +the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them. + +4:30. But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest +thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, +and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in +vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life. + +4:31. For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as +of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, +dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted +because of them that are slain. + +Jeremias Chapter 5 + +The judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews for their manifold sins. + +5:1. Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, +and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that +executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it. + +5:2. And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear +falsely. + +5:3. O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they +have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to +receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and +they have refused to return. + +5:4. But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the +way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. + +5:5. I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for +they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and +behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the +bonds. + +5:6. Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the +evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every +one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their +transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened. + +5:7. How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and +swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they +committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. + +5:8. They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed +after his neighbour's wife. + +5:9. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not +my soul take revenge on such a nation? + +5:10. Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly +destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the +Lord's. + +5:11. For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly +transgressed against me, saith the Lord. + +5:12. They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil +shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine. + +5:13. The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God +in them: these things therefore shall befall them. + +5:14. Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this +word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people +as wood, and it shall devour them. + +5:15. Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of +Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation +whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say. + +5:16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant. + +5:17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour +thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy +herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword +they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest. + +5:18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you +to utter destruction. + +5:19. And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these +things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and +served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a +land that is not your own. + +5:20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, +saying: + +5:21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, +and see not: and ears, and hear not. + +5:22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent +at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting +ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall +toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not +pass over it. + +5:23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and +provoking, they are revolted and gone away. + +5:24. And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our +God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who +preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest. + +5:25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have +withholden good things from you. + +5:26. For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as +fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men. + +5:27. As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: +therefore are they become great and enriched. + +5:28. They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed +my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not +managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the +judgment of the poor. + +5:29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not +my soul take revenge on such a nation? + +5:30. Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land. + +5:31. The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their +hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the +end thereof? + +Jeremias Chapter 6 + +The evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited to return, and walk in +the good way, and not to rely on sacrifices without obedience. + +6:1. Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of +Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over +Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction. + +6:2. I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate +woman. + +6:3. The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have +pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them +that are under his hand. + +6:4. Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe +unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are +grown longer. + +6:5. Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses. + +6:6. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a +trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression +is in the midst of her. + +6:7. As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness +cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes +are continually before me. + +6:8. Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, +lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited. + +6:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of +Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a +grapegatherer into the basket. + +6:10. To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may +hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold +the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and they will not +receive it. + +6:11. Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with +holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of +the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient +and he that is full of days. + +6:12. And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands +and their wives together: for I will stretch forth my hand upon the +inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord. + +6:13. For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to +covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of +deceit. + +6:14. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people +disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace. + +6:15. They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, +rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to +blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of +their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord. + +6:16. Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for +the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall +find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk. + +6:17. And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound +of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken. + +6:18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great +things I will do to them. + +6:19. Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the +fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and +they have cast away my law. + +6:20. To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the +sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not +acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me. + +6:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction +upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, +neighbour and kinsman shall perish. + +6:22. Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the +north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth. + +6:23. They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will +have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount +upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion. + +6:24. We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish +hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour. + +6:25. Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword +of the enemy, and fear is on every side. + +6:26. Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle +thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter +lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. + +6:27. I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt +know, and prove their way. + +6:28. All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they +are brass and iron: they are all corrupted. + +6:29. The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the +founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. + +6:30. Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them. + +Jeremias Chapter 7 + +The temple of God shall not protect a sinful people, without a sincere +conversion. The Lord will not receive the prayers of the prophet for +them: because they are obstinate in their sins. + +7:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: + +7:2. Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this +word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that +enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord. + +7:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and +your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place. + +7:4. Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the +temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. + +7:5. For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will +execute judgment between a man and his neighbour, + +7:6. If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and +shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods +to your own hurt, + +7:7. I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to +your fathers from the beginning and for evermore. + +7:8. Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit +you: + +7:9. To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer +to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. + +7:10. And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my +name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have +done all these abominations. + +7:11. Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in +your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the +Lord. + +7:12. Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: +and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel: + +7:13. And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: +and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not +heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered: + +7:14. I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in +which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your +fathers, as I did to Silo. + +7:15. And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away +all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim. + +7:16. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee +praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will +not hear thee. + +7:17. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the +streets of Jerusalem? + +7:18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the +women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to +offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger. + +Queen of heaven... That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that +name. + +7:19. Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, +to the confusion of their own countenance? + +7:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my +indignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, +and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it +shall burn, and shall not be quenched. + +7:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt +offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. + +7:22. For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the +day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter +of burnt offerings and sacrifices. + +I commanded them not... Viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time +offered, without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded: +so that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts and +sacrifices was of small account. + +7:23. But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and +I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the +way that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. + +7:24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in +their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went +backward and not forward, + +7:25. From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, +even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, +from day to day, rising up early and sending. + +7:26. And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but +have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers. + +7:27. And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not +hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer +thee. + +7:28. And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not +hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: +faith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth. + +7:29. Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on +high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his +wrath, + +7:30. Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the +Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is +called upon, to pollute it; + +7:31. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the +valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in +the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart. + +7:32. Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall +no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the +valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because there is no +place. + +7:33. And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of +the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to +drive them away. + +7:34. And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of +the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, +the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land +shall be desolate. + +Jeremias Chapter 8 + +Other evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their impenitence. + +8:1. At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the +kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of +the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the +inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. + +8:2. And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all +the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and +after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they +shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as +dung upon the face of the earth. + +8:3. And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain +of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have +cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts. + +8:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that +falleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn +again? + +8:5. Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn +revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return. + +8:6. I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is +none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are +all turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle. + +8:7. The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the +swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my +people have not known the judgment of the Lord. + +8:8. How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? +Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood. + +8:9. The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they +have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them. + +8:10. Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to +others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest +all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal +deceitfully. + +8:11. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people +disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace. + +8:12. They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea +rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known +how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the +time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord. + +8:13. Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no +grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is +fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away. + +8:14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into +the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath +put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have +sinned against the Lord. + +8:15. We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and +behold fear. + +8:16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was +moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and +devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants. + +8:17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against +which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. + +8:18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me. + +8:19. Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: +Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they +provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities? + +8:20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. + +8:21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, +and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me. + +8:22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why +then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? + +Jeremias Chapter 9 + +The prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which +are the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance. + +9:1. Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? +and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my +people. + +9:2. Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring +men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are +all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. + +9:3. And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for +truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have +proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. + +9:4. Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in +any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every +friend will walk deceitfully. + +9:5. And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the +truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have +laboured to commit iniquity. + +9:6. Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have +refused to know me, saith the Lord. + +9:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try +them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people? + +9:8. Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his +mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait +for him. + +9:9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall +not my soul be revenged on such a nation? + +9:10. For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for +the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, +for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not +heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts +they are gone away and departed. + +9:11. And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of +dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an +inhabitant. + +9:12. Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the +word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the +land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none +passeth through? + +9:13. And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave +them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it. + +9:14. But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and +after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. + +9:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I +will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to +drink. + +9:16. And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their +fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they +be consumed. + +9:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and +call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that +are wise women, and let them make haste: + +9:18. Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes +shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters. + +9:19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and +greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings +are cast down. + +9:20. Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears +receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and +every one her neighbour mourning. + +9:21. For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our +houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the +streets. + +9:22. Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as +dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the +mower, and there is none to gather it. + +9:23. Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and +let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man +glory in his riches: + +9:24. But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and +knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and +justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord. + +9:25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every +one that hath the foreskin circumcised. + +9:26. Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of +Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, +that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the +flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. + +Jeremias Chapter 10 + +Neither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all +things. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins. + +10:1. Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O +house of Israel. + +10:2. Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the +Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens +fear: + +10:3. For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of +the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. + +10:4. He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together +with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder. + +10:5. They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not +speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. +Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good. + +10:6. There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is +thy name in might. + +10:7. Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the +glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms +there is none like unto thee. + +10:8. They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the +doctrine of their vanity is wood. + +10:9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from +Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: +violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of +artificers. + +10:10. But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the +everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations +shall not be able to abide his threatening. + +10:11. Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made +heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those +places that are under heaven. + +10:12. He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world +by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge. + +10:13. At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and +lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings +for rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. + +10:14. Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is +confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there +is no spirit in them. + +10:15. They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their +visitation they shall perish. + +10:16. The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed +all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts +is his name. + +10:17. Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a +siege. + +10:18. For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the +inhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that +they may be found. + +10:19. Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I +said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it. + +10:20. My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children +are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth +my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. + +10:21. Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the +Lord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is +scattered. + +10:22. Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the +land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling +for dragons. + +10:23. I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it +in a man to walk, and to direct his steps. + +The way of a man is not his... The meaning is, that notwithstanding +man's free will, yet he can do no good without God's help, nor evil +without his permission. So that, in the present case, all the evils +which Nabuchodonosor was about to bring upon Jerusalem, could not have +come but by the will of God. + +10:24. Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, +lest thou bring me to nothing. + +10:25. Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known +thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because +they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have +destroyed his glory. + +Jeremias Chapter 11 + +The prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and denounces evils to the +obstinate transgressors of it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him, a +figure of their conspiracy against Christ. + +11:1. The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying: + +11:2. Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda, +and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + +11:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: +Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of this covenant, + +11:4. Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out +of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, +and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I +will be your God: + +11:5. That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to +give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I +answered and said: Amen, O Lord. + +11:6. And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the +cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the +words of the covenant, and do them: + +11:7. For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought +them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured +them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice: + +11:8. And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one +in the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all +the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did +them not. + +11:9. And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of +Juda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +11:10. They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who +refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange +gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have +made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers. + +11:11. Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon +them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, +and I will not hearken to them. + +11:12. And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall +go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall not +save them in the time of their affliction. + +11:13. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda: +and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up +altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim. + +11:14. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up +praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of +their cry to me, in the time of their affliction. + +11:15. What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness +in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in +which thou hast boasted? + +11:16. The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, +and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, +and the branches thereof are burnt. + +11:17. And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced evil +against thee: for the evils of the house of Israel, and of the house of +Juda, which they have done to themselves, to provoke me, offering +sacrifice to Baalim. + +11:18. But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou +shewedst me their doings. + +11:19. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I +knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put +wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let +his name be remembered no more. + +11:20. But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the +reins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I +revealed my cause. + +Sabaoth... That is, of hosts or armies, a name frequently given to God +in the scriptures.-Ibid. Thy revenge... This was rather a prediction of +what was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than an +imprecation. + +11:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who seek +thy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and +thou shalt not die in our hands. + +11:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon +them: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their +daughters shall die by famine. + +11:23. And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in evil +upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation. + +Jeremias Chapter 12 + +The prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a short time. The +desolation of the Jews for their sins. Their return from their +captivity. + +12:1. Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I +will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: +why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? + +12:2. Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and +bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their +reins. + +12:3. And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my +heart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter. + +12:4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither +for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds +are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end. + +12:5. If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst +thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of +peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan? + +12:6. For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have +fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe +them not when they speak good things to thee. + +12:7. I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given +my dear soul into the hand of her enemies. + +12:8. My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath +cried out against me, therefore have I hated it. + +12:9. Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed +throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, +make haste to devour. + +12:10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my +portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a +desolate wilderness. + +12:11. They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With +desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that +considereth in the heart. + +12:12. The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for +the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other +end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh. + +12:13. They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an +inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your +fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord. + +12:14. Thus saith the Lord against all wicked neighbours, that touch the +inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will +pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of +the midst of them. + +12:15. And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have +mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, +and every man into his land. + +12:16. And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will learn +the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they +have taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built up in +the midst of my people. + +12:17. But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy +that nation, saith the Lord. + +Jeremias Chapter 13 + +Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the +Jews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them. + +13:1. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and +thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water. + +13:2. And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it +about my loins. + +13:3. And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying: + +13:4. Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and +arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. + +13:5. And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded +me. + +13:6. And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: +Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I +commanded thee to hide there. + +13:7. And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out +of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so +that it was fit for no use. + +13:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +13:9. Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of +Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot. + +13:10. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in +the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to +serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which +is fit for no use. + +13:11. For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I +brought close to me all the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, +saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a +praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. + +13:12. Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord +the God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And they +shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with +wine? + +13:13. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will +fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of +David that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and +all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. + +13:14. And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers +and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will +not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them. + +13:15. Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. + +13:16. Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before +your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and +he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. + +13:17. But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for +your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with +tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. + +13:18. Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: +for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. + +13:19. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open +them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity. + +13:20. Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where +is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? + +13:21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught +them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not +sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? + +13:22. And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come +upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, +the soles of thy feet are defiled. + +13:23. If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: +you also may do well, when you have learned evil. + +13:24. And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the +wind in the desert. + +13:25. This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith +the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. + +13:26. Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy +shame hath appeared. + +13:27. I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of +thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe +to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet? + +Jeremias Chapter 14 + +A grievous famine: and the prophet's prayer on that occasion. Evils +denounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people. + +14:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of +the drought. + +14:2. Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are +become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. + +14:3. The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to +draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they +were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads. + +14:4. For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon +the earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads. + +14:5. Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, +because there was no grass. + +14:6. And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind +like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass. + +14:7. If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it +for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against +thee. + +14:8. O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: +why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man +turning in to lodge? + +14:9. Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot +save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, +forsake us not. + +14:10. Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their +feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now +remember their iniquities, and visit their sins. + +14:11. And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good. + +14:12. When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer +holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them +by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence. + +14:13. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You +shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he +will give you true peace in this place. + +14:14. And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my +name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken +to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and +deceit, and the seduction of their own heart. + +14:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that +prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine +shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be +consumed. + +14:16. And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the +streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there +shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their +daughters, and I will pour out their own wickedness upon them. + +14:17. And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down +tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter +of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding +grievous evil. + +14:18. If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: +and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. +The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew +not. + +14:19. Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? +why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we +have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of +healing, and behold trouble. + +14:20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our +fathers, because we have sinned against thee. + +14:21. Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do not +disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant +with us. + +14:22. Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can +send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our +God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things. + +Jeremias Chapter 15 + +God is determined to punish the Jews for their sins. The prophet's +complaint, and God's promise to him. + +15:1. And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before +me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and +let them go forth. + +15:2. And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? thou +shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death: +and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine, +to famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity. + +15:3. And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword +to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts +of the earth, to devour and to destroy. + +15:4. And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the +earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all +that he did in Jerusalem. + +15:5. For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan +thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace? + +15:6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: and +I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am +weary of entreating thee. + +15:7. And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I +have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from +their ways. + +15:8. Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I +have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at +noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities. + +15:9. She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted +away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and +ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the +sight of their enemies, saith the Lord. + +15:10. Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a +man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither +hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. + +15:11. The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy +remnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of affliction, and in +the time of tribulation against the enemy. + +15:12. Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass? + +Shall iron be allied, etc... Shall the iron, that is, the strength of +Juda, stand against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of Babylon: +or enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No certainly: but +it must be broken by it. + +15:13. Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, +because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders. + +15:14. And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou knowest +not: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn upon you. + +15:15. O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me +from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that +for thy sake I have suffered reproach. + +Do not defend me in thy patience... That is, let not thy patience and +longsuffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making +haste to my assistance. + +15:16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me +a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord +God of hosts. + +15:17. I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of +the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with +threats. + +15:18. Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as +to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful +waters that cannot be trusted. + +15:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will +convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and thou wilt +separate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they +shall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them. + +15:20. And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: +and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with +thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. + +15:21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will +redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty. + +Jeremias Chapter 16 + +The prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for +their idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity, +and the Gentiles shall be converted. + +16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +16:2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and +daughters in this place. + +16:3. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that +are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and +concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land: + +16:4. They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not +be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon +the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and +with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, +and for the beasts of the earth. + +16:5. For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, +neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away +my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations. + +16:6. Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall +not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make +themselves bald for them. + +16:7. And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to +comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them for their father +and mother. + +16:8. And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, +and to eat and drink: + +16:9. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will +take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of +mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the +voice of the bride. + +16:10. And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they +shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against us all +this great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have +sinned against the Lord our God? + +16:11. Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith +the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: +and they forsook me, and kept not my law. + +16:12. And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every +one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not +to hearken to me. + +16:13. So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you +know not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day +and night, which shall not give you any rest. + +16:14. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when it shall be +said no more: The Lord liveth, that brought forth the children of Israel +out of the land of Egypt. + +16:15. But, The Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of +the land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them +out: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their +fathers. + +16:16. Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall +fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall +hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes +of the rocks. + +16:17. For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my +face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes. + +16:18. And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins: +because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and +they have filled my inheritance with their abominations. + +16:19. O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of +tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, +and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which +hath not profited them. + +16:20. Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods? + +16:21. Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know, I will shew +them my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name is the Lord. + +Jeremias Chapter 17 + +For their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. He is cursed +that trusteth in flesh. God alone searcheth the heart, giving to every +one as he deserves. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from his +enemies, and preacheth up the observance of the sabbath. + +17:1. The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a +diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of +their altars. + +17:2. When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, +and their green trees upon the high mountains, + +17:3. Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy +treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders. + +17:4. And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave +thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou +knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn +for ever. + +17:5. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and +maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. + +17:6. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see +when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a +salt land, and not inhabited. + +Tamaric... A barren shrub that grows in the driest parts of the +wilderness. + +17:7. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall +be his confidence. + +17:8. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that +spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the +heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of +drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time +to bring forth fruit. + +17:9. The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can +know it? + +17:10. I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give +to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his +devices. + +17:11. As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is +he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days +he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool. + +17:12. A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of our +sanctification. + +17:13. O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be +confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: +because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters. + +17:14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be +saved: for thou art my praise. + +17:15. Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it +come. + +17:16. And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have +not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my +lips, hath been right in thy sight. + +17:17. Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of +affliction. + +17:18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be +confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon +them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them. + +Let them be confounded, etc... Such expressions as these in the writings +of the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding +from malice or desire of revenge: but as prophetic predictions of evils +that were about to fall upon impenitent sinners, and approbations of the +ways of divine justice. + +17:19. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the +children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, +and in all the gates of Jerusalem: + +17:20. And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings +of Juda, and al Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter +in by these gates. + +17:21. Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no +burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of +Jerusalem. + +17:22. And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, +neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your +fathers. + +17:23. But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their +neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction. + +17:24. And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the +Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath +day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein: + +17:25. Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and +princes, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and on +horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of +Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever. + +17:26. And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places +round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the +plains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing holocausts, +and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in +an offering into the house of the Lord. + +17:27. But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, +and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of +Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, +and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be +quenched. + +Jeremias Chapter 18 + +As the clay in the hand of the potter, so is Israel in God's hand. He +pardoneth penitents, and punisheth the obstinate. They conspire against +Jeremias, for which he denounceth to them the miseries that hang over +them. + +18:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: + +18:2. Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt +hear my words. + +18:3. And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a +work on the wheel. + +18:4. And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his +hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes +to make it. + +18:5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +18:6. Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the +Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my +hand, O house of Israel. + +18:7. I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to +root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. + +18:8. If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their +evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. + +18:9. And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build +up and plant it. + +18:10. If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I +will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it. + +18:11. Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of +Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, +and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his +evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good. + +18:12. And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own +thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his +evil heart. + +18:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath +heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? + +18:14. Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can +the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? + +18:15. Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and +stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not +trodden: + +18:16. That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a +perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, +and wag his head. + +18:17. As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will +shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction. + +18:18. And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: +for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, +nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the +tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. + +18:19. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. + +18:20. Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit +for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for +them, and to turn away thy indignation from them. + +Remember, etc... This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by +the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon +them in punishment of their crimes. + +18:21. Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them +into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and +widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be +stabbed with the sword in battle. + +18:22. Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the +robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, +and have hid snares for my feet. + +18:23. But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto +death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy +sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath +do thou destroy them. + +Jeremias Chapter 19 + +Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, the prophet foresheweth +the desolation of the Jews for their sins. + +19:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's earthen bottle, and +take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests: + +19:2. And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is by the +entry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the words that +I shall tell thee. + +19:3. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, +and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God +of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that +whosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle: + +19:4. Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place: and +have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their +fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place +with the blood of innocents. + +19:5. And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their +children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, +nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind. + +19:6. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place +shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but +the valley of slaughter. + +19:7. And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this +place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their +enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give +their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts +of the earth. + +19:8. And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every +one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because +of all the plagues thereof. + +19:9. And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the +flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his +friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and +they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. + +19:10. And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that +shall go with thee. + +19:11. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so +will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is +broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in +Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in. + +19:12. Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the +inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth. + +19:13. And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda +shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose +roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured +out drink offerings to strange gods. + +19:14. Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent him to +prophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord, and said +to all the people: + +19:15. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will +bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the evils +that I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks, +that they might not hear my words. + +Jeremias Chapter 20 + +The prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors, +and bemoans himself. + +20:1. Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief +in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words. + +20:2. And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the +stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the +Lord. + +20:3. And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremias out +of the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called thy +name Phassur, but fear on every side. + +Phassur... This name signifies increase and principality: and therefore +is here changed to Magor-Missabib, or fear on every side: to denote the +evils that should come upon him in punishment of his opposing the word +of God. + +20:4. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to fear, +thee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their +enemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into the +hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall carry them away to Babylon, +and shall strike them with the sword. + +20:5. And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its +labour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the +kings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they +shall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon. + +20:6. But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into +captivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and +there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to whom thou hast +prophesied a lie. + +20:7. Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been +stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock +all the day, all scoff at me. + +Thou hast deceived, etc... The meaning of the prophet, is not to charge +God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the +concealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the +greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to +bring upon him. + +20:8. For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity, +and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a +reproach to me, and a derision all the day. + +20:9. Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in +his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my +bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it. + +20:10. For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: +Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my +familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, +and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him. + +20:11. But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that +persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly +confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, +which never shall be effaced. + +20:12. And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the +reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: +for to thee I have laid open my cause. + +Let me see, etc... This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill will, +but zeal of justice. + +20:13. Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered +the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked. + +20:14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my +mother bore me, be blessed. + +Cursed be the day, etc... In these, and the following words of the +prophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more energy +the greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him. + +20:15. Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: +A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice. + +20:16. Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and +hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at +noontide: + +20:17. Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my +grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. + +20:18. Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my +days should be spent in confusion? + +Jeremias Chapter 21 + +The prophet's answer to the messengers of Sedecias, when Jerusalem was +besieged. + +21:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias +sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of +Maasias the priest, saying: + +21:2. Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon +maketh war against us: if so be the Lord will deal with us according to +all his wonderful works, that he may depart from us. + +21:3. And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias: + +21:4. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold I will turn back +the weapons of war that are in your hands, and with which you fight +against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege you round +about the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this +city. + +21:5. And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and +with a strong arm, and in fury, and in indignation, and in great wrath. + +21:6. And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts +shall die of a great pestilence. + +21:7. And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of +Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this +city from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand +of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their +enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall +strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to +pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy to them. + +21:8. And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I +set before you the way of life, and the way of death. + +21:9. He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword, and by +the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that shall go out and flee +over to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live, and his life shall +be to him as a spoil. + +21:10. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for +good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of +Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. + +21:11. And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of the +Lord, + +21:12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the +morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand +of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be +kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your +ways. + +21:13. Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a valley upon a rock above +a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us and who shall +enter into our houses? + +To thee that dwellest, etc... He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the +strength of her situation upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley. + +21:14. But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, +saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it +shall devour all things round about it. + +Jeremias Chapter 22 + +An exhortation both to king and people to return of God. The sentence of +God upon Joachaz, Joakim, and Jechonias. + +22:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and +there thou shalt speak this word, + +Go down, etc... The contents of this chapter are of a more ancient date +than those of the foregoing chapter: for the order of time is not always +observed in the writings of the prophets. + +22:2. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Juda, that +sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people, +who enter in by these gates. + +22:3. Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him +that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the +stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and +shed not innocent blood in this place. + +22:4. For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by +the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his +throne, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants, +and their people. + +22:5. But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, +saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation. + +22:6. For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art +to me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a +wilderness, and cities not habitable. + +Galaad the head of Libanus... By Galaad, a rich and fruitful country, is +here signified the royal palace of the kings of the house of David: by +Libanus, a high mountain abounding in cedar trees, the populous city of +Jerusalem. + +22:7. And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and +they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into +the fire. + +Prepare... Literally, sanctify. + +22:8. And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every +man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city? + +22:9. And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of +the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them. + +22:10. Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears: +lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his +native country. + +Weep not for him that is dead, etc... He means the good king Josias, who +by death was taken away, so as not to see the miseries of his country. +Ibid. Him that goeth away... Viz., sellum, alias Joachaz, who was +carried captive into Egypt. + +22:11. For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the king of +Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this +place: He shall return hither no more: + +22:12. But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall he +die, and he shall not see this land any more. + +22:13. Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his +chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, +and will not pay him his wages. + +22:14. Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who +openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them +with vermilion. + +22:15. Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? +did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it +was then well with him? + +22:16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was +it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord? + +22:17. But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon +shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil +works. + +22:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias +king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas, +sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or, Alas, the +noble one. + +22:19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast +forth without the gates of Jerusalem. + +22:20. Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and +cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed. + +22:21. I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not +hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard +my voice. + +22:22. The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into +captivity and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all thy +wickedness. + +22:23. Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, +how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a +woman in labour? + +22:24. As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the +king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence. + +22:25. And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, +and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. + +22:26. And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a +strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die: + +22:27. And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up +their mind to return thither. + +22:28. Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a +vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, +and are cast into a land which they know not? + +22:29. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. + +22:30. Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not +prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall +sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda. + +Write this man barren... That is, childless: not that he had no +children, but that his children should never sit on the throne of Juda. + +Jeremias Chapter 23 + +God reproves evil governors; and promises to send good pastors; and +Christ himself the prince of the pastors. He inveighs against false +prophets preaching without being sent. + +23:1. Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, +saith the Lord. + +23:2. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors +that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, +and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of +your doings, saith the Lord. + +23:3. And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the +lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to +their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied. + +23:4. And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them: +they shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall +be wanting of their number, saith the Lord. + +23:5. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David +a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall +execute judgment and justice in the earth. + +23:6. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell +confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our +just one. + +23:7. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall say +no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of +the land of Egypt: + +23:8. But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the +seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all +the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their +own land. + +23:9. To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones +tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the +presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words. + +23:10. Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath +mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and +their course is become evil, and their strength unlike. + +23:11. For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I +have found their wickedness, saith the Lord. + +23:12. Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for +they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon +them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. + +23:13. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied +in Baal and deceived my people Israel. + +23:14. And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying +in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the +wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all +become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha. + +23:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I +will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from +the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land. + +23:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the +prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of +their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. + +23:17. They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall +have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own +heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you. + +23:18. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and +heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it? + +23:19. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, +and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked. + +23:20. The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and +till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you +shall understand his counsel. + +23:21. I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, +yet they prophesied. + +23:22. If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to +my people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their +wicked doings. + +23:23. Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar +off? + +23:24. Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the +Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord? + +23:25. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my +name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed. + +23:26. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy +lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart? + +23:27. Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, +which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my +name for Baal. + +23:28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that +hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to +do with the wheat, saith the Lord? + +23:29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that +breaketh the rock in pieces? + +23:30. Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who +steal my words every one from his neighbour. + +23:31. Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their +tongues, and say: The Lord saith it. + +23:32. Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith +the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and +by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not +profited this people at all, saith the Lord. + +23:33. If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask +thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: +You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord. + +23:34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall +say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his +house. + +Burden of the Lord... This expression is here rejected and disallowed, +at least for those times: because it was then used in mockery and +contempt by the false prophets, and unbelieving people, who ridiculed +the repeated threats of Jeremias under the name of his burdens. + +23:35. Thus shall you say every one to his neighbour, and to his +brother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken? + +23:36. And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every +man's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the +living God, of the Lord of hosts our God. + +23:37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered +thee? and what hath the Lord spoken? + +23:38. But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus +saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: +and I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord: + +23:39. Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will +forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out +of my presence. + +Out of my presence... That is, the Lord declares that out of his +presence he will cast them, and bring them to captivity for their +transgressions. + +23:40. And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a +perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten. + +Jeremias Chapter 24 + +Under the type of good and bad figs, he foretells the restoration of the +Jews that had been carried away captive with Jechonias, and the +desolation of those that were left behind. + +24:1. The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set +before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon +had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his +chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had +brought them to Babylon. + +24:2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: +and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, +because they were bad. + +24:3. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: +Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot +be eaten because they are bad. + +24:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +24:5. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so +will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this +place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good. + +24:6. And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring +them again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them +down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. + +24:7. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and +they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall +return to me with their whole heart. + +24:8. And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are +bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and +his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this +city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt. + +24:9. And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the +kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, +and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out. + +24:10. And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the +pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, +and their fathers. + +Jeremias Chapter 25 + +The prophet foretells the seventy years captivity; after that the +destruction of Babylon, and other nations. + +25:1. The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda, +in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same +is the first year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,) + +25:2. Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of Juda, and to +all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: + +25:3. From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda +until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the +Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and +speaking, and you have not hearkened. + +25:4. And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, +rising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened, nor inclined your +ears to hear. + +25:5. When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from +your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath +given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever. + +25:6. And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor +provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict +you. + +25:7. And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke +me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt. + +25:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard +my words: + +25:9. Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith +the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will +bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and +against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy +them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual +desolations. + +My servant... So this wicked king is here called; because God made him +his instrument in punishing the sins of his people. + +25:10. And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice +of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, +the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp. + +25:11. And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and +all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. + +25:12. And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the +king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, +and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations. + +Punish... Literally, visit upon. + +25:13. And I will bring upon that land all my words, that I have spoken +against it, all that is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath +prophesied against all nations: + +25:14. For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and +great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and +according to the works of their hands. + +25:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup +of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to +drink thereof, into which I shall send thee. + +25:16. And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the +sword, which I shall send among them. + +25:17. And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to +all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me: + +25:18. To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, +and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, +and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day. + +25:19. Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and +all his people, + +25:20. And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all +the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and +Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus. + +25:21. And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. + +25:22. And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the +kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea. + +25:23. And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut +round. + +25:24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that +dwell in the desert. + +25:25. And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all +the kings of the Medes: + +25:26. And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against +his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face +thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them. + +Sesac... That is, Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these +people under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself. + +25:27. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God +of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no +more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you. + +25:28. And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou +shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall +drink: + +25:29. For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is +called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall +not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants +of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. + +25:30. And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou shalt +say to them: I The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his +voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the place of +his beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be +given out against all the inhabitants of the earth. + +25:31. The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord +entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with +all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord. + +25:32. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from +nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of +the earth. + +25:33. And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of +the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and +they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon +the face of the earth. + +25:34. Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, +ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your +dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels. + +25:35. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of +the flock to save themselves. + +25:36. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the +principal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures. + +25:37. And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce +anger of the Lord. + +25:38. He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid +waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger +of the Lord. + +The dove... This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose +military standard, it is said, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah, +which is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor, +which name better agrees to that unmerciful prince; or by comparison, as +a dove's flight is the swiftest, so would their destruction come upon +them. + +Jeremias Chapter 26 + +The prophet is apprehended and accused by the priests: but discharged by +the princes. + +26:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of +Juda, came this word from the Lord, saying: + +26:2. Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, +and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in +the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to +speak unto them: leave not out one word. + +26:3. If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his +evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them +for the wickedness of their doings. + +26:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not +hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you: + +26:5. To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent +to you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened: + +26:6. I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a +curse to all the nations of the earth. + +26:7. And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard +Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord. + +26:8. And when Jeremias had made an end of speaking all that the Lord +had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the +prophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to +death. + +26:9. Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: This house +shall be like Silo; and this city shall be made desolate, without an +inhabitant? And all the people were gathered together against Jeremias +in the house of the Lord. + +26:10. And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from +the king's house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the +new gate of the house of the Lord. + +26:11. And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all +the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he +hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears. + +26:12. Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and to all the people, +saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and +concerning this city all the words that you have heard. + +26:13. Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to +the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil +that he hath spoken against you. + +26:14. But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is good +and right in your eyes: + +26:15. But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you +will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, +and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to +speak all these words in your hearing. + +26:16. Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to +the prophets: There is no judgment of death for this man: for he hath +spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God. + +26:17. And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to +all the assembly of the people, saying: + +26:18. Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of +Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the +Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall +be a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of +woods. + +26:19. Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death? +did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the +Lord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we +are doing a great evil against our souls. + +26:20. There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, +Urias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this +city, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremias. + +26:21. And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes heard these +words: and the king sought to put him to death. And Urias heard it, and +was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt. + +26:22. And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achobor, +and men with him into Egypt. + +26:23. And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to king +Joakim, and he slew him with the sword: and he cast his dead body into +the graves of the common people. + +26:24. So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan was with Jeremias, that +he should not be delivered into the hands of the people, to put him to +death. + +Jeremias Chapter 27 + +The prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend +their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon. The vessels of the +temple shall not be brought back till all the rest are carried away. + +27:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of +Juda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: + +Joakim... This revelation was made to the prophet in the beginning of +the reign of Joakim: but the bands were not sent to the princes here +named before the reign of Sedecias, ver. 3. + +27:2. Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou +shalt put them on thy neck. + +27:3. And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of +Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, +and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to +Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda. + +27:4. And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith +the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters: + +27:5. I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the +face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I +have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. + +27:6. And now I have given all these lands into the hand of +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of +the field I have given him to serve him. + +27:7. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son: +till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great +kings shall serve him. + +His son... Viz., Evilmerodach; and his son's son, Nabonydus, or +Nabonadius, the Baltassar of Daniel, chap. 5., and the last of the +Chaldean kings. + +27:8. But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor king +of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the +king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with +famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his +hand. + +27:9. Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and +dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not +serve the king of Babylon. + +27:10. For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your +country, and cast you out, and to make you perish. + +27:11. But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of +the king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in +their own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it. + +27:12. And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these +words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of +Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live. + +27:13. Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by +famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the +nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? + +27:14. Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You +shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie. + +27:15. For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in my +name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you, and +the prophets that prophesy to you. + +27:16. I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus +saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy +to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time +be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. + +27:17. Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, +that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation? + +27:18. But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let +them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels +which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king +of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon. + +27:19. For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pillars, and to the sea, +and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this +city: + +27:20. Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he +carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from +Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem. + +27:21. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the +vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the +king of Juda and Jerusalem: + +27:22. They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until +the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be +brought, and to be restored in this place. + +Jeremias Chapter 28 + +The false prophecy of Hananias: he dies that same year, as Jeremias +foretold. + +28:1. And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of +Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that +Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house +of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying: + +28:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the +yoke of the king of Babylon. + +28:3. As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the +house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried +them to Babylon. + +28:4. And I will bring back to this place Jechonias the son of Joakim +king of Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that are gone to Babylon, +saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. + +28:5. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in the +presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that +stood in the house of the Lord: + +28:6. And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord +perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be +brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may +return out of Babylon to this place. + +28:7. Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the +ears of all the people: + +28:8. The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the +beginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning +great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine. + +28:9. The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to +pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth. + +28:10. And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremias +the prophet, and broke it. + +28:11. And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying: +Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the +king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the +nations. + +28:12. And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the Lord +came to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain +from off the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying: + +28:13. Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken +chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron. + +28:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a +yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor +king of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also I have given +him the beasts of the earth. + +28:15. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, +Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to +trust in a lie. + +28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from +off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast +spoken against the Lord. + +28:17. And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh month. + + +Jeremias Chapter 29 + +Jeremias writeth to the captives in Babylon, exhorting them to be easy +there, and not to hearken to false prophets. That they shall be +delivered after seventy years. But those that remain in Jerusalem shall +perish by the sword, famine, and pestilence. And that Achab, Sedecias, +and Semeias, false prophets, shall die miserably. + +29:1. Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias the prophet +sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried +into captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the +people, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: + +29:2. After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and +the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the +engravers were departed out of Jerusalem: + +29:3. By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of +Helcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor +king of Babylon, saying: + +29:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are +carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from +Jerusalem to Babylon: + +29:5. Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat +the fruit of them. + +29:6. Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for +your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons +and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number. + +29:7. And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be +carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace +thereof shall be your peace. + +29:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your +prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: +and give no heed to your dreams which you dream: + +29:9. For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent +them, saith the Lord. + +29:10. For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be +accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good +word in your favour, to bring you again to this place. + +29:11. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, +thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and +patience. + +29:12. And you shall call upon me, and you shall go and you shall pray +to me, and I will hear you. + +29:13. You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with +all your heart. + +29:14. And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back +your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all +the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will +bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away +captive. + +29:15. Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in +Babylon: + +29:16. For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne +of David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your +brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity. + +29:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the +sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad +figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad. + +29:18. And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and +with the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the +kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a +hissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them +out: + +29:19. Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord: +which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and +sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord. + +29:20. Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, +whom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon. + +29:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son +of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in +my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of +Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your +eyes. + +29:22. And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of +Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and +like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire: + +29:23. Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed +adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in +my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, +saith the Lord. + +29:24. And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say: + +29:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou hast +sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to +Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests, saying: + +29:26. The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that +thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that +raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison. + +29:27. And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who +prophesieth to you? + +29:28. For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long +time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the +fruits of them. + +29:29. So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of +Jeremias the prophet. + +29:30. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying: + +29:31. Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord to +Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I +sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie: + +29:32. Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias +the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the +midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my +people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord. + + +Jeremias Chapter 30 + +God will deliver his people from their captivity: Christ shall be their +king: and his church shall be glorious for ever. + +30:1. This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: + +30:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the +words that I have spoken to thee, in a book. + +30:3. For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again +the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will +cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they +shall possess it. + +30:4. And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to +Juda: + +30:5. For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is +fear and no peace. + +30:6. Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every +man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces +are turned yellow? + +30:7. Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and +it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it. + + +30:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, +that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: +and strangers shall no more rule over him: + +30:9. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, +whom I will raise up to them. + +David... That is, Christ of the house of David. + +30:10. Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, +neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a +country afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and +Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and +there shall be none whom he may fear: + +30:11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will +utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but +I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, +that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent. + +30:12. For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is +very grievous. + +30:13. There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no +healing medicines. + +30:14. All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: +for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel +chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are +hardened. + +30:15. Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for +the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done +these things to thee. + +30:16. Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all +thy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee +shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. + +30:17. For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, +saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This +is she that hath none to seek after her. + +30:18. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of +the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city +shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded +according to the order thereof. + +30:19. And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them +that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and +I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened. + +30:20. And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their +assembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all that +afflict them. + +30:21. And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall +come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he +shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to +me, saith the Lord? + +30:22. And you shall be my people: and I will be your God. + +30:23. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent +storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked. + +30:24. The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he +have executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter days +you shall understand these things. + +Jeremias Chapter 31 + +The restoration of Israel. Rachel shall cease from morning. The new +covenant. The church shall never fail. + +31:1. At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the +families of Israel, and they shall be my people. + +31:2. Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from +the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest. + +31:3. The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with +an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee. + +31:4. And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of +Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go +forth in the dances of them that make merry. + +31:5. Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the +planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the +time. + +31:6. For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, +shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God. + +31:7. For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and neigh +before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O +Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel. + +31:8. Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather +them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and +the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, +together, a great company of them returning hither. + +31:9. They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: +and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and +they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim +is my firstborn. + +31:10. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the +islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather +him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock. + +31:11. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the +hand of one that was mightier than he. + +31:12. And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and +they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, +and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul +shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more. + +31:13. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old +men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort +them, and make them joyful after their sorrow. + +31:14. And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my +people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord. + +31:15. Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of +mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing +to be comforted for them, because they are not. + +31:16. Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy +eyes tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they +shall return out of the land of the enemy. + +31:17. And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the +children shall return to their own borders. + +31:18. Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast +chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to +the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my +God. + +31:19. For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou +didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, +because I have borne the reproach of my youth. + +31:20. Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender +child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore +are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord. + + +31:21. Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy +heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of +Israel, return to these thy cities. + +31:22. How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering +daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN +SHALL COMPASS A MAN. + +31:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall +they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when +I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of +justice, the holy mountain. + +31:24. And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the +husbandman and they that drive the flocks. + +31:25. For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every +hungry soul. + +31:26. Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and +my sleep was sweet to me. + +31:27. Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of +Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of +beasts. + +31:28. And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, +and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to +build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord. + +31:29. In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a +sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. + +31:30. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that +shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. + +31:31. Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new +covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: + +31:32. Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in +the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of +Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, +saith the Lord. + +31:33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of +Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their +bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and +they shall be my people. + +31:34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every +man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the +least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive +their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. + +31:35. Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, +the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who +stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is +his name. + +31:36. If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then +also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me +for ever. + +31:37. Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and +the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away +all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord. + +31:38. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be +built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the +corner. + +31:39. And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the +hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha, + +31:40. And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of ashes, and all the +country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the +horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be +plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever. + +Jeremias Chapter 32 + +Jeremias by God's commandment purchases a field of his kinsman: and +prophesies the return of the people out of captivity: and the +everlasting covenant God will make with his church. + +32:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of +Sedecias king of Juda: the same is the eighteenth year of +Nabuchodonosor. + +32:2. At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem: +and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which +was in the house of the king of Juda. + +32:3. For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou +prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into +the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it? + +32:4. And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the +Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of +Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall +see his eyes. + +32:5. And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be there till +I visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the +Chaldeans, you shall have no success. + +32:6. And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying: + +32:7. Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee, +saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to +buy it, being next akin. + +32:8. And Hanameel my uncle's son came to me, according to the word of +the Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field, +which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of +inheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I +understood that this was the word of the Lord. + +32:9. And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that is in +Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of +silver. + +32:10. And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I +weighed him the money in the balances. + +32:11. And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and the +stipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the +outside. + +32:12. And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neri the +son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, in the presence +of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and before +all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. + +32:13. And I charged Baruch before them, saying: + +32:14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these +writings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed +that is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue +many days. + +32:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and +fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. + +32:16. And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son +of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying: + +32:17. Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and +earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be +hard to thee: + +32:18. Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of +the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, +great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name. + +32:19. Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are +open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one +according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices. + +32:20. Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until +this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as +at this day. + +32:21. And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of +Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a +stretched out arm, and with great terror. + +32:22. And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their +fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. + +32:23. And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy +voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those +things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come +upon them. + +32:24. Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the +city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by +the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast +spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest. + +32:25. And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and +take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the +Chaldeans? + +32:26. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying: + +32:27. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be +hard for me? + +32:28. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city +into the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of +Babylon, and they shall take it. + +32:29. And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and +set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they +offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange +gods, to provoke me to wrath. + +32:30. For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have +continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of +Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith +the Lord. + +32:31. For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from +the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken +out of my sight. + +32:32. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the +children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and +their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the +men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +32:33. And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when +I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would +not hearken to receive instruction. + +32:34. And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is +called upon, to defile it. + +32:35. And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the +valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters +to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart, +that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin. + +32:36. And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to this +city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands of the +king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: + +32:37. Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which +I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great +indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause +them to dwell securely. + +32:38. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. + +32:39. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear +me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children +after them. + +32:40. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not +cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they +may not revolt from me. + +32:41. And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I +will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all +my soul. + +32:42. For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all +this great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now speak +to them. + +32:43. And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that +it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is +given into the hands of the Chaldeans. + +32:44. Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be written, and +sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and round +about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the +mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are +towards the south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith the +Lord. + +Jeremias Chapter 33 + +God promises reduction from captivity, and other blessings: especially +the coming of Christ, whose reign in his church shall be glorious and +perpetual. + +33:1. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, while +he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying: + +33:2. Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and prepare +it, the Lord is his name. + +33:3. Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, +and sure things which thou knowest not. + +33:4. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this +city, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to +the bulwarks, and to the sword. + +33:5. Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them +with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in my +indignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their +wickedness. + +33:6. Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will +cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth. + +The prayer of peace... That is, the peace and welfare which they pray +for. + +33:7. And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of +Jerusalem: and I will build them as from the beginning. + +33:8. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have +sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they +have sinned against me, and despised me. + +33:9. And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a +gladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all the +good things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be troubled +for all the good things, and for all the peace that I will make for +them. + +33:10. Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place +(which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in +the cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without +man, and without inhabitant, and without beast) + +33:11. The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the +bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: +Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy +endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the +house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at +the first, saith the Lord. + +33:12. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place +that is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities +thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. + +33:13. And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the +plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of +Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the +flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the +Lord. + +33:14. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the +good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house of +Juda. + +33:15. In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice +to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the +earth. + +33:16. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell +securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our +just one. + +33:17. For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a +man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. + +There shall not be cut off from David, etc... This was verified in +Christ, who is of the house of David; and whose kingdom in his church +shall have no end. + +33:18. Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and Levites a man +before my face to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifices, and to kill +victims continually. + +Neither shall there be cut off from the priests, etc... This promise +relates to the Christian priesthood; which shall also continue for ever: +the functions of which (more especially the great sacrifice of the +altar) are here expressed by the name of holocausts, and other offerings +of the law, which were so many figures of the Christian sacrifice. + +33:19. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying: + +33:20. Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made +void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and +night in their season: + +33:21. Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he +should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites and +priests my ministers. + +33:22. As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the +sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and +the Levites my ministers. + +33:23. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying: + +33:24. Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two +families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised +my people, so that it is no more a nation before them? + +Two families, etc... Viz., the families of the kings and priests. + +33:25. Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day +and night, and laws to heaven and earth: + +33:26. Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my +servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of +Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and +will have mercy on them. + +Jeremias Chapter 34 + +The prophet foretells that Sedecias shall fall into the hands of +Nabuchodonosor: God's sentence upon the princes and people that had +broken his covenant. + +34:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when Nabuchodonosor +king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth, +that were under the power of his hand, and all the people fought against +Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof, saying: + +34:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Sedecias +king of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver +this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it +with fire. + +34:3. And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt surely +be taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall +see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy +mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. + +34:4. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith +the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword. + +34:5. But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy +fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn +thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have +spoken the word, saith the Lord. + +Die in peace... That is, by a natural death. + +34:6. And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias the +king of Juda in Jerusalem. + +34:7. And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and +against all the cities of Juda that were left, against Lachis, and +against Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda, fenced cities. + + +34:8. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that king +Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a +proclamation: + +34:9. That every man should let his manservant, and every man his +maidservant, being Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they +should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren. + +34:10. And all the princes, and all the people who entered into the +covenant, heard that every man should let his manservant, and every man +his maidservant go free, and should no more have dominion over them: and +they obeyed, and let them go free. + +34:11. But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants +and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into +subjection as menservants and maidservants. + +34:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: + +34:13. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with +your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, +out of the house of bondage, saying: + +34:14. At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being +a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: +and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not +hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear. + +34:15. And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my eyes, +in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and you made a covenant +in my sight, in the house upon which my name is invocated. + +34:16. And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have +brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his +maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have +brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids. + +34:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in +proclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his +friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the +sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be +removed to all the kingdoms of the earth. + +34:18. And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, and +have not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to in my +presence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts +thereof: + +34:19. The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, +and the priests, and all the people of the land that passed between the +parts of the calf: + +34:20. And I will give them into the hands of their enemies, and into +the hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be +for meat to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. + +34:21. And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I will give into +the hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their +lives, and into the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which +are gone from you. + +34:22. Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will bring them +again to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and +burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation, +without an inhabitant. + +Jeremias Chapter 35 + +The obedience of the Rechabites condemns the disobedience of the Jews. +The reward of the Rechabites. + +35:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of Joakim +the son of Josias king of Juda, saying: + +35:2. Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring +them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the +treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink. + +Rechabites... These were of the race of Jethro, father in law to Moses. + +35:3. And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of Habsanias, and +his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites. + +35:4. And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure +house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which +was by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias +the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry. + +35:5. And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full +of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine. + +35:6. And they answered: We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the +son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no +wine, neither you, nor your children, for ever: + +35:7. Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow reed, nor plant vineyards, +nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may +live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers. + +35:8. Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, +our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine +all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our +daughters: + +35:9. Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field, +or seed: + +35:10. But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to +all that Jonadab our father commanded us. + +35:11. But when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up to our land, we +said: Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the face of the army of the +Chaldeans, and from the face of the army of Syria: and we have remained +in Jerusalem. + +35:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying: + +35:13. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to +the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not +receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord? + +35:14. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his +sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to this +day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I +have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed +me. + +35:15. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising +early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way, +and make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them, +and you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and +you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me. + +35:16. So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have constantly kept the +commandment of their father, which he commanded them: but this people +hath not obeyed me. + +35:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold +I will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all +the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to +them, and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they have not +answered me. + +35:18. And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the +Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment +of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done +all that he commanded you: + +35:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: There +shall not be wanting a man of the race of Jonadab the son of Rechab, +standing before me for ever. + +Jeremias Chapter 36 + +Jeremias sends Baruch to read his prophecies in the temple; the book is +brought to king Joakim, who burns it. The prophet denounces his +judgment, and causes Baruch to write a new copy. + +36:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias +king of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias by the Lord, saying: + +36:2. Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the +words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against +all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of +Josias even to this day. + +36:3. If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils that I +purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his wicked +way: and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin. + +36:4. So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from +the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to him, +upon the roll of a book. + +36:5. And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and cannot go +into the house of the Lord. + +Shut up... Not that the prophet was now in prison; for the contrary +appears from ver. 19, but that he kept himself shut up, by reason of the +persecutions he had lately met with. See chap. 26. + +36:6. Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which thou hast +written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the +people in the house of the Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt +read them in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities: + +36:7. If so be they may present their supplication before the Lord, and +may return every one from his wicked way: for great is the wrath and +indignation which the Lord hath pronounced against this people. + +36:8. And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that Jeremias +the prophet had commanded him, reading out of the volume the words of +the Lord in the house of the Lord. + +36:9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias +king of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the +Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were +come together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem. + +36:10. And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias in the +house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the +scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of +the Lord, in the hearing of all the people. + +36:11. And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan had heard +out of the book all the words of the Lord, + +36:12. He went down into the king's house to the secretary's chamber: +and behold all the princes sat there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias +the son of Semeias, and Elnathan the son of Achobor, and Gamarias the +son of Saphan, and Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes. + +36:13. And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch +read out of the volume in the hearing of the people. + +36:14. Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias, the son +of Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in thy hand the +volume in which thou hast read in the hearing of the people, and come. +So Baruch the son of Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came to +them. + +36:15. And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our +hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing. + +36:16. And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one +another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the +king all these words. + +36:17. And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all +these words from his mouth. + +36:18. And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these +words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink. + +36:19. And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both thou and +Jeremias, and let no man know where you are. + +36:20. And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid up the +volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and they told all the words +in the hearing of the king. + +36:21. And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who +bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the +hearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king. + +36:22. Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and +there was a hearth before him full of burning coals. + +36:23. And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the +penknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till +all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth. + +36:24. And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were +not afraid, nor did they rend their garments. + +36:25. But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king, +not to burn the book: and he heard them not. + +36:26. And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias +the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the +scribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them. + +36:27. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, after that +the king had burnt the volume, and the words that Baruch had written +from the mouth of Jeremias, saying: + +36:28. Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former +words that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda both +burnt. + +36:29. And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the +Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written +therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall +lay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? + + +36:30. Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda: He +shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall +be cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night. + +He shall have none, etc... Because his son Joachin or Jechonias, within +three months after the death of his father, was carried away to Babylon, +so that his reign is not worthy of notice. + +36:31. And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their +iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of +Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced +against them, but they have not heard. + +36:32. And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch the son +of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremias all the +words of the book which Joakim the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and +there were added besides many more words than had been before. + +Jeremias Chapter 37 + +Jeremias prophesies that the Chaldeans, who had departed from Jerusalem, +would return and burn the city. He is cast into prison. His conference +with Sedecias. + +37:1. Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias +the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the +land of Juda. + +37:2. But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land did +obey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the +prophet. + +37:3. And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias +the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to +the Lord our God for us. + +37:4. Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people: for they +had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come out +of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these +tidings, departed from Jerusalem. + +37:5. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying: + +37:6. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the +king of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao, +which is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into +Egypt. + +37:7. And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, +and take it, and burn it with fire. + +37:8. Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans +shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away. + +37:9. But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that +fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: +they shall rise up, every man from his heart, and burn this city with +fire. + +37:10. Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, +because of Pharao's army, + +37:11. Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of +Benjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the +citizens, + +37:12. And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the +gate, who was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of +Selemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the prophet, +saying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans. + +37:13. And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the +Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and +brought him to the princes. + +37:14. Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat +him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the +scribe: for he was chief over the prison. + +37:15. So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the +dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days. + +37:16. Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him secretly +in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord? +And Jeremias said. There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into +the hands of the king of Babylon. + +37:17. And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended +against thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me +into prison? + +37:18. Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The +king of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land? + +37:19. Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my +petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house +of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. + +37:20. Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed +into the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a +piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent: +and Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison. + +Jeremias Chapter 38 + +The prophet at the instance of the great men is cast into a filthy +dungeon: he is drawn out by Abdemelech, and has another conference with +the king. + +38:1. Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur, +and Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard +the words that Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying: + +38:2. Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall remain in this city, shall +die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall go +forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he +shall live. + +38:3. Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered into the +hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. + +38:4. And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man +may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of +war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to +them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this +people, but evil. + +38:5. And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not +lawful for the king to deny you any thing. + +38:6. Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias +the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let +down Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but +mire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire. + +38:7. Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's +house, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king was +sitting in the gate of Benjamin. + +38:8. And Abdemelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the +king, saying: + +38:9. My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have +done against Jeremias the prophet, casting him into the dungeon to die +there with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city. + +38:10. Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying: Take +from hence thirty men with thee, and draw up Jeremias the prophet out of +the dungeon, before he die. + +38:11. So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the king's house +that was under the storehouse: and he took from thence old rags, and old +rotten things, and he let them down by cords to Jeremias into the +dungeon. + +38:12. And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old rags +and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the cords: and +Jeremias did so. + +38:13. And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and brought him forth +out of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison. + +38:14. And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the prophet to him to +the third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to +Jeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me. + +38:15. Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee, +wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not +hearken to me. + +38:16. Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private, saying: As the +Lord liveth, that, made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor +will I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life. + +38:17. And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the +God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes +of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be +burnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house. + +38:18. But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of +Babylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, +and they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of their +hand. + +38:19. And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the +Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered +into their hands, and they should abuse me. + +38:20. But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I +beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to the, and it +shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live. + +38:21. But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord +hath shewn me: + +38:22. Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of +Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and +they shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed +against thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery +place and they have departed from thee. + +Thy men of peace... Viri pacifici tui. That is thy false friends +promising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels involving +thee in misery. + +38:23. And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out to the +Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be +taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city +with fire. + +38:24. Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know these words, and +thou shalt not die. + +38:25. But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken with thee, and +shall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the +king, hide it not from us, and we will not kill thee: and also what the +king said to thee: + +38:26. Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the +king, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of +Jonathan, to die there. + +38:27. So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he spoke +to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him: and +they left him: for nothing had been heard. + +38:28. But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day +that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken. + +Jeremias Chapter 39 + +After two years' siege Jerusalem is taken. Sedecias is carried before +Nabuchodonosor, who kills his sons in his sight, and then puts out his +eyes. Jeremias is set at liberty. + +39:1. In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, +came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and +they besieged it. + +39:2. And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the +fifth day of the month, the city was opened. + +39:3. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the +middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares, +Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of +Babylon. + +39:4. And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw +them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the +way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two +walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. + +39:5. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took +Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken +him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, +which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him. + +39:6. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha, +before his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda. + +39:7. He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters, +to be carried to Babylon. + +39:8. And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses of the +people with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem. + +39:9. And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to +Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the +fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that +remained. + +39:10. But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had +nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and +cisterns at that time. + +39:11. Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to Nabuzardan +the general concerning Jeremias, saying: + +39:12. Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm: but as +he hath a mind, so do with him. + +39:13. Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent, and Nabuzardan, and +Rabsares, and Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all the nobles of +the king of Babylon, + +39:14. Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and +committed him to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he +might go home, and dwell among the people. + +39:15. But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut +up in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the +Ethiopian, saying: + +39:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will +bring my words upon this city unto evil, and not unto good: and they +shall be accomplished in thy sight in that day. + +39:17. And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou +shalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest: + +39:18. But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by +the sword: but thy life shall be saved for thee, because thou hast put +thy trust in me, saith the Lord. + +Jeremias Chapter 40 + +Jeremias remains with Godolias the governor; who receives all the Jews +that resort to him. + +40:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that +Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him, +being bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from +Jerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon. + +40:2. And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord +thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place, + +40:3. And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath said: +because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his +voice, and this word is come upon you. + +40:4. Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which +were upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come: +and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come +with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as +thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go. + +40:5. And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of Ahicam +the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the +cities of Juda: dwell therefore with him in the midst of the people: or +whithersoever it shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the +army gave him victuals and presents, and let him go. + +40:6. And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and +dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land. + +40:7. And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through +the countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of +Babylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country, and +that he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the +poor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to +Babylon: + +40:8. They came to Godolias to Masphath: and Ismahel the son of +Nathanias, and Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree, and Sareas the +son of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi, that were of Netophathi, +and Jezonias the son of Maachati, they and their men. + +40:9. And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to them and +to their companions, saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in +the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. + +40:10. Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of +the Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the +vintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels, +and abide in your cities which you hold. + +40:11. Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children +of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that +the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made +Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them: + +40:12. All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to which they +had fled, and they came into the land of Juda to Godolias to Masphath: +and they gathered wine, and a very great harvest. + +40:13. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the army, +that had been scattered about in the countries, came to Godolias to +Masphath. + +40:14. And they said to him: Know that Baalis the king of the children +of Ammon hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias to kill thee. And +Godolias the son of Ahicam believed them not. + +40:15. But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Godolias privately in +Masphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of +Nathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and all the Jews +be scattered, that are gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda +perish. + +40:16. And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of Caree: +Do not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false. + +Jeremias Chapter 41 + +Godolias is slain: the Jews that were with him are apprehensive of the +Chaldeans. + +41:1. And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of +Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the +king, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into +Masphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath. + +41:2. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men that were +with him, and they struck Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan +with the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor +over the land. + +41:3. Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with Godolias in +Masphath, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the soldiers. + +41:4. And on the second day after he had killed Godolias, no man yet +knowing it, + +41:5. There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria, +fourscore men, with their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and +mourning: and they had offerings and incense in their hand, to offer in +the house of the Lord. + +41:6. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth from Masphath to meet +them, weeping all along as he went: and when he had met them, he said to +them: Come to Godolias, the son of Ahicam. + +41:7. And when they were come to the midst of the city, Ismahel the son +of Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he and +the men that were with him. + +41:8. But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us +not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and +honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren. + +41:9. And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the men +whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for +fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of +Nathanias fill with them that were slain. + +41:10. Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the people +that were in Masphath: the king's daughters, and all the people that +remained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the general of the army had +committed to Godolias the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of +Nathanias took them, and he departed, to go over to the children of +Ammon. + +41:11. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the +fighting men that were with him, heard of the evil that Ismahel the son +of Nathanias had done. + +41:12. And taking all the men, they went out to fight against Ismahel +the son of Nathanias, and they found him by the great waters that are in +Gabaon. + +41:13. And when all the people that were with Ismahel, had seen Johanan +the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were +with him, they rejoiced. + +41:14. And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to Masphath: +and they returned and went to Johanan the son of Caree. + +41:15. But Ismahel the son of Nathanias fled with eight men, from the +face of Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon. + +41:16. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the +soldiers that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom +they had recovered from Ismahel the son of Nathanias, from Masphath, +after that he had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam: valiant men for war, +and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs whom he had brought +back from Gabaon. + +41:17. And they departed, and sat as sojourners in Chamaam, which is +near Bethlehem: in order to go forward, and enter into Egypt, + +41:18. From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, +because Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of +Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Juda. + +Jeremias Chapter 42 + +Jeremias assures the remnant of the people, that if they will stay in +Juda, they shall be safe; but if they go down into Egypt, they shall +perish. + +42:1. Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of +Caree, and Jezonias, the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from +the least to the greatest came near: + +42:2. And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall +before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this +remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us. + +42:3. And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and +the thing that we must do. + +42:4. And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I +will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever +thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide +nothing from you. + +42:5. And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of truth +and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the +Lord thy God shall send thee to us. + +42:6. Whether it be good or 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 shall +hearken to the voice of the Lord our God. + +Good or evil... That is, agreeable or disagreeable. + +42:7. Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias. + +42:8. And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of +the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least +to the greatest. + +42:9. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to +whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him: + +42:10. If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you +up, and not pull you down: I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for +now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you. + +I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you... That is, I am +appeased, as I have sufficiently punished you, and now I am reconciled +with you. + +42:11. Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly +afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, +and to deliver you from his hand. + +42:12. And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and +will cause you to dwell in your own land. + +42:13. But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we +hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, + +42:14. 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 suffer hunger: and +there we will dwell. + +42:15. For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus +saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go +into Egypt, and enter in to dwell there: + +42:16. The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of +Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in +Egypt, and there you shall die. + +42:17. And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell +there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of +them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will +bring upon them. + +42:18. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger +and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of +Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you +shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an +astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place +no more. + +42:19. This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of +Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this +day. + +42:20. For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord +our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all +that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will +do it. + +42:21. And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not +obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for +which he hath sent me to you. + +42:22. Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and +by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to +dwell there. + +Jeremias Chapter 43 + +The Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt, +carrying Jeremias with them. He foretells the devastation of that land +by the king of Babylon. + +43:1. And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of +speaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which +the Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words: + +43:2. Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all +the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the +Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell +there. + +43:3. But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, to +deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us +to be carried away captives to Babylon. + +43:4. So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers, +and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the +land of Juda. + +43:5. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers +took all the remnant of Juda, that were returned out of all nations, to +which they had before been scattered, to dwell in the land of Juda: + +43:6. Men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every +soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of +Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son +of Nerias. + +43:7. And they went into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the +voice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis. + +43:8. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis, saying: + +43:9. Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the +vault that is under the brick wall at the gate of Pharao's house in +Taphnis: in the sight of the men of Juda. + +43:10. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God +of Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of +Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I +have hid, and he shall set his throne over them. + +43:11. And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for +death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such +as are for the sword, to the sword. + +43:12. And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, +and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he +shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his +garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace. + +43:13. And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are +in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn +with fire. + +Jeremias Chapter 44 + +The prophet's admonition to the Jews in Egypt against idolatry is not +regarded: he denounces to them their destruction. + +44:1. The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt +in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in +Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying: + +44:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all +this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of +Juda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an +inhabitant in them: + +44:3. Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me +to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which +neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew. + +44:4. And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and +sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate. + +44:5. But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil +ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods. + +44:6. Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was +kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they +are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day. + +44:7. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you +commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of +you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no +remnant should be left you: + +44:8. In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by +sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come +to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a +reproach to all the nations of the earth? + +44:9. Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the +kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the +evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the +streets of Jerusalem? + +44:10. They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, +nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set +before you and your fathers. + +44:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold +I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda. + +44:12. And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to +go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all +consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the +famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, +by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an +execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach. + +44:13. And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have +visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine and by pestilence. + +44:14. And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of the +remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and +that shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to +return to dwell there: there shall none return but they that shall flee. + + +44:15. Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other +gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and +all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, +answered Jeremias, saying: + +44:16. As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the +Lord, we will not hearken to thee: + +44:17. But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our +own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink +offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our +princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we +were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil. + +The queen of heaven... The moon, which they worshipped under this name. + +44:18. But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, +and to pour out frank offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and +have been consumed by the sword, and by famine. + +44:19. And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out +drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out +drink offerings to her, without our husbands? + +44:20. And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the +women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying: + +44:21. Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, +and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and +your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath +remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart? + +44:22. So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of +your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: +therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a +curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. + +44:23. Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the +Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in +his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are +these evils come upon you, as at this day. + +44:24. And Jeremias said to all the people and to all the women: Hear ye +the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt: + +44:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and +your wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands, +saying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice +to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have +fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed. + +44:26. Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell +in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the +Lord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of +Juda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth. + +44:27. Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all +the men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed, by the +sword, and by famine, till there be an end of them. + +44:28. And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of +the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda +that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose +word shall stand, mine, or theirs. + +44:29. And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will +punish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be +accomplished indeed against you for evil. + +44:30. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Nechao king of +Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek +his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the land of +Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life. + +Jeremias Chapter 45 + +The prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction. + +45:1. The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of +Nerias, when he had written these words in a book, out of the mouth of +Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, +saying: + +45:2. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch: + +45:3. Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath +added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no +rest. + +45:4. Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom +I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, +and all this land. + +45:5. And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold +I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee +thy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go. + +Jeremias Chapter 46 + +A prophecy against Egypt. The Jews shall return from captivity. + +46:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the +Gentiles, + +46:2. Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, +which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the +king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias +king of Juda. + +46:3. Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle. + +46:4. Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with +helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail. + +46:5. What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, +their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: +terror was round about, saith the Lord. + +46:6. Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they +are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river +Euphrates. + +46:7. Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like +those of rivers? + +46:8. Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be moved +as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I +will destroy the city, and its inhabitants. + +46:9. Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant +men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, +and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows. + +46:10. For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of +vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall +devour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for +there is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by +the river Euphrates. + +46:11. Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in +vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee. + +46:12. The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath +filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and +both are fallen together. + +46:13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt: + +46:14. Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be +known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: +for the sword shall devour all round about thee. + +46:15. Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because +the Lord hath overthrown them. + +46:16. He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon +another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, +and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove. + +The dove... See the annotation on chap. 25., ver. 38. + +46:17. Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath +brought. + +46:18. As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as +Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he +come. + +46:19. Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of +Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and +uninhabited. + +46:20. Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from +the north one that shall goad her. + +46:21. Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted +calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not +stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of +their visitation. + +46:22. Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an +army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood. + +46:23. They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be +counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number. + +46:24. The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand +of the people of the north. + +46:25. The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will +visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, +and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them +that trust in him. + +Visit upon... That is, punish.-Ibid. Alexandria... In the Hebrew, No, +which was the ancient name of the city, to which Alexander gave +afterwards the name of Alexandria. + +46:26. And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their +lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the +hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the +days of old, saith the Lord. + +46:27. And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O +Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of +the land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and +prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him. + +46:28. And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I +am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast +thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in +judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent. + +Jeremias Chapter 47 + +A prophecy of the desolation of the Philistines, of Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, +and Ascalon. + +47:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the +people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza. + +47:2. Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, +and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the +land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: +then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl, + +47:3. At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the +rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers +have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands, + +47:4. Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines +shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the +rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the +remnant of the isle of Cappadocia. + +47:5. Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the +remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself? + +47:6. O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go +into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. + +47:7. How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge +against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and +there hath made an appointment for it? + +Jeremias Chapter 48 + +A prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their pride: but their +captivity shall at last be released. + +48:1. Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe +to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the +strong city is confounded and hath trembled. + +48:2. There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised +evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt +thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee. + +48:3. A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction. + +48:4. Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones. + +48:5. For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: +for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of +destruction. + +48:6. Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness. + +48:7. For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy +treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, +his priests, and his princes together. + +Chamos... The idol of the Moabites. + +48:8. And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall +escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, +for the Lord hath spoken: + +48:9. Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the +cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited. + +48:10. Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and +cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood. + +Deceitfully... In the Greek, negligently. The work of God here spoken +of, is the punishment of the Moabites. + +48:11. Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his +lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone +into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent +is not changed. + +Moab hath been fruitful... That is, rich and flourishing. And hath +rested upon his lees... That is, remained in its bad morals; as wine not +decanted has its lees mixed and remains muddy. + +48:12. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send +him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast +him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one +against another. + +48:13. And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was +ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted. + +Of Bethel... That is, of their golden calf which they worshipped in +Bethel. + +48:14. How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle? + +48:15. Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her +choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose +name is the Lord of hosts. + +48:16. The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof +shall come on exceeding swiftly. + +48:17. Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that +know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod? + +48:18. Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the +daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he +hath destroyed thy bulwarks. + +48:19. Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of +him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done? + +48:20. Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, +tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted. + +48:21. And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon +Jasa, and upon Mephaath. + +48:22. And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim, + +48:23. And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon, + +48:24. And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the +land of Moab, far or near. + +48:25. The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the +Lord. + +The horn of Moab is cut off... That is, the strength of Moab is cut off. +A metaphor drawn from animals whose strength is in their horns. + +48:26. Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: +and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in +derision. + +48:27. For Israel hath been a derision unto them: as though thou hadst +found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast +spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive. + +48:28. Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: +and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in +the highest place. + +48:29. We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his +haughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his +heart. + +48:30. I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and that the strength +thereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeavoured to do +according as it was able. + +48:31. Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, +for the men of the brick wall that mourn. + +48:32. O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee, with the mourning of +Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they are come even to the sea +of Jazer: the robber hath rushed in upon thy harvest and thy vintage. + +48:33. Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of +Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of +the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune. + +48:34. From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have +uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years +old: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad. + +48:35. And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth +in the high places, and that sacrificeth to his gods. + +48:36. Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart +shall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath +done more than he could, therefore they have perished. + +48:37. For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: +all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be +haircloth. + +48:38. Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof +general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith +the Lord. + +48:39. How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab bowed +down the neck, and is confounded! And Moab shall be a derision, and an +example to all round about him. + +48:40. Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall +stretch forth his wings to Moab. + +48:41. Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of +the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in +labour. + +48:42. And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried +against the Lord. + +48:43. Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of +Moab, saith the Lord. + +Fear... That is, the sword of the enemy. The pit... That is, unforeseen +calamities. The snare... That is, the ambushes laid by the enemy. + +48:44. He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he +that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I +will bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. + +48:45. They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon: but +there came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the midst of Seon, +and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of the +children of tumult. + +48:46. Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast persisted, O people of Chamos: for +thy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives. + +48:47. And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, +saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab. + +Jeremias Chapter 49 + +The like desolation of Ammon, of Idumea, of the Syrians, of the +Agarenes, and of the Elamites. + +49:1. Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no +sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his +people dwelt in his cities? + +Melchom... The idol of the Ammonites. + +49:2. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause +the noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and it +shall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with +fire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the +Lord. + +49:3. Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, +gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for +Melchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes +together. + +49:4. Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O +delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: +Who shall come to me? + +49:5. Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, +from all that are round about thee: and you shall be scattered every one +out of one another's sight, neither shall there be any to gather +together them that flee. + +49:6. And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children of Ammon +to return, saith the Lord. + +49:7. Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in +Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become +unprofitable. + +49:8. Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye +inhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon +him, the time of his visitation. + +49:9. If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a +bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough +for them. + +49:10. But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he +cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his +neighbours, and he shall not be. + +49:11. Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy +widows shall hope in me. + +49:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to +drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as +innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt +drink. + +49:13. For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall +become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all +her cities shall be everlasting wastes. + +49:14. I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to +the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let +us rise up to battle. + +49:15. For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, +despicable among men. + +49:16. Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O +thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay +hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest +as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. + + +49:17. And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it, +shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues. + +49:18. As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, +saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no +son of man inhabit it. + +49:19. Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the +Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run +suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint +over her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that +shepherd that can withstand my countenance? + +49:20. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken +concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the +inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast +them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation. + +49:21. The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their +voice is heard in the Red Sea. + +49:22. Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread +his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of +Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour. + +49:23. Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have +heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care +they could not rest. + +49:24. Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized +on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour. + +49:25. How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy! + +49:26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the +men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts. + +49:27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall +devour the strong holds of Benadad. + +49:28. Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which +Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise, +and go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east. + +Cedar and Asor... Were parts of Arabia; which with Moab, Ammon, Edom, +etc., were all brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor. + +49:29. They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall carry +off for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their +camels: and they shall call fear upon them round about. + +49:30. Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that inhabit +Asor, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath taken +counsel against you, and hath conceived designs against you. + +49:31. Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth +securely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell +alone. + +49:32. And their camels shall be for a spoil and the multitude of their +cattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every wind them that have +their hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon them from all +their confines, saith the Lord. + +49:33. And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever: no +man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it. + +49:34. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against +Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, saying: + +Elam... A part of Persia. + +49:35. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of +Elam, and their chief strength. + +49:36. And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters +of heaven: and I will scatter them into all these winds: and there shall +be no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come. + +49:37. And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and in +the sight of them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, +my fierce wrath, saith the Lord: and I will send the sword after them, +till I consume them. + +49:38. And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes +from thence, saith the Lord. + +49:39. But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam, to +return, saith the Lord. + +Jeremias Chapter 50 + +Babylon, which hath afflicted the Israelites, after their restoration, +shall be utterly destroyed. + +50:1. The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against +the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet. + +50:2. Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: +proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, +Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols +are overthrown. + +Bel, etc... Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of +Babylon. + +50:3. For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall +make her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from +man even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away. + +A nation, etc... Viz., the Medes. + +50:4. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of +Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and +weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God. + +50:5. They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They +shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, +which shall never be forgotten. + +50:6. My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused them +to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they have gone +from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. + +50:7. All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: +We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the +Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their +fathers. + +50:8. Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land +of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock. + +50:9. For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly +of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared +against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like +those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain. + +50:10. And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall be +filled, saith the Lord. + +50:11. Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my +inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and +have bellowed as bulls. + +50:12. Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is +made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, +a wilderness unpassable, and dry. + +50:13. Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but +shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be +astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues. + +50:14. Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend +the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned +against the Lord. + +50:15. Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her +foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the +vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do +to her. + +50:16. Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle +in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man +shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land. + +The dove... Or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the +one or the other. + +50:17. Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away: +first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor +king of Babylon hath broken his bones. + +50:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold +I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as I have visited the +king of Assyria. + +50:19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he shall +feed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied in mount +Ephraim, and Galaad. + +50:20. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of +Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of +Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, +whom I shall leave. + +50:21. Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants +thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do +according to all that I have commanded thee. + +50:22. A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction. + +50:23. How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how +is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations! + +50:24. I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O +Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, +because thou hast provoked the Lord. + +50:25. The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the +weapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be +done in the land of the Chaldeans. + +50:26. Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they +may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way, +and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left. + +50:27. Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: +woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation. + +50:28. The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped out of +the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our God, +the revenge of his temple. + +50:29. Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand +together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according +to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she +hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. + + +50:30. Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her +men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord. + +50:31. Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God +of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation. + +50:32. And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and there shall +be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it +shall devour all round about him. + +50:33. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and the +children of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken them +captives, hold them fast, they will not let them go. + +50:34. Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name: he will +defend their cause in judgment, to terrify the land, and to disquiet the +inhabitants of Babylon. + +50:35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the +inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. + +50:36. A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword +upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed. + +50:37. A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all +the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: +a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil. + +50:38. A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it +is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things. + +50:39. Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and +ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for +ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation. + +Fig fauns... Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes: such +as the ancients called fauns and satyrs; and as they imagined them to +live upon wild figs, they called them fauni ficarii or fig fauns. + +50:40. As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour +cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son +of man inhabit it. + +50:41. Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and +many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth. + +50:42. They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and +unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride +upon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of +Babylon. + +50:43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands +are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in +labour. + +50:44. Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the +Jordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly +upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? +for who is like to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is that +shepherd that can withstand my countenance? + +50:45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken +against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the land +of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them +down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them. + +50:46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the +cry is heard amongst the nations. + +Jeremias Chapter 51 + +The miseries that shall fall upon Babylon from the Medes: the +destruction of her idols. + +51:1. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a +pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, +who have lifted up their heart against me. + +51:2. And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and +shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the +day of her affliction. + +51:3. Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that +is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her +army. + +51:4. And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the +wounded in the regions thereof. + +51:5. For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord +of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One +of Israel. + +51:6. Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own +life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge +from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved. + +51:7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made +all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore +they have staggered. + +51:8. Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm +for her pain, if so she may be healed. + +51:9. We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake +her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath +reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds. + +51:10. The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us +declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God. + +51:11. Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the +spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to +destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of +his temple. + +51:12. Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the +watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both +purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. + + +51:13. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end +is come for thy entire destruction. + +51:14. The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee +with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against +thee. + +51:15. He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world +by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. + +51:16. When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven: +he lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned +lightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his +treasures. + +51:17. Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is +confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no +breath in them. + +51:18. They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of +their visitation they shall perish. + +51:19. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all +things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord +of hosts is his name. + +51:20. Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I +will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: + +51:21. And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, +and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth +up into it: + +51:22. And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee +I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will +break in pieces the young man and the virgin: + +51:23. And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, +and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of +oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers. + +51:24. And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of +Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, +saith the Lord. + +51:25. Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the +Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand +upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a +burnt mountain. + +51:26. And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a +stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the +Lord. + +51:27. Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among +the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her +the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, +bring the horse as the stinging locust. + +51:28. Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their +captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion. + +51:29. And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for +the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of +Babylon desert and uninhabitable. + +51:30. The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have +dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as +women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken. + +51:31. One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet +messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one +end to the other: + +51:32. And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with +fire, and the men of war are affrighted. + +51:33. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter +of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: +yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. + +51:34. Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured +me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a +dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath +cast me out. + +51:35. The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the +habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith +Jerusalem. + +51:36. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and +will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and +will dry up her spring. + +51:37. And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for +dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. + +51:38. They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes +like young lions. + +51:39. In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, +that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no +more, saith the Lord. + +51:40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams +with kids. + +51:41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth +surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations? + +51:42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the +multitude of the waves thereof. + +51:43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and +desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it. + + +51:44. And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth +out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall +no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall. + +51:45. Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save +his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord. + +51:46. And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall +be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after +this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon +ruler. + +51:47. Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of +Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall +fall in the midst of her. + +51:48. And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them +shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the +north, saith the Lord. + +51:49. And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so +of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth. + +51:50. You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: +remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. + +51:51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath +covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of +the house of the Lord. + +51:52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit +her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan: + +51:53. If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength +on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord. + +51:54. The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the +land of the Chaldeans: + +51:55. Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of +her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their +voice hath made a noise: + +51:56. Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and +her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, +who is a strong revenger, will surely repay. + +51:57. And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her +captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an +everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is +Lord of hosts. + +51:58. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be +utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and +the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations +shall go to the fire, and shall perish. + +51:59. The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of +Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, +in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the +prophecy. + +51:60. And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon +Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon. + +51:61. And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, +and shalt see, and shalt read all these words, + +51:62. Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to +destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell +therein, and that it should be desolate for ever. + +51:63. And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou +shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the +Euphrates: + +51:64. And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not +rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be +utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias. + +Jeremias Chapter 52 + +A recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of +Jerusalem. The number of the captives. + +52:1. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and +he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was +Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. + +52:2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according +to all that Joakim had done. + +52:3. For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda, +till he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the +king of Babylon. + +52:4. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth +month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of +Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged +it, and built forts against it round about. + +52:5. And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king +Sedecias. + +52:6. And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine +overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land. + +52:7. And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out +of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two +walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the +city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the +wilderness. + +52:8. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they +overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his +companions were scattered from him. + +52:9. And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of +Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment +upon him. + +52:10. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his +eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha. + +52:11. And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, +and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in +prison till the day of his death. + +52:12. And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is +the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan +the general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in +Jerusalem. + +52:13. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all +the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire. + +52:14. And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general +broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about. + +52:15. But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor +people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and +of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the +rest of the multitude. + +52:16. But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for +vinedressers, and for husbandmen. + +52:17. The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were +in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was +in the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to +Babylon. + +52:18. And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the +psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the brazen +vessels that had been used in the ministry: and + +52:19. The general took away the pitchers, and the censers, and the +pots, and the basins, and the candlesticks, and the mortars, and the +cups: as many as were of gold, in gold: and as many as were of silver, +in silver: + +52:20. And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that +were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the +Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels. + +52:21. And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high: +and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness +thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within. + +52:22. And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one +chapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the +chapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and +the pomegranates. + +52:23. And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and the +pomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed with network. + +52:24. And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the +second priest, and the three keepers of the entry. + +52:25. He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the +men of war: and seven men of them that were near the king's person, that +were found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who +exercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the +land, that were found in the midst of the city. + +52:26. And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to the +king of Babylon, to Reblatha. + +52:27. And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in +Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of +his land. + +52:28. This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in +the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews. + +52:29. In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and +thirty-two souls from Jerusalem. + +52:30. In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the +general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty five souls. So +all the souls were four thousand six hundred. + +52:31. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the +captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and +twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the +first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and +brought him forth out of prison. + +52:32. And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the +thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon. + +52:33. And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him +always all the days of his life. + +52:34. 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