CHAP. XVII. sons nor your fathers; (for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not bearken unto me ;)

4 They shall die of grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be be buried ; but they shall 14 T Therefore, behold, the days be as dung upon the face of the earth: come, saith the LORD, that it shall no and they shall be consumed by the more be said, The LORD liveth, that sword, and by famine; and their car-brought up the children of Israel out cases shall be meat for the fowls of of the land of Egypt;

heaven, and for the beasts of the 15 But, The LORD liveth, that earth. brought up the children of Israel

5 For thus saith the LORD, Eater from the land of the north, and fromi not into the house of mourning, nei-all the lands whither he had driven ther go to lament nor bemoan them: them and I will bring them again for I have taken away my peace from into their land that I gave unto their this people, saith the LORD, even lov-fathers. ing-kindness and mercies.

16 ¶ Behold, I will send for many 6 Both the great and the small shall fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

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their altars and their groves by the from being a pastor to follow thee: green trees upon the high hills. neither have I desired the woful day; 3 O my mountain in the field, I will thou knowest: that which came out give thy substance and all thy treas of my lips was right before thee. ures to the spoil, and thy high places 17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art for sin, throughout all thy borders. my hope in the day of evil, 4 And thou, even thyself, shalt dis- 18 Let them be confounded that percontinue from thy heritage that I gave secute me, but let not me be conthee; and I will cause thee to serve founded: let them be dismayed, but thine enemies in the land which thou let not me be dismayed; bring upon knowest not: for ye have kindled a them the day of evil, and destroy them fire in mine anger, which shall burn with double destruction. for ever.

6 T Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lond.

19 T Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the chil dren of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of

6 For he shall be like the heath in Jerusalem; the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD

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8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9 T The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

11 As the patridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

13 0 Lond, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD the fountain of living waters.

20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.

21 Thus saith the LORD, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath-day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

22 Neither carry forth a burden ont of your houses on the sabbath-day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath-day, as 1 commanded your fathers.

23 But they obeyed not, neither in clined their ear, but made their neck. stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the Lonn, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbathday, but hallow the sabbath-day, to do no work therein;

25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city, kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem,and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meat-offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the Lond. 27 But if ye will not hearken unto 16 As for me, I hare not hastened me to hallow the sabbath day, and not

14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

15 T Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

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to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

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over nations.

Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field ? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken ?

15 Because my people bath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumin their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

HE word which came toJeremiahble Tfrom the LORD, saying,

2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make

5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his bead.

17 I will scatter them as with au east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

18 T Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, uor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his

6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, Ô house words. of Israel. 19 Give beed to me, O Lord, and 7 At what instant I shall speak con-hearken to the voice of them that cou cerning a nation, and concerning a tend with me. kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and destroy it;

8 If that nation,against whom I bave pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would

benefit them.

20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

21 Therefore deliver up their chil dren to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

IT Now therefore go to, speak to 23 Let a cry be heard from their the men of Judah, and to the inhabit-houses, when thou shalt bring a troop ants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith suddenly upon them; for they have the Lond; Behold, I frame evil against digged a pit to take me, and hid snares you, and devise a device against you: for my feet. return ye now every one from his evil 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their way, and make your ways and your counsel against me to slay me: forgive doings good. not their iniquity, neither blot out 12 And they said, There is no hope: their sin from thy sight, but let them but we will walk after our own devi-[be overthrown before thee; deal thus ces, and we will every one do the im-with them in the time of thine anger. agination of his evil heart. CHAP. XIX.

13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; THUS saith the LORD, Go and get Ask ye now among the heathen, who a potter's earthern bottle,and take hath heard such things ? the virgin of the ancients of the people, and of of Israel hath done a very horrible the ancients of the priests; thing.

2 And go forth unto the valley of the 14 Will a man leave the snow of [sou of Hinnoin, which is by the entry

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of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD,Okings of Judah,and inhabitants of Jerusalein: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

and fearful doom.

the houses of the kings of Judah,shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods. 14 Then camne Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lond's house; and said

1 Because they have forsaken me, And have estranged this place, and to all the people, have burned incense in it unto other 15 Thus saith the Load of hosts, the gods, whom neither they nor their fa-God of Israel; Behold, I will bring Liers have known, nor the kings of Judah,and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear

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5 They bave built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sous with fire my words. for burnt-offerings unto Baal, which 1 commanded not, nor spake it, nei-NOW Pashur the son of Immer the ther came it into my mind:

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Himnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

7. And I will make roid the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be neat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beast of the earth.

priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lono, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benja win, which was by the house of the LORD.

3 And it came to pass on the mor row, that Pashur brought forth Jere miah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

8 And I will make this city desolate, 4 For thus saith the Lord, Behold,! and a hissing; every one that passetli will make thee a terior to thyself, and thereby shall be astonished and hiss to all thy friends; and they shall fall because of all the plagues thereof. by the sword of their enemies, and 9. And I will cause them to eat the thine eyes shall behold it; and I will Besh of their sons and the flesh of their give all Judah into the hand of the daughters, and they shall eat every one king of Babylon, and he shall carry the flesh of his friend, in the siege and them captive into Babylon, and shall straitness wherewith their enemies, slay thein with the sword. and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

5 Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the la 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle bours thereof, and all the precious in the sight of the men that go with things thereof, and all the treasures of thee, the kings of Judah will I give into the 11 And shalt say unto them, Thusband of their enemies, which shall saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will spoil them, and take them, and carry I break this people and this city, as them to Babylon. one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophët, till there be 30 place to bury.

6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and 12 Thus will I do unto this place, shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy Baith the LORD, and to the inhabitants | friends, to whom thou hast prophesied thereof, and even make this eity as lies.

7 TO Lond, thou hast deceived me,

Tophet: 13 And the houses of Jerusalem,and and I was deceived: thou art stronger

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9 Then I said, I will not make memtion of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

captivity foretold. than I, and hast prevailed: I am injof Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son derision daily, every one mocketh me. of Maaseiah the priest saying, 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I 2 luquire, I pray thee, of the LORD cried violence and spoil; because the for us, (for Nebuchadrezzar king of word of the LonD was madeareproach Babylon maketh war against us,) in unto me, and a derision, daily. so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. 3 T Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah, 4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons 10 For I heard the defaming of of war that are in your hands, wheremany, fear on every side. Report, with ye fight against the king of Babysay they, and we will report it. All lon, and against the Chaldeans, which my familiars watched for my halting, besiege you without the walls, and I saying, Peradventure he will be en-will assemble them into the midst of ticed, and we shall prevail against this city. him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

5 And I myself will fight against you with an out-stretched hand, and with 11 But the Lond is with me as a a strong arm, even in auger, and in mighty terrible one: therefore my fury, and in great wrath.

persecutors shall stumble, and they 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of shall not prevail: they shall be greatly this city, both man and beast; they ashamed; for they shall not prosper:shall die of a great pestilence. their everlasting confusion shall never 7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I be forgotten.

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I opened

will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life; and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

14 ¶ Cursed be the day wherein 1 was born: let not the day wherein 8 ¶ And unto this people thou shalt my mother bare me be blessed. say, Thus saith the Long, Behold, I 15 Cursed be the man who brought set before you the way of life, and the tidings to my father, saying, A man-way of death.

child is born unto thee, making him 9 He that abideth in this city shall very glad. die by the sword, and by the famine,

16 And let that man be as the cities and by the pestilence: but he tha which the LORD overthrew, and re-goeth out, and falleth to the Chalpented not; and let him hear the cry deans that besiege you, he shall live, in the morning, and the shouting at and his life shall be unto him for a noon-tile:

17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame ?

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prey.

10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lond; it shall be given into the band of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

11 T And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the Lond;

12. O house of David, thus saith the THE word came, when Kinging, and deliver time that is spoiled HE word which came unto Jere-Lond, Execute judgment in themornZedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son out the hand of the oppressor, lest