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Jeremiah","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS\n\nJeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city in the\ntribe of Benjamin: and was sanctified from his mother's womb, to be a\nprophet of God; which office he began to execute when he was yet a child\nin age. He was in his whole life, according to the signification of his\nname, Great before the Lord; and a special figure of Jesus Christ, in\nthe persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty; in his charity\nfor his persecutors; and in the violent death he suffered at their\nhands: it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he was stoned\nto death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into Egypt.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 1\n\nThe time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his prophetical visions. God\nencourages him.\n\n1:1. The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were\nin Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.\n\n1:2. The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the\nson of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.\n\n1:3. And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king\nof Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias\nking of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the\nfifth month.\n\n1:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n1:5. Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and\nbefore thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made\nthee a prophet unto the nations.\n\n1:6. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am\na child.\n\n1:7. And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go\nto all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou\nshalt speak.\n\n1:8. Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver\nthee, saith the Lord.\n\n1:9. And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord\nsaid to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:\n\n1:10. Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms,\nto root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to\nbuild, and to plant.\n\n1:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou,\nJeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.\n\n1:12. And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch\nover my word to perform it.\n\n1:13. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What\nseest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof\nfrom the face of the north.\n\n1:14. And the Lord said to me: From the north shall an evil break forth\nupon all the inhabitants of the land.\n\n1:15. For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms\nof the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every\none his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all\nthe walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda.\n\n1:16. And I will pronounce my judgments against them, touching all their\nwickedness, who have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods,\nand have adored the work of their own hands.\n\n1:17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all\nthat I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make\nthee not to fear their countenance.\n\n1:18. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a\npillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of\nJuda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of\nthe land.\n\n1:19. And they shall fight against them, and shall not prevail: for I am\nwith thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.\n\nJeremias Chapter 2\n\nGod expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and infidelity.\n\n2:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n2:2. Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord:\nI have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy\nespousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not\nsown.\n\n2:3. Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all\nthey that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.\n\n2:4. Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families\nof the house of Israel:\n\n2:5. Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me,\nthat they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are\nbecome vain?\n\n2:6. And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out\nof the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land\nuninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of\ndeath, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?\n\n2:7. And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit\nthereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you\ndefiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.\n\nCarmel... That is, a fruitful, plentiful land.\n\n2:8. The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the\nlaw knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the\nprophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.\n\n2:9. Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord,\nand I will plead with your children.\n\n2:10. Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar,\nand consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like\nthis.\n\n2:11. If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods:\nbut my people have changed their glory into an idol.\n\n2:12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be\nvery desolate, saith the Lord.\n\n2:13. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the\nfountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken\ncisterns, that can hold no water.\n\n2:14. Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a\nprey?\n\n2:15. The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have\nmade his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none\nto dwell in them.\n\n2:16. The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee,\neven to the crown of the head.\n\n2:17. Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the\nLord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?\n\n2:18. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the\ntroubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians,\nto drink the water of the river?\n\n2:19. Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall\nrebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing\nfor thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with\nthee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n2:20. Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands,\nand thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under\nevery green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.\n\n2:21. Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art\nthou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange\nvineyard?\n\n2:22. Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the\nherb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\nBorith... An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt.\n\n2:23. How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after\nBaalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift\nrunner pursuing his course.\n\n2:24. A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his\nheart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all\nthat seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.\n\n2:25. Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst.  But\nthou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved\nstrangers, and I will walk after them.\n\n2:26. As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of\nIsrael confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their\npriests, and their prophets.\n\n2:27. Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast\nbegotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and\nin the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us.\n\n2:28. Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and\ndeliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number\nof thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.\n\n2:29. Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken\nme, saith the Lord.\n\n2:30. In vain have I struck your children, they have not received\ncorrection: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is\nlike a ravaging lion.\n\n2:31. See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel,\nor a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are\nrevolted, we will come to thee no more?\n\n2:32. Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher?  but\nmy people hath forgotten me days without number.\n\n2:33. Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou\nwho hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,\n\n2:34. And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and\ninnocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I\nmentioned before.\n\n2:35. And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and\ntherefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend\nwith thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.\n\n2:36. How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over\nagain! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of\nAssyria.\n\n2:37. For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy\nhead: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing\nprosperous therein.\n\nJeremias Chapter 3\n\nGod invites the rebel Jews to return to him, with a promise to receive\nthem: he foretells the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n3:1. It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from\nhim, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not\nthat woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself\nto many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will\nreceive thee.\n\n3:2. Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted\nthyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the\nwilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and\nwith thy wickedness.\n\n3:3. Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward\nrain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.\n\n3:4. Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my\nfather, the guide of my virginity:\n\n3:5. Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue unto the end?\nBehold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.\n\n3:6. And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen\nwhat rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every\nhigh mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot\nthere.\n\n3:7. And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and\nshe did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,\n\n3:8. That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put\nher away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister\nJuda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.\n\n3:9. And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and\nplayed the harlot with stones and with stocks.\n\n3:10. And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned\nto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her\nsoul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.\n\n3:12. Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt\nsay: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn\naway my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be\nangry for ever.\n\n3:13. But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed\nagainst the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers\nunder every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.\n\n3:14. Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your I\nhusband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and\nwill bring you into Sion.\n\n3:15. And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they\nshall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.\n\n3:16. And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in\nthose days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither\nshall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that\nbe done any more.\n\n3:17. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord: and\nall the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the\nLord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their\nmost wicked heart.\n\n3:18. In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel,\nand they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land\nwhich I gave to your fathers.\n\n3:19. But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee\na lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And\nI said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.\n\n3:20. But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of\nIsrael despised me, saith the Lord.\n\n3:21. A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the\nchildren of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have\nforgotten the Lord their God.\n\n3:22. Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions.\nBehold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.\n\n3:23. In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the\nmountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.\n\n3:24. Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth,\ntheir flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.\n\n3:25. We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us,\nbecause we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from\nour youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of\nthe Lord our God.\n\nJeremias Chapter 4\n\nAnd admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart,\nwith threats of grievous punishment to those that persist in sin.\n\n4:1. If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if\nthou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not\nbe moved.\n\n4:2. And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in\njudgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall\npraise him.\n\n4:3. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up\nanew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:\n\n4:4. Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your\nhearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my\nindignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can\nquench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.\n\n4:5. Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem: speak, and\nsound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble\nyourselves, and let us go into strong cities.\n\n4:6. Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I\nbring evil from the north, and great destruction.\n\n4:7. The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath\nroused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land\ndesolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an\ninhabitant.\n\n4:8. For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the\nfierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.\n\n4:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the\nheart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the\npriests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.\n\n4:10. And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived\nthis people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the\nsword reacheth even to the soul?\n\n4:11. At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A\nburning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the\ndaughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.\n\n4:12. A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will\nspeak my judgments with them.\n\n4:13. Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest:\nhis horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste.\n\n4:14. Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be\nsaved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?\n\n4:15. For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the\nidol from mount Ephraim.\n\n4:16. Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that\nguards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against\nthe cities of Juda.\n\n4:17. They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she\nhath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.\n\n4:18. Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee:\nthis is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched\nthy heart.\n\n4:19. My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are\ntroubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the\nsound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.\n\n4:20. Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is\nlaid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a\nmoment.\n\n4:21. How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the\nsound of the trumpet?\n\n4:22. For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and\nsenseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have\nno knowledge.\n\n4:23. I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the\nheavens, and there was no light in them.\n\n4:24. I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the\nhills were troubled.\n\n4:25. I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds of the air\nwere gone.\n\n4:26. I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its cities\nwere destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the\nwrath of his indignation.\n\n4:27. For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I\nwill not utterly destroy.\n\n4:28. The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above:\nbecause I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither\nam I turned away from it.\n\n4:29. At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is\nfled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all\nthe cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.\n\n4:30. But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest\nthyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,\nand paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in\nvain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.\n\n4:31. For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as\nof a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion,\ndying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted\nbecause of them that are slain.\n\nJeremias Chapter 5\n\nThe judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews for their manifold sins.\n\n5:1. Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider,\nand seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that\nexecuteth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.\n\n5:2. And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear\nfalsely.\n\n5:3. O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they\nhave not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to\nreceive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and\nthey have refused to return.\n\n5:4. But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the\nway of the Lord, the judgment of their God.\n\n5:5. I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for\nthey have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and\nbehold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the\nbonds.\n\n5:6. Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the\nevening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every\none that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their\ntransgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.\n\n5:7. How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and\nswear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they\ncommitted adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.\n\n5:8. They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed\nafter his neighbour's wife.\n\n5:9. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not\nmy soul take revenge on such a nation?\n\n5:10. Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly\ndestroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the\nLord's.\n\n5:11. For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly\ntransgressed against me, saith the Lord.\n\n5:12. They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil\nshall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.\n\n5:13. The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God\nin them: these things therefore shall befall them.\n\n5:14. Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this\nword, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people\nas wood, and it shall devour them.\n\n5:15. Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of\nIsrael, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation\nwhose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.\n\n5:16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.\n\n5:17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour\nthy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy\nherds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword\nthey shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.\n\n5:18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you\nto utter destruction.\n\n5:19. And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these\nthings to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and\nserved a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a\nland that is not your own.\n\n5:20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda,\nsaying:\n\n5:21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes,\nand see not: and ears, and hear not.\n\n5:22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent\nat my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting\nordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall\ntoss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not\npass over it.\n\n5:23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and\nprovoking, they are revolted and gone away.\n\n5:24. And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our\nGod, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who\npreserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.\n\n5:25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have\nwithholden good things from you.\n\n5:26. For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as\nfowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.\n\n5:27. As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit:\ntherefore are they become great and enriched.\n\n5:28. They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed\nmy words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not\nmanaged the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the\njudgment of the poor.\n\n5:29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not\nmy soul take revenge on such a nation?\n\n5:30. Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.\n\n5:31. The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their\nhands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the\nend thereof?\n\nJeremias Chapter 6\n\nThe evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited to return, and walk in\nthe good way, and not to rely on sacrifices without obedience.\n\n6:1. Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of\nJerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over\nBethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.\n\n6:2. I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate\nwoman.\n\n6:3. The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have\npitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them\nthat are under his hand.\n\n6:4. Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe\nunto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are\ngrown longer.\n\n6:5. Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.\n\n6:6. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a\ntrench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression\nis in the midst of her.\n\n6:7. As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness\ncold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes\nare continually before me.\n\n6:8. Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee,\nlest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.\n\n6:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of\nIsrael, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a\ngrapegatherer into the basket.\n\n6:10. To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may\nhear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold\nthe word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and they will not\nreceive it.\n\n6:11. Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with\nholding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of\nthe young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient\nand he that is full of days.\n\n6:12. And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands\nand their wives together: for I will stretch forth my hand upon the\ninhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.\n\n6:13. For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to\ncovetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of\ndeceit.\n\n6:14. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people\ndisgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.\n\n6:15. They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea,\nrather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to\nblush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of\ntheir visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.\n\n6:16. Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for\nthe old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall\nfind refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.\n\n6:17. And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound\nof the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.\n\n6:18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great\nthings I will do to them.\n\n6:19. Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the\nfruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and\nthey have cast away my law.\n\n6:20. To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the\nsweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not\nacceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.\n\n6:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction\nupon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall,\nneighbour and kinsman shall perish.\n\n6:22. Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the\nnorth, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.\n\n6:23. They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will\nhave no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount\nupon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.\n\n6:24. We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish\nhath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.\n\n6:25. Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword\nof the enemy, and fear is on every side.\n\n6:26. Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle\nthee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter\nlamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.\n\n6:27. I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt\nknow, and prove their way.\n\n6:28. All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they\nare brass and iron: they are all corrupted.\n\n6:29. The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the\nfounder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.\n\n6:30. Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.\n\nJeremias Chapter 7\n\nThe temple of God shall not protect a sinful people, without a sincere\nconversion. The Lord will not receive the prayers of the prophet for\nthem: because they are obstinate in their sins.\n\n7:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n7:2. Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this\nword, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that\nenter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.\n\n7:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and\nyour doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.\n\n7:4. Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the\ntemple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:5. For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will\nexecute judgment between a man and his neighbour,\n\n7:6. If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and\nshed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods\nto your own hurt,\n\n7:7. I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to\nyour fathers from the beginning and for evermore.\n\n7:8. Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit\nyou:\n\n7:9. To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer\nto Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.\n\n7:10. And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my\nname is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have\ndone all these abominations.\n\n7:11. Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in\nyour eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the\nLord.\n\n7:12. Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning:\nand see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:\n\n7:13. And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord:\nand I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not\nheard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:\n\n7:14. I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in\nwhich you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your\nfathers, as I did to Silo.\n\n7:15. And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away\nall your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.\n\n7:16. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee\npraise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will\nnot hear thee.\n\n7:17. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the\nstreets of Jerusalem?\n\n7:18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the\nwomen knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to\noffer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.\n\nQueen of heaven... That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that\nname.\n\n7:19. Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves,\nto the confusion of their own countenance?\n\n7:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my\nindignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts,\nand upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it\nshall burn, and shall not be quenched.\n\n7:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt\nofferings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.\n\n7:22. For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the\nday that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter\nof burnt offerings and sacrifices.\n\nI commanded them not... Viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time\noffered, without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded:\nso that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts and\nsacrifices was of small account.\n\n7:23. But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and\nI will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the\nway that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.\n\n7:24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in\ntheir own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went\nbackward and not forward,\n\n7:25. From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt,\neven to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets,\nfrom day to day, rising up early and sending.\n\n7:26. And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but\nhave hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.\n\n7:27. And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not\nhearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer\nthee.\n\n7:28. And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not\nhearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction:\nfaith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.\n\n7:29. Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on\nhigh: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his\nwrath,\n\n7:30. Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the\nLord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is\ncalled upon, to pollute it;\n\n7:31. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the\nvalley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in\nthe fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.\n\n7:32. Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall\nno more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the\nvalley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because there is no\nplace.\n\n7:33. And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of\nthe air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to\ndrive them away.\n\n7:34. And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of\nthe streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness,\nthe voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land\nshall be desolate.\n\nJeremias Chapter 8\n\nOther evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their impenitence.\n\n8:1. At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the\nkings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of\nthe priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.\n\n8:2. And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all\nthe host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and\nafter whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they\nshall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as\ndung upon the face of the earth.\n\n8:3. And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain\nof this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have\ncast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n8:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that\nfalleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn\nagain?\n\n8:5. Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn\nrevolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.\n\n8:6. I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is\nnone that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are\nall turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle.\n\n8:7. The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the\nswallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my\npeople have not known the judgment of the Lord.\n\n8:8. How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?\nIndeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.\n\n8:9. The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they\nhave cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.\n\n8:10. Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to\nothers for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest\nall follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal\ndeceitfully.\n\n8:11. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people\ndisgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.\n\n8:12. They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea\nrather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known\nhow to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the\ntime of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.\n\n8:13. Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no\ngrape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is\nfallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.\n\n8:14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into\nthe fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath\nput us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have\nsinned against the Lord.\n\n8:15. We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and\nbehold fear.\n\n8:16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was\nmoved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and\ndevoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.\n\n8:17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against\nwhich there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.\n\n8:18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.\n\n8:19. Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country:\nIs not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they\nprovoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?\n\n8:20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.\n\n8:21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted,\nand made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.\n\n8:22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there?  Why\nthen is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?\n\nJeremias Chapter 9\n\nThe prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which\nare the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance.\n\n9:1. Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes?\nand I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my\npeople.\n\n9:2. Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring\nmen, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are\nall adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.\n\n9:3. And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for\ntruth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have\nproceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.\n\n9:4. Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in\nany brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every\nfriend will walk deceitfully.\n\n9:5. And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the\ntruth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have\nlaboured to commit iniquity.\n\n9:6. Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have\nrefused to know me, saith the Lord.\n\n9:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try\nthem: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?\n\n9:8. Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his\nmouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait\nfor him.\n\n9:9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall\nnot my soul be revenged on such a nation?\n\n9:10. For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for\nthe beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up,\nfor that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not\nheard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts\nthey are gone away and departed.\n\n9:11. And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of\ndragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an\ninhabitant.\n\n9:12. Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the\nword of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the\nland hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none\npasseth through?\n\n9:13. And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave\nthem, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.\n\n9:14. But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and\nafter Baalim, which their fathers taught them.\n\n9:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I\nwill feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to\ndrink.\n\n9:16. And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their\nfathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they\nbe consumed.\n\n9:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and\ncall for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that\nare wise women, and let them make haste:\n\n9:18. Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes\nshed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.\n\n9:19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and\ngreatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings\nare cast down.\n\n9:20. Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears\nreceive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and\nevery one her neighbour mourning.\n\n9:21. For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our\nhouses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the\nstreets.\n\n9:22. Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as\ndung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the\nmower, and there is none to gather it.\n\n9:23. Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and\nlet not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man\nglory in his riches:\n\n9:24. But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and\nknoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and\njustice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.\n\n9:25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every\none that hath the foreskin circumcised.\n\n9:26. Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of\nAmmon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round,\nthat dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the\nflesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.\n\nJeremias Chapter 10\n\nNeither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all\nthings. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins.\n\n10:1. Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O\nhouse of Israel.\n\n10:2. Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the\nGentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens\nfear:\n\n10:3. For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of\nthe workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.\n\n10:4. He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together\nwith nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.\n\n10:5. They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not\nspeak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go.\nTherefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.\n\n10:6. There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is\nthy name in might.\n\n10:7. Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the\nglory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms\nthere is none like unto thee.\n\n10:8. They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the\ndoctrine of their vanity is wood.\n\n10:9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from\nOphaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith:\nviolet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of\nartificers.\n\n10:10. But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the\neverlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations\nshall not be able to abide his threatening.\n\n10:11. Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made\nheaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those\nplaces that are under heaven.\n\n10:12. He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world\nby his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.\n\n10:13. At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and\nlifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings\nfor rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.\n\n10:14. Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is\nconfounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there\nis no spirit in them.\n\n10:15. They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their\nvisitation they shall perish.\n\n10:16. The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed\nall things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts\nis his name.\n\n10:17. Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a\nsiege.\n\n10:18. For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the\ninhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that\nthey may be found.\n\n10:19. Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous.  But I\nsaid: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.\n\n10:20. My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children\nare gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth\nmy tent any more, and to set up my curtains.\n\n10:21. Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the\nLord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is\nscattered.\n\n10:22. Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the\nland of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling\nfor dragons.\n\n10:23. I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it\nin a man to walk, and to direct his steps.\n\nThe way of a man is not his... The meaning is, that notwithstanding\nman's free will, yet he can do no good without God's help, nor evil\nwithout his permission. So that, in the present case, all the evils\nwhich Nabuchodonosor was about to bring upon Jerusalem, could not have\ncome but by the will of God.\n\n10:24. Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury,\nlest thou bring me to nothing.\n\n10:25. Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known\nthee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because\nthey have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have\ndestroyed his glory.\n\nJeremias Chapter 11\n\nThe prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and denounces evils to the\nobstinate transgressors of it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him, a\nfigure of their conspiracy against Christ.\n\n11:1. The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying:\n\n11:2. Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda,\nand to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n11:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nCursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,\n\n11:4. Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out\nof the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice,\nand do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I\nwill be your God:\n\n11:5. That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to\ngive them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I\nanswered and said: Amen, O Lord.\n\n11:6. And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the\ncities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the\nwords of the covenant, and do them:\n\n11:7. For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought\nthem out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured\nthem, and said: Hearken ye to my voice:\n\n11:8. And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one\nin the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all\nthe words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did\nthem not.\n\n11:9. And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of\nJuda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n11:10. They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who\nrefused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange\ngods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have\nmade void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.\n\n11:11. Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon\nthem, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me,\nand I will not hearken to them.\n\n11:12. And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall\ngo, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall not\nsave them in the time of their affliction.\n\n11:13. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda:\nand according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up\naltars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.\n\n11:14. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up\npraise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of\ntheir cry to me, in the time of their affliction.\n\n11:15. What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness\nin my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in\nwhich thou hast boasted?\n\n11:16. The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful,\nand beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it,\nand the branches thereof are burnt.\n\n11:17. And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced evil\nagainst thee: for the evils of the house of Israel, and of the house of\nJuda, which they have done to themselves, to provoke me, offering\nsacrifice to Baalim.\n\n11:18. But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou\nshewedst me their doings.\n\n11:19. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I\nknew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put\nwood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let\nhis name be remembered no more.\n\n11:20. But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the\nreins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I\nrevealed my cause.\n\nSabaoth... That is, of hosts or armies, a name frequently given to God\nin the scriptures.-Ibid. Thy revenge... This was rather a prediction of\nwhat was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than an\nimprecation.\n\n11:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who seek\nthy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and\nthou shalt not die in our hands.\n\n11:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon\nthem: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their\ndaughters shall die by famine.\n\n11:23. And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in evil\nupon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.\n\nJeremias Chapter 12\n\nThe prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a short time. The\ndesolation of the Jews for their sins. Their return from their\ncaptivity.\n\n12:1. Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I\nwill speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper:\nwhy is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?\n\n12:2. Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and\nbring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their\nreins.\n\n12:3. And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my\nheart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter.\n\n12:4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither\nfor the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds\nare consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.\n\n12:5. If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst\nthou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of\npeace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?\n\n12:6. For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have\nfought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe\nthem not when they speak good things to thee.\n\n12:7. I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given\nmy dear soul into the hand of her enemies.\n\n12:8. My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath\ncried out against me, therefore have I hated it.\n\n12:9. Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed\nthroughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth,\nmake haste to devour.\n\n12:10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my\nportion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a\ndesolate wilderness.\n\n12:11. They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With\ndesolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that\nconsidereth in the heart.\n\n12:12. The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for\nthe sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other\nend thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.\n\n12:13. They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an\ninheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your\nfruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.\n\n12:14. Thus saith the Lord against all wicked neighbours, that touch the\ninheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will\npluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of\nthe midst of them.\n\n12:15. And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have\nmercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance,\nand every man into his land.\n\n12:16. And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will learn\nthe ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they\nhave taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built up in\nthe midst of my people.\n\n12:17. But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy\nthat nation, saith the Lord.\n\nJeremias Chapter 13\n\nUnder the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the\nJews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them.\n\n13:1. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and\nthou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water.\n\n13:2. And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it\nabout my loins.\n\n13:3. And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying:\n\n13:4. Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and\narise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.\n\n13:5. And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded\nme.\n\n13:6. And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me:\nArise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I\ncommanded thee to hide there.\n\n13:7. And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out\nof the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so\nthat it was fit for no use.\n\n13:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n13:9. Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of\nJuda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.\n\n13:10. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in\nthe perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to\nserve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which\nis fit for no use.\n\n13:11. For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I\nbrought close to me all the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda,\nsaith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a\npraise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.\n\n13:12. Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord\nthe God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine.  And they\nshall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with\nwine?\n\n13:13. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will\nfill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of\nDavid that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and\nall the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.\n\n13:14. And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers\nand sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will\nnot pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them.\n\n13:15. Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.\n\n13:16. Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before\nyour feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and\nhe will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.\n\n13:17. But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for\nyour pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with\ntears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.\n\n13:18. Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down:\nfor the crown of your glory is come down from your head.\n\n13:19. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open\nthem: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.\n\n13:20. Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where\nis the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?\n\n13:21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught\nthem against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not\nsorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?\n\n13:22. And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come\nupon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered,\nthe soles of thy feet are defiled.\n\n13:23. If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots:\nyou also may do well, when you have learned evil.\n\n13:24. And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the\nwind in the desert.\n\n13:25. This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith\nthe Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.\n\n13:26. Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy\nshame hath appeared.\n\n13:27. I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of\nthy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe\nto thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?\n\nJeremias Chapter 14\n\nA grievous famine: and the prophet's prayer on that occasion.  Evils\ndenounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people.\n\n14:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of\nthe drought.\n\n14:2. Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are\nbecome obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.\n\n14:3. The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to\ndraw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they\nwere confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.\n\n14:4. For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon\nthe earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads.\n\n14:5. Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it,\nbecause there was no grass.\n\n14:6. And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind\nlike dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.\n\n14:7. If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it\nfor thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against\nthee.\n\n14:8. O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble:\nwhy wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man\nturning in to lodge?\n\n14:9. Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot\nsave? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us,\nforsake us not.\n\n14:10. Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their\nfeet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now\nremember their iniquities, and visit their sins.\n\n14:11. And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.\n\n14:12. When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer\nholocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them\nby the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.\n\n14:13. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You\nshall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he\nwill give you true peace in this place.\n\n14:14. And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my\nname: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken\nto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and\ndeceit, and the seduction of their own heart.\n\n14:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that\nprophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine\nshall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be\nconsumed.\n\n14:16. And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the\nstreets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there\nshall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their\ndaughters, and I will pour out their own wickedness upon them.\n\n14:17. And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down\ntears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter\nof my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding\ngrievous evil.\n\n14:18. If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword:\nand if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine.\nThe prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew\nnot.\n\n14:19. Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion?\nwhy then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we\nhave looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of\nhealing, and behold trouble.\n\n14:20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our\nfathers, because we have sinned against thee.\n\n14:21. Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do not\ndisgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant\nwith us.\n\n14:22. Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can\nsend rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our\nGod, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.\n\nJeremias Chapter 15\n\nGod is determined to punish the Jews for their sins. The prophet's\ncomplaint, and God's promise to him.\n\n15:1. And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before\nme, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and\nlet them go forth.\n\n15:2. And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth?  thou\nshalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death:\nand such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine,\nto famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity.\n\n15:3. And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword\nto kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts\nof the earth, to devour and to destroy.\n\n15:4. And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the\nearth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all\nthat he did in Jerusalem.\n\n15:5. For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan\nthee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?\n\n15:6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: and\nI will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am\nweary of entreating thee.\n\n15:7. And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I\nhave killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from\ntheir ways.\n\n15:8. Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I\nhave brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at\nnoonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.\n\n15:9. She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted\naway: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and\nashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the\nsight of their enemies, saith the Lord.\n\n15:10. Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a\nman of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither\nhath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.\n\n15:11. The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy\nremnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of affliction, and in\nthe time of tribulation against the enemy.\n\n15:12. Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?\n\nShall iron be allied, etc... Shall the iron, that is, the strength of\nJuda, stand against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of Babylon:\nor enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No certainly: but\nit must be broken by it.\n\n15:13. Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing,\nbecause of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.\n\n15:14. And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou knowest\nnot: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn upon you.\n\n15:15. O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me\nfrom them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that\nfor thy sake I have suffered reproach.\n\nDo not defend me in thy patience... That is, let not thy patience and\nlongsuffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making\nhaste to my assistance.\n\n15:16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me\na joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord\nGod of hosts.\n\n15:17. I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of\nthe presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with\nthreats.\n\n15:18. Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as\nto refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful\nwaters that cannot be trusted.\n\n15:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will\nconvert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and thou wilt\nseparate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they\nshall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.\n\n15:20. And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass:\nand they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with\nthee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.\n\n15:21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will\nredeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.\n\nJeremias Chapter 16\n\nThe prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for\ntheir idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity,\nand the Gentiles shall be converted.\n\n16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n16:2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and\ndaughters in this place.\n\n16:3. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that\nare born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and\nconcerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land:\n\n16:4. They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not\nbe lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon\nthe face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and\nwith famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air,\nand for the beasts of the earth.\n\n16:5. For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting,\nneither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away\nmy peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.\n\n16:6. Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall\nnot be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make\nthemselves bald for them.\n\n16:7. And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to\ncomfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them for their father\nand mother.\n\n16:8. And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them,\nand to eat and drink:\n\n16:9. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will\ntake away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of\nmirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the\nvoice of the bride.\n\n16:10. And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they\nshall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against us all\nthis great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have\nsinned against the Lord our God?\n\n16:11. Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith\nthe Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them:\nand they forsook me, and kept not my law.\n\n16:12. And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every\none of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not\nto hearken to me.\n\n16:13. So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you\nknow not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day\nand night, which shall not give you any rest.\n\n16:14. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when it shall be\nsaid no more: The Lord liveth, that brought forth the children of Israel\nout of the land of Egypt.\n\n16:15. But, The Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of\nthe land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them\nout: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their\nfathers.\n\n16:16. Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall\nfish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall\nhunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes\nof the rocks.\n\n16:17. For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my\nface, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.\n\n16:18. And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins:\nbecause they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and\nthey have filled my inheritance with their abominations.\n\n16:19. O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of\ntribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth,\nand shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which\nhath not profited them.\n\n16:20. Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?\n\n16:21. Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know, I will shew\nthem my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name is the Lord.\n\nJeremias Chapter 17\n\nFor their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. He is cursed\nthat trusteth in flesh. God alone searcheth the heart, giving to every\none as he deserves. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from his\nenemies, and preacheth up the observance of the sabbath.\n\n17:1. The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a\ndiamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of\ntheir altars.\n\n17:2. When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves,\nand their green trees upon the high mountains,\n\n17:3. Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy\ntreasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.\n\n17:4. And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave\nthee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou\nknowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn\nfor ever.\n\n17:5. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and\nmaketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.\n\n17:6. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see\nwhen good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a\nsalt land, and not inhabited.\n\nTamaric... A barren shrub that grows in the driest parts of the\nwilderness.\n\n17:7. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall\nbe his confidence.\n\n17:8. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that\nspreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the\nheat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of\ndrought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time\nto bring forth fruit.\n\n17:9. The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can\nknow it?\n\n17:10. I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give\nto every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his\ndevices.\n\n17:11. As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is\nhe that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days\nhe shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.\n\n17:12. A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of our\nsanctification.\n\n17:13. O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be\nconfounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth:\nbecause they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.\n\n17:14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be\nsaved: for thou art my praise.\n\n17:15. Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it\ncome.\n\n17:16. And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have\nnot desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my\nlips, hath been right in thy sight.\n\n17:17. Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of\naffliction.\n\n17:18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be\nconfounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon\nthem the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.\n\nLet them be confounded, etc... Such expressions as these in the writings\nof the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding\nfrom malice or desire of revenge: but as prophetic predictions of evils\nthat were about to fall upon impenitent sinners, and approbations of the\nways of divine justice.\n\n17:19. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the\nchildren of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out,\nand in all the gates of Jerusalem:\n\n17:20. And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings\nof Juda, and al Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter\nin by these gates.\n\n17:21. Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no\nburdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of\nJerusalem.\n\n17:22. And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day,\nneither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your\nfathers.\n\n17:23. But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their\nneck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.\n\n17:24. And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the\nLord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath\nday: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:\n\n17:25. Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and\nprinces, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and on\nhorses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of\nJerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.\n\n17:26. And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places\nround about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the\nplains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing holocausts,\nand victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in\nan offering into the house of the Lord.\n\n17:27. But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day,\nand not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of\nJerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof,\nand it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be\nquenched.\n\nJeremias Chapter 18\n\nAs the clay in the hand of the potter, so is Israel in God's hand.  He\npardoneth penitents, and punisheth the obstinate. They conspire against\nJeremias, for which he denounceth to them the miseries that hang over\nthem.\n\n18:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n18:2. Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt\nhear my words.\n\n18:3. And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a\nwork on the wheel.\n\n18:4. And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his\nhands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes\nto make it.\n\n18:5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n18:6. Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the\nLord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my\nhand, O house of Israel.\n\n18:7. I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to\nroot out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.\n\n18:8. If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their\nevil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.\n\n18:9. And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build\nup and plant it.\n\n18:10. If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I\nwill repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.\n\n18:11. Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you,\nand devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his\nevil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.\n\n18:12. And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own\nthoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his\nevil heart.\n\n18:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath\nheard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?\n\n18:14. Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can\nthe cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?\n\n18:15. Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and\nstumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not\ntrodden:\n\n18:16. That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a\nperpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished,\nand wag his head.\n\n18:17. As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will\nshew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.\n\n18:18. And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias:\nfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise,\nnor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the\ntongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.\n\n18:19. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.\n\n18:20. Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit\nfor my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for\nthem, and to turn away thy indignation from them.\n\nRemember, etc... This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by\nthe Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon\nthem in punishment of their crimes.\n\n18:21. Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them\ninto the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and\nwidows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be\nstabbed with the sword in battle.\n\n18:22. Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the\nrobber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me,\nand have hid snares for my feet.\n\n18:23. But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto\ndeath: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy\nsight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath\ndo thou destroy them.\n\nJeremias Chapter 19\n\nUnder the type of breaking a potter's vessel, the prophet foresheweth\nthe desolation of the Jews for their sins.\n\n19:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's earthen bottle, and\ntake of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:\n\n19:2. And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is by the\nentry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the words that\nI shall tell thee.\n\n19:3. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda,\nand ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God\nof Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that\nwhosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:\n\n19:4. Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place: and\nhave sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their\nfathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place\nwith the blood of innocents.\n\n19:5. And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their\nchildren with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command,\nnor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.\n\n19:6. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place\nshall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but\nthe valley of slaughter.\n\n19:7. And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this\nplace: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their\nenemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give\ntheir carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts\nof the earth.\n\n19:8. And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every\none that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because\nof all the plagues thereof.\n\n19:9. And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the\nflesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his\nfriend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and\nthey that seek their lives, shall straiten them.\n\n19:10. And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that\nshall go with thee.\n\n19:11. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so\nwill I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is\nbroken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in\nTopheth, because there is no other place to bury in.\n\n19:12. Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the\ninhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.\n\n19:13. And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda\nshall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose\nroofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured\nout drink offerings to strange gods.\n\n19:14. Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent him to\nprophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord, and said\nto all the people:\n\n19:15. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will\nbring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the evils\nthat I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks,\nthat they might not hear my words.\n\nJeremias Chapter 20\n\nThe prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors,\nand bemoans himself.\n\n20:1. Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief\nin the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.\n\n20:2. And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the\nstocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the\nLord.\n\n20:3. And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremias out\nof the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called thy\nname Phassur, but fear on every side.\n\nPhassur... This name signifies increase and principality: and therefore\nis here changed to Magor-Missabib, or fear on every side: to denote the\nevils that should come upon him in punishment of his opposing the word\nof God.\n\n20:4. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to fear,\nthee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their\nenemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into the\nhand of the king of Babylon: and he shall carry them away to Babylon,\nand shall strike them with the sword.\n\n20:5. And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its\nlabour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the\nkings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they\nshall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon.\n\n20:6. But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into\ncaptivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and\nthere thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to whom thou hast\nprophesied a lie.\n\n20:7. Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been\nstronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock\nall the day, all scoff at me.\n\nThou hast deceived, etc... The meaning of the prophet, is not to charge\nGod with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the\nconcealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the\ngreatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to\nbring upon him.\n\n20:8. For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity,\nand I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a\nreproach to me, and a derision all the day.\n\n20:9. Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in\nhis name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my\nbones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.\n\n20:10. For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side:\nPersecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my\nfamiliars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived,\nand we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.\n\n20:11. But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that\npersecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly\nconfounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach,\nwhich never shall be effaced.\n\n20:12. And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the\nreins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them:\nfor to thee I have laid open my cause.\n\nLet me see, etc... This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill will,\nbut zeal of justice.\n\n20:13. Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered\nthe soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.\n\n20:14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my\nmother bore me, be blessed.\n\nCursed be the day, etc... In these, and the following words of the\nprophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more energy\nthe greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him.\n\n20:15. Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying:\nA man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.\n\n20:16. Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and\nhath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at\nnoontide:\n\n20:17. Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my\ngrave, and her womb an everlasting conception.\n\n20:18. Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my\ndays should be spent in confusion?\n\nJeremias Chapter 21\n\nThe prophet's answer to the messengers of Sedecias, when Jerusalem was\nbesieged.\n\n21:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias\nsent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of\nMaasias the priest, saying:\n\n21:2. Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon\nmaketh war against us: if so be the Lord will deal with us according to\nall his wonderful works, that he may depart from us.\n\n21:3. And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias:\n\n21:4. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold I will turn back\nthe weapons of war that are in your hands, and with which you fight\nagainst the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege you round\nabout the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this\ncity.\n\n21:5. And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and\nwith a strong arm, and in fury, and in indignation, and in great wrath.\n\n21:6. And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts\nshall die of a great pestilence.\n\n21:7. And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of\nJuda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this\ncity from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand\nof Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their\nenemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall\nstrike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to\npity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy to them.\n\n21:8. And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I\nset before you the way of life, and the way of death.\n\n21:9. He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword, and by\nthe famine, and by the pestilence: but he that shall go out and flee\nover to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live, and his life shall\nbe to him as a spoil.\n\n21:10. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for\ngood, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of\nBabylon, and he shall burn it with fire.\n\n21:11. And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of the\nLord,\n\n21:12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the\nmorning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand\nof the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be\nkindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your\nways.\n\n21:13. Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a valley upon a rock above\na plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us and who shall\nenter into our houses?\n\nTo thee that dwellest, etc... He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the\nstrength of her situation upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley.\n\n21:14. But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings,\nsaith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it\nshall devour all things round about it.\n\nJeremias Chapter 22\n\nAn exhortation both to king and people to return of God. The sentence of\nGod upon Joachaz, Joakim, and Jechonias.\n\n22:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and\nthere thou shalt speak this word,\n\nGo down, etc... The contents of this chapter are of a more ancient date\nthan those of the foregoing chapter: for the order of time is not always\nobserved in the writings of the prophets.\n\n22:2. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Juda, that\nsittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people,\nwho enter in by these gates.\n\n22:3. Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him\nthat is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the\nstranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and\nshed not innocent blood in this place.\n\n22:4. For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by\nthe gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his\nthrone, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants,\nand their people.\n\n22:5. But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself,\nsaith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.\n\n22:6. For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art\nto me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a\nwilderness, and cities not habitable.\n\nGalaad the head of Libanus... By Galaad, a rich and fruitful country, is\nhere signified the royal palace of the kings of the house of David: by\nLibanus, a high mountain abounding in cedar trees, the populous city of\nJerusalem.\n\n22:7. And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and\nthey shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into\nthe fire.\n\nPrepare... Literally, sanctify.\n\n22:8. And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every\nman to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?\n\n22:9. And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of\nthe Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.\n\n22:10. Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears:\nlament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his\nnative country.\n\nWeep not for him that is dead, etc... He means the good king Josias, who\nby death was taken away, so as not to see the miseries of his country.\nIbid. Him that goeth away... Viz., sellum, alias Joachaz, who was\ncarried captive into Egypt.\n\n22:11. For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the king of\nJuda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this\nplace: He shall return hither no more:\n\n22:12. But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall he\ndie, and he shall not see this land any more.\n\n22:13. Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his\nchambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause,\nand will not pay him his wages.\n\n22:14. Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who\nopeneth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them\nwith vermilion.\n\n22:15. Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar?\ndid not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it\nwas then well with him?\n\n22:16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was\nit not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?\n\n22:17. But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon\nshedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil\nworks.\n\n22:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias\nking of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas,\nsister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or, Alas, the\nnoble one.\n\n22:19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast\nforth without the gates of Jerusalem.\n\n22:20. Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and\ncry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed.\n\n22:21. I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not\nhear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard\nmy voice.\n\n22:22. The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into\ncaptivity and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all thy\nwickedness.\n\n22:23. Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars,\nhow hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a\nwoman in labour?\n\n22:24. As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the\nking of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.\n\n22:25. And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life,\nand into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.\n\n22:26. And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a\nstrange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:\n\n22:27. And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up\ntheir mind to return thither.\n\n22:28. Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a\nvessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed,\nand are cast into a land which they know not?\n\n22:29. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.\n\n22:30. Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not\nprosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall\nsit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.\n\nWrite this man barren... That is, childless: not that he had no\nchildren, but that his children should never sit on the throne of Juda.\n\nJeremias Chapter 23\n\nGod reproves evil governors; and promises to send good pastors; and\nChrist himself the prince of the pastors. He inveighs against false\nprophets preaching without being sent.\n\n23:1. Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n23:2. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors\nthat feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away,\nand have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of\nyour doings, saith the Lord.\n\n23:3. And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the\nlands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to\ntheir own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.\n\n23:4. And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them:\nthey shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall\nbe wanting of their number, saith the Lord.\n\n23:5. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David\na just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall\nexecute judgment and justice in the earth.\n\n23:6. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell\nconfidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our\njust one.\n\n23:7. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall say\nno more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of\nthe land of Egypt:\n\n23:8. But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the\nseed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all\nthe lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their\nown land.\n\n23:9. To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones\ntremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the\npresence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words.\n\n23:10. Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath\nmourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and\ntheir course is become evil, and their strength unlike.\n\n23:11. For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I\nhave found their wickedness, saith the Lord.\n\n23:12. Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for\nthey shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon\nthem, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.\n\n23:13. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied\nin Baal and deceived my people Israel.\n\n23:14. And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying\nin the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the\nwicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all\nbecome unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.\n\n23:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I\nwill feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from\nthe prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land.\n\n23:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the\nprophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of\ntheir own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.\n\n23:17. They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall\nhave peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own\nheart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.\n\n23:18. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and\nheard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?\n\n23:19. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth,\nand a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.\n\n23:20. The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and\ntill he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you\nshall understand his counsel.\n\n23:21. I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them,\nyet they prophesied.\n\n23:22. If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to\nmy people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their\nwicked doings.\n\n23:23. Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar\noff?\n\n23:24. Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the\nLord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?\n\n23:25. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my\nname, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.\n\n23:26. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy\nlies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?\n\n23:27. Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams,\nwhich they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my\nname for Baal.\n\n23:28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that\nhath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to\ndo with the wheat, saith the Lord?\n\n23:29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that\nbreaketh the rock in pieces?\n\n23:30. Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who\nsteal my words every one from his neighbour.\n\n23:31. Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their\ntongues, and say: The Lord saith it.\n\n23:32. Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith\nthe Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and\nby their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not\nprofited this people at all, saith the Lord.\n\n23:33. If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask\nthee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them:\nYou are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.\n\n23:34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall\nsay: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his\nhouse.\n\nBurden of the Lord... This expression is here rejected and disallowed,\nat least for those times: because it was then used in mockery and\ncontempt by the false prophets, and unbelieving people, who ridiculed\nthe repeated threats of Jeremias under the name of his burdens.\n\n23:35. Thus shall you say every one to his neighbour, and to his\nbrother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?\n\n23:36. And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every\nman's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the\nliving God, of the Lord of hosts our God.\n\n23:37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered\nthee? and what hath the Lord spoken?\n\n23:38. But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus\nsaith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord:\nand I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord:\n\n23:39. Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will\nforsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out\nof my presence.\n\nOut of my presence... That is, the Lord declares that out of his\npresence he will cast them, and bring them to captivity for their\ntransgressions.\n\n23:40. And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a\nperpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.\n\nJeremias Chapter 24\n\nUnder the type of good and bad figs, he foretells the restoration of the\nJews that had been carried away captive with Jechonias, and the\ndesolation of those that were left behind.\n\n24:1. The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set\nbefore the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon\nhad carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his\nchief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had\nbrought them to Babylon.\n\n24:2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season:\nand the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten,\nbecause they were bad.\n\n24:3. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said:\nFigs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot\nbe eaten because they are bad.\n\n24:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n24:5. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so\nwill I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this\nplace into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.\n\n24:6. And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring\nthem again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them\ndown: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.\n\n24:7. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and\nthey shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall\nreturn to me with their whole heart.\n\n24:8. And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are\nbad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and\nhis princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this\ncity, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.\n\n24:9. And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the\nkingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb,\nand to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.\n\n24:10. And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the\npestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them,\nand their fathers.\n\nJeremias Chapter 25\n\nThe prophet foretells the seventy years captivity; after that the\ndestruction of Babylon, and other nations.\n\n25:1. The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda,\nin the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same\nis the first year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)\n\n25:2. Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of Juda, and to\nall the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:\n\n25:3. From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda\nuntil this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the\nLord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and\nspeaking, and you have not hearkened.\n\n25:4. And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets,\nrising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened, nor inclined your\nears to hear.\n\n25:5. When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from\nyour wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath\ngiven to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.\n\n25:6. And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor\nprovoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict\nyou.\n\n25:7. And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke\nme to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.\n\n25:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard\nmy words:\n\n25:9. Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith\nthe Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will\nbring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and\nagainst all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy\nthem, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual\ndesolations.\n\nMy servant... So this wicked king is here called; because God made him\nhis instrument in punishing the sins of his people.\n\n25:10. And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice\nof gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,\nthe sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.\n\n25:11. And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and\nall these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.\n\n25:12. And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the\nking of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity,\nand the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations.\n\nPunish... Literally, visit upon.\n\n25:13. And I will bring upon that land all my words, that I have spoken\nagainst it, all that is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath\nprophesied against all nations:\n\n25:14. For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and\ngreat kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and\naccording to the works of their hands.\n\n25:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup\nof wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to\ndrink thereof, into which I shall send thee.\n\n25:16. And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the\nsword, which I shall send among them.\n\n25:17. And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to\nall the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:\n\n25:18. To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof,\nand the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment,\nand a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.\n\n25:19. Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and\nall his people,\n\n25:20. And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all\nthe kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and\nAccaron, and the remnant of Azotus.\n\n25:21. And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.\n\n25:22. And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the\nkings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.\n\n25:23. And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut\nround.\n\n25:24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that\ndwell in the desert.\n\n25:25. And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all\nthe kings of the Medes:\n\n25:26. And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against\nhis brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face\nthereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.\n\nSesac... That is, Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these\npeople under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself.\n\n25:27. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God\nof Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no\nmore, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.\n\n25:28. And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou\nshalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall\ndrink:\n\n25:29. For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is\ncalled upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free?  you shall\nnot escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants\nof the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n25:30. And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou shalt\nsay to them: I The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his\nvoice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the place of\nhis beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be\ngiven out against all the inhabitants of the earth.\n\n25:31. The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord\nentereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with\nall flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.\n\n25:32. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from\nnation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of\nthe earth.\n\n25:33. And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of\nthe earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and\nthey shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon\nthe face of the earth.\n\n25:34. Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes,\nye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your\ndispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels.\n\n25:35. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of\nthe flock to save themselves.\n\n25:36. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the\nprincipal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures.\n\n25:37. And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce\nanger of the Lord.\n\n25:38. He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid\nwaste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger\nof the Lord.\n\nThe dove... This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose\nmilitary standard, it is said, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah,\nwhich is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor,\nwhich name better agrees to that unmerciful prince; or by comparison, as\na dove's flight is the swiftest, so would their destruction come upon\nthem.\n\nJeremias Chapter 26\n\nThe prophet is apprehended and accused by the priests: but discharged by\nthe princes.\n\n26:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of\nJuda, came this word from the Lord, saying:\n\n26:2. Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord,\nand speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in\nthe house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to\nspeak unto them: leave not out one word.\n\n26:3. If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his\nevil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them\nfor the wickedness of their doings.\n\n26:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not\nhearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:\n\n26:5. To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent\nto you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:\n\n26:6. I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a\ncurse to all the nations of the earth.\n\n26:7. And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard\nJeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.\n\n26:8. And when Jeremias had made an end of speaking all that the Lord\nhad commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the\nprophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to\ndeath.\n\n26:9. Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: This house\nshall be like Silo; and this city shall be made desolate, without an\ninhabitant? And all the people were gathered together against Jeremias\nin the house of the Lord.\n\n26:10. And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from\nthe king's house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the\nnew gate of the house of the Lord.\n\n26:11. And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all\nthe people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he\nhath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.\n\n26:12. Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and to all the people,\nsaying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and\nconcerning this city all the words that you have heard.\n\n26:13. Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to\nthe voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil\nthat he hath spoken against you.\n\n26:14. But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is good\nand right in your eyes:\n\n26:15. But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you\nwill shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city,\nand the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to\nspeak all these words in your hearing.\n\n26:16. Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to\nthe prophets: There is no judgment of death for this man: for he hath\nspoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.\n\n26:17. And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to\nall the assembly of the people, saying:\n\n26:18. Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of\nJuda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall\nbe a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of\nwoods.\n\n26:19. Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death?\ndid they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the\nLord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we\nare doing a great evil against our souls.\n\n26:20. There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord,\nUrias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this\ncity, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremias.\n\n26:21. And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes heard these\nwords: and the king sought to put him to death. And Urias heard it, and\nwas afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.\n\n26:22. And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achobor,\nand men with him into Egypt.\n\n26:23. And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to king\nJoakim, and he slew him with the sword: and he cast his dead body into\nthe graves of the common people.\n\n26:24. So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan was with Jeremias, that\nhe should not be delivered into the hands of the people, to put him to\ndeath.\n\nJeremias Chapter 27\n\nThe prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend\ntheir necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon.  The vessels of the\ntemple shall not be brought back till all the rest are carried away.\n\n27:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of\nJuda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\nJoakim... This revelation was made to the prophet in the beginning of\nthe reign of Joakim: but the bands were not sent to the princes here\nnamed before the reign of Sedecias, ver. 3.\n\n27:2. Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou\nshalt put them on thy neck.\n\n27:3. And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of\nMoab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre,\nand to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to\nJerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.\n\n27:4. And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith\nthe Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:\n\n27:5. I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the\nface of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I\nhave given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.\n\n27:6. And now I have given all these lands into the hand of\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of\nthe field I have given him to serve him.\n\n27:7. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son:\ntill the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great\nkings shall serve him.\n\nHis son... Viz., Evilmerodach; and his son's son, Nabonydus, or\nNabonadius, the Baltassar of Daniel, chap. 5., and the last of the\nChaldean kings.\n\n27:8. But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor king\nof Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the\nking of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with\nfamine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his\nhand.\n\n27:9. Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and\ndreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not\nserve the king of Babylon.\n\n27:10. For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your\ncountry, and cast you out, and to make you perish.\n\n27:11. But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of\nthe king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in\ntheir own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it.\n\n27:12. And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these\nwords, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of\nBabylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.\n\n27:13. Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by\nfamine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the\nnation that will not serve the king of Babylon?\n\n27:14. Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You\nshall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.\n\n27:15. For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in my\nname falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you, and\nthe prophets that prophesy to you.\n\n27:16. I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy\nto you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time\nbe brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.\n\n27:17. Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon,\nthat you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?\n\n27:18. But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let\nthem interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels\nwhich were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king\nof Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.\n\n27:19. For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pillars, and to the sea,\nand to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this\ncity:\n\n27:20. Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he\ncarried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from\nJerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n27:21. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the\nvessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the\nking of Juda and Jerusalem:\n\n27:22. They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until\nthe day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be\nbrought, and to be restored in this place.\n\nJeremias Chapter 28\n\nThe false prophecy of Hananias: he dies that same year, as Jeremias\nforetold.\n\n28:1. And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of\nSedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that\nHananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house\nof the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:\n\n28:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the\nyoke of the king of Babylon.\n\n28:3. As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the\nhouse of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried\nthem to Babylon.\n\n28:4. And I will bring back to this place Jechonias the son of Joakim\nking of Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that are gone to Babylon,\nsaith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.\n\n28:5. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in the\npresence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that\nstood in the house of the Lord:\n\n28:6. And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord\nperform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be\nbrought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may\nreturn out of Babylon to this place.\n\n28:7. Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the\nears of all the people:\n\n28:8. The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the\nbeginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning\ngreat kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine.\n\n28:9. The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to\npass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.\n\n28:10. And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremias\nthe prophet, and broke it.\n\n28:11. And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying:\nThus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the\nnations.\n\n28:12. And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the Lord\ncame to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain\nfrom off the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying:\n\n28:13. Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken\nchains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.\n\n28:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a\nyoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also I have given\nhim the beasts of the earth.\n\n28:15. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now,\nHananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to\ntrust in a lie.\n\n28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from\noff the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast\nspoken against the Lord.\n\n28:17. And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh month.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 29\n\nJeremias writeth to the captives in Babylon, exhorting them to be easy\nthere, and not to hearken to false prophets. That they shall be\ndelivered after seventy years. But those that remain in Jerusalem shall\nperish by the sword, famine, and pestilence.  And that Achab, Sedecias,\nand Semeias, false prophets, shall die miserably.\n\n29:1. Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias the prophet\nsent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried\ninto captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the\npeople, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:\n\n29:2. After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and\nthe princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the\nengravers were departed out of Jerusalem:\n\n29:3. By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of\nHelcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, saying:\n\n29:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are\ncarried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from\nJerusalem to Babylon:\n\n29:5. Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat\nthe fruit of them.\n\n29:6. Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for\nyour sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons\nand daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.\n\n29:7. And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be\ncarried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace\nthereof shall be your peace.\n\n29:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your\nprophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you:\nand give no heed to your dreams which you dream:\n\n29:9. For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent\nthem, saith the Lord.\n\n29:10. For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be\naccomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good\nword in your favour, to bring you again to this place.\n\n29:11. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord,\nthoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and\npatience.\n\n29:12. And you shall call upon me, and you shall go and you shall pray\nto me, and I will hear you.\n\n29:13. You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with\nall your heart.\n\n29:14. And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back\nyour captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all\nthe places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will\nbring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away\ncaptive.\n\n29:15. Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in\nBabylon:\n\n29:16. For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne\nof David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your\nbrethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.\n\n29:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the\nsword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad\nfigs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.\n\n29:18. And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and\nwith the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the\nkingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a\nhissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them\nout:\n\n29:19. Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord:\nwhich I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and\nsending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.\n\n29:20. Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity,\nwhom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.\n\n29:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son\nof Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in\nmy name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your\neyes.\n\n29:22. And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of\nJuda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and\nlike Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:\n\n29:23. Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed\nadultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in\nmy name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n29:24. And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:\n\n29:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou hast\nsent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to\nSophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests, saying:\n\n29:26. The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that\nthou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that\nraveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.\n\n29:27. And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who\nprophesieth to you?\n\n29:28. For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long\ntime: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the\nfruits of them.\n\n29:29. So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of\nJeremias the prophet.\n\n29:30. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n29:31. Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord to\nSemeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I\nsent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie:\n\n29:32. Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias\nthe Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the\nmidst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my\npeople, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 30\n\nGod will deliver his people from their captivity: Christ shall be their\nking: and his church shall be glorious for ever.\n\n30:1. This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n30:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the\nwords that I have spoken to thee, in a book.\n\n30:3. For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again\nthe captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will\ncause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they\nshall possess it.\n\n30:4. And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to\nJuda:\n\n30:5. For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is\nfear and no peace.\n\n30:6. Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every\nman with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces\nare turned yellow?\n\n30:7. Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and\nit is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.\n\n\n30:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,\nthat I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands:\nand strangers shall no more rule over him:\n\n30:9. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king,\nwhom I will raise up to them.\n\nDavid... That is, Christ of the house of David.\n\n30:10. Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord,\nneither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a\ncountry afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and\nJacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and\nthere shall be none whom he may fear:\n\n30:11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will\nutterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but\nI will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment,\nthat thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.\n\n30:12. For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is\nvery grievous.\n\n30:13. There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no\nhealing medicines.\n\n30:14. All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee:\nfor I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel\nchastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are\nhardened.\n\n30:15. Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for\nthe multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done\nthese things to thee.\n\n30:16. Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all\nthy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee\nshall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.\n\n30:17. For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds,\nsaith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This\nis she that hath none to seek after her.\n\n30:18. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of\nthe pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city\nshall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded\naccording to the order thereof.\n\n30:19. And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them\nthat play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and\nI will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.\n\n30:20. And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their\nassembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all that\nafflict them.\n\n30:21. And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall\ncome forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he\nshall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to\nme, saith the Lord?\n\n30:22. And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.\n\n30:23. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent\nstorm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.\n\n30:24. The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he\nhave executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter days\nyou shall understand these things.\n\nJeremias Chapter 31\n\nThe restoration of Israel. Rachel shall cease from morning. The new\ncovenant. The church shall never fail.\n\n31:1. At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the\nfamilies of Israel, and they shall be my people.\n\n31:2. Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from\nthe sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.\n\n31:3. The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with\nan everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.\n\n31:4. And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of\nIsrael: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go\nforth in the dances of them that make merry.\n\n31:5. Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the\nplanters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the\ntime.\n\n31:6. For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim,\nshall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.\n\n31:7. For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and neigh\nbefore the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O\nLord, thy people, the remnant of Israel.\n\n31:8. Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather\nthem from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and\nthe lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth,\ntogether, a great company of them returning hither.\n\n31:9. They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy:\nand I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and\nthey shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim\nis my firstborn.\n\n31:10. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the\nislands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather\nhim: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.\n\n31:11. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the\nhand of one that was mightier than he.\n\n31:12. And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and\nthey shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn,\nand wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul\nshall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.\n\n31:13. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old\nmen together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort\nthem, and make them joyful after their sorrow.\n\n31:14. And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my\npeople shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.\n\n31:15. Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of\nmourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing\nto be comforted for them, because they are not.\n\n31:16. Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy\neyes tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they\nshall return out of the land of the enemy.\n\n31:17. And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the\nchildren shall return to their own borders.\n\n31:18. Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast\nchastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to\nthe yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my\nGod.\n\n31:19. For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou\ndidst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed,\nbecause I have borne the reproach of my youth.\n\n31:20. Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender\nchild: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him.  Therefore\nare my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.\n\n\n31:21. Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy\nheart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of\nIsrael, return to these thy cities.\n\n31:22. How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering\ndaughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN\nSHALL COMPASS A MAN.\n\n31:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall\nthey say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when\nI shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of\njustice, the holy mountain.\n\n31:24. And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the\nhusbandman and they that drive the flocks.\n\n31:25. For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every\nhungry soul.\n\n31:26. Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and\nmy sleep was sweet to me.\n\n31:27. Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of\nIsrael and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of\nbeasts.\n\n31:28. And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down,\nand to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to\nbuild up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.\n\n31:29. In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a\nsour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.\n\n31:30. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that\nshall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.\n\n31:31. Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new\ncovenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:\n\n31:32. Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in\nthe day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of\nEgypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n31:33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of\nIsrael, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their\nbowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and\nthey shall be my people.\n\n31:34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every\nman his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the\nleast of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive\ntheir iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.\n\n31:35. Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day,\nthe order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who\nstirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is\nhis name.\n\n31:36. If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then\nalso the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me\nfor ever.\n\n31:37. Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and\nthe foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away\nall the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.\n\n31:38. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be\nbuilt to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the\ncorner.\n\n31:39. And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the\nhill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,\n\n31:40. And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of ashes, and all the\ncountry of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the\nhorse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be\nplucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.\n\nJeremias Chapter 32\n\nJeremias by God's commandment purchases a field of his kinsman: and\nprophesies the return of the people out of captivity: and the\neverlasting covenant God will make with his church.\n\n32:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of\nSedecias king of Juda: the same is the eighteenth year of\nNabuchodonosor.\n\n32:2. At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem:\nand Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which\nwas in the house of the king of Juda.\n\n32:3. For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou\nprophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into\nthe hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?\n\n32:4. And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the\nChaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of\nBabylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall\nsee his eyes.\n\n32:5. And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be there till\nI visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the\nChaldeans, you shall have no success.\n\n32:6. And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n32:7. Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee,\nsaying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to\nbuy it, being next akin.\n\n32:8. And Hanameel my uncle's son came to me, according to the word of\nthe Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field,\nwhich is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of\ninheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I\nunderstood that this was the word of the Lord.\n\n32:9. And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that is in\nAnathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of\nsilver.\n\n32:10. And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I\nweighed him the money in the balances.\n\n32:11. And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and the\nstipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the\noutside.\n\n32:12. And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neri the\nson of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, in the presence\nof the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and before\nall the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.\n\n32:13. And I charged Baruch before them, saying:\n\n32:14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these\nwritings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed\nthat is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue\nmany days.\n\n32:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and\nfields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.\n\n32:16. And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son\nof Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:\n\n32:17. Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and\nearth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be\nhard to thee:\n\n32:18. Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of\nthe fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty,\ngreat, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.\n\n32:19. Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are\nopen upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one\naccording to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.\n\n32:20. Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until\nthis day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as\nat this day.\n\n32:21. And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of\nEgypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a\nstretched out arm, and with great terror.\n\n32:22. And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their\nfathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n32:23. And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy\nvoice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those\nthings that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come\nupon them.\n\n32:24. Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the\ncity is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by\nthe sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast\nspoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.\n\n32:25. And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and\ntake witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the\nChaldeans?\n\n32:26. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n32:27. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be\nhard for me?\n\n32:28. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city\ninto the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of\nBabylon, and they shall take it.\n\n32:29. And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and\nset it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they\noffered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange\ngods, to provoke me to wrath.\n\n32:30. For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have\ncontinually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of\nIsrael who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n32:31. For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from\nthe day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken\nout of my sight.\n\n32:32. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the\nchildren of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and\ntheir kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the\nmen of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n32:33. And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when\nI taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would\nnot hearken to receive instruction.\n\n32:34. And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is\ncalled upon, to defile it.\n\n32:35. And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the\nvalley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters\nto Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart,\nthat they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.\n\n32:36. And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to this\ncity, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands of the\nking of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence:\n\n32:37. Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which\nI have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great\nindignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause\nthem to dwell securely.\n\n32:38. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.\n\n32:39. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear\nme all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children\nafter them.\n\n32:40. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not\ncease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they\nmay not revolt from me.\n\n32:41. And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I\nwill plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all\nmy soul.\n\n32:42. For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all\nthis great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now speak\nto them.\n\n32:43. And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that\nit is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is\ngiven into the hands of the Chaldeans.\n\n32:44. Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be written, and\nsealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and round\nabout Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the\nmountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are\ntowards the south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith the\nLord.\n\nJeremias Chapter 33\n\nGod promises reduction from captivity, and other blessings: especially\nthe coming of Christ, whose reign in his church shall be glorious and\nperpetual.\n\n33:1. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, while\nhe was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying:\n\n33:2. Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and prepare\nit, the Lord is his name.\n\n33:3. Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things,\nand sure things which thou knowest not.\n\n33:4. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this\ncity, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to\nthe bulwarks, and to the sword.\n\n33:5. Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them\nwith the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in my\nindignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their\nwickedness.\n\n33:6. Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will\ncure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.\n\nThe prayer of peace... That is, the peace and welfare which they pray\nfor.\n\n33:7. And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of\nJerusalem: and I will build them as from the beginning.\n\n33:8. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have\nsinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they\nhave sinned against me, and despised me.\n\n33:9. And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a\ngladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all the\ngood things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be troubled\nfor all the good things, and for all the peace that I will make for\nthem.\n\n33:10. Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place\n(which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in\nthe cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without\nman, and without inhabitant, and without beast)\n\n33:11. The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the\nbridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say:\nGive ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy\nendureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the\nhouse of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at\nthe first, saith the Lord.\n\n33:12. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place\nthat is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities\nthereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.\n\n33:13. And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the\nplains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of\nBenjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the\nflocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the\nLord.\n\n33:14. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the\ngood word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house of\nJuda.\n\n33:15. In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice\nto spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the\nearth.\n\n33:16. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell\nsecurely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our\njust one.\n\n33:17. For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a\nman to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.\n\nThere shall not be cut off from David, etc... This was verified in\nChrist, who is of the house of David; and whose kingdom in his church\nshall have no end.\n\n33:18. Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and Levites a man\nbefore my face to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifices, and to kill\nvictims continually.\n\nNeither shall there be cut off from the priests, etc... This promise\nrelates to the Christian priesthood; which shall also continue for ever:\nthe functions of which (more especially the great sacrifice of the\naltar) are here expressed by the name of holocausts, and other offerings\nof the law, which were so many figures of the Christian sacrifice.\n\n33:19. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n33:20. Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made\nvoid, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and\nnight in their season:\n\n33:21. Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he\nshould not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites and\npriests my ministers.\n\n33:22. As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the\nsea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and\nthe Levites my ministers.\n\n33:23. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n33:24. Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two\nfamilies which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised\nmy people, so that it is no more a nation before them?\n\nTwo families, etc... Viz., the families of the kings and priests.\n\n33:25. Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day\nand night, and laws to heaven and earth:\n\n33:26. Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my\nservant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and\nwill have mercy on them.\n\nJeremias Chapter 34\n\nThe prophet foretells that Sedecias shall fall into the hands of\nNabuchodonosor: God's sentence upon the princes and people that had\nbroken his covenant.\n\n34:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth,\nthat were under the power of his hand, and all the people fought against\nJerusalem and against all the cities thereof, saying:\n\n34:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Sedecias\nking of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver\nthis city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it\nwith fire.\n\n34:3. And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt surely\nbe taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall\nsee the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy\nmouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.\n\n34:4. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith\nthe Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.\n\n34:5. But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy\nfathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn\nthee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have\nspoken the word, saith the Lord.\n\nDie in peace... That is, by a natural death.\n\n34:6. And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias the\nking of Juda in Jerusalem.\n\n34:7. And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and\nagainst all the cities of Juda that were left, against Lachis, and\nagainst Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda, fenced cities.\n\n\n34:8. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that king\nSedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a\nproclamation:\n\n34:9. That every man should let his manservant, and every man his\nmaidservant, being Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they\nshould not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren.\n\n34:10. And all the princes, and all the people who entered into the\ncovenant, heard that every man should let his manservant, and every man\nhis maidservant go free, and should no more have dominion over them: and\nthey obeyed, and let them go free.\n\n34:11. But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants\nand their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into\nsubjection as menservants and maidservants.\n\n34:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n34:13. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with\nyour fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage, saying:\n\n34:14. At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being\na Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years:\nand thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not\nhearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.\n\n34:15. And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my eyes,\nin proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and you made a covenant\nin my sight, in the house upon which my name is invocated.\n\n34:16. And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have\nbrought back again every man his manservant, and every man his\nmaidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have\nbrought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.\n\n34:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in\nproclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his\nfriend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the\nsword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be\nremoved to all the kingdoms of the earth.\n\n34:18. And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, and\nhave not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to in my\npresence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts\nthereof:\n\n34:19. The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,\nand the priests, and all the people of the land that passed between the\nparts of the calf:\n\n34:20. And I will give them into the hands of their enemies, and into\nthe hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be\nfor meat to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.\n\n34:21. And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I will give into\nthe hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their\nlives, and into the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which\nare gone from you.\n\n34:22. Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will bring them\nagain to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and\nburn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation,\nwithout an inhabitant.\n\nJeremias Chapter 35\n\nThe obedience of the Rechabites condemns the disobedience of the Jews.\nThe reward of the Rechabites.\n\n35:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of Joakim\nthe son of Josias king of Juda, saying:\n\n35:2. Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring\nthem into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the\ntreasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.\n\nRechabites... These were of the race of Jethro, father in law to Moses.\n\n35:3. And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of Habsanias, and\nhis brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.\n\n35:4. And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure\nhouse of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which\nwas by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias\nthe son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.\n\n35:5. And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full\nof wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine.\n\n35:6. And they answered: We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the\nson of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no\nwine, neither you, nor your children, for ever:\n\n35:7. Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow reed, nor plant vineyards,\nnor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may\nlive many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.\n\n35:8. Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,\nour father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine\nall our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our\ndaughters:\n\n35:9. Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field,\nor seed:\n\n35:10. But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to\nall that Jonadab our father commanded us.\n\n35:11. But when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up to our land, we\nsaid: Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the face of the army of the\nChaldeans, and from the face of the army of Syria: and we have remained\nin Jerusalem.\n\n35:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n35:13. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to\nthe men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not\nreceive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord?\n\n35:14. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his\nsons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to this\nday, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I\nhave spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed\nme.\n\n35:15. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising\nearly, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way,\nand make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them,\nand you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and\nyou have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.\n\n35:16. So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have constantly kept the\ncommandment of their father, which he commanded them: but this people\nhath not obeyed me.\n\n35:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all\nthe evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to\nthem, and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they have not\nanswered me.\n\n35:18. And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment\nof Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done\nall that he commanded you:\n\n35:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: There\nshall not be wanting a man of the race of Jonadab the son of Rechab,\nstanding before me for ever.\n\nJeremias Chapter 36\n\nJeremias sends Baruch to read his prophecies in the temple; the book is\nbrought to king Joakim, who burns it. The prophet denounces his\njudgment, and causes Baruch to write a new copy.\n\n36:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias\nking of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias by the Lord, saying:\n\n36:2. Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the\nwords that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against\nall the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of\nJosias even to this day.\n\n36:3. If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils that I\npurpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his wicked\nway: and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.\n\n36:4. So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from\nthe mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to him,\nupon the roll of a book.\n\n36:5. And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and cannot go\ninto the house of the Lord.\n\nShut up... Not that the prophet was now in prison; for the contrary\nappears from ver. 19, but that he kept himself shut up, by reason of the\npersecutions he had lately met with. See chap. 26.\n\n36:6. Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which thou hast\nwritten from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the\npeople in the house of the Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt\nread them in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities:\n\n36:7. If so be they may present their supplication before the Lord, and\nmay return every one from his wicked way: for great is the wrath and\nindignation which the Lord hath pronounced against this people.\n\n36:8. And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that Jeremias\nthe prophet had commanded him, reading out of the volume the words of\nthe Lord in the house of the Lord.\n\n36:9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias\nking of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the\nLord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were\ncome together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.\n\n36:10. And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias in the\nhouse of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the\nscribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of\nthe Lord, in the hearing of all the people.\n\n36:11. And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan had heard\nout of the book all the words of the Lord,\n\n36:12. He went down into the king's house to the secretary's chamber:\nand behold all the princes sat there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias\nthe son of Semeias, and Elnathan the son of Achobor, and Gamarias the\nson of Saphan, and Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes.\n\n36:13. And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch\nread out of the volume in the hearing of the people.\n\n36:14. Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias, the son\nof Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in thy hand the\nvolume in which thou hast read in the hearing of the people, and come.\nSo Baruch the son of Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came to\nthem.\n\n36:15. And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our\nhearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.\n\n36:16. And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one\nanother with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the\nking all these words.\n\n36:17. And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all\nthese words from his mouth.\n\n36:18. And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these\nwords as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.\n\n36:19. And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both thou and\nJeremias, and let no man know where you are.\n\n36:20. And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid up the\nvolume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and they told all the words\nin the hearing of the king.\n\n36:21. And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who\nbringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the\nhearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king.\n\n36:22. Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and\nthere was a hearth before him full of burning coals.\n\n36:23. And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the\npenknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till\nall the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.\n\n36:24. And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were\nnot afraid, nor did they rend their garments.\n\n36:25. But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king,\nnot to burn the book: and he heard them not.\n\n36:26. And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias\nthe son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the\nscribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them.\n\n36:27. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, after that\nthe king had burnt the volume, and the words that Baruch had written\nfrom the mouth of Jeremias, saying:\n\n36:28. Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former\nwords that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda both\nburnt.\n\n36:29. And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the\nLord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written\ntherein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall\nlay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?\n\n\n36:30. Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda: He\nshall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall\nbe cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night.\n\nHe shall have none, etc... Because his son Joachin or Jechonias, within\nthree months after the death of his father, was carried away to Babylon,\nso that his reign is not worthy of notice.\n\n36:31. And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their\niniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced\nagainst them, but they have not heard.\n\n36:32. And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch the son\nof Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremias all the\nwords of the book which Joakim the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and\nthere were added besides many more words than had been before.\n\nJeremias Chapter 37\n\nJeremias prophesies that the Chaldeans, who had departed from Jerusalem,\nwould return and burn the city. He is cast into prison.  His conference\nwith Sedecias.\n\n37:1. Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias\nthe son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the\nland of Juda.\n\n37:2. But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land did\nobey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the\nprophet.\n\n37:3. And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias\nthe son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to\nthe Lord our God for us.\n\n37:4. Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people: for they\nhad not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come out\nof Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these\ntidings, departed from Jerusalem.\n\n37:5. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying:\n\n37:6. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the\nking of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao,\nwhich is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into\nEgypt.\n\n37:7. And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city,\nand take it, and burn it with fire.\n\n37:8. Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans\nshall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away.\n\n37:9. But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that\nfight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men:\nthey shall rise up, every man from his heart, and burn this city with\nfire.\n\n37:10. Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem,\nbecause of Pharao's army,\n\n37:11. Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of\nBenjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the\ncitizens,\n\n37:12. And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the\ngate, who was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of\nSelemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the prophet,\nsaying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.\n\n37:13. And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the\nChaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and\nbrought him to the princes.\n\n37:14. Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat\nhim, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the\nscribe: for he was chief over the prison.\n\n37:15. So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the\ndungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.\n\n37:16. Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him secretly\nin his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord?\nAnd Jeremias said. There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into\nthe hands of the king of Babylon.\n\n37:17. And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended\nagainst thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me\ninto prison?\n\n37:18. Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The\nking of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land?\n\n37:19. Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my\npetition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house\nof Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.\n\n37:20. Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed\ninto the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a\npiece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent:\nand Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.\n\nJeremias Chapter 38\n\nThe prophet at the instance of the great men is cast into a filthy\ndungeon: he is drawn out by Abdemelech, and has another conference with\nthe king.\n\n38:1. Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur,\nand Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard\nthe words that Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying:\n\n38:2. Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall remain in this city, shall\ndie by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall go\nforth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he\nshall live.\n\n38:3. Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered into the\nhand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.\n\n38:4. And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man\nmay be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of\nwar, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to\nthem according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this\npeople, but evil.\n\n38:5. And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not\nlawful for the king to deny you any thing.\n\n38:6. Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias\nthe son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let\ndown Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but\nmire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire.\n\n38:7. Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's\nhouse, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king was\nsitting in the gate of Benjamin.\n\n38:8. And Abdemelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the\nking, saying:\n\n38:9. My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have\ndone against Jeremias the prophet, casting him into the dungeon to die\nthere with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.\n\n38:10. Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying: Take\nfrom hence thirty men with thee, and draw up Jeremias the prophet out of\nthe dungeon, before he die.\n\n38:11. So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the king's house\nthat was under the storehouse: and he took from thence old rags, and old\nrotten things, and he let them down by cords to Jeremias into the\ndungeon.\n\n38:12. And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old rags\nand these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the cords: and\nJeremias did so.\n\n38:13. And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and brought him forth\nout of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.\n\n38:14. And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the prophet to him to\nthe third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to\nJeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me.\n\n38:15. Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee,\nwilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not\nhearken to me.\n\n38:16. Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private, saying: As the\nLord liveth, that, made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor\nwill I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life.\n\n38:17. And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the\nGod of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes\nof the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be\nburnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.\n\n38:18. But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of\nBabylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans,\nand they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of their\nhand.\n\n38:19. And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the\nJews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered\ninto their hands, and they should abuse me.\n\n38:20. But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I\nbeseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to the, and it\nshall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.\n\n38:21. But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord\nhath shewn me:\n\n38:22. Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of\nJuda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and\nthey shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed\nagainst thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery\nplace and they have departed from thee.\n\nThy men of peace... Viri pacifici tui. That is thy false friends\npromising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels involving\nthee in misery.\n\n38:23. And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out to the\nChaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be\ntaken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city\nwith fire.\n\n38:24. Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know these words, and\nthou shalt not die.\n\n38:25. But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken with thee, and\nshall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the\nking, hide it not from us, and we will not kill thee: and also what the\nking said to thee:\n\n38:26. Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the\nking, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of\nJonathan, to die there.\n\n38:27. So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he spoke\nto them according to all the words that the king had commanded him: and\nthey left him: for nothing had been heard.\n\n38:28. But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day\nthat Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.\n\nJeremias Chapter 39\n\nAfter two years' siege Jerusalem is taken. Sedecias is carried before\nNabuchodonosor, who kills his sons in his sight, and then puts out his\neyes. Jeremias is set at liberty.\n\n39:1. In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month,\ncame Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and\nthey besieged it.\n\n39:2. And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the\nfifth day of the month, the city was opened.\n\n39:3. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the\nmiddle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares,\nNeregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of\nBabylon.\n\n39:4. And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw\nthem, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the\nway of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two\nwalls, and they went out to the way of the desert.\n\n39:5. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took\nSedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken\nhim, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha,\nwhich is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.\n\n39:6. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha,\nbefore his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.\n\n39:7. He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters,\nto be carried to Babylon.\n\n39:8. And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses of the\npeople with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.\n\n39:9. And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to\nBabylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the\nfugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that\nremained.\n\n39:10. But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had\nnothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and\ncisterns at that time.\n\n39:11. Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to Nabuzardan\nthe general concerning Jeremias, saying:\n\n39:12. Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm: but as\nhe hath a mind, so do with him.\n\n39:13. Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent, and Nabuzardan, and\nRabsares, and Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all the nobles of\nthe king of Babylon,\n\n39:14. Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and\ncommitted him to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he\nmight go home, and dwell among the people.\n\n39:15. But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut\nup in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the\nEthiopian, saying:\n\n39:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will\nbring my words upon this city unto evil, and not unto good: and they\nshall be accomplished in thy sight in that day.\n\n39:17. And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou\nshalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest:\n\n39:18. But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by\nthe sword: but thy life shall be saved for thee, because thou hast put\nthy trust in me, saith the Lord.\n\nJeremias Chapter 40\n\nJeremias remains with Godolias the governor; who receives all the Jews\nthat resort to him.\n\n40:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that\nNabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him,\nbeing bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from\nJerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.\n\n40:2. And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord\nthy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,\n\n40:3. And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath said:\nbecause you have sinned against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his\nvoice, and this word is come upon you.\n\n40:4. Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which\nwere upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come:\nand I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come\nwith me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as\nthou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go.\n\n40:5. And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of Ahicam\nthe son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the\ncities of Juda: dwell therefore with him in the midst of the people: or\nwhithersoever it shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the\narmy gave him victuals and presents, and let him go.\n\n40:6. And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and\ndwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.\n\n40:7. And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through\nthe countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of\nBabylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country, and\nthat he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the\npoor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to\nBabylon:\n\n40:8. They came to Godolias to Masphath: and Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, and Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree, and Sareas the\nson of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi, that were of Netophathi,\nand Jezonias the son of Maachati, they and their men.\n\n40:9. And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to them and\nto their companions, saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in\nthe land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.\n\n40:10. Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of\nthe Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the\nvintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels,\nand abide in your cities which you hold.\n\n40:11. Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children\nof Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that\nthe king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made\nGodolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:\n\n40:12. All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to which they\nhad fled, and they came into the land of Juda to Godolias to Masphath:\nand they gathered wine, and a very great harvest.\n\n40:13. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the army,\nthat had been scattered about in the countries, came to Godolias to\nMasphath.\n\n40:14. And they said to him: Know that Baalis the king of the children\nof Ammon hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias to kill thee. And\nGodolias the son of Ahicam believed them not.\n\n40:15. But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Godolias privately in\nMasphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and all the Jews\nbe scattered, that are gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda\nperish.\n\n40:16. And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of Caree:\nDo not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false.\n\nJeremias Chapter 41\n\nGodolias is slain: the Jews that were with him are apprehensive of the\nChaldeans.\n\n41:1. And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the\nking, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into\nMasphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath.\n\n41:2. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men that were\nwith him, and they struck Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan\nwith the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor\nover the land.\n\n41:3. Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with Godolias in\nMasphath, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the soldiers.\n\n41:4. And on the second day after he had killed Godolias, no man yet\nknowing it,\n\n41:5. There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria,\nfourscore men, with their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and\nmourning: and they had offerings and incense in their hand, to offer in\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n41:6. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth from Masphath to meet\nthem, weeping all along as he went: and when he had met them, he said to\nthem: Come to Godolias, the son of Ahicam.\n\n41:7. And when they were come to the midst of the city, Ismahel the son\nof Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he and\nthe men that were with him.\n\n41:8. But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us\nnot: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and\nhoney. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren.\n\n41:9. And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the men\nwhom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for\nfear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of\nNathanias fill with them that were slain.\n\n41:10. Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the people\nthat were in Masphath: the king's daughters, and all the people that\nremained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the general of the army had\ncommitted to Godolias the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of\nNathanias took them, and he departed, to go over to the children of\nAmmon.\n\n41:11. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nfighting men that were with him, heard of the evil that Ismahel the son\nof Nathanias had done.\n\n41:12. And taking all the men, they went out to fight against Ismahel\nthe son of Nathanias, and they found him by the great waters that are in\nGabaon.\n\n41:13. And when all the people that were with Ismahel, had seen Johanan\nthe son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were\nwith him, they rejoiced.\n\n41:14. And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to Masphath:\nand they returned and went to Johanan the son of Caree.\n\n41:15. But Ismahel the son of Nathanias fled with eight men, from the\nface of Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon.\n\n41:16. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nsoldiers that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom\nthey had recovered from Ismahel the son of Nathanias, from Masphath,\nafter that he had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam: valiant men for war,\nand the women, and the children, and the eunuchs whom he had brought\nback from Gabaon.\n\n41:17. And they departed, and sat as sojourners in Chamaam, which is\nnear Bethlehem: in order to go forward, and enter into Egypt,\n\n41:18. From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,\nbecause Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of\nAhicam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Juda.\n\nJeremias Chapter 42\n\nJeremias assures the remnant of the people, that if they will stay in\nJuda, they shall be safe; but if they go down into Egypt, they shall\nperish.\n\n42:1. Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of\nCaree, and Jezonias, the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from\nthe least to the greatest came near:\n\n42:2. And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall\nbefore thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this\nremnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.\n\n42:3. And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and\nthe thing that we must do.\n\n42:4. And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I\nwill pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever\nthing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide\nnothing from you.\n\n42:5. And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of truth\nand faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the\nLord thy God shall send thee to us.\n\n42:6. Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our\nGod, to whom we send thee: that it may be well with us when we shall\nhearken to the voice of the Lord our God.\n\nGood or evil... That is, agreeable or disagreeable.\n\n42:7. Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.\n\n42:8. And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of\nthe fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least\nto the greatest.\n\n42:9. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to\nwhom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:\n\n42:10. If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you\nup, and not pull you down: I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for\nnow I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.\n\nI am appeased for the evil that I have done to you... That is, I am\nappeased, as I have sufficiently punished you, and now I am reconciled\nwith you.\n\n42:11. Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly\nafraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you,\nand to deliver you from his hand.\n\n42:12. And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and\nwill cause you to dwell in your own land.\n\n42:13. But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we\nhearken to the voice of the Lord our God,\n\n42:14. Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we shall\nsee no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and\nthere we will dwell.\n\n42:15. For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus\nsaith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go\ninto Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:\n\n42:16. The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of\nEgypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in\nEgypt, and there you shall die.\n\n42:17. And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell\nthere, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of\nthem shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will\nbring upon them.\n\n42:18. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger\nand my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of\nJerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you\nshall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an\nastonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place\nno more.\n\n42:19. This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of\nJuda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this\nday.\n\n42:20. For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord\nour God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all\nthat the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will\ndo it.\n\n42:21. And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not\nobeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for\nwhich he hath sent me to you.\n\n42:22. Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and\nby famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to\ndwell there.\n\nJeremias Chapter 43\n\nThe Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt,\ncarrying Jeremias with them. He foretells the devastation of that land\nby the king of Babylon.\n\n43:1. And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of\nspeaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which\nthe Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words:\n\n43:2. Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all\nthe proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the\nLord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell\nthere.\n\n43:3. But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, to\ndeliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us\nto be carried away captives to Babylon.\n\n43:4. So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers,\nand all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the\nland of Juda.\n\n43:5. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers\ntook all the remnant of Juda, that were returned out of all nations, to\nwhich they had before been scattered, to dwell in the land of Juda:\n\n43:6. Men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every\nsoul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of\nAhicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son\nof Nerias.\n\n43:7. And they went into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the\nvoice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis.\n\n43:8. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis, saying:\n\n43:9. Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the\nvault that is under the brick wall at the gate of Pharao's house in\nTaphnis: in the sight of the men of Juda.\n\n43:10. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God\nof Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I\nhave hid, and he shall set his throne over them.\n\n43:11. And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for\ndeath, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such\nas are for the sword, to the sword.\n\n43:12. And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt,\nand he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he\nshall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his\ngarment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.\n\n43:13. And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are\nin the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn\nwith fire.\n\nJeremias Chapter 44\n\nThe prophet's admonition to the Jews in Egypt against idolatry is not\nregarded: he denounces to them their destruction.\n\n44:1. The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt\nin the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in\nMemphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:\n\n44:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all\nthis evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of\nJuda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an\ninhabitant in them:\n\n44:3. Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me\nto wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which\nneither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.\n\n44:4. And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and\nsending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.\n\n44:5. But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil\nways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.\n\n44:6. Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was\nkindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they\nare turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.\n\n44:7. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you\ncommit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of\nyou man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no\nremnant should be left you:\n\n44:8. In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by\nsacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come\nto dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a\nreproach to all the nations of the earth?\n\n44:9. Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the\nkings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the\nevils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the\nstreets of Jerusalem?\n\n44:10. They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared,\nnor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set\nbefore you and your fathers.\n\n44:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.\n\n44:12. And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to\ngo into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all\nconsumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the\nfamine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest,\nby the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an\nexecration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach.\n\n44:13. And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have\nvisited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine and by pestilence.\n\n44:14. And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of the\nremnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and\nthat shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to\nreturn to dwell there: there shall none return but they that shall flee.\n\n\n44:15. Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other\ngods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and\nall the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures,\nanswered Jeremias, saying:\n\n44:16. As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the\nLord, we will not hearken to thee:\n\n44:17. But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our\nown mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink\nofferings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our\nprinces in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we\nwere filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.\n\nThe queen of heaven... The moon, which they worshipped under this name.\n\n44:18. But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven,\nand to pour out frank offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and\nhave been consumed by the sword, and by famine.\n\n44:19. And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out\ndrink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out\ndrink offerings to her, without our husbands?\n\n44:20. And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the\nwomen, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:\n\n44:21. Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda,\nand in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and\nyour princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath\nremembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?\n\n44:22. So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of\nyour doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed:\ntherefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a\ncurse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.\n\n44:23. Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the\nLord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in\nhis law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are\nthese evils come upon you, as at this day.\n\n44:24. And Jeremias said to all the people and to all the women: Hear ye\nthe word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:\n\n44:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and\nyour wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands,\nsaying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice\nto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have\nfulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.\n\n44:26. Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell\nin the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the\nLord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of\nJuda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.\n\n44:27. Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all\nthe men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed, by the\nsword, and by famine, till there be an end of them.\n\n44:28. And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of\nthe land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda\nthat are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose\nword shall stand, mine, or theirs.\n\n44:29. And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will\npunish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be\naccomplished indeed against you for evil.\n\n44:30. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Nechao king of\nEgypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek\nhis life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the land of\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.\n\nJeremias Chapter 45\n\nThe prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction.\n\n45:1. The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of\nNerias, when he had written these words in a book, out of the mouth of\nJeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda,\nsaying:\n\n45:2. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch:\n\n45:3. Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath\nadded sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no\nrest.\n\n45:4. Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom\nI have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up,\nand all this land.\n\n45:5. And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold\nI will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee\nthy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go.\n\nJeremias Chapter 46\n\nA prophecy against Egypt. The Jews shall return from captivity.\n\n46:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the\nGentiles,\n\n46:2. Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt,\nwhich was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias\nking of Juda.\n\n46:3. Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.\n\n46:4. Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with\nhelmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.\n\n46:5. What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs,\ntheir valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back:\nterror was round about, saith the Lord.\n\n46:6. Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they\nare overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river\nEuphrates.\n\n46:7. Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like\nthose of rivers?\n\n46:8. Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be moved\nas rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I\nwill destroy the city, and its inhabitants.\n\n46:9. Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant\nmen come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield,\nand the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.\n\n46:10. For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of\nvengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall\ndevour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for\nthere is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by\nthe river Euphrates.\n\n46:11. Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in\nvain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.\n\n46:12. The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath\nfilled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and\nboth are fallen together.\n\n46:13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:\n\n46:14. Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be\nknown in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself:\nfor the sword shall devour all round about thee.\n\n46:15. Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because\nthe Lord hath overthrown them.\n\n46:16. He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon\nanother, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people,\nand to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.\n\nThe dove... See the annotation on chap. 25., ver. 38.\n\n46:17. Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath\nbrought.\n\n46:18. As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as\nThabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he\ncome.\n\n46:19. Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of\nEgypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and\nuninhabited.\n\n46:20. Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from\nthe north one that shall goad her.\n\n46:21. Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted\ncalves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not\nstand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of\ntheir visitation.\n\n46:22. Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an\narmy, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.\n\n46:23. They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be\ncounted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.\n\n46:24. The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand\nof the people of the north.\n\n46:25. The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will\nvisit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt,\nand upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them\nthat trust in him.\n\nVisit upon... That is, punish.-Ibid. Alexandria...  In the Hebrew, No,\nwhich was the ancient name of the city, to which Alexander gave\nafterwards the name of Alexandria.\n\n46:26. And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their\nlives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the\nhand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the\ndays of old, saith the Lord.\n\n46:27. And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O\nIsrael: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of\nthe land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and\nprosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.\n\n46:28. And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I\nam with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast\nthee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in\njudgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.\n\nJeremias Chapter 47\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of the Philistines, of Tyre, Sidon, Gaza,\nand Ascalon.\n\n47:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the\npeople of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.\n\n47:2. Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north,\nand they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the\nland, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof:\nthen the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,\n\n47:3. At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the\nrushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers\nhave not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,\n\n47:4. Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines\nshall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the\nrest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the\nremnant of the isle of Cappadocia.\n\n47:5. Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the\nremnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?\n\n47:6. O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet?  Go\ninto thy scabbard, rest, and be still.\n\n47:7. How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge\nagainst Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and\nthere hath made an appointment for it?\n\nJeremias Chapter 48\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their pride: but their\ncaptivity shall at last be released.\n\n48:1. Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe\nto Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the\nstrong city is confounded and hath trembled.\n\n48:2. There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised\nevil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.  Therefore shalt\nthou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.\n\n48:3. A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.\n\n48:4. Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.\n\n48:5. For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping:\nfor in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of\ndestruction.\n\n48:6. Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.\n\n48:7. For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy\ntreasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity,\nhis priests, and his princes together.\n\nChamos... The idol of the Moabites.\n\n48:8. And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall\nescape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed,\nfor the Lord hath spoken:\n\n48:9. Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the\ncities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.\n\n48:10. Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and\ncursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.\n\nDeceitfully... In the Greek, negligently. The work of God here spoken\nof, is the punishment of the Moabites.\n\n48:11. Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his\nlees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone\ninto captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent\nis not changed.\n\nMoab hath been fruitful... That is, rich and flourishing. And hath\nrested upon his lees... That is, remained in its bad morals; as wine not\ndecanted has its lees mixed and remains muddy.\n\n48:12. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send\nhim men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast\nhim down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one\nagainst another.\n\n48:13. And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was\nashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.\n\nOf Bethel... That is, of their golden calf which they worshipped in\nBethel.\n\n48:14. How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?\n\n48:15. Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her\nchoice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose\nname is the Lord of hosts.\n\n48:16. The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof\nshall come on exceeding swiftly.\n\n48:17. Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that\nknow his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod?\n\n48:18. Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the\ndaughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he\nhath destroyed thy bulwarks.\n\n48:19. Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of\nhim that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?\n\n48:20. Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry,\ntell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.\n\n48:21. And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon\nJasa, and upon Mephaath.\n\n48:22. And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,\n\n48:23. And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,\n\n48:24. And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the\nland of Moab, far or near.\n\n48:25. The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the\nLord.\n\nThe horn of Moab is cut off... That is, the strength of Moab is cut off.\nA metaphor drawn from animals whose strength is in their horns.\n\n48:26. Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord:\nand Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in\nderision.\n\n48:27. For Israel hath been a derision unto them: as though thou hadst\nfound him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast\nspoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.\n\n48:28. Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab:\nand be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in\nthe highest place.\n\n48:29. We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his\nhaughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his\nheart.\n\n48:30. I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and that the strength\nthereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeavoured to do\naccording as it was able.\n\n48:31. Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab,\nfor the men of the brick wall that mourn.\n\n48:32. O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee, with the mourning of\nJazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they are come even to the sea\nof Jazer: the robber hath rushed in upon thy harvest and thy vintage.\n\n48:33. Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of\nMoab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of\nthe grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.\n\n48:34. From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have\nuttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years\nold: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.\n\n48:35. And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth\nin the high places, and that sacrificeth to his gods.\n\n48:36. Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart\nshall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath\ndone more than he could, therefore they have perished.\n\n48:37. For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven:\nall hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be\nhaircloth.\n\n48:38. Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof\ngeneral mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n48:39. How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab bowed\ndown the neck, and is confounded! And Moab shall be a derision, and an\nexample to all round about him.\n\n48:40. Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall\nstretch forth his wings to Moab.\n\n48:41. Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of\nthe valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in\nlabour.\n\n48:42. And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried\nagainst the Lord.\n\n48:43. Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of\nMoab, saith the Lord.\n\nFear... That is, the sword of the enemy. The pit... That is, unforeseen\ncalamities. The snare... That is, the ambushes laid by the enemy.\n\n48:44. He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he\nthat shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I\nwill bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.\n\n48:45. They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon: but\nthere came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the midst of Seon,\nand it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of the\nchildren of tumult.\n\n48:46. Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast persisted, O people of Chamos: for\nthy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives.\n\n48:47. And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days,\nsaith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.\n\nJeremias Chapter 49\n\nThe like desolation of Ammon, of Idumea, of the Syrians, of the\nAgarenes, and of the Elamites.\n\n49:1. Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no\nsons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his\npeople dwelt in his cities?\n\nMelchom... The idol of the Ammonites.\n\n49:2. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause\nthe noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and it\nshall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with\nfire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the\nLord.\n\n49:3. Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath,\ngird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for\nMelchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes\ntogether.\n\n49:4. Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O\ndelicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said:\nWho shall come to me?\n\n49:5. Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts,\nfrom all that are round about thee: and you shall be scattered every one\nout of one another's sight, neither shall there be any to gather\ntogether them that flee.\n\n49:6. And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children of Ammon\nto return, saith the Lord.\n\n49:7. Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in\nTheman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become\nunprofitable.\n\n49:8. Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye\ninhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon\nhim, the time of his visitation.\n\n49:9. If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a\nbunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough\nfor them.\n\n49:10. But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he\ncannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his\nneighbours, and he shall not be.\n\n49:11. Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy\nwidows shall hope in me.\n\n49:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to\ndrink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as\ninnocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt\ndrink.\n\n49:13. For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall\nbecome a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all\nher cities shall be everlasting wastes.\n\n49:14. I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to\nthe nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let\nus rise up to battle.\n\n49:15. For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations,\ndespicable among men.\n\n49:16. Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O\nthou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay\nhold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest\nas high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.\n\n\n49:17. And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it,\nshall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.\n\n49:18. As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof,\nsaith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no\nson of man inhabit it.\n\n49:19. Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the\nJordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run\nsuddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint\nover her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that\nshepherd that can withstand my countenance?\n\n49:20. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken\nconcerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the\ninhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast\nthem down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.\n\n49:21. The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their\nvoice is heard in the Red Sea.\n\n49:22. Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread\nhis wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of\nEdom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.\n\n49:23. Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have\nheard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care\nthey could not rest.\n\n49:24. Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized\non her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.\n\n49:25. How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy!\n\n49:26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the\nmen of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n49:27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall\ndevour the strong holds of Benadad.\n\n49:28. Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise,\nand go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east.\n\nCedar and Asor... Were parts of Arabia; which with Moab, Ammon, Edom,\netc., were all brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor.\n\n49:29. They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall carry\noff for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their\ncamels: and they shall call fear upon them round about.\n\n49:30. Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that inhabit\nAsor, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath taken\ncounsel against you, and hath conceived designs against you.\n\n49:31. Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth\nsecurely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell\nalone.\n\n49:32. And their camels shall be for a spoil and the multitude of their\ncattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every wind them that have\ntheir hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon them from all\ntheir confines, saith the Lord.\n\n49:33. And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever: no\nman shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.\n\n49:34. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against\nElam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, saying:\n\nElam... A part of Persia.\n\n49:35. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of\nElam, and their chief strength.\n\n49:36. And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters\nof heaven: and I will scatter them into all these winds: and there shall\nbe no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come.\n\n49:37. And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and in\nthe sight of them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them,\nmy fierce wrath, saith the Lord: and I will send the sword after them,\ntill I consume them.\n\n49:38. And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes\nfrom thence, saith the Lord.\n\n49:39. But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam, to\nreturn, saith the Lord.\n\nJeremias Chapter 50\n\nBabylon, which hath afflicted the Israelites, after their restoration,\nshall be utterly destroyed.\n\n50:1. The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against\nthe land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.\n\n50:2. Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard:\nproclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,\nMerodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols\nare overthrown.\n\nBel, etc... Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of\nBabylon.\n\n50:3. For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall\nmake her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from\nman even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away.\n\nA nation, etc... Viz., the Medes.\n\n50:4. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of\nIsrael shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and\nweeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.\n\n50:5. They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward.  They\nshall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant,\nwhich shall never be forgotten.\n\n50:6. My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused them\nto go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they have gone\nfrom mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.\n\n50:7. All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said:\nWe have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the\nLord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their\nfathers.\n\n50:8. Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land\nof the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock.\n\n50:9. For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly\nof great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared\nagainst her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like\nthose of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.\n\n50:10. And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall be\nfilled, saith the Lord.\n\n50:11. Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my\ninheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and\nhave bellowed as bulls.\n\n50:12. Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is\nmade even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations,\na wilderness unpassable, and dry.\n\n50:13. Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but\nshall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be\nastonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.\n\n50:14. Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend\nthe bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned\nagainst the Lord.\n\n50:15. Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her\nfoundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the\nvengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do\nto her.\n\n50:16. Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle\nin the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man\nshall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.\n\nThe dove... Or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the\none or the other.\n\n50:17. Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away:\nfirst the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon hath broken his bones.\n\n50:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as I have visited the\nking of Assyria.\n\n50:19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he shall\nfeed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied in mount\nEphraim, and Galaad.\n\n50:20. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of\nIsrael shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of\nJuda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them,\nwhom I shall leave.\n\n50:21. Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants\nthereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do\naccording to all that I have commanded thee.\n\n50:22. A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.\n\n50:23. How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how\nis Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!\n\n50:24. I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O\nBabylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught,\nbecause thou hast provoked the Lord.\n\n50:25. The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the\nweapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be\ndone in the land of the Chaldeans.\n\n50:26. Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they\nmay go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way,\nand make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.\n\n50:27. Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter:\nwoe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.\n\n50:28. The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped out of\nthe land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our God,\nthe revenge of his temple.\n\n50:29. Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand\ntogether against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according\nto her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she\nhath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.\n\n\n50:30. Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her\nmen of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.\n\n50:31. Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God\nof hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.\n\n50:32. And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and there shall\nbe none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it\nshall devour all round about him.\n\n50:33. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and the\nchildren of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken them\ncaptives, hold them fast, they will not let them go.\n\n50:34. Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name: he will\ndefend their cause in judgment, to terrify the land, and to disquiet the\ninhabitants of Babylon.\n\n50:35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the\ninhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.\n\n50:36. A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword\nupon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.\n\n50:37. A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all\nthe people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women:\na sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.\n\n50:38. A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it\nis a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.\n\n50:39.  Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and\nostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for\never, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.\n\nFig fauns... Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes: such\nas the ancients called fauns and satyrs; and as they imagined them to\nlive upon wild figs, they called them fauni ficarii or fig fauns.\n\n50:40.  As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour\ncities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son\nof man inhabit it.\n\n50:41. Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and\nmany kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.\n\n50:42. They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and\nunmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride\nupon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of\nBabylon.\n\n50:43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands\nare grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in\nlabour.\n\n50:44. Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the\nJordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly\nupon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her?\nfor who is like to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is that\nshepherd that can withstand my countenance?\n\n50:45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken\nagainst Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the land\nof the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them\ndown, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.\n\n50:46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the\ncry is heard amongst the nations.\n\nJeremias Chapter 51\n\nThe miseries that shall fall upon Babylon from the Medes: the\ndestruction of her idols.\n\n51:1. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a\npestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof,\nwho have lifted up their heart against me.\n\n51:2. And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and\nshall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the\nday of her affliction.\n\n51:3. Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that\nis armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her\narmy.\n\n51:4. And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the\nwounded in the regions thereof.\n\n51:5. For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord\nof hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One\nof Israel.\n\n51:6. Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own\nlife: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge\nfrom the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.\n\n51:7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made\nall the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore\nthey have staggered.\n\n51:8. Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm\nfor her pain, if so she may be healed.\n\n51:9. We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake\nher, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath\nreached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.\n\n51:10. The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us\ndeclare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.\n\n51:11. Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the\nspirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to\ndestroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of\nhis temple.\n\n51:12. Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the\nwatch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both\npurposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.\n\n\n51:13. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end\nis come for thy entire destruction.\n\n51:14. The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee\nwith men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against\nthee.\n\n51:15. He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world\nby his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.\n\n51:16. When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven:\nhe lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned\nlightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his\ntreasures.\n\n51:17. Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is\nconfounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no\nbreath in them.\n\n51:18.  They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of\ntheir visitation they shall perish.\n\n51:19. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all\nthings he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord\nof hosts is his name.\n\n51:20. Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I\nwill dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:\n\n51:21. And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider,\nand with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth\nup into it:\n\n51:22. And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee\nI will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will\nbreak in pieces the young man and the virgin:\n\n51:23. And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock,\nand with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of\noxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers.\n\n51:24. And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of\nChaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n51:25. Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the\nLord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand\nupon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a\nburnt mountain.\n\n51:26. And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a\nstone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the\nLord.\n\n51:27. Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among\nthe nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her\nthe kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her,\nbring the horse as the stinging locust.\n\n51:28. Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their\ncaptains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.\n\n51:29. And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for\nthe design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of\nBabylon desert and uninhabitable.\n\n51:30. The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have\ndwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as\nwomen: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.\n\n51:31. One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet\nmessenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one\nend to the other:\n\n51:32. And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with\nfire, and the men of war are affrighted.\n\n51:33. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter\nof Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing:\nyet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.\n\n51:34. Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured\nme: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a\ndragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath\ncast me out.\n\n51:35. The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the\nhabitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith\nJerusalem.\n\n51:36. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and\nwill take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and\nwill dry up her spring.\n\n51:37. And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for\ndragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.\n\n51:38. They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes\nlike young lions.\n\n51:39. In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk,\nthat they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no\nmore, saith the Lord.\n\n51:40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams\nwith kids.\n\n51:41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth\nsurprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?\n\n51:42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the\nmultitude of the waves thereof.\n\n51:43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and\ndesolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.\n\n\n51:44. And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth\nout of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall\nno more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.\n\n51:45. Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save\nhis life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.\n\n51:46. And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall\nbe heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after\nthis year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon\nruler.\n\n51:47. Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of\nBabylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall\nfall in the midst of her.\n\n51:48. And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them\nshall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the\nnorth, saith the Lord.\n\n51:49. And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so\nof Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.\n\n51:50. You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still:\nremember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.\n\n51:51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath\ncovered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n51:52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit\nher graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:\n\n51:53. If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength\non high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.\n\n51:54. The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the\nland of the Chaldeans:\n\n51:55. Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of\nher the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their\nvoice hath made a noise:\n\n51:56. Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and\nher valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord,\nwho is a strong revenger, will surely repay.\n\n51:57. And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her\ncaptains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an\neverlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is\nLord of hosts.\n\n51:58. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be\nutterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and\nthe labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations\nshall go to the fire, and shall perish.\n\n51:59. The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of\nNerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon,\nin the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the\nprophecy.\n\n51:60. And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon\nBabylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.\n\n51:61. And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon,\nand shalt see, and shalt read all these words,\n\n51:62. Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to\ndestroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell\ntherein, and that it should be desolate for ever.\n\n51:63. And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou\nshalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the\nEuphrates:\n\n51:64. And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not\nrise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be\nutterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.\n\nJeremias Chapter 52\n\nA recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of\nJerusalem. The number of the captives.\n\n52:1. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.\n\n52:2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according\nto all that Joakim had done.\n\n52:3. For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda,\ntill he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the\nking of Babylon.\n\n52:4. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged\nit, and built forts against it round about.\n\n52:5. And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king\nSedecias.\n\n52:6. And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine\noverpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.\n\n52:7. And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out\nof the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two\nwalls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the\ncity round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the\nwilderness.\n\n52:8. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they\novertook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his\ncompanions were scattered from him.\n\n52:9. And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of\nBabylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment\nupon him.\n\n52:10. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his\neyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.\n\n52:11. And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters,\nand the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in\nprison till the day of his death.\n\n52:12. And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is\nthe nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan\nthe general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in\nJerusalem.\n\n52:13. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all\nthe houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.\n\n52:14. And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general\nbroke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.\n\n52:15. But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor\npeople, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and\nof the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the\nrest of the multitude.\n\n52:16. But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for\nvinedressers, and for husbandmen.\n\n52:17. The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were\nin the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was\nin the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to\nBabylon.\n\n52:18. And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the\npsalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the brazen\nvessels that had been used in the ministry: and\n\n52:19. The general took away the pitchers, and the censers, and the\npots, and the basins, and the candlesticks, and the mortars, and the\ncups: as many as were of gold, in gold: and as many as were of silver,\nin silver:\n\n52:20. And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that\nwere under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the\nLord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.\n\n52:21. And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high:\nand a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness\nthereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.\n\n52:22. And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one\nchapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the\nchapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and\nthe pomegranates.\n\n52:23. And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and the\npomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed with network.\n\n52:24. And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the\nsecond priest, and the three keepers of the entry.\n\n52:25. He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the\nmen of war: and seven men of them that were near the king's person, that\nwere found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who\nexercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the\nland, that were found in the midst of the city.\n\n52:26. And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to the\nking of Babylon, to Reblatha.\n\n52:27. And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in\nReblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of\nhis land.\n\n52:28. This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in\nthe seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.\n\n52:29. In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and\nthirty-two souls from Jerusalem.\n\n52:30. In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the\ngeneral carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty five souls. So\nall the souls were four thousand six hundred.\n\n52:31. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the\ncaptivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and\ntwentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the\nfirst year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and\nbrought him forth out of prison.\n\n52:32. And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the\nthrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.\n\n52:33. And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him\nalways all the days of his life.\n\n52:34. And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him by the\nking of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all\nthe days of his life.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":47459}