The pride, &c. of Moab CHAP. XLVIII. Their contempt of God and his people. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against near. the sea shore? there hath the appointed it. 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is CHAP. XLVIII. broken, saith the LORD. 26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified The judgment of Moab. AGAINST Moab thus saith the LORD of himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wal hosts, the God of Israel; Wo unto Nebo low in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. was he found among thieves? for since thou 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: In spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. shall pursue thee. 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, exceeding proud,) his loftiness, and his arroganspoiling and great destruction. cy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caus-heart. ed a cry to be heard. 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it 5 For in the going up of Luhith continual shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it. weeping shall go up; for in the going down of 31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of de-cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for struction. the men of Kir-heres. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath In the wilderness. 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken. 9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. . 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and up on thy vintage. 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the wine-presses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elcaleh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as a heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith 11 TT Moab hath been at ease from his youth, the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not and him that burneth incense to his gods. been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath 36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab he gone into captivity: therefore his taste re-like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes mained in him, and his scent is not changed. for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. that he hath gotten are perished. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el all the house-tops of Moab, and in the streets their confidence. 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is The LORD of hosts. 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. 17 All ye that are about him bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee and he shall destroy thy strong holds. 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that scapeth, and say, What is done? 20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazali, and upon Mephaath, thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel 40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. 44 He that fleeth from the fear, shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-ga-of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumul, and upon Beth-ineon, 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathair, multuous ones. 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and 46 Wo be unto thee, O Moab! the people of 19 T 433 The judgment of Edom, JEREMIAH. Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, &c Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken cap-strong: but I will suddenly make him run away Lives, and thy daughters captives. from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of appoint over her? for who is like me? and who Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus will appoint me the time? and who is that shepfar is the judgment of Moab. herd that will stand before me? CHAP. XLIX. Judgment of the Ammonites, &c. 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his pur CONCERNING the Ammonites, thus saith poses, that he hath purposed against the inhabi the Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbak of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. tants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom 3 Howl, O Heshibon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; 23 Concerting Damascus. Hamath is conlament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for founded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. 4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy Blowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord Gop of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. 6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. tidings: they are faint-hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. 28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every 9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncover-side. ed his secret places, and he shall not be able to 30 1 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his bre-habitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuthren, and his neighbours, and he is not. chadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone. 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it. 32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatthat Bozrah shall become a desolation, a re-ter into all winds them that are in the utmost proach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities corners; and I will bring their calamity from all thereof shall be perpetual wastes. sides thereof, saith the LORD. 14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. 15 For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men. 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and 35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatas high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from ter them toward all those winds; and there shall thence, saith the LORD. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall biss at all the plagues thereof. be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomor-life and I will bring evil upon them, even my rah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a sword after them, till I have consumed them: son of man dwell in it. 33 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD. 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the The judgment of Babylon. CHAP. L. The redemption of Israel. 39 ¶ But it shall come to pass in the latter days, Babylon and his land, as I have punished the that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, king of Assyria. saith the LORD. CHAP. L. The judgment of Babylon, &c. 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mountEphraim THE that LORD spake against Baby-and Gilead. Tin word that the the land of the Chaldeans 20 In those days, and in that time, saith the by Jeremiah the prophet. LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: and they shall not be found: for I will pardon say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Mero-them whom I reserve. dach is broken in pieces; her idols are confound- 21 ¶ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even ed, her images are broken in pieces. against it, and against the inhabitants of Pékod: 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the against her, which shall make her land desolate, LORD, and do according to all that I have comand none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, manded thee. they shall depart, both man and beast. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the destruction. LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut and the children of Judah together, going and asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: faces thitherward, saying, Come and let us join thou art found, and also caught, because thou ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant hast striven against the LORD. 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and God. that shall not be forgotten. 6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shep-hath brought forth the weapons of his indignaherds have caused them to go astray, they have tion: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of turned them away on the mountains: they have hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten 26 Come against her from the utmost border, their resting-place. 7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks. open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: wo unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 9 For lo, I will raise and cause to come up 29 Call together the archers against Babylon against Babylon an assembly of great nations all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round from the north country: and they shall set them- about; let none thereof escape: recompense her selves in array against her; from thence she shall according to her work; according to all that she be taken their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israei. 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hind- and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle ermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round land, and a desert. about him. 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall 33 1 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The chilnot be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate :dren of Israel and the children of Judah were opevery one that goetn by Babylon shall be aston-pressed together: and all that took them captives ished, and hiss at all her plagues. held them fast; they refused to let them go. 14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the LORD. the inhabitants of Babylon. 15 Shout against her round about: she hath 35 1 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance upon her princes, and upon her wise men. of the LORD take vengeance upon her; as she 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall hath done, do unto her. dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him shall be dismayed. that handieth the sickle in the time of harvest: 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn chariots, and upon all the mingled people that every one to his people, and they shall flee every are in the midst of her; and they shall become one to his own land. as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. 17 1 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, God's judgment against Babylon, JEREMIAH in revenge of Isras! and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be lon, make the watch strong, set up the watcis – no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be men, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hatt dwelt in from generation to generation. both devised and done that which he spake 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and against the inhabitants of Babylon. the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 13 0 thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with up from the coasts of the earth. caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they against thee. are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon hath established the world by his wisdom, and horses, every one put in array, like a man to the hath stretched out the heaven by his underbattle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. standing. 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report 16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a mulof them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish titude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in the vapours to ascend from the ends of the travail. earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, aud 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; strong: but I will make them suddenly run away every founder is confounded by the graven from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may image: for his molten image is falsehood, and appoint over her? for who is like me? and who there is no breath in them. will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 18.They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, 19 The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for be that he hath taken against Babylon; and his pur-is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod poses, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. God's judgments upon Babylon. US saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will ! 2 And will send unto Babylon, fanners that shall break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces capof trouble they shall be against her round about. tains and rulers. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minui, and Ashchenaz; appoint 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's a captain against her; cause the horses to come hand, that made all the earth drunken: the na-up as the rough caterpillars. tions have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow; for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. to fight, they have remained in their holds : their 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteous-might hath failed; they became as women ness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars of the LORD our God. are broken. 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of messenger to meet another, to shew the king of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to Babylon that his city is taken at one end, destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. reeds they have burned with fire, and the men 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Baby-fof war are affrighted. God's judgment against Babylon. CHAP. LII. The sinking of Babylon typified. 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a thresh- their voice is uttered: ing-floor, it is time to thresh her yet a little 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even while, and the time of her harvest shall come. upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made God of recompences shall surely requite. me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her delicates, he hath cast ine out. mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwell-commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son Ing-place for dragons, an astonishinent, and a of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the all these words; slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Baby-shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but lon become an astonishment among the nations! that it shall be desolate for ever. 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, 64 Aud thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon neither doth any son of man pass thereby. sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath far are the words of Jeremiah swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. CHAP. LII. Jerusalem besieged and taken. EDEKIAH was one and twenty years old 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and Z when he began to reign, and the reigned eledeliver ye every man his soul from the fierce ven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name anger of the LORD. was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had rumour shall both come one year, and after that done. in another year shall come a rumour, and vio- 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came lence in the land, ruler against ruler. to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast 47 Therefore behold, the days come, that I will them out from his presence, that Zedekiah redo judgment upon the graven images of Baby-belled against the king of Babylon. lon: and her whole land shall be confounded, 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Bais therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers bylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusashall conie unto her from the north, saith the lem, and pitched against it, and built forts against LORD. it round about. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, the month, the famine was sore in the city, so stand not still remember the LORD afar off, and that there was no bread for the people of the land. let Jerusalem come into your mind. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men 51 We are confounded, because we have heard of war fled, and wen: forth out of the city by reproach: shame hath covered our faces; for night by the way of the gate between the two strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the LORD's house. Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and 52 Wherefore behold, the days come, saith the they went by the way of the plain. LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after images: and through all her land the wounded the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains shall groan. of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from 53 Though Babylon should mount up to hea-him. ven, and though she should fortify the height of 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up her strength, yet from ne shall spoilers come unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land unto her, saith the LORD. of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, princes of Judah, in Riblah. and destroved out of her the great voice: when 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and |